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Which past would you use?

Pretérito Imperfecto or Pretérito Perfecto Simple (Pretérito Indefinido) 1) Todos los años ........ (ir) a la playa, ahora voy a la montaña. 2) Ayer mientras ........... (comer) una hamburguesa ................. (atragantarse/yo). 3) Mientras ............ (caminar/ellos) por la calle Corrientes .............. (encontrar) un local de ropa china. 4) La semana pasada ........... (ver/usted) una película de [...]

By |2019-11-06T14:36:21-03:00November 7th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on Which past would you use?

Pretérito Imperfecto exercises

1) de pequeño Juan .............. (jugar) al fútbol. 2) antes...............(yo/comer) mucho chocolates, ahora no. 3) .............(nosotros/ir) a la playa todoslos veranos. 4) vos...........(ser) muy travieso de chiquito. 5) ellos te ...........(estar) esperando en la esquina. 6) cuando ...... (yo/ser) joven ............ (viajar) mucho. 7) los niños ............. (saltar) por toda la casa. 8) él me [...]

By |2019-11-01T14:04:26-03:00November 5th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on Pretérito Imperfecto exercises

Pretérito Imperfecto

Other past tense is "Pretérito Imperfecto" this past has different uses: 1) to express durable actions in the past. example: when I was a child / cuando era chico. 2) for descriptions of things in or people in the past (not finished). example: the class was small / la clase era pequeña. 3) to talk [...]

By |2019-10-25T14:06:39-03:00October 29th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on Pretérito Imperfecto

The Past Tense

let's talk about the past. The past is very useful when it comes to expressing things that have just happened, things that happened in the past, previous customs, to tell something happened in childhood, two days or a few seconds ago. The simplest of the past of Spanish is the "Pretérito Indefinido", it is like [...]

By |2019-10-23T13:13:27-03:00October 24th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on The Past Tense

The hated R

"R" is a letter that every foreigner hates in Spanish, but not always is strong pronunciated. When "R" is at the end of a word the pronunciation is always soft, and when is in the middle of the word the same. Only two cases has the strong (hard) pronunciation, when starts any word: like "Reunion", [...]

By |2019-10-09T12:22:06-03:00October 10th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on The hated R

Lets practice adjectives!!

Some exercises for you to practice changing adjectives into masculine, femimnine, singular or plural because of the noun. Sonia es ________(tall) y __________(beautiful). La casa de pablo es toda ________(red). Tu teléfono suena muy __________(loud). Este té ya está ________(cold). Sus manos siempre están _________(hot). Él tiene ojos _______(blue). Ayer me compre un par de [...]

By |2019-10-02T10:47:12-03:00October 8th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on Lets practice adjectives!!

Adjectives!!

Adjectives are really usefull, and we need them to dialogue with others. But no wonder in some cases you can use them before the noun, most of the time we use them after. One blue car – Un coche azul Three happy men – Tres hombres contentos Five sweet women – Cinco mujeres dulces And [...]

By |2019-10-02T10:42:15-03:00October 4th, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on Adjectives!!

The word “it” in Spanish

The word “it” does not exist in Spanish, but there is a way to use that word and is through Direct Object (Objeto Directo). We simply replace the noun (the object) with the pronoun “lo” (singular) and “los” (plural) if the noun is masculine, or “la” (singular) and “las” (plural) if it is feminine. Although [...]

By |2019-10-02T10:32:00-03:00October 2nd, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on The word “it” in Spanish

Bad words in Spanish: what “boludo” and “pelotudo” originally meant?

"Boludo" and "pelotudo" are bad words used in Argentina specifically to mean "stupid". But where do they come from? In the Wars of Independence, Argentine gauchos fought against the Spanish army. They fought against disciplined men who prepared themselves in the best military academies, armed with firearms, artillery, armor, cavalry, the best steel, etc. [...]

By |2019-03-22T17:02:29-03:00March 22nd, 2019|Espanhol / Español, Spanish / Español|Comments Off on Bad words in Spanish: what “boludo” and “pelotudo” originally meant?

Verbum – School of Spanish is awarded!

The LanguageBookings.com Quality School Award 2013 certifies that Verbum - School of Spanish in Buenos Aires, Argentina has achieved high quality standards in its range of language courses and students services. The LanguageBookings.com Quality School Award is given to schools with high appeal for international students, with an unbroken record of best value for money [...]

By |2013-05-13T11:28:01-03:00May 13th, 2013|Em Argentina, Spanish / Español, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Verbum – School of Spanish is awarded!