please - the imperfect subjunctive. how its used in conjunction with other tenses and things like 'if i could have ... i would have .... MANY THANKS if you could do this...!
I love this topic! I will plan covering it after we practice irregular verbs in the present subjunctive and adjective placement. Thanks for leaving your suggestion in this forum. The next grammar podcast will come out this week. It's only delayed due to loosing my voice!!!
Oh.... and you will find some imperfect subjunctive in podcast covering The Conditional.
I find that my greatest weakness in Spanish is in understanding spoken Spanish. My speaking and reading skills are decent, but it's still tough to truly understand when the Spanish speaker is talking at normal conversational speed. So, your podcasts help increase my listening proficiency. Hopefully in a year to two I'll see major improvement.
One suggestion for future podcasts relates to adjectives. Most adjectives follow the noun, but I've noticed many, many exceptions as I've been reading more Spanish text. Can you provide some helpful hints on when the adjectives precede the noun and when they follow?
Great idea. This is something I question at times too. Sometimes it's obvious, as in "Ella es una gran persona." But other times no. it will be good to review and brush up on. Thanks for the idea Steve.
Molly, first of all thank you for your podcast. I am an avid Spanish learner and I must say that you do a fantastic job with your series.
I am a physician in Indiana and if ever you need help with any of your podcasts I hope you will feel free to let me know.
Perhaps you would not mind a request from me. It would be great if you could begin a series of programs on irregular verbs, not only the common ones learned at a beginner level, but also verbs that might be included in a more intermediate and advanced course, with plenty of drilling and some didactics. My thought is that you could introduce a paradigm, say of a verb that changes e to i in the present tense, or something like that, give a list of verbs that follow such a paradigm, then do some drilling exercises that help one practice the rule just discussed. Of course, there are many different paradigms you could choose, like spelling changes with -car and -zar verbs in the past tense, which is why you might need more than one program to cover the topic.
I loved your podcast on conditional sentences and wish you would do another one or two with more drilling exercises. Finally, I would like to learn more about phrases that require the use of the subjunctive. I know there are many of them, like "no creo que", and you cannot review all of them, but a longer list of them with practice time might be nice.
Hi Mike,
Thanks so much for your great idea! And for the positive feedback. I have been wondering what to cover next, and those two ideas sound great. They aren't as heavy as the recent series on relative pronouns. I have one more planned on relative pronouns, but maybe I'll interrupt that series with some irregular verbs or the subjunctive. I was thinking of doing more subjunctive podcasts myself. Even after all the podcasts I did on subjunctive, I still find myself hesitating to think: "subjunctive or no?" Practice...practice! Thanks a lot for your advice. I'll definitely do both, coming soon!
Molly Martin, MD
Internal Medicine
Suggestion for podcast - imperfect subjunctive
please - the imperfect subjunctive. how its used in conjunction with other tenses and
things like 'if i could have ... i would have .... MANY THANKS if you
could do this...!
Imperfect Subjunctive
I love this topic! I will plan covering it after we practice irregular verbs in the present subjunctive and adjective placement. Thanks for leaving your suggestion in this forum. The next grammar podcast will come out this week. It's only delayed due to loosing my voice!!!
Oh.... and you will find some imperfect subjunctive in podcast covering The Conditional.
Adjectives
Great job on your podcasts!
I find that my greatest weakness in Spanish is in understanding spoken Spanish. My speaking and reading skills are decent, but it's still tough to truly understand when the Spanish speaker is talking at normal conversational speed. So, your podcasts help increase my listening proficiency. Hopefully in a year to two I'll see major improvement.
One suggestion for future podcasts relates to adjectives. Most adjectives follow the noun, but I've noticed many, many exceptions as I've been reading more Spanish text. Can you provide some helpful hints on when the adjectives precede the noun and when they follow?
Thanks much.
Sincerely,
Steve
Where does the adjective go?
Great idea. This is something I question at times too. Sometimes it's obvious, as in "Ella es una gran persona." But other times no. it will be good to review and brush up on. Thanks for the idea Steve.
Grammar Ideas
Molly, first of all thank you for your podcast. I am an avid Spanish learner and I must say that you do a fantastic job with your series.
I am a physician in Indiana and if ever you need help with any of your podcasts I hope you will feel free to let me know.
Perhaps you would not mind a request from me. It would be great if you could begin a series of programs on irregular verbs, not only the common ones learned at a beginner level, but also verbs that might be included in a more intermediate and advanced course, with plenty of drilling and some didactics. My thought is that you could introduce a paradigm, say of a verb that changes e to i in the present tense, or something like that, give a list of verbs that follow such a paradigm, then do some drilling exercises that help one practice the rule just discussed. Of course, there are many different paradigms you could choose, like spelling changes with -car and -zar verbs in the past tense, which is why you might need more than one program to cover the topic.
I loved your podcast on conditional sentences and wish you would do another one or two with more drilling exercises. Finally, I would like to learn more about phrases that require the use of the subjunctive. I know there are many of them, like "no creo que", and you cannot review all of them, but a longer list of them with practice time might be nice.
Thank you for reading this email.
Mike Reeder, MD
Great idea: irregular verbs and the subjunctive.
Hi Mike,
Thanks so much for your great idea! And for the positive feedback. I have been wondering what to cover next, and those two ideas sound great. They aren't as heavy as the recent series on relative pronouns. I have one more planned on relative pronouns, but maybe I'll interrupt that series with some irregular verbs or the subjunctive. I was thinking of doing more subjunctive podcasts myself. Even after all the podcasts I did on subjunctive, I still find myself hesitating to think: "subjunctive or no?" Practice...practice! Thanks a lot for your advice. I'll definitely do both, coming soon!
Molly Martin, MD
Internal Medicine