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**Soy casada.** Hola mi nombre es Aline y quiero aprender español. Llevo estudiando español 4 años, más o menos , y ahora busco personas que estén interesadas en un intercambio lingüístico para practicar mi español y a cambio puedo ayudarlos con el inglés. Trabajo como un tutora de inglés desde hace muchos años. Espero poder hablar contigo:)
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Nadia Canicio
French
May 28, 2020
Une très agréable conversation, merci
Luis
English
Apr 30, 2020
Tu español es muy bueno! Fué un placer conocerte.
🌈 Mar Olivares
Spanish
Feb 4, 2019
Conversation practice: we talked about the weather in the US, homelessness and the Super Bowl. The document is ready if you wan't to review. Muchas gracias Aline!
Phillip
Latin
Jun 18, 2018
This was a great first lesson. We worked through all of the sentences in Ch. 2 of Wheelock's Latin and discussed Latin in general
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    Estuve escuchando un podcast por meditación/oración que se trató el libro de Isaías en la biblia en este tiempo de Adviento y tengo una pregunta sobre la palabra "concreción." Este es el contexto: "En esas ocasiones en las que parece que no hay salida, tú me invitas, Señor, a ensanchar mi tienda, mi mirada, mi horizonte. Tú me dices que soy fértil, que mi vida tiene sentido, que me amas más allá de mis concreciones, de mis éxitos, con mis fracasos." ¿Qué es la significa de esta palabra "concreciones?" ¿Actos concretos o alguno diferente? Tal vez, no oí la correcta palabra, pero pienso que fue "concreciones."
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    Tengo una duda sobre la gramática de una frase muy famosa. Entiendo el sentido pero no entiendo la gramática: Más fácil le es a un camello pasar por el ojo de una aguja... Que es la función del pronombre indefinitivo, le? En cuanto a mí, yo diría, Es más fácil para un camello pasar.... "Le es" puede significa "para"?
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    As a middle-aged American, I’ve never heard or used the phrase either. But A google books ngram for a similar phrase “you’re a caution,” shows it making a resurgence. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?smoothing=3&corpus=26&year_end=2019&year_start=1800&content=You+are+a+caution&direct_url=t1%3B%2CYou%20are%20a%20caution%3B%2Cc0 It still doesn’t seem to be a widely used phrase, but maybe we’ll be hearing more of it.
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    In many schools and universities in the U.S., the time period for preparing for end-of-the-semester exams is called "Finals Week," or "Exam Week" simply, "Finals." A particular school may use its own phrase, but those that I listed should be generally understood. As others have pointed out, Americans don't use the word, "revision," to refer to studying for exams.
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    To complicate things, I would nuance Phil's very good answer.

    As an American, I would actually go with Su.Ki.'s answer, because I was always told that the verb you use depends on the situation, and whether you intend to picture the noun as a collective or as separate entities.

    So, in the case of drinking coffee, it seems like each person is doing the activity separately, "the couple <em>were </em>drinking coffee." Though, admittedly, you might be more likely to see the singular verb, "was," used in this context in North America.

    But, I would also write, "The couple <em>was </em>only together for a year." In this context the couple, as a collective, is more in view.

    As Stephanie wrote, the main thing is just to be consistent.
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    September 22, 2019
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    As an American, although I've used the adjective, "smart," before to refer to a person's style of dress, I've used it as a Britishism. To answer Su.Ki.'s question: I imagine that most of the other adjectives we use would be shared among English speakers. For a man, the adjective "sharp" comes to mind. ZZ Top put their American spin on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw. For inanimate things like offices and cars, "sleek" is a good word. Lately, I'll hear the slang, "bougie" for both people and things. This is more of a pejorative word, when you want to give a subtle dig to whatever you are describing.
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    June 18, 2019
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    With neither/nor and either/or constructions, the verb agrees with the closer subject.

    Because girlfriend is singular, you'd write, "Neither my friends nor my girlfriend has called me." 

    If you switched the order of the subjects, the correct sentence would be, "Neither my girlfriend nor my friends have called me."


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    May 4, 2019
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    For another perspective from the United States: The American Heritage Dictionary lists "bit" as a possible past participle, in addition to bitten, with no usage note that such use is non-standard. A "bit" about The American Heritage Dictionary: Its stance on a number of grammatical issues can be, admittedly, liberal sometimes. But, its usage panel is a list of who's who of Americans working in the fields of linguistics, literature, criticism, etc. Generally, it will include a "usage note" if a word is considered non-standard or if there is a debate about a usage. These notes are wonderful, as well as are the pictures in the hardcover version (the online version still has the usage notes). The dictionary is actually great reading. Highly recommended!
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    February 9, 2019
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    There's a famous chess scene in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and then there's the spoof of that scene in  Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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    January 20, 2019
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