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Qual è la differenza tra creolo francese e francese? Risposta di Caterina Bosa Il creolo è il derivato e il miscuglio delle lingue africane che gli schiavi parlavano al loro arrivo ai Caraibi (con le influenze del tempo, tra le altre, quella della lingua inglese), e del modo in cui questi percepivano il francese. Gli africani, come probabilmente t...

🇪🇸 ESPAÑOL 🇪🇸

Comparatives: QUE o DE LO QUE?

I'm younger than you think ➡️ let's see if after the conjunction "than" we can add the pronoun "what" ➡️ I'm younger than what you think ✅ (it doesn't sound good, because English is super synthetic, but it makes sense). ➡️ Soy más joven de lo que piensas (de=than, lo que=what).

I'm younger than you ➡️let's try to add "what"➡️I'm younger than what you ➡️❌ doesn't make sense at all. In this case we will use QUE ➡️ soy más joven que tu (QUE in this case=THAN).

RULE: when in the English sentence after "than" we can add "what", the translation in Spanish will be DE LO QUE.
When in English we can't add "what", the translation will be with QUE alone.

Happy sunday 😘

ESPAÑOL

Un piccolo ripasso non fa mai male!

SIMPLE PAST VS PRESENT PERFECT

SIMPLE PAST: action concluded in a specific moment in the past (Yesterday I met Laura).

PRESENT PERFECT:
1. Action that still lasts (I've lived here since 2018)
2. Action that took place in a period of time that is not over yet (I've seen her already twice this week)
3. Repeated action, with frequency adverbs (He's done the exam 3 times before passing it)
4. Action that took place in a time that is not known or important (I've read this book!)
5. The action is JUST concluded (I don't need a sofa, I've just bought one, thank you anyway!)

SINCE + DATE or STARTING MOMENT
FOR + DURATION (number of days, months, years...)

Yesterday I was analyzing the Spanish lonely form HAY (there is), wondering where that Y comes from.
All I could find was that it's a special form of HABER, with no plural, and the ways in which it's used.

And last night I DREAMT that that Y at the end is the same Y that we find in the French "IL Y A".
Even if in Spanish Y lost its meaning of THERE, Spanish might have used the same process and applied it to this unique case...

Opinions?

Este = masculine, esto = neutral (already weird).
Guess the plural of este? Estos. Why?
There's no logical explanation.

Esto (neutral) is only used to describe abstract and general situations (esto es un lío = this is a mess), and it doesn't have a plural form.

The same happens with the articles:
el = masculine, lo = neutral
Plural of el? Los. Aha.

Most of the neutral nouns in Spanish refer to abstract concepts:
Lo bueno = the good
Lo malo = the bad
Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos = the essential is invisible to the eyes.
These concepts have no plural, like in English.
And the determiner "lo" doesn't have a plural form neither.

So the weird masculines EL and ESTE can get rid of their not very masculine E and take back possession of the O in the plural, because the neutral doesn't need it!

"A teacher's goal is to help learners understand words in their original form, rather than borrow the translated ideas from their native languages".

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Sei nel posto giusto!
Parlo 4 lingue fluentemente, ho i certificati TEFL e ELE (per insegnare inglese e spagnolo), e non smetto mai di studiare lingue (in questo momento mi cimento col francese): so esattamente come ci si sente, e dopo tutte queste lingue ho imparato a ridere di me stessa insieme ai parlanti nativi (chi conosce il francese può immaginare le grasse risate sulla mia pronuncia giusto in questo periodo!).
Imparare è divertente, motivante, soddisfacente; apre la mente a tutte le possibilità, la rende malleabile, ci avvicina ai nostri obiettivi di sviluppo personale, al divino che c'è in noi ✨

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SPANISH CLASS!

Today with our american students we're going to face a big challenge:
I'M HOT = TENGO CALOR
I'M HAPPY= ESTOY FELIZ

When do we use TENGO? When do we use ESTOY?

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