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Estoy seguro de que cuando abriste esta tienda, no pensaste que llegaría el día en el que un cliente te daría un billete de mil dólares.

Despues de "no pensaba que" o "no pense que". Condicional o imperfecto de subjuntivo?

Hi,

Es esencial que haya un acuerdo entre ellos

1)It is essential that THERE IS an agreement between them. Using "there is" rather than "come". What do you think? Come implies in the future.

2)Why is "los pájaros irán HAYA donde comida" Why HAYA in the subjuntive

Would it be helpful to explain this way? 

sentado/a(s) = seated; tumbado/a(s) = laid?

The vocabulary and long sentences should make this type of story A2 or even higher. Eamples, bodegon to mean still life and lienzo. I wish there were some easier real A1 stories for me to start with. I either have to forget them or spend a lot time 

Why is "Quiero un abrigo rosado" wrong? Don't rosa and rosado mean the same thing?

What other kinds of quizzes would you like to see on this site? One issue that I have encountered in the 'self-test' quizzes is that I can lazily rely on getting the answer by knowing that I'm going to get a question on a recent grammar point, etc, which means I'm not really thinking with any great depth, only assuming that the answer will be in reference to a recent lesson. For example, if I've just learned that por can refer to 'approximate location' I will know that that is going to be the answer when I encounter that kind of question (which might be amongst several conjugation type questions so will be even more obvious). I think the best way to address this is for the site to offer more general thematic quizzes to help consolidate certain points. For example, there could be a quiz on Por v Para which you could take after Stage A2. I would add these to the library as 'Consolidation Exercises'. Unfortunately, I think that our brains will always take the easiest route to the answer which isn't always the best way to learn. 

I read elsewhere that when quedar is used to express the idea of ending up in an emotional or physical state, it does not require reflexive pronoun. Is this accurate ? So if I have a scenario of 2 persons fighting and the one of them left a mark on the second and it left him standing still from the shock. Do we use ‘se queda inmóvil’ or ‘queda inmóvil’ ?

Why does sentence need A at the beginning? (The other examples don’t have it). 

Thanks very much

Shirley

Why do you say que interesante and not como interesante