<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842</id><updated>2011-12-14T18:48:07.235-08:00</updated><title type='text'>LECCIONES DE ESPAÑOL</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110668084169174992</id><published>2005-01-03T11:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-26T02:58:28.493-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Soluciones al Ejercicio "Por / Para" </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/por-para.html"&gt;Referencia : "POR - PARA"&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;por&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;por&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;por&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;por&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;br /&gt;por&lt;br /&gt;Por&lt;br /&gt;para&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110668084169174992?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110668084169174992/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110668084169174992' title='3 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668084169174992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668084169174992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2005/01/soluciones-al-ejercicio-por-para.html' title='Soluciones al Ejercicio &quot;Por / Para&quot; '/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110668078704086717</id><published>2005-01-03T11:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-26T02:59:59.303-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Soluciones al Ejercicio "Ser y Estar"</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/ejercicio-ser-y-estar.html"&gt;Referencia: Ser - Estar&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Estoy&lt;br /&gt;2. es&lt;br /&gt;3. estoy&lt;br /&gt;4. están&lt;br /&gt;5. Está&lt;br /&gt;6. es .... está&lt;br /&gt;7. es&lt;br /&gt;8. está .... Es&lt;br /&gt;9. es .... Está&lt;br /&gt;10. son ..... están&lt;br /&gt;11. es ..... Está&lt;br /&gt;12. es ... Son&lt;br /&gt;13. está .... Es&lt;br /&gt;14. Están (or estamos)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110668078704086717?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110668078704086717/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110668078704086717' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668078704086717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668078704086717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2005/01/soluciones-al-ejercicio-ser-y-estar.html' title='Soluciones al Ejercicio &quot;Ser y Estar&quot;'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110668047348268198</id><published>2004-12-27T11:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-25T11:18:08.870-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ejercicio: Ser y Estar</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;After having seen the differences bewteen "SER" and "ESTAR", it will still be difficult at times to guess which one goes with a sentence and which one to another.&lt;br /&gt;Let´s practice a little with the following excercise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;But before, let´s see again the present tense of SER and ESTAR&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SER - ESTAR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yo soy - estoy&lt;br /&gt;Tú eres - estás&lt;br /&gt;Usted es - está&lt;br /&gt;El es - está&lt;br /&gt;Ella es - está&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros/as somos - estamos&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros/as sóis - estáis&lt;br /&gt;Ustedes son - están&lt;br /&gt;Ellos/as - están&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fill in the blank spaces with the suitable verb. Is it SER or ESTAR? Try to guess:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. ...... muy cansado, no me encuentro bien&lt;br /&gt;2. Alicia ..... una buena chica. Siempre ayuda a los demás&lt;br /&gt;3. Cuando ..... cansado de estudiar, veo la televisión&lt;br /&gt;4. Los profesores ------ de huelga&lt;br /&gt;5. Ayer vino a casa María. ....... muy enfadada contigo&lt;br /&gt;6. El libro ......rojo y ....... encima de la mesa&lt;br /&gt;7. Carlos ...... un loco, no sabe conducir&lt;br /&gt;8. El camino ...... cerca de una tienda de juguetes. ........ muy difícil caminar por allí&lt;br /&gt;9. Ana ...... alta y delgada. ......... casada con un abogado.&lt;br /&gt;10. En la clase los alumnos ......... muy aplicados. Pero a veces ........ distraídos.&lt;br /&gt;11. La casa ....... nueva. ......... cerca de la playa&lt;br /&gt;12. ¿Qué hora ......?.......... las dos y media de la tarde&lt;br /&gt;13. Usted ...... invitado a la cena en el Palacio Presidencial. ....... cierto, me lo ha dicho el Ministro.&lt;br /&gt;14. ¿Falta alguna persona? ¿......... todos?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers will appear next week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110668047348268198?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110668047348268198/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110668047348268198' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668047348268198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668047348268198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/ejercicio-ser-y-estar.html' title='Ejercicio: Ser y Estar'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110668066000509241</id><published>2004-12-27T00:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-25T11:17:40.006-08:00</updated><title type='text'>POR / PARA</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The prepositions "por" and "para" look quite difficult the first time we study them. We discover that they have different equivalents in English. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before starting to see which these differences are, let´s have a look at some sentences:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;This book is &lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt; you. Este libro es &lt;strong&gt;para&lt;/strong&gt; tí.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To&lt;/strong&gt; go to the hospital, you need to take the bus. &lt;strong&gt;Para&lt;/strong&gt; ir al hospital, necesitas coger el autobús.&lt;br /&gt;Will you come home &lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt; my birthday? ¿Vendrás a casa &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; mi cumpleaños?&lt;br /&gt;I like walking &lt;strong&gt;in&lt;/strong&gt;  the street. Me gusta pasear &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; la calle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In&lt;/strong&gt; the evening I always  visit my mother. &lt;strong&gt;Por&lt;/strong&gt; la tarde visito siempre a mi madre&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let´s try now to understand the difference between "por" and "para"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lo he hecho &lt;strong&gt;para&lt;/strong&gt; ella. I have done-made it for her (to give it to her, for example a painting, clean the dishes...)&lt;br /&gt;Lo hago todo &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; ella. I  do anything for her (for example, work hard, earn money, etc. In a word, for her welfare, happiness, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Me voy &lt;strong&gt;para&lt;/strong&gt; la montaña (I am going  to the mountain, same as me voy a la montaña)&lt;br /&gt;Me voy &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; la montaña (I am  going through the mountain) Walking through the mountain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vamos &lt;strong&gt;para&lt;/strong&gt; el  pueblo (we are going to the village) Same as "vamos al pueblo". Same meaning.&lt;br /&gt;Vamos &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; el pueblo (we are walking through the village, among its streets, people. etc)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Para &lt;/strong&gt;demostrar que es cierto..... (to show or proove that it is true.....)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Por&lt;/strong&gt; demostrar que es cierto, te regalo un reloj (Because you prooved it to be true, I am giving you a watch)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Le llamaron &lt;strong&gt;para&lt;/strong&gt; hablar del tema. (They called him to speak about the issue)&lt;br /&gt;Le llamaron &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; hablar del tema . (They called him for having spoken about the issue)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try to guess the correct preposion. ¿Por or Para?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;But first.... a little hint: "Para" has a sense of movement towards the outside. Salgo para comer un poco.&lt;br /&gt;While "por" has many times a sense of contrary movemet, it goes to a cause, to the inside. Por haber sido bueno, te regalo un caramelo (Because you were good, something happened before and therefore there is an action. Of course, it can also be the equivalent for "through" and some other preposition.  As for "para" there is always a sense of doing something without a cause, this is for you, para tí, and not because you did something before that makes want to give you something. It´s because I want to, because I feel like doing it, from feelings, etc.)&lt;br /&gt;The best example could be: Esto es &lt;strong&gt;para&lt;/strong&gt; tí &lt;strong&gt;por&lt;/strong&gt; haber sido bueno (this is for you for having been so good)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now try to find the correct preposition. Answers will be published next week. And we will continue practising "por" and "para". Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antonio camina ..... la playa&lt;br /&gt;Estoy vestida ...... ir a la fiesta&lt;br /&gt;He comprado libros ....... los estudiantes.&lt;br /&gt;Jaime está estudiando ------ ser doctor&lt;br /&gt;Me alegro ...... tí&lt;br /&gt;Tengo que estudiar mucho ...... sacar buenas notas&lt;br /&gt;Llamaré por teléfono a Juan ...... pedirle que venga a la fiesta&lt;br /&gt;Al colegio se va ..... este camino&lt;br /&gt;En Navidad habrán muchos regalos ........ nosotros.&lt;br /&gt;Tengo que ir ........ la clase de Matemáticas.&lt;br /&gt;Debes entrar ..... esta puerta&lt;br /&gt;Es un placer ...... mí poder ser tu amigo.&lt;br /&gt;Este horno sirve ...... hacer pizza&lt;br /&gt;Perdóname ....... ser tan tonto.&lt;br /&gt;...... la tarde siempre tomo chocolate&lt;br /&gt;Quiero comprarme un sombrero ...... la fiesta de Halloween&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110668066000509241?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110668066000509241/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110668066000509241' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668066000509241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110668066000509241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/por-para.html' title='POR / PARA'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355732030430022</id><published>2004-12-20T07:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:42:00.303-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SER / ESTAR ( Part II )</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Use of verb ESTAR&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-We use it when we want to express a certain situation in space or time, circumstances, states, intentions, the moment when something takes place, etc. It's meaning has to do with &amp;quot;permanent state of being&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;occupiying a place&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;living in some place&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;stay at some place&amp;quot;, etc. Let's see some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Dónde es? ........ Where does it take place?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Dónde está?...... What kind of space does it use or employ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being able&amp;nbsp; to make the difference between these two examples is essential in order to understand the subtilities of SER and ESTAR.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;What can we say using the ver ESTAR?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-We can ask for a place. ¿Dónde está mi primo? ¿Dónde vive María? ¿Dónde está mi libro?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-We can situate people, things and-or places giving them a determinded space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;El libro está encima de la mesa. María está en el colegio. Mi hermano está en casa de Angel. El hospital está en Barcelona&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-We can indicate someone or something´s presence or abscence:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antonio está aquí, en su habitación. No está, está en el cine. Mis libros no están aquí, ¿dónde están, entonces? ¿Están en casa de Alba...??&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;- We can indicate the position of someone or something:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Estoy de pie desde las siete de la mañana. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-We can also indicate an attitude towards something or someone:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Estoy de acuerdo con lo que dices. Estoy acuerdo con Antonio&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Activity:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carlos está de viaje de negocios. María está de gira (tour) por América&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Attitude:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antonio está triste. María está de mal humor. Los niños están alegres hoy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-State of health:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;El profesor está enfermo. La niña está sana.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;La comida está buena. Attention, if I say &amp;quot;la comida es buena&amp;quot; the sense is more &amp;quot;good for the health&amp;quot; while &amp;quot;la comida está buena&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;good for the taste, delicious&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Something that is bound to happen:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Está al venir, está al caer (bound to happen) Las Navidades están al caer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-An action´s result:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;El libro está escrito. El cuadro está pintado con colores diversos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Something´s price:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿A cómo está el arroz hoy? Attention, if we say ¿Cuánto es? meaning how much is it? is not the same than if we say ¿a cómo está....? meaning &amp;quot;how much does THIS cost, what is its price, not when we ask &amp;quot;how much is it&amp;quot; after taking some goods. ¿A cómo está el arroz hoy? is a question we make even if we don´t take rice (in this example) , it´s just an enquiry to have some information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-To say the&amp;nbsp; date:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿A cuánto estamos hoy? (¿Qué día es hoy?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let´s understand now the differences using common sentences:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;José &lt;strong&gt;es&lt;/strong&gt; un preocupado (personality) José &lt;strong&gt;está&lt;/strong&gt; preocupado (about something)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;José &lt;strong&gt;es &lt;/strong&gt;un despistado (he is always this way) José&lt;strong&gt; está &lt;/strong&gt;despistado (right now)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;María es una mujer muy serena ( permanent) María &lt;strong&gt;está &lt;/strong&gt;serena (at this moment)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carlos &lt;strong&gt;es&lt;/strong&gt; muy guapo (permanent) Carlos &lt;strong&gt;está &lt;/strong&gt;muy guapo (by the way he is dressing)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Esteban &lt;strong&gt;es &lt;/strong&gt;un hombre muy seguro de sí mismo (personality) Esteban &lt;strong&gt;está&lt;/strong&gt; seguro (about someone or something)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;La calle &lt;strong&gt;es &lt;/strong&gt;estrecha (built this way) La calle &lt;strong&gt;está&lt;/strong&gt; estrecha (new elements making it&amp;nbsp; difficult to pass)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;El campo &lt;strong&gt;es &lt;/strong&gt;verde (permanently or almost) El campo &lt;strong&gt;está&lt;/strong&gt; verde (because it rained, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;La niña &lt;strong&gt;es&lt;/strong&gt; estudiosa (as always) La niña &lt;strong&gt;está&lt;/strong&gt; estudiosa (today)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEXT POST: Try to guess if the sentence needs &amp;quot;SER&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;ESTAR&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355732030430022?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355732030430022/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355732030430022' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355732030430022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355732030430022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/ser-estar-part-ii.html' title='SER / ESTAR ( Part II )'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355716424819047</id><published>2004-12-20T07:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:39:24.246-08:00</updated><title type='text'>To go to/ (ir a )- To come from/ (venir de)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;We are going to see how these prepositions (a, de) work&amp;nbsp; in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;To go to&amp;quot; becomes in Spanish &amp;quot;ir a&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;To come from&amp;quot; becomes in Spanish &amp;quot;venir de&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;ir= to go&lt;br /&gt;venir= to come&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now let's see how we build sentences using these verbs and prepositions:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Yo) voy a Madrid = I am going to Madrid&lt;br /&gt;(El) va a la escuela = He is going to the school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Ella) viene de Madrid = She comes from Madrid&lt;br /&gt;(Nosotros)&amp;nbsp; venimos de la escuela = we come from the school&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VERY IMPORTANT REMARK:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a la&lt;/strong&gt; escuela (when the noun is feminine, in this case &amp;quot;escuela&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;al&lt;/strong&gt; colegio (college) (when the noun is masculine. Remark this &amp;quot;al&amp;quot; : It is a contraction of&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;a + el&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; Carlos va a el colegio becomes &amp;quot;Carlos va &lt;strong&gt;al&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;colegio.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The same occurs with &amp;quot;del&amp;quot;. It is a contraction of &amp;quot;de + el&amp;quot;. Carmen viene de el banco becomes &amp;quot;Carmen viene &lt;strong&gt;del &lt;/strong&gt;banco.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;We use these elements contracted when they come before an article and a noun: yo voy a &lt;strong&gt;EL COLEGIO. &lt;/strong&gt;We say then : Yo voy &lt;strong&gt;AL COLEGIO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRACTICE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;feminine nouns with article: a la (to)&lt;br /&gt;masculine nouns with article: al (to)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;feminine nouns with article: de la (from)&lt;br /&gt;masculine nouns with article: del (from)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoy Carlos va al banco (to the bank) Banco is a masculine noun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoy Carlos va a la tienda (to the shop). Tienda is a feminine noun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carlos viene ahora del banco.&lt;br /&gt;Carlos va ahora al banco.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we don´t use any article, we will not use &amp;quot;al&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;del&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&amp;nbsp; María va a Barcelona . Antonio va a trabajar (to work) but Antonio va al trabajo (to his work or place of work) Trabajo is a masculine noun, therefore we use &amp;quot;al&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;del&amp;quot;. Antonio viene del trabajo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yo voy a Barcelona. But: Yo voy a la ciudad de Barcelona. El va al río (to the river, masculine noun in Spanish) El va al Duero (al río Duero).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try to fill in the following blank spaces: de, de la , del, de las, de los a, a la, al, a las, a los&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rosa viene ........ estudio de televisión. Estudio: masculine noun&lt;br /&gt;Miguel va ....... campo de fútbol. Campo: masculine noun&lt;br /&gt;Mario va ....... estudiar . Estudiar: Verb, first declination&lt;br /&gt;Sergio y María van ....... hospital. Hospital: masculine noun&lt;br /&gt;Los profesores vienen .......... conferencia. Conferencia: feminine noun&lt;br /&gt;Los alumnos van ....... viajar. Viajar: Verb, first declination&lt;br /&gt;Mañana nosotros iremos ........ río Duero de excursión. Río: masculine noun.&lt;br /&gt;Belén va ....... bancos para cambiar euros. Bancos: masculine noun, plural.&lt;br /&gt;Los niños vienen ...... tiendas. Tiendas: feminine noun, plural.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;ANSWERS:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;del&lt;br /&gt;al&lt;br /&gt;a&lt;br /&gt;al&lt;br /&gt;de la&lt;br /&gt;a&lt;br /&gt;al&lt;br /&gt;a los&lt;br /&gt;de las&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355716424819047?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355716424819047/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355716424819047' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355716424819047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355716424819047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/to-go-to-ir-to-come-from-venir-de.html' title='To go to/ (ir a )- To come from/ (venir de)'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355724875843610</id><published>2004-12-12T07:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:40:48.756-08:00</updated><title type='text'>SER / ESTAR ( Part I )</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use of verb SER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we want to express the &amp;quot;existence&amp;quot; of something or someone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soy María&lt;br /&gt;¿Quíen es aquél señor?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we want to express the origin or nationality of a person:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soy de los Estados Unidos&lt;br /&gt;Este jarro es de Japón&lt;br /&gt;Soy noruego&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we want to express the physical and moral qualities of someone or something:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es doctor&lt;br /&gt;María es muy guapa&lt;br /&gt;Alejandro es gordo&lt;br /&gt;La iglesia es muy grande&lt;br /&gt;Omar es musulmán&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we want to express someone´s way of being:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ana es simpática&lt;br /&gt;Carlos no es agradable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we want to ask or give a definition of something or someone:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Cómo es tu profesor?&lt;br /&gt;Esto es un libro&lt;br /&gt;Aquello es una casa&lt;br /&gt;Federico es mi amor&lt;br /&gt;Federico es un enamorado de los viajes exóticos&lt;br /&gt;(attention: Federico está enamorado)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we want to judge something:&lt;br /&gt;Es cierto&lt;br /&gt;Es verdad&lt;br /&gt;No es una buena idea&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we ask for the price of something:&lt;br /&gt;¿Cuánto es?&lt;br /&gt;¿Cuánto vale?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we ask or give the time:&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué hora es? Es la una de la tarde. Son las dos y media&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we speak about dates:&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué día fué ayer? Ayer fué martes.&lt;br /&gt;¿Qué día es hoy? Hoy es miércoles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we speak about seasons:&lt;br /&gt;Es primavera&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we speak about the destiny of something or an action (possesion):&lt;br /&gt;Esta rosa es para tí&lt;br /&gt;Estos discos compactos son para vosotros.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we speak about the place where something takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Dónde será la fiesta? En casa de Maite&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we speak about time:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es de noche ahora.&lt;br /&gt;Era de día cuando Carlos vino a mi casa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;-When we speak about the material of something:&lt;br /&gt;La puerta es de madera&lt;br /&gt;El vaso es de cristal&lt;br /&gt;La llave es de hierro&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Dónde es? Where is it? Es en París, es en Barcelona&lt;br /&gt;¿Dónde&amp;nbsp; está? What place is it? Está en París, está en Barcelona&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;¿Dónde es la fiesta? En casa de Carlos&lt;br /&gt;¿Donde está la casa de Carlos? En Barcelona&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEXT TIME : VERBO ESTAR AND HOW TO USE IT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355724875843610?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355724875843610/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355724875843610' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355724875843610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355724875843610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/12/ser-estar-part-i.html' title='SER / ESTAR ( Part I )'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355704980449027</id><published>2004-11-24T07:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:37:29.803-08:00</updated><title type='text'>USO DE LOS ADJECTIVOS/USE OF ADJECTIVES</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;In Spanish language, the adjectives must be in accordance with the noun in gender and number. Exceptions will be with those adjectives that are invariable (either used with masculine and / or feminine nouns) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here we are going to see some examples regarding variable and invariable adjectives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's take the following nouns:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hombre , m.(man)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mujer, f. (woman)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Niño, m. (child, little boy)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Niña, f. (child, little girl)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chico, m. (boy)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chica, f. (girl)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perro, m. (male dog)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gata, f. (female cat)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;pájaro, m. (bird)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;caracol, m. (snail)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;And we will take the following adjectives:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;guapo (m.) - guapa (f.)&amp;nbsp; (handsome, pretty, beautiful. Guapo applies to people, not to animals and or objects.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;bonito (m.) - bonita (f.) (pretty, beautiful. Applies to animals, objects. Attention: bonitA is used as well to designate a beautiful girl. We will see the examples.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;inteligente (m.,f.) (intelligent, invariable)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;simpático (m.) simpática (f.) (nice, charming)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;antipático (m.) antipática (f.) (disagreeable)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;joven (m.f.) (young, invariable)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;viejo (m.), vieja (f.) (old)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;rápido (m.), rápida (f.) (quick, speedy)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;lento (m.), lenta (f.) (slow)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;alto (m.), alta (f.) (tall)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;bajo (m.), baja (f.) (short)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;agradable (m.f.) (pleasant)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;And we will use them with the preceeding nouns (note the concordance in gender and number)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un niño guapo, Una niña guapa&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unos pájaros&amp;nbsp; rápidos, un caracol&amp;nbsp; lento&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Una mujer inteligente, un chico&amp;nbsp; inteligente&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Una niña baja, unos hombres bajos&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un perro viejo, una mujer muy vieja (very old)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un gato bonito, un perro bonito (not guapo)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unas niñas muy guapas, or ... unas niñas muy bonitas&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un hombre antipático, una niña&amp;nbsp; muy simpática&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un gato agradable, unas niñas agradables&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;TIP: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;pretty old . Bastante viejo(s). Bastante vieja(s)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;pretty stupid. Bastante estúpido(s). Bastante estúpida(s).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Espero que te vaya bonito (latin america). I hope it all goes well for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Espero que te vaya bien (Spain). I hope it all goes well for you&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355704980449027?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355704980449027/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355704980449027' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355704980449027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355704980449027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/11/uso-de-los-adjectivosuse-of-adjectives.html' title='USO DE LOS ADJECTIVOS/USE OF ADJECTIVES'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355669390931458</id><published>2004-11-17T07:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:35:23.323-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Práctica de la letra "R"</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object id="waacontroller" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="70" width="155" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="4101"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="1852"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.mrymworld.com/languages/webaudioadvisor.swf?file=http://www.mrymworld.com/languages/r.mp3"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.mrymworld.com/languages/webaudioadvisor.swf?file=http://www.mrymworld.com/languages/r.mp3"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="ebebeb"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mrymworld.com/languages/r.mp3"&gt;Download MP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Begining of word&lt;br /&gt;Ramo , rosa, reloj, rubio, raso, ruibarbo, roncar, rincón, Ramón, rojo, romero, ruso, rizo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Middle of word. One "r"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;amarillo, cariño, maravilloso, cera, poroso, sonoro, salubre, Groenlandia, palurdo, croar&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Middle of word. Two "rr":&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;carro, marrón, corrosivo, amarrar, cerro&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;End of word. All the verbs end with an "r"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;venir, cantar, soñar, empezar, caminar, ser, estar, amar, comer...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355669390931458?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355669390931458/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355669390931458' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355669390931458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355669390931458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/11/prctica-de-la-letra-r.html' title='Práctica de la letra &quot;R&quot;'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355644150025631</id><published>2004-11-10T07:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:27:21.500-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ejercicio de Pronunciación: Practice of "r", "R" and "rr"</title><content type='html'>In Spanish there are two ways to pronounce the R sound. And depending on where the R is placed in a word the sounds will differ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Begining of word: R sound will always be strong "rrrrr". Always one R.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of a word: when there is only one "r" the sound will be a simple "r" sound&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of a word: when there are two "r's" together, the sound will be the strong one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end of a word: "r" sound simple, not emphatic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some examples:&lt;br /&gt;Begining of word&lt;br /&gt;Ramo , rosa, reloj, rubio, raso, ruibarbo, roncar, rincón, Ramón, rojo, romero, ruso, rizo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Middle of word. One "r"&lt;br /&gt;amarillo, cariño, maravilloso, cera, poroso, sonoro, salubre, Groenlandia, palurdo, croar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Middle of word. Two "rr":&lt;br /&gt;carro, marrón, corrosivo, amarrar, cerro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;End of word.&lt;br /&gt;All the verbs end with an "r"venir, cantar, soñar, empezar, caminar, ser, estar, amar, comer...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355644150025631?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355644150025631/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355644150025631' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355644150025631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355644150025631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/11/ejercicio-de-pronunciacin-practice-of.html' title='Ejercicio de Pronunciación: Practice of &quot;r&quot;, &quot;R&quot; and &quot;rr&quot;'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355624832706415</id><published>2004-11-07T07:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:24:08.326-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Useful tips: Personal Pronouns</title><content type='html'>In Spanish, the personal pronouns are usually omitted unless it is important to emphasize them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, let's study the present tense of the verb "necesito" (I need)&lt;br /&gt;Yo necesito&lt;br /&gt;Tú necesitas&lt;br /&gt;El necesita&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros necesitamos&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros necesitáis&lt;br /&gt;Ellos necesitan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to study&lt;br /&gt;becomes in Spanish "necesito estudiar" and not "yo necesito estudiar"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Examples:&lt;br /&gt;Necesito trabajar (I need to work)&lt;br /&gt;Necesitas un corte de pelo (you need a haircut)&lt;br /&gt;Necesita saber más de tí (he-she needs to know more about you)&lt;br /&gt;Necesitamos viajar a Londres (we need to travel to London)&lt;br /&gt;Necesitáis una visita al doctor (you "plural" need to visit the doctor)&lt;br /&gt;Necesitan 5.000 euros (They need 5,000 euro)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you see, there is no need to write the personal pronoun at the begining of the sentence.&lt;br /&gt;But we will write "usted" necesita trabajar and "ustedes" necesitan trabajar because we are emphazising the personal pronoun here: the formal "tu" and "vosotros"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We wiill also say the personal pronoun when we are emphazising it in a sentence.&lt;br /&gt;For example:&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy española pero tú eres alemán (I am spanish but you are german)&lt;br /&gt;El estudia mucho pero yo muy poco (he studies alot but I study very little)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do we know in a sentence the subject is él, yo, nostoros, etc? By looking up to the verb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estudio (yo) , cantas (tú), etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, we will always say usted and ustedes in order not to mistake it with él or ella and ellos or ellas, as they have the same verbal form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355624832706415?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355624832706415/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355624832706415' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355624832706415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355624832706415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/11/useful-tips-personal-pronouns.html' title='Useful tips: Personal Pronouns'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355598332044700</id><published>2004-11-02T07:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:19:43.320-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAMATICA: Verbos Cantar-Hablar-Ser-Estar-Trabajar</title><content type='html'>TEST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fill in the blank spaces and write the convenient verb (in present tense)&lt;br /&gt;Cantar:&lt;br /&gt;Yo canto, tú cantas, él canta, nosotros cantamos vosotros cantáis, ellos cantan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hablar:&lt;br /&gt;Yo hablo, tú hablas, él habla, nosotros hablamos, vosotros habláis, ellos hablan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ser:&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy, tú eres, él es, nosotros somos, vosotros sóis, ellos son&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estar:&lt;br /&gt;Yo estoy, tú estás , él está, nosotros estamos, vosotros estáis, ellos están&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trabajar :&lt;br /&gt;Yo trabajo tú trabajas, él trabaja, nosotros trabajamos, vosotros trabajáis, ellos trabajan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;START HERE:&lt;br /&gt;Tr......... en una oficina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por la tarde tr.... como enfermera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mis hijos no ha....... todavía, porque s....... muy pequeños.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi amiga me h....... de cosas privadas: de su madre, de sus probemas, de su novio. Yo ha..... con ella de muchas cosas y me gusta es.......... con ella, es muy simpática.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi hermana ca...... canciones de amor todos los días antes de ir a tr................&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El profesor e......... muy simpático y e-------- siempre de buen humor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo s..... una persona muy difícil de comprender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOOD LUCK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answers:&lt;br /&gt;trabajo-trabajo-hablan-son - habla-hablo-estar - canta-trabaja - eres-está -soy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355598332044700?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355598332044700/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355598332044700' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355598332044700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355598332044700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/11/gramatica-verbos-cantar-hablar-ser.html' title='GRAMATICA: Verbos Cantar-Hablar-Ser-Estar-Trabajar'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355568232448220</id><published>2004-10-22T07:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:14:42.323-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Vocabulario: Los colores. Continuacion</title><content type='html'>Let´s practice a little what we learned about the colors.&lt;br /&gt;Remember that some colors are invariable in gender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;María tiene una casa blanca con ventanas azules. Su jardín tiene un tobogán amarillo y muchas rosas rojas. En verano, María visita mi casa que es rosa y gris. Las plantas son muy verdes y las hojas marrones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi teléfono celular es negro y mi computadora gris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tengo una camisa negra y una falda naranja, marrón y verde muy bonita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi amigo tiene el pelo negro y la barba (beard) blanca como la nieve (snow).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355568232448220?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355568232448220/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355568232448220' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355568232448220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355568232448220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/vocabulario-los-colores-continuacion.html' title='Vocabulario: Los colores. Continuacion'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355553677951952</id><published>2004-10-15T07:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:12:16.780-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Vocabulario: Los colores/the colors</title><content type='html'>El color es:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;azul (blue)- invariable&lt;br /&gt;una mesa (table) azul , un cielo (sky) azul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;blanco (white) blanca&lt;br /&gt;Un oso (bear) blanco, una pared (wall) blanca&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;naranja (orange)-invariable&lt;br /&gt;Un vestido (dress) naranja, una servilleta (napkin) naranja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;verde (green) -invariable&lt;br /&gt;Un campo (field) verde , unos ojos (eyes) verdes, una milla (mile) verde&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;negro (black) negra&lt;br /&gt;El carbón (charcoal) es negro - Mi camisa (shirt) es negra&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marrón (brown) - invariable&lt;br /&gt;El cabello (hair) marrón, la cama (bed) marrón&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amarillo (yellow) amarilla&lt;br /&gt;El submarino amarillo , la cinta (ribbon) amarilla&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rojo (red) roja&lt;br /&gt;El botón (button) rojo, la nariz (nose) roja&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rosa (pink) - invariable&lt;br /&gt;El gorro (beret) rosa , la rosa (rose) rosa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OTHER COLORS:&lt;br /&gt;Turquesa - invariable (turquoise)&lt;br /&gt;Salmón - invariable (salmon)&lt;br /&gt;Lila . invariable (lilac)&lt;br /&gt;carmín - invariable (wild red rose)&lt;br /&gt;Morado , morada (purple)&lt;br /&gt;Púrpura - invariable (also purple)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shades:&lt;br /&gt;anaranjado, anaranjada,with orange notes&lt;br /&gt;rosado, rosada, with rose notes&lt;br /&gt;verdoso, verdosa, with green notes&lt;br /&gt;azulado, azulada, with blue notes&lt;br /&gt;blanquecino, blanquecina, with white notes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355553677951952?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355553677951952/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355553677951952' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355553677951952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355553677951952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/vocabulario-los-coloresthe-colors.html' title='Vocabulario: Los colores/the colors'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355526943733914</id><published>2004-10-14T07:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:07:49.436-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAMATICA: Verbos / Verbs</title><content type='html'>Spanish Grammar has regular and irregulars verbs, just as it happens in English.&lt;br /&gt;There are three kinds of verb terminations:AR- ER- IR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AR belongs to the First Conjugation ( Primera Conjugación)&lt;br /&gt;ER Second conj. (Segunda Conjugación)&lt;br /&gt;IR , Third conj. (Tercera Conjugación)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let´s see the Primera conjugación to the Present Tense (Presente de Indicativo):&lt;br /&gt;CANTAR (to sing)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presente de Indicativo&lt;br /&gt;Yo cant-o&lt;br /&gt;Tú cant-as , Usted cant-a&lt;br /&gt;El cant-a Ella cant -a&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros cant -amos&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros cant-ais , Ustedes cant-an&lt;br /&gt;Ellos cant-an&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMER (Segunda Conjugación)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo com-o&lt;br /&gt;Tu com-es, Usted com-e&lt;br /&gt;El com-e&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros com-emos&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros com-eis, Ustedes com-en&lt;br /&gt;Ellos com-en&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ABRIR (to open)&lt;br /&gt;Tercera Conjugación&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yo abr-o&lt;br /&gt;Tú abr-es, Usted abr-e&lt;br /&gt;El abr-e&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros abr-imos&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros abr-ís&lt;br /&gt;Ellos abr-en&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;María come mucho&lt;br /&gt;Usted bebe agua&lt;br /&gt;Mi hermano abre la puerta&lt;br /&gt;El Profesor abre el libro&lt;br /&gt;Yo como pan con chocolate&lt;br /&gt;Tú bebes coca cola siempre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355526943733914?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355526943733914/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355526943733914' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355526943733914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355526943733914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/gramatica-verbos-verbs.html' title='GRAMATICA: Verbos / Verbs'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355494967145892</id><published>2004-10-13T06:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T07:02:29.670-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Vocabulario:Partes de Una Clase/ Elements in a classroom</title><content type='html'>NOTE: with the nouns I have included their correspondent articles so you will get used to the masculine and feminine forms. Very helpul to remember which is masculine and which is feminine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El profesor / La profesora - The teacher&lt;br /&gt;El alumno / La alumna - The pupil&lt;br /&gt;El libro - The book&lt;br /&gt;La mesa - The table&lt;br /&gt;El pupitre - The desk- The writing desk&lt;br /&gt;La regla - The ruler&lt;br /&gt;El lápiz - the pencil&lt;br /&gt;El bolígrafo - The ball-point pen- The byro - The pen&lt;br /&gt;La pluma - The fountain pen&lt;br /&gt;El cuaderno - The booklet&lt;br /&gt;El bloc de notas - The notebook&lt;br /&gt;Los apuntes - Notes - Jotting - Memo&lt;br /&gt;El cuaderno de apuntes - The scratching pad&lt;br /&gt;El tema - The subject&lt;br /&gt;Las Matemáticas - Mathematics&lt;br /&gt;La Historia - History&lt;br /&gt;La Geografía - Geography&lt;br /&gt;La Literatura - Literature&lt;br /&gt;La Química - Chemistry&lt;br /&gt;La Física - Physics&lt;br /&gt;La Música - Music&lt;br /&gt;La Gimnasia - Gymnastics&lt;br /&gt;La Lengua Española - Spanish Language (literally Spanish tongue)&lt;br /&gt;El Inglés - English&lt;br /&gt;El Francés - French&lt;br /&gt;El Alemán - German&lt;br /&gt;El Italiano - Italian&lt;br /&gt;La ventana - The window&lt;br /&gt;El suelo - The floor&lt;br /&gt;La carpeta - The folder&lt;br /&gt;La cartera - The schoolbag&lt;br /&gt;El compás - The compass&lt;br /&gt;El cartabón - The quadrant&lt;br /&gt;El mapa - The map&lt;br /&gt;Los posters - Posters&lt;br /&gt;La tiza - The chalk&lt;br /&gt;La pizarra - The blackboard&lt;br /&gt;El borrador  de la pizarra - The blackboard eraser. In Spanish, borrador also means "rough draft"&lt;br /&gt;El exámen - The exam - The examination&lt;br /&gt;Las notas - The grades&lt;br /&gt;Las buenas notas - High grades&lt;br /&gt;Las malas notas - Low grades&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expressions: He cateado . I have failed (the exam)&lt;br /&gt;Esto está chupado - This is very easy&lt;br /&gt;Mi profe - short term for "mi profesor" or " mi profesora"&lt;br /&gt;Chivato, Chivata - Squealer&lt;br /&gt;Copión- Copiona - Cheat&lt;br /&gt;He suspendido - I have failed&lt;br /&gt;He aprobado - I have passed&lt;br /&gt;Tengo un notable - Got a B&lt;br /&gt;Tengo un sobresaliente - Got an A - I got an Excellent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355494967145892?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355494967145892/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355494967145892' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355494967145892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355494967145892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/vocabulariopartes-de-una-clase.html' title='Vocabulario:Partes de Una Clase/ Elements in a classroom'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-110355444963284547</id><published>2004-10-12T06:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T06:54:09.633-08:00</updated><title type='text'>To be or.... To Be??</title><content type='html'>Let's have a look at the verb "to be":&lt;br /&gt;I am&lt;br /&gt;you are&lt;br /&gt;he,she,it is&lt;br /&gt;we are&lt;br /&gt;you are&lt;br /&gt;they are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What spanish verb is the equivalent for "to be"?&lt;br /&gt;Is it SER?&lt;br /&gt;or.. ESTAR?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thing is, both verbs mean To Be but in different ways. While SER designs a place, a person or a thing with an UNCHANGEABLE CHARACTERISTIC, that is to say, a characteristic that WILL NOT CHANGE, THAT IS INMUTABLE, on the other hand ESTAR is used to design, in most cases, a characteristic that CHANGES, IS MUTATABLE OR STATIONARY.&lt;br /&gt;Let's see first what are those verbs:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SER:&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy&lt;br /&gt;Tú eres, Usted (formal you singular) es&lt;br /&gt;El es, ella  es&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros somos, Nosotras somos&lt;br /&gt;Vostros sois, Vosotras sois, Ustedes (formal you plural) son&lt;br /&gt;Ellos son, Ellas son&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VERY IMPORTANT : Note that Usted and Ustedes ALWAYS USE THE THIRD PERSON IN SINGULAR AND PLURAL, EVEN IF USTED AND USTEDES EXPRESS TU IN A FORMAL WAY.&lt;br /&gt;This verb is used to designate, in most cases,  PERMANENT CHARACTERISTICS of a person, a place and - or a thing.&lt;br /&gt;To understand this point, just answer a simple question: where are you from? If you are Italian for example, this is a characteristic that cannot change all through your life, and even if you aquire another citizenship, it will be written on papers but in essence you can't change the place where you were born, isn't it? you will still be Italian no matter how many news nationalities you aquire, your place of birth will always be Italy.&lt;br /&gt;Then you say Yo soy italiano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let's have a look to another situation, this time let's see the word "asleep". When I am asleep, I am under a CHANGEABLE situation; meaning that after a while, I will wake up. It's not a permanent situation but Temporary. The same happens with the verb "raining". Even if there is rain for days, weeks, months... one day it will be the sun shining again. The rain is TEMPORARY as well. This the perfect example of the verb ESTAR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's see how to conjugate this verb:&lt;br /&gt;Yo estoy&lt;br /&gt;Tú estás, Usted está (see again how I use estar in "Usted") I use the third person singular. Look:&lt;br /&gt;El está, Ella está&lt;br /&gt;Nosotros estamos, Nosotras estamos&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros estáis, vosotras estáis , Ustedes están (again, see how Ustedes uses the third person although it means You in a formal way)&lt;br /&gt;Ellos están, Ellas están.&lt;br /&gt;Yo soy española (this is a fact, it can´t change even if I have many other nationalities, my place of birth will always be Spain)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, está lloviendo ( it is raining) está nublado ( it is cloudy) and not es lloviendo or es nublado, because those are transitory characteristics of the weather.&lt;br /&gt;Estoy aquí (I am here). Eventually I will change of place. It´s mutable, transitory. I use ESTAR.&lt;br /&gt;Juan es aburrido (John is boring) His personality is boring. He is this wayNow: Juan está aburrido (John is bored ) This is a temporary situation, sooner or later he will change of activity and will be amused, or sad, or busy, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Juan está triste (John is sad) (now, at this moment)&lt;br /&gt;Juan está ocupado (John is busy) (now, at this moment)&lt;br /&gt;Juan es un hombre triste (he is always sad, he is a sad person)&lt;br /&gt;Juan es un hombre ocupado (he is always working, he is a busy person)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, this can also be confusing at times but little by little it will become more understandable.&lt;br /&gt;These are some guidelines for you to keep in mind when speaking about SER and ESTAR:&lt;br /&gt;SER: To describe a characteristic in a person, a thing, a place that doesn´t change in most cases. And, if it does change, it does it slowly. Also to describe a posession and the material something is made of:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Examples:&lt;br /&gt;Ana es inteligente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;María es vieja. (María is old) One moment, she wasn´t old before, right? Before, she was young! That´s true, but the change from young to old was slow, it needed years. María was young and little by little she became old. Therefore we use the verb SER.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La camisa es de algodón (the shirt is in cotton)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La casa es blanca (well if it changes of color, it will not happen all  of a sudden, it will need some days to become green for example) La casa es blanca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;verb ESTAR&lt;br /&gt;Usted está cansado (you are tired)&lt;br /&gt;La ventana está cerrada (the window is closed)&lt;br /&gt;El gato está arriba (the cat is upstairs)&lt;br /&gt;El gato ES negro (the cat is black)&lt;br /&gt;El gato está hambriento (the cat is hungry)&lt;br /&gt;El gato es mío (the cat is mine)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try to solve this test:&lt;br /&gt;Ella ..........  de Francia&lt;br /&gt;Antonio .... en casa (at home)&lt;br /&gt;Ustedes no ..... simpáticos (nice)&lt;br /&gt;Mohammed ..... ingeniero (engineer)&lt;br /&gt;Mi tío (uncle) no ...... en el parque (at the park)&lt;br /&gt;Mi hermano ....... cubano&lt;br /&gt;María ........ contenta (happy)&lt;br /&gt;¿....... Carlos haciendo sus deberes? (doing his homework)&lt;br /&gt;Ana no ------ inteligente&lt;br /&gt;Mi padre y mi hermano ....... profesores (teachers)&lt;br /&gt;Mi amigo ..... muy bajo (short)&lt;br /&gt;Mi amigo ...... muy triste (sad)&lt;br /&gt;Tú ..... loco (crazy)&lt;br /&gt;Tú ..... un loco (a crazy one)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ANSWERS:&lt;br /&gt;es&lt;br /&gt;está&lt;br /&gt;son&lt;br /&gt;es&lt;br /&gt;está&lt;br /&gt;es&lt;br /&gt;está&lt;br /&gt;está&lt;br /&gt;es&lt;br /&gt;son&lt;br /&gt;es&lt;br /&gt;está&lt;br /&gt;estás&lt;br /&gt;eres&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-110355444963284547?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/110355444963284547/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=110355444963284547' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355444963284547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/110355444963284547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/to-be-or-to-be.html' title='To be or.... To Be??'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-109753310155375811</id><published>2004-10-11T15:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T06:40:51.213-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAMATICA: Personal Pronouns - Pronombres Personales I</title><content type='html'>If you are told that The Personal Spanish pronouns can act as:&lt;br /&gt;subjet&lt;br /&gt;Indirect Object&lt;br /&gt;Direct Object&lt;br /&gt;Reflexive Object&lt;br /&gt;Object of Preposition&lt;br /&gt;Reflexive Object of Preposition....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is right but sounds a bit too complicated, isnt' it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's start with the subject section and everything will be easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The personal pronouns in English, acting as subject are:&lt;br /&gt;I&lt;br /&gt;you&lt;br /&gt;he&lt;br /&gt;she&lt;br /&gt;it&lt;br /&gt;we&lt;br /&gt;you&lt;br /&gt;they&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the Spanish ones? Have a look&lt;br /&gt;yo -I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tú-you&lt;br /&gt;usted (Ud.) -you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;él -he&lt;br /&gt;ella -she&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nosotros -we&lt;br /&gt;nosotras -we (f.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vosotros -you&lt;br /&gt;vosotras -you (f.)&lt;br /&gt;ustedes (Uds) -you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ellos -they&lt;br /&gt;ellas -they (f.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, you have seen two elements that look a little odd. They are Usted and Ustedes. What do they mean? Do they mean you? If so, why there are different way to say you in Spanish?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let´s explain this briefly: Té is the familiar way of "you". It applies for both male and female. Usted is the formal way of "you". As well applied for both male and female&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vosotros: Familiar form of plural (male, female)Ustedes: Formal form of plural (male , female)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now what does it mean familiar and formal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you address to your someone by his-her last name or if you would address to someone using his-her last name if you knew it.... then you must use USTED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same applies for the plural.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Té eres mi amigo (you are my friend) When you address to people like a close friend, a student, your family, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usted es mi amigo (you are my friend) . When you address to someone in a formal way , either using his-her last name or not using it for the mere reason that you don´t know which one is. For example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usted es muy amable (You are very nice) This you applies for example to: your teacher, a president, a doctor, a prince, an old person, a famous person, someone older than you that you don´t know, or someone who is your age or younger but bearing a title, like prince.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How would you address to the following people in Spanish?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president of Spain - el presidente de España (tú or Usted)?&lt;br /&gt;your brother - tu hermano (tú or Usted)?&lt;br /&gt;your dentist - tu dentista (tú or Usted)?&lt;br /&gt;an old person you don´t know, at a shop (tú or Usted)?&lt;br /&gt;a child at the park (tú or Usted)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;answers: Usted, tú, Usted, Usted, tú&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-109753310155375811?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/109753310155375811/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=109753310155375811' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753310155375811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753310155375811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/gramatica-personal-pronouns-pronombres.html' title='GRAMATICA: Personal Pronouns - Pronombres Personales I'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-109753268559966743</id><published>2004-10-11T15:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T06:37:29.583-08:00</updated><title type='text'>VOCABULARY I: Common Expressions- Expresiones Comunes</title><content type='html'>Buenos días - Good morning&lt;br /&gt;Buenas tardes - Good afternoon&lt;br /&gt;Buenas noches - Good night&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Good evening can be translated in Spanish as "Buenas noches" in the sense that "Buenas noches" is not just an expression said just before retiring oneself to sleep. I can say Buenas noches when I enter a shop but it´s already dark outside. Good evening, if said when it´s dark , then it´s translated at Buenas noches.Please keep in mind the difference of sense that Good evening and Good night has in Spanish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hasta mañana - See you tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;Hasta siempre - See you&lt;br /&gt;Hasta luego - See you later&lt;br /&gt;Hasta pronto - See you soon&lt;br /&gt;¿Cómo estás? - How are you?&lt;br /&gt;¿Cómo estáis? - How are you? (to more than one person)&lt;br /&gt;¿Cómo te llamas? - What´s your name?&lt;br /&gt;¿Cuántos años tienes? - How old are you?&lt;br /&gt;Gracias - Thanks, thank you&lt;br /&gt;De nada - not at all, you are welcome&lt;br /&gt;Tengo hambre - I am hungry&lt;br /&gt;Tengo sed - I am thirsty&lt;br /&gt;Tengo sueño - I am sleepy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-109753268559966743?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/109753268559966743/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=109753268559966743' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753268559966743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753268559966743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/vocabulary-i-common-expressions.html' title='VOCABULARY I: Common Expressions- Expresiones Comunes'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-109753238609394257</id><published>2004-10-11T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T06:36:54.033-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAMATICA III: Genders and Nouns- Géneros y Nombres</title><content type='html'>With a noun you can express a name, an idea, a place, a thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Examples:&lt;br /&gt;Idea: amor (love), friendship (amistad), sabiduría (knowledge)&lt;br /&gt;Name: María (Mary), amigo (friend), profesor (teacher)&lt;br /&gt;Place : casa (house), Barcelona, París, escuela (school)&lt;br /&gt;Thing: libro (book), carta (letter), ventana (window), computadora (computer)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- In Spanish there are two kinds of nouns: masculine and feminine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example:&lt;br /&gt;Masculine nouns (m.):libro, amor, amigo, profesor,&lt;br /&gt;Feminine nouns (f.):amistad, sabiduría, casa, escuela, carta, ventana, computadora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This applies to almost all living creatures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let´s see the differences between masculine and feminine:&lt;br /&gt;CAT: gato (m.) - gata (f.)&lt;br /&gt;DOG: perro (m.) - perra (f.)&lt;br /&gt;FRIEND: amigo (m.) - amiga (f.)&lt;br /&gt;TEACHER: profesor (m.) - profesora (f.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you give the masculine for the following nouns?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;niña (girl)&lt;br /&gt;doctora (doctor)&lt;br /&gt;maestra (teacher)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Important: Not every noun ended with an "a" or "o" denotes its gender&lt;br /&gt;Many nouns end in letters that are not precisely "o" or "a"&lt;br /&gt;It is very important to learn the definite article "el" "la" in order to be familiar with the genders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Examples: El libro, la estudiante, el hombre, la mujer, el enigma, la mantis, la plebe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-109753238609394257?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/109753238609394257/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=109753238609394257' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753238609394257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753238609394257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/gramatica-iii-genders-and-nouns-gneros.html' title='GRAMATICA III: Genders and Nouns- Géneros y Nombres'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-109753220577825127</id><published>2004-10-11T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T06:36:18.143-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAMATICA II: Undefinite Article- Artículo Indefinido</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;ATTENTION&lt;/strong&gt;. List of abbreviations:&lt;br /&gt;m.: masculine&lt;br /&gt;f.: feminine&lt;br /&gt;m.s.: masculine singular&lt;br /&gt;f.pl.: feminine plural&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A/An : un, una, unos, unas&lt;br /&gt;Ex.: Libro, (m.s.) Book&lt;br /&gt;Libros (m.pl.) Books&lt;br /&gt;Casa (f.s.) House&lt;br /&gt;Casas (f.pl.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un: Un libro (a book)&lt;br /&gt;Una: Una casa (a house)&lt;br /&gt;Unos libros (some books, books)&lt;br /&gt;Unas casas (some houses, houses)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-109753220577825127?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/109753220577825127/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=109753220577825127' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753220577825127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753220577825127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/gramatica-ii-undefinite-article.html' title='GRAMATICA II: Undefinite Article- Artículo Indefinido'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679842.post-109753175130384533</id><published>2004-10-11T14:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-12-20T06:35:53.016-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GRAMATICA I : Definite Article - El Artículo Definido</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;ATTENTION&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Meaning of abreviations:&lt;br /&gt;m.: masculine&lt;br /&gt;f.: feminine&lt;br /&gt;s.: singular&lt;br /&gt;pl.: plural&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Artículo Definido: Definite Article: THE&lt;br /&gt;El (m.-s.): El libro (the book)&lt;br /&gt;La (f.-s.): La casa (the house)&lt;br /&gt;Los(m.-pl.): Los libros (The books)&lt;br /&gt;Las(f.-pl.): Las casas (The houses)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ejemplos (Examples):&lt;br /&gt;El amigo (friend, m.s.)&lt;br /&gt;La amiga (friend f.s.)&lt;br /&gt;Los amigos (friends m.pl.)&lt;br /&gt;Las amigas (friends f.pl.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8679842-109753175130384533?l=lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/feeds/109753175130384533/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8679842&amp;postID=109753175130384533' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753175130384533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8679842/posts/default/109753175130384533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lecciones-de-espanol.blogspot.com/2004/10/gramatica-i-definite-article-el.html' title='GRAMATICA I : Definite Article - El Artículo Definido'/><author><name>Maryam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13237329230787053351</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.mrymworld.com/picture_library/Balcony3.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
