Spanish language Q&A Forum

I now understand why I am having such trouble with this section, but please clarify. Which form, Mainland or Latin American, are you counting as correct? 

"Tu coche no es muy nuevo aunque funcione/funciona estupendamente. (Your car is not very new although it works beautifully.)"

I chose the subjunctive "funcione" here because both the speaker and the listener would know about the car.  But this was marked wrong.  Why would the indicative be correct?

PS  I just read your answer below that the speaker is simply making a declaration.  In that case, how do we distinguish this from the case of the speaker stating shared information?  It seems that both answers could be correct depending on how one interprets the speaker.  This makes it hard to know which answer the system considers to be correct.

The sentence "Now I want to repeat it!" is translated as ¡Ahora quiero repetir!

Why doesn't Spanish need an object pronoun here?

Gracias

I selected 'por' as a possible correct word thinking it could mean "The train goes through Madrid"

Hi, Kwiziq has dropped a lesson when to use pretérito indefinido vs  simple perfect into my lesson plan which is headed ‘for South American learners’.  It identifies me correctly as learning Iberian Spanish. I don’t want to get confused with SA grammar. How can I remove it please?

I was marked wrong for using “habían” when the sentence was something like “habían muchos mensajes …”. If “había” is used for one thing or many things when would you use “habían”? It sounds more natural to say “habían muchos mensajes …”

(1) Juan leyó más libros.

 (2) ¿A quién ha regalado Juan más libros? (Gramatica Descriptiva de Lengua Espanola 1999, p. 1181)

 Que yo sepa(cf. Rohena-Madrazo 2007 p.1), en (1) ‘más libros’ solo tiene una interpratación: comparativa, mientras que en (2) puede tener dos interpretaciones: comparativa o superlativa. Es decir, aunque en (2) no aparece el complemento restrictivo o coda superlativa, se puede interpretar como superlativa como (3).

 (3) ¿A quién de todos esos chicos ha regalado Juan más libros?

 Lo que me gustaría saber es qué es lo que hace posible que en (2) ‘más libros’ se pueda interpretar como superlativa. ¿ La frase-qu ‘a quién’ licenciaría tal interpretación? Es decir, la frase-qu ‘a quién’ jugaría un papel de asignarle  el significado superlativo a 'más libros'?

 ¿O el movimiento de ‘a quién’ al inicio de la oración(la posición de foco) crearía una circunstancia en que ‘más libros’ pueda obtener la interpretacion superlativa?

Muchas gracias por leer mi pregunta.

I see here that querer does not have an accent for the first person preterito indefinido: quise, whereas some verbs have one, like compré - is there a rule that I can apply to distinguish it, or is it just because querer is irregular?

Thanks

'He recommended (to me) investing in the stock market'

I put  'me ha recomendado que invertiera en bolsa'  recomendar + imperfect subjunctive.

This was marked wrong and the only alternatives shown being recomendar + infinitive  'me ha recomendado invertir en bolsa'

Why can't I use the subjunctive here?

Gracias

With each lesson topic, the questions are only 2. Can we have the option of generating 10 questions everytime we hit a button?