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Saludos — How to end an email in English

Make music your teacher!Music is a great Spanish teacher. First, because songs are short, it’s easy to replay them to repeat a line that you didn’t quite get (or that you really like alot!). The ease of repetition makes music great for learning pronunciation. In addition, lyrics have a conversational style. This makes hit songs a great source of everyday vocabulary….

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El dativo | Dative (2)

A number of verbs other than gustarand encantar use the dative construction. These verbs include apasionar — “to be passionate about,” antojarse — “to feel like,” arrugar — “to be wrinkled,”quedar — “to suit, to fit, or to be left”, sobrar — “to be left,”caber — “to fit,” doler — “to be hurtful,” and faltar — “to be lacking.” As with gustar, the grammatical subject and object are the reverse of what you would expect:….

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El Dativo | The Dative

The verb gustar and a number of other Spanish verbs expressing feeling or sensation use what is called a “dative construction.” In the dative construction, the grammatical subject and the indirect object of the sentence effectively reverse their roles. For example, with gustar:

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Elisión | Elision

Common in both English and Spanish, and perhaps in nearly all languages, elision — elisión in Spanish — refers in its most simple form to the omission or suppression of the pronunciation of one or more letters in a word. Read on to see why elision is so important in the Spanish language.

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