¡Feliz Año Nuevo gente! = ¡Happy New Year people! I hope you had a Feliz Navidad.¡Bendiciones=Blessings!
I know, I know. I know that this is NOT an article about matemáticas, but I want to start this year giving you (according to me) the twelve most important verbs EVER. I call them “The Times Tables” because as in math, if you learn them by heart you will be able to do bigger operations and; most important, you will know how to play with them the rest of your life. Here we go!!!
Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? Today this column is celebrating two years of being around. Muchas gracias for reading it, and saying good things about it. You can find this and the other 22 (veintidós) articles on this website: www.OsCostaRica.com.
I saw my friend Tom yesterday and he started to ask me questions about my weekend. Check the conversation…
Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? ¿Remember what we learned one year ago? I do. Let’s review it pretty quick.
We learned that there are three big types of verbs:
The verbos that end in “AR”, like HablAR;
The verbos that end in “ER”, like ComER;
The verbos that end in “IR”, like VivIR.
We learned three important “action words” or verbs. Notice that they all end in –R and they all mean to do something:
HablAR=TO speak; ComER=TO eat; VivIR=TO live.
We learned that when we “play” with them, we change the endings according to “who” does the action. Just for the record, the endings of a verb are called CONJUGATIONS. Let’s review the three patterns of endings that we learned.
Look at these numbers and try to guess the next number in the pattern:
0 – 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 13 – 21 – 34 – ??
55? ¡Yeah! If you said 55 you figured it out correctly. If you didn’t, maybe knowing that the next number on the list is the result of the sum of the two last numbers may help you to figure out the pattern. Look again:
Hola amigos. ¿How is everything going on? This is the third and last article of this series. So let me ask you this question again:
Guys: ¿Do you know how to make a Wh. question in inglés? ¿Do you start the question with an action word (verb), with the subject (subject), with the helping guy (auxiliary), with something else (the rest) or with a Wh. word? Let’s see:
¡Feliz Año Nuevo gente! = ¡Happy New Year people! I hope you had a Feliz Navidad and everything is all right.¡Bendiciones=Blessings!
Students and friends always tell me that they don’t know how to put the things together in Spanish. Well, let’s start the year learning that, ok? ¡It’s time to begin linking your words together!
Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? Today this column is celebrating one year of being around. Muchas gracias for reading it, and saying good things about it. You can find this and the other 11 (once) articles on this website: www.OsCostaRica.com
Last month there were two little (but VERY important) mistakes in some of the patterns we learned. Specifically #2, the –ER Pattern and #3, the –IR Pattern.One of the endings shown there, instead of being an “A” it should have been an “E”. (Just for the record, the endings of a verb are called CONJUGATIONS). Let’s review the three patterns we learned last month very quickly.
