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"Nicaragua está en el puesto número seis en la lista de ciudades seguras..." 

This has me confused because Nicaragua is not a city.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding the sentence?

¿Tiene un bolígrafo?Do you have a pen? (formal you)

From the sentence, I think it means he/she has a pen. Why would it become do you have a pen?

Hola Inma, I have been trying to work out why both direct and indirect objects are present here. 

I can't find a reference for a pronominal form of pensar, but on doing the exercise a second time, I noticed that the lesson for the se aspectual was listed as being relevant. Poder isn't given as one of the verbs that typically can take this construction, but does this explain why the reflexive pronoun is being used here, making the verb poder more "intense / complete" as explained in the example of "irse" in the lesson; .... or is there another explanation altogether. Espero que puedas ayudarme. Saludos. John

Too often I have found the “hints” to be problematic in that I am thrown off by them. For example, in this lesson one hint was “Lit: "At 2 I have lunch with dehydrated foods" lunch = almuerzo, foods = alimentos."  Assuming “Lit” means “literally”, the literal translation should have been “A las dos tengo almuerzo con alimentos deshidratados” NOT “tomo” or “como”. I do know that "tomar" is used when referring to food, but the so-called "hint" threw me off on this one!

Pat Ecuamiga

Is querría actually wrong on this case to say "I would like to see the paintings"?

In this question I answered "éramos" instead of "fuimos" since the text referred to "used to be."  Why was that wrong? I get that  the "completed action in the past" hint confused the situation. Shouldn't the question be clarified, or am I missing something here? 
Nosotros ________ muy buenos estudiantes.We used to be very good students.(HINT: Refers to a completed action in the past.)

From the lesson:

"Note that while "fue" is generally translated into "was" in English, "era" can be translated into "was", "used to be" and "would be"."

Hi,

1) Re: También, put "also" at the beginning of the sentence. 

Is there a lesson I could learn about this?

Also why no “article” here:

Why “vía conexión satélite”" and not via una conexión satélite 

Thank you so much for being there.  Glad to see you are doing well!  And wishing you all to stay well!

Nicole

just want to thank you for all the free material. literally any grammar question i have is somewhere on this site. I've been using it silently for 2 years now