Category Archives: Spanish

Today we continued to work on imperative formation, to include use with endocliticos (I still don’t know how to describe these in English). Here are some examples: Tu / decir / la verdad / a ella. Dile la verdad. Disela … Continue reading →

Spanish has so many exceptions to its rules it’s ridiculous. Today I am learning imperative construction. And like the endless list of irregular verbs (some of which follow some form of pattern), there is also a long list of irregular … Continue reading →

I have now entered my second week of Spanish studies. The break from the weekend was quite nice though. Today we switched it up. Rather than continue with incliticos and encliticos, my maestra gave me a reading exercise (below) to … Continue reading →

My homework from yesterday. This lesson was extremely difficult for me, mostly because it’s hard to wrap my mind around the necessity of pronombres procliticos and when they are necessary (since not all verbs require them). English doesn’t seem to … Continue reading →

In addition to memorizing the prior list of verbs and their conjugations, this was included in my homework for today. There’s a few conjugations I’m not sure are correct because I don’t know the context. Object pronouns are new to … Continue reading →

Day 2 Notes Summary: We went through the rules that regulate the conjugation of some irregular verbs. I was also given a list of verbs that do not follow any particular pattern. We reviewed the verbs for to be and … Continue reading →

Today was my first day with my Spanish language tutor Minerva. Yun ran an ad in the paper a week ago to see if we could find someone. We received three applicants. Minerva was the only one that spoke English. … Continue reading →

Spanish Studies Wednesday, April 9 8.00pm Reading Peter Pan hace mucho tiemp0 (made much time) / a long time ago serena / serene, quiet, calm Londres / London pequeña / small, little (f) apenas se habían acostado / barely (or … Continue reading →