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Hi, I live in London and work as a web developer. I'm learning Spanish as a hobby - though I'm hoping it will be the first of many languages. I'm looking for people to practice Spanish with - I don't know much yet so at first I might be a bit slow. Of course I'm happy to help improve your English as well.
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Estela Barberá
Spanish
Aug 10, 2022
Hoy hemos empezado a estudiar el presente de subjuntivo. Lo has hecho genial Joe, descansa ahora tu cabeza. Te había prometido una clase intensa 😎
Estela Barberá
Spanish
Jul 26, 2022
Hoy hemos visto cómo algunos adjetivos cambian de significado con los verbos ser y estar. ¡Buen trabajo Joe!
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  • Answered
    I'm not sure if we have anything called 'gummy bears' in the UK, though we might do. We definitely have 'jelly babies' though. They are shaped like little people/babies I suppose (but not very lifelike, thankfully!).
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    November 4, 2018
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    My week end

    Yesterday evening I was watching tv. I watched something about Norway. I found it very nice because there were beautiful landscapes, especially norwegian fjords. In Norway people live very closely to nature and if there is no family with a child around it's quite normal to bathe naked in the water.
    Norway is considered as one of the most pleasant, stressless countries to live in. In this video it is said that perhaps it's due to the fact that if someone says  "today I'm sick, or my children feel bad, I can't go to work" no one will blame her/him, on the contrary they will say "take care of yourself".

    I wish you a happy Sunday, thanks for reading me and correcting my writing, Bye.
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    November 4, 2018
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    1) a) Sounds fine b) Fine, though if it was me in the back of the car I might be more specific and say "I'm not getting any of the cold air back here", saying just 'air' sounds a little like I'm complaining about not being able to breathe very well c) Fine d) Yup you can use it this way. For example; "I need to speak Spanish everyday or my conversation skills will get rusty". 2) Scoop - if a news organisation/journalist/whoever has a 'scoop' it means that they have a piece of news that no one else has and is very important/exciting. For example maybe a newspaper discovers some scandal about a politician so they publish the story exclusively (without sharing it to any other news organisation) - people will call it a 'scoop' for that newspaper. Rundown / roundup - these have very similar meanings, it means like having a 'summary' of the news, so a news presenter on TV might say "and now here is the roundup/rundown of all the latest news today..." before showing all headlines of the day's news. 3) You can say both, and a lot of the time you can probably just use them interchangeably. You might say "glimpse into..." when the subject you are getting a glimpse of isn't exactly a 'specific item or thing' and more of a 'topic', for example "We get a glimpse into the lives of corrupt politicians". With "glimpse at..." it can be more of a specific thing like 'husband's advice or "we get a glimpse at the England national team's latest football kit". Hope this helps.
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    October 8, 2016
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    I would interpret the first sentence as meaning a shell that is filled with shrapnel and high explosive. The wording isn't very clear though so I can understand why you might have had trouble interpreting it. The second sentence again is slightly confusingly worded. How I would interpret it is as following: - the shrapnel shell has a two stage process, first there is an initial 'burst' which propels the nose-cap forward - the nose-cap then explodes on contact with its target - so by 'went on' he means the nose-cap continues to move, to be 'active' or 'still at work' as you put it Hope that helps.
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    August 2, 2016
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    "I went to see classical theatre to Merida theatre" - replace the 'to' with 'at'. - when you see something at a theatre you would say I went to see a 'play' or 'performance' instead of 'theatre'. - so in summary: "I went to see a classical play at Merida theatre." " I saw actors acting a performance" - 'actors acting' isn't technically wrong but doesn't sound right, it would be better to say 'actors performing' - replace 'performance' with 'play' because 'actors performing a performance' would also sound awkward - in summary: "I saw actors performing a play" "I saw actors performing at the theatre" - this is fine "They acted very well" - this is fine, though you might prefer to say "they performed very well" "they did a great performance" - this doesn't sound right, because its not correct to say they 'did' a performance, you would say they 'put on' a performance - so you would say "they put on a great performance"
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    August 2, 2016
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