Spanish language Q&A Forum

Hello, what's the difference between reir and reirse please ? Thanks !

Hi.  Studying this lesson reminded me that I searched on your site lessons that would help with sentence building, and how that is done in Spanish (above the usual introduction to making sentence.) I could not find any despite several difference search words.  I also looked through the grammar, but saw no heading for that subject.

 So could you point me in the right direction:

1- How to make sentences and their correct /various word order, and how interchangeable /or not the word order is, on a more advanced level than : subject, verb, object.

2-  And also how the same meaning can be conveyed in different ways. 

Thank you. Nicole

Inma, I just wanted to say that this lesson is the best on the subject.  No other place have I heard/seen the reference of "seeing the .......".  This really helped me a lot to "get" these very interesting tenses.  Thank you for sharing your insight/knowledge with us and your patience!  

Hi, I was a bit surprised to see this use of "gustar" as none of the books I have mention this usage i.e. Barron's 501 verbs, shows only that this verb is  used in the third person, etc.    Would it be a Iberian usage?  I am in Canada and study Latin American Spanish [looking forward to that distinction in your program:) -- any news on that?]

Thank you. Nicole

Re: Sentence above: 

No, no me gusta la paella.No, I do not like paella.

In the lesson above, I was surprised to hear how the word "paella" was pronounced.  I had never heard that pronunciation.  My question is, are the letters "ae" considered a diphthong, and if so, what would be its pronunciation?

Thank you and wishing you a great day!

Nicole