Spanish language Q&A Forum

I've seen both qué and cuánto in exclamatory sentences. I understand when it's clearly the number of something ( ¡Cuántos gatos! ) but when it's something less countable (e.g. "¡Qué orgulloso!" or "¡Cuánto orgulloso!" how do you tell which one to use?

When SE is used in a sentance, how kan we know if it referes to a "he" or a "she"??

Examples taken from your grammer:

Prepara la carne para el = Preparasela = Prepare it (the meat) for HIM

Firmen el documento para ella = Firmenselo = Sign it (the document) for HER

It might be helpful to point out how an infinitive is used to express what in English a gerund might be used for (Sorry, I know that's a horrible sentence.) To reference the quiz question, "conducir" is used for the concept "driving." As an English speaker, that is strange and it was not apparent right away what was going on.

I saw a sentence "Nos pasamos El día" it means we spent the day, but "Pasamos el día" means the same thing as well. I always get confused what's the reason behind using "NOS" in the first sentence.

In the listening exercise is the phrase "para que la casa esté fresquita."

On the Futuro simple page (https://progress.lawlessspanish.com/revision/glossary/verb-tense-mood/futuro-simple) I couldn't find any page for "estar" in the future tense.

Is "esté" the 1st person singular of estar in futuro simple?
Or does it come from a different word?

Hola Inma,

I am much more “comfortable” with the alternative “se debe haber retrasado.”  Is it not counterintuitive to add the reflexive pronoun to the verb haber? 

Invariably we never put anything between the two verbs when using the pretérito perfecto but in this case we do. Is there a particular explanation / logic?  I must be missing something!

Saludos. John

hola

________ digo siempre lo que pienso.I always tell him what I think.I answered 'lo' thinking that it was the direct object but the answer was 'le'Is 'lo que pienso' the direct object and 'him' the indirect object?
as a note , I never recieve email notifications of answers - so sometimes miss themthanks for your help

Greetings,  I have a question about the sentence “Mientras, los otros niños hacíamos una fila…” If the subject is los otros niños, should the verbs in this sentence be conjugated in the third person plural? Hacían? Entraban? There is no indication that the narrator is including himself in the group of kids waiting in line. Please help me understand. Thank you. 

Well, amigas, I'm convinced that reading along with the audio first time through is better than listenting without reading. With listening only, as soon as I hear a word I don't know, I'm distracted and it takes a couple more words to get back to comprehending the audio and if there are several new words it's a confusing mess! 

When I read along with the audio the first time through I see the unknown words and know what to look for when I read it through without audio and do the pop up translations, then, next time as a read-along, it all makes sense. 

I'd still like to have a speed control available.

"The text is fairly long, so the audio is split in two". 

I only found one audio bar and nowhere to go for the second part. Is there actually another page for the read-along?