Spanish in Seconds with Debbie Elias: Recent Episodes
Debbie Elias
Speaking Spanish can be easier if you use it every day. When I say -use it- I mean: listening to Spanish, speaking it, writing it, or learning new grammar rules, pronunciation or why not, a new topic though Spanish. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spanish-in-seconds/support
It's very important for me to let you know from the beginning that Spanish has 3 main parts. If you map up this now, it will be easy to grasp every tense you study and its logic.
Indicative tenses: we use these tenses to express REAL THINGS: I have a cat / Tengo un gato.
Subjunctive tenses: we use these tenses to express NOT REAL THINGS: I hope you have a nice day. / Espero (indicativo) que tengas (subjuntivo) un buen dia. As you see, we express a hope, and hope is not a fact, so that's why we must use subjuntivo, because it is just a desire, something that is not real, it's not a fact.
Imperative tenses are commands, as in English language: Do your homework / Haz tu tarea.
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Before you jump into subjunctive lessons I would love that you get the “big picture” of subjunctive first. As soon as you have in mind that Subjuntivo is a grammar resource in Spanish that we use to to express desire, doubt, things that we imagine or think but are not REAL, it will be easier to use it when is needed.
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