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Re: Spanish Group

Postby Jaleel10 » Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:07 am

Subjunctive help.

The difference between ?

Hablaré con todos los niños que no se comportan bien

Hablaré con todos los niños que no se comporten bien

I understand the sentences 100%. First one is a real situation. Second is a "if there are misbehaving kids" situation. So it's just as simple as that ? Is there a rule I am missing ?

Pretty cool that Spanish makes this distinction. First time really apreciating the Subjunctive.
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby Ogrim » Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:59 am

Jaleel10 wrote:Subjunctive help.

The difference between ?

Hablaré con todos los niños que no se comportan bien

Hablaré con todos los niños que no se comporten bien

I understand the sentences 100%. First one is a real situation. Second is a "if there are misbehaving kids" situation. So it's just as simple as that ? Is there a rule I am missing ?

Pretty cool that Spanish makes this distinction. First time really apreciating the Subjunctive.


It is pretty much what you say. In the first sentence, you are saying that you will talk to the children who are behaving badly right now. Meaning that some kids are actually behaving badly and you know who they are. With subjunctive you say that you will talk to the kids if they behave badly, meaning you don't know if they will, or how many of them will behave badly.
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby Jaleel10 » Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:01 am

Ogrim wrote:
It is pretty much what you say. In the first sentence, you are saying that you will talk to the children who are behaving badly right now. Meaning that some kids are actually behaving badly and you know who they are. With subjunctive you say that you will talk to the kids if they behave badly, meaning you don't know if they will, or how many of them will behave badly.


Thank you very much, Ogrim.
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby smallwhite » Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:39 am

... who are misbehaving
... who may be misbehaving

in English?
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby NoManches » Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:20 pm

smallwhite wrote:... who are misbehaving
... who may be misbehaving

in English?



Yup, I'd say this is a really good English translation!
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby IronMike » Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:06 pm

Wow.

So I decided to start Spanish after our expulsion from Russia. Found the Spanish resources section here and thought I'd check out the Spanish Study Group. Over 300 posts! Yikes!

I read the first page then skipped to this last page. I'll start to follow this thread from today.

Started Duolingo yday. Studied Spanish decades ago so at least so far I'm doing well. The Esperanto helps me as well. Goal is A2 by this summer, in case we get a chance to do any traveling in the western hemisphere.
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby Spoonary » Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:33 pm

NoManches wrote:
smallwhite wrote:... who are misbehaving
... who may be misbehaving

in English?


Yup, I'd say this is a really good English translation!

This is a good way to clearly understand the difference, but I would translate the sentences like this:

...who are misbehaving.
...who misbehave. - in the general sense of the word. If any child were to misbehave, I would talk to them.
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby Jaleel10 » Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:11 am

Various dialects from the Spanish region, Andalucía. Which is begrudgingly becoming one of my favourite accents. :lol:







BONUS

Antonio Banderes' very strong Malaga accent (And yes, I thought he was Latin American. I'm not the only one !!)


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Re: Spanish Group

Postby NoManches » Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:18 pm

If anybody wants a really cool podcast to help practice Spanish, check out: La Mesa, con León Krauze.

I first found it on Univision in the form of a show. I will try to remember where I first saw it (I believe it is a segment included within a news program).

Basically, León Krauze sits down with immigrants from all over the Spanish speaking world and interviews them, focusing on asking where they came from, when they came to the US, and challenges they have faced along the way. Most stories are very uplifting, although I've only listened to about 6 episodes so far.

Super interesting, super good quality....I HIGHLY recommend
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Re: Spanish Group

Postby Jaleel10 » Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:28 am

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Skimming through the FSI course.

Is this an error or is there a grammar rule I am missing ?
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