The different uses of the prepositions por and para can be confusing for students who are learning Spanish. In the following video Irene will explain in which case to use porand in which one para. Once you have seen the expanation and examples it won’t be difficult for you to distinguish between these prepositions and with a bit of practice you will soon use porand paracorrectly.
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The chart sums up what Irene says in the video and what is written on the whiteboard. You can download it and take it with you.
We hope this video helped you to understand the different uses of the prepositions porand parain Spanish and if you have any questions or doubts just leave a comment and we will help you. Now it’s your turn to practice!
The different uses of the prepositions por and para can be confusing for students who are learning Spanish. In the following video Irene will explain in which case to use porand in which one para. Once you have seen the expanation and examples it won’t be difficult for you to distinguish between these prepositions and with a bit of practice you will soon use porand paracorrectly.
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The chart sums up what Irene says in the video and what is written on the whiteboard. You can download it and take it with you.
We hope this video helped you to understand the different uses of the prepositions porand parain Spanish and if you have any questions or doubts just leave a comment and we will help you. Now it’s your turn to practice!
The conversation classes at our Spanish language school are an extra that we give to the participants of the Spanish courses for university students for free once a week. They are a creative space where the students choose the topics they are interested in and the teachers propose interactive activities that give them the opportunity to improve their speaking skills and put into practice what they have learned in class, without being focused on a certain grammatical stucture. Sometimes they create interesting debates and other times funny role plays. Additionally, as we put together the groups of similar levels, the students get to know each other better. In this class there are students from the A1 and the A2 group.
Here we show you one of our conversation classes with our Spanish teacher Marina. The students had learned the vocabulary related to bars and restaurants and how to order food and drinks a few days before. So they chose this topic for the conversation class. Marina prepared some funny situations that could happen in a Spanish restaurant, and the students had to create suitable dialogues and represent the scenes, and they did it so well! Here is the video:
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The activity was a success and we had a lot of fun together! We hope you enjoyed the video. Many thanks to the students who allowed us to record the class for the blog.
In a previous post you learned how to use the Spanish regular verbs in the present tense, but like in other languages in Spanish there are irregularities in the verb forms. So now we will see the conjugation of irregular verbs in the present tense. In this videotutorial Marina will explain the irregularities, which we can divide in four classifications, and give us some hints how to remember them.
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Below you will find a conjugation chart showing what Marina had written on the whiteboard with the forms of the irregular verbs, the hints that Marina mentioned like the “boot” and examples of the different irregularities.
There are only two ways of learning how to use the irregular verbs correctly. Learn them by heart or listen and read very much in Spanish. The first way is the quicker one even though not the most fun way. If you have any questions or queries just leave us a comment and we will help you
” ¿De quién es el libro?” ” Es mi libro./Es mío.” or “Es tu libro./Es tuyo.”.
In order to not confuse what belongs to whom, it is important to know how to use the possessive adjectives and pronouns, and that’s why this is an important grammar topic in the A1 level. They indicate property and possession and there are two types in Spanish. On the one hand there are the possessive adjectives that are placed in front of the noun and on the other hand there are the possessive pronouns that are placed behind the noun. Both of them always change their ending according to the number of the noun. Only the possessive pronouns additionally change their ending according to the gender of the noun that they refer to.
In the following video, our Spanish teacher Ángeles explains how to use the possessive pronouns, so that at the end “your book” still is “yours”.
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Attention: “El libro es para mí.” (mí = object pronoun) is spelled with an accent, while “Es mi libro.” (mi = possessive adjective) is spelled without an accent. These two forms are easily confused, even by native Spanish speakers.
We hope this video helps you to understand how to use the possessive pronouns and suggest that you practise their use making up Spanish sentences about possession and propertt. If you have any question or query, just leave a comment and we will help you. Enjoy studying! 😉
Today we go on with the conditional clauses, an important grammar topic in the B2 level. In the previous video you have learnt about the first conditional, and now it’s time to learn the other two types of conditionals. In this videotutorial Irene will explain the second and third conditional. As usually, you can see the chart with examples that Irene shows on the whiteboard in the picture below. We invite you to download it to practise the use of the conditional. Enjoy watching and learning.
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One of the important topics in the B2 level are the conditional clauses. In Spanish there are three types of conditional clauses and in this videotutorial Irene will explain the use of the first conditional. The other two conditional forms are the subject of the next videos.
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In the following chart you can see how to form the sentences and some examples. Feel free to download it.
So now it’s time to: practise, practise, practise and soon the conditional clauses won’t be a problem for you. If you have a question please leave us a comment and we will help you.
In Spanish there are two verbs to say “to be” and depending on which verb you use, it can change the meaning of the adjective it attends to. So in Spanish it is not the same to say “ser malo” as “estar malo”. On the basis of some examples Marina will explain the different meanings and how to use the verbs ser and estar in combination with the adjectives. In the chart below you can see again the examples that Marina explains in the video.
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We hope we could make it easier for you and now you understand the difference. If you have any question, just leave a comment and we will help you.
It isn’t always easy to express yourself or give your opinion and less in a foreign language that you’re studying. In the next video Irene will show us how to organise our ideas in 6 simple steps, so it won’t be that difficult to express ourselves.
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This chart will help you to remember the 6 steps. So now it’s your turn to practise with a partner. Choose a topic to discuss and make some sentences to give your opinion. Enjoy!
The charity festival we celebrated last Saturday, August 23 at the main square of Prado del Rey to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Academia Pradoventura was a success in all senses.
The aim of the festival to raise funds for the construction of an old people’s home in Prado del Rey was fulfilled successfully. By selling drinks and the delicious dishes prepared by the members of the foundation “María Isabel Rodriguez Peñalver de Ntra. Sra. Del Carmen” as well as two raffles, a lot of money was collected for the cause, so that we are now a little bit closer to making our dream of having a home for our elderly come true.
The 25 stands of the craft market created a very plesant atmosphere during the whole the day and the performances of supportive artists attracted a big audience at night.
The first performance was by the comedian Andreu Malafuente from Prado del Rey who started his repertoire of jokes with a funny joke about learning languages. Then the actresses and actors of the theater group “Sin Complejos”, also from Prado del Rey, cheered up the audience with a comedy about different situations in a bar. The musical programme started with the flamenco singer Ana Suárez from Ubrique, who is adored by the people from Prado del Rey because she is from this village. Accompanied by José Antonio Maza on the guitar, Ana sang joyful songs like Bulerías, Fandagos, Tanguillos, etc. which delighted the Spanish and foreign audience. This performance was followed by the rock group “By the Face” from Zahara de la Sierra who encouraged the assistants to dance to popular punk rock songs and self-composed songs. Finally the entertainer DJ Carlos Merecumbé from Jerez and his dancers were cheering up the people until a little after one o’clock when the festival came to its end.
We would like to thank the members of the foundation for their hard work behind the bar, the artists for participating charitably, the artisans for colaborating and drawing the attention of the audience with their handmade creations, and to all the poeple who helped with the organization of the festival and, of course to the audience from Prado del Rey and the surroundings, the people from the Suryalila yoga reatreat centre, and finally our special thanks go to the team and friends of Academia Pradoventura, who came especially for this evening, arrived earlier to their course or extended their stay. All of you made this festival an unforgettable event.
In Prado del Rey everything is prepared for the Charity Party tomorrow 23 August 2014 in favour of an old people’s home. We’re waiting for you!
All day from 10:00 am there will be a craft market, a bouncy castle for children, food and drink. The money raised by the sale of food and drink will be for a better future of the elderly. There will be delicious food prepared by the members of the foundation María Isabel Rodriguez Peñalver de Nuestra Señora del Carmen: Canapés, Spanish omelette, fried peppers, gazpacho, etc.
At night we have a varied program of attractive performances:
21:00 – 21:30 Comedian “Andreu Malafuente” 21:30 – 22:30 Theater group “Sin Complejos” 22:45 – 23:30 Flamenco singing and guitar “Ana Suárez and José Antonio Maza” 23:30 – 00:15 “Rock group of the Music School” 00:15 – 01:00 “Dance animation with DJ Carlos Merecumbe”
To get further information about the foundation María Isabel Rodríguez Peñalver de Ntra. Sra. del Carmen or to become a member its chairman Juan Mariscal is available on the number +34608857546.
For us organizing this charity party for a better future of the elderly of Prado del Rey and the surrounding villages, on the 10th anniversary of Academia Pradoventura is a wonderful task. We hope that many people come to spend a good day and help with this project.
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We hope this video helped you to understand the different uses of the prepositions por and para in Spanish and if you have any questions or doubts just leave a comment and we will help you. Now it’s your turn to practice!
