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El profesor llevaba hablando con el estudiante diez minutos cuando entramos en la habitación.

El profesor había estado hablando con el estudiante diez minutos cuando entramos en la habitación

Hola Silvia y/o Inma, 

Please could you tell me why the preposition a is used with sobrevivir and yet not used with superar (which was given as an alternative in the hint)? I hope it's not something obvious that my old brain isn't getting, ja ja ja! 

Gracias :)

Could this be translated as "Let him (her, it) help you?

Como ves, mamá sabía que si ellos comían de ese fruto, pensarían que ya no la necesitaban.

Hi, I'm wondering if you can use this construction in cases where the "future time indication" is implicit.  For example:

    ¿Vas al concierto?

When both participants know that "the concert" is going to take place next week.  If that's not incorrect, does it sound more or less natural than "¿Vas a ir al concierto?" ?

Thanks!
Alan

Is there a way to put the list of A1 stem changing AR verbs e to ie in the present tense into my notebook?

In a sentence like:

"I believe that Juan does NOT have the book.", which is correct?:

Creo que Juan no tiene el libro.   o

Creo que Juan no tenga el libro.

(in order) to direct the water into the tank    is tranlated as    para dirigir el agua hacia el tanque

I always thought that hacia was more towards and not necessarily entering.  The lesson on hacia doesn't show entering.

For example, how could I distinguish between 'I walked towards the tunnel' and 'I walked into the tunnel' ?

Gracias

I know that letters in Spanish are feminine, but I notice in this reading that the acronym DNI is proceeded by a masculine article.  Is that because the word "documento" is masculine?  Or are all acronyms masculine in Spanish?