Translating English Present Perfect with 'since'
you have been my best friend since we were children = eres mi mejor amiga desde que éramos pequeñas.
BUT In the previous exercise 'My Love Story´
Since then, we've been joined at the hip = Desde entonces, hemos sido como uña y carne
When I queried why in the second example it was incorrect to say somos como uña y carne, Sylvia explained:
This construction with "hemos sido" (present perfect)
conveys the idea that the close relationship has been ongoing since
that point in the past. Your attempt was almost correct, but using
the present perfect aligns better with the context of an enduring
connection over time.
I don't understand then why it is incorrect to say has estado mi mejor amiga desde que éramos pequeñas
Is it correct to say " he vivido en esta casa desde hace 20 años" ? There is an enduring connection. The lessons with desde always state the use of the present.
Gracias
I'm puzzled. I guess the Nunca has to go first?
I believe that according to RAE, the vosotros form of both verbs should have a tilde – creáis.
This problem is in addition to the yo form problem others have mentioned.
Vosotros is used because the speaker is talking to more than one person.
Also, i read that vos (singular) is only used in Latin America.
Have just realised that all 8 lessons Kwiziq recently added to my study plan all say for South American learners in red at the top of the first page. I am learning European which Kwiziq acknowledges. I’m not sure what to do!
Hello! Por or para: the eternal question, right? I'm wondering about the phrase "for future generations" in the final sentence. If that phrase were interpreted as "for the benefit of future generations" or "for the sake of future generations," would "por" be correct? Or is "para" the only correct option regardless? Thank you!
you have been my best friend since we were children = eres mi mejor amiga desde que éramos pequeñas.
BUT In the previous exercise 'My Love Story´
Since then, we've been joined at the hip = Desde entonces, hemos sido como uña y carne
When I queried why in the second example it was incorrect to say somos como uña y carne, Sylvia explained:
This construction with "hemos sido" (present perfect) conveys the idea that the close relationship has been ongoing since that point in the past. Your attempt was almost correct, but using the present perfect aligns better with the context of an enduring connection over time.
I don't understand then why it is incorrect to say has estado mi mejor amiga desde que éramos pequeñas
Is it correct to say " he vivido en esta casa desde hace 20 años" ? There is an enduring connection. The lessons with desde always state the use of the present.
Gracias
The sing-songy intonation that he gives to everything he reads is distracting and seems completely unrealistic. Nobody that I've ever heard talks like that, and it makes the listening exercises for which he's the reader less useful than they otherwise would be. The selections that he reads always start with a long pause, as if he needed a cue and didn't get it, and, I always cringe in anticipation of yet another tra-la-laaaaa reading to have to transcribe. Honestly, who picked this guy? And did they discover him reading for story hour in some Spanish library's kids' section?
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