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I was planning to go for a holiday - pienso ir de vacaciones, pensaba ir de vacaciones. Iba a ir de vacaciones. Does all these mean the same thing ? Ir in imperfect + a + infinitive seems very similar to pensar + infinite. In this case, do we use pensar in present tense or in imperfect (same as the way IR is used) ?
"In addition" does not have the same meaning in English as "On the other hand"
Javier es bastante guapo.
select ...MásPor otro ladoEn otro ladoTampocoPor otro lado, es muy trabajador. (Javier is quite handsome. In addition, he is hardworing.)
flit ?
Flirt !
One of the sentences top practise this lesson is "Instrumentos africanos han sido tocados por los músicos". A lot of Spaniards told me to rather not place the subject first when it has no article, as it wouldn't sound good in there opinion. Could I alternatively say "han sido tocados instrumentos africanos ...", or doesn't this work?
vado una sorpresa negativa al tener un niño en vez de una niña, porque no te lo esperabas ¿no?"
(I imagine you may have got a negative surprise
Native English speakers would say “an unwelcome surprise”, “a negative surprise” sounds very odd
Please correct the English in these (and other) exercises. Native speakers of English would not say something is "different to". We say, it is "different from".
E.g., English is different from Spanish in that we use the apostrophe to show the possessive
Hola Inma,
Gracias por ser tan claro cuando lees los ejercicios. ¡Me encantan tus historias! :)
Maybe this is covered in a lesson I haven't gotten to yet, but can you explain how "ni siquiera" is functioning in this sentence?
Thanks!
May I ask is there a unit explaining the expressions like "estar hasta las narices" "no tener dos dedos de frente" "dar la espalda" etc?
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