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I am probably C1 level in Spanish by now but have not done many language exchanges for a few years while focusing on lessons. Now I would like to do exchanges with native Spanish speakers to maintain my ability to make conversation and have fun. I have done a lot of language exchanges in the past and have many ideas for activities to supplement conversations when needed so things stay interesting. I prefer an exchange where the time is split in half, and for each half the non-native learner chooses what we do for that portion. I prefer video exchanges only, through Zoom, Skype or Google Meet.
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Sandry
Spanish
Mar 15, 2019
su español esta mejorando cada dia mas y me enfocare en trabajar los sustantivos y diferenciar masculinos y femeninos
Sandry
Spanish
Mar 14, 2019
Excelente alumna su español me gusta
Juan Carlos Santiago
Spanish
Jan 3, 2019
Gracias por su tiempo fue un placer volver hablar con usted espero que tenga un excelente semana gracias
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    I have never played it.  Do you play it as described here? https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2409
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    March 15, 2019
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    Here is a list of some of the most commonly read books by high school students: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/high-school-reading-list

    Most of them were familiar to me.  It surprised me that the literature list does not change that much.  I only saw two books on the list that were published after the 1960´s. 

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    March 6, 2019
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    Actualmente estoy leyendo ¨Las hijas del Alfonso VII¨ por Almudena Martínez-Fornes.  Amazon dice que es una ¨novela historica¨ pero creo que en realidad es más bién una biografía.  Hay mucho sobre la vida de la familia real de España del siglo dieceocho.  
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    February 27, 2019
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    No creo que exista ahora, pero tal vez si Netflix y servicios similares se vuelva más popular alrededor del mundo,  mas personas van a copiar la relativamente más neutro acento comúnmente usado para versiones en español de los Netflix originales y películas como éstos.  
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    February 27, 2019
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    Psychotherapists have a saying ¨Feelings are not facts.¨ You may at times feel that you are terrible at languages, but that does not make it a fact.  If you were truly ¨terrible¨ at languages, it is very doubtful you would be learning three of them or especially, it would be impossible for you to write in English as well as you do.

    What you are exhibiting is irrational high expectations that cause frustration.  When you find yourself thinking: ¨I am terrible at languages¨ it would be better to try to talk back to the irrationality of that thought and change that to ¨I am frustrated that this requires so much work for so long...¨   I do not believe you are correct when you say you ¨realized¨ you are terrible, it would be more correct to say you ¨had the thought¨ that you are terrible. 

    ¨Terrible¨ is a label which is an exaggeration of your problems and only serves to demotivate you.  You probably would not label someone else that way, especially someone who speaks as many languages as you do and writes so well in English.  You are holding yourself to standards that I doubt you would hold almost anyone else.  Labels are not just bad when applied to others, they hurt you when you apply them to yourself as well. 

    (The above basically are the types of things we say in cognitive therapy--- where peoples irrational thoughts are making their emotions more difficult.  It works even better when said to you by someone whose opinion you respect and whom you know is supportive of you instead of being critical.) 

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    February 27, 2019
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    Phil,

    I was thinking it would be like  ¨por coincidencia.¨ Would that not be correct?  What is the difference between ¨por coincidencia¨ and ¨por casualidad¨?

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    February 27, 2019
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    One thing to consider is that series like ¨Friends¨ tend to teach you a lot of slang and general informal language.  One thing I have found helpful in learning my target language at the intermediate or advanced level is to choose a series that will reinforce a set of vocabulary better.  Some of the more reality and self-help series can be good for that, for example, ¨Property Brothers¨ or one of the other many house-hunting series to reinforce vocabulary about houses, furniture, tools etc.  There are legal dramas or crime dramas like ¨The Practice¨ or ¨Law and Order¨ that will reinforce vocabulary about courts, law, and crime.  There are medical series like ¨Grey´s Anatomy¨ and ¨House¨ that will help reinforce body parts, medical professions, health information, etc.  In learning Spanish I have found these series that tend to repeat certain words more often than you would find in a general comedy more helpful for gaining vocabulary.   For that reason, I think series are often better for language learning than movies because with a series you can get the repetition of the most used vocabulary related to a certain theme, with some variety instead of having to re-watch the same movie to get the reinforcement of the vocabulary related to a certain subject.   If you have Netflix there is a series called ¨Food: Delicious Science¨ that will not only reinforce words related to food and cooking, but has a good deal of nutrition and chemistry in it. 
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    February 22, 2019
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    No creo que palabras puedan ser clasificado en esa manera.  Creo que los nivels de DELE son relacionados a los habilidades de una persona para usar palabras juntas para expresarse bién.  Algunas palabras son mas formales, pero palabras no tienen niveles. 
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    February 16, 2019
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    El colecionista de flechas - autor Cristian Perfumo

    Libélulas azules - autor Enrique Laso

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    February 16, 2019
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    I believe jealousy is related to mate guarding-- and went to look for something to help explain what I mean.  https://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/JealousyandMate.htm

    Jealousy does have some function for protecting the relationship.  One of the parts most interesting about this line of research into mate guarding behavior is this part (from the article linked above):

    Based on evolutionary logic, it was predicted that male jealousy would be more concerned with sexual infidelity and female jealousy would be more concerned with emotional infidelity. Buss, Larson, Westen, & Semmelroth (1992) used a series of forced choice experiments to demonstrate that men indicated greater distress to a partner’s sexual, rather than emotional infidelity, whereas women showed the reverse response displaying greater distress to a partner’s emotional infidelity rather than their sexual infidelity.

    The above certainly fits with what I have seen as a psychotherapist.  I rarely find men too concerned about the idea of ¨emotional infidelity¨ as long as they believe their partner maintains sexual fidelity, whereas women often ¨go ballistic¨ with jealous about emotional infidelity.  

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    February 9, 2019
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