In this episode Mark is joined by Sofía from Argentina and Ana Isabel from Ecuador. Language points discussed include the difference between si no and sino, using hace with a time phrase, and voseo, the use of vos in Rioplatense Spanish.
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This week JP and Nahyeli deal with Steve’s tricky question regarding leísmo, a feature of the Spanish spoken in Spain where the indirect object pronoun le replaces the direct object pronoun lo when talking about a masculine person. If this sounds a bit complicated, let JP explain everything in the recording! The second question [...]
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In this week’s lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, Mark and Kara return after a few weeks off. The topic for discussion is the weather, and listeners will learn not only some useful phrases for talking about the weather, but Mark will explain the constructions behind these phrases so that listeners can build on these in [...]
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