This is the discussion forum for the course Top Spoken Spanish Verb Forms #3.
This course contains spoken Spanish verb forms, obtained from the third most common 1000 words of Matthias Buchmeier’s Wiktionary Spanish word frequency list. The Wiktionary list is based on a 27.4 million word movie/TV subtitles database that probably reflects normal spoken Spanish reasonably accurately. FULL AUDIO
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Spanish2001-3000
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The verb courses have been great for practicing conjugation. In course 3, I am wondering about the subjunctive usages of crear, such as “I doubt that you believe.” I was expecting the -a to change to -e in these conjugations, but “dudo que creas” is given as a response instead of “dudo que crees.” Throughout the course, there are other examples for crear that follow this pattern for the subjunctive. Is this correct? Thank you.
Hi, I think you may be mixing up two verbs:
creer = to believe
crear = to create
I think that the following is correct (in Level 7):
dudo que creas = I doubt that you (tú) believe
To add potential confusion, in Level 7 we also have:
creas = you (tú) create
which is also correct, I think.
I took a quick look for related errors, and didn’t find any. But that certainly doesn’t mean none exist - so please let me know if you see anything else that looks suspicious.
Ah, that is it exactly. Thank you for the epiphany. And Merry Christmas!
I am having trouble determining whether lo or le should be added to the end of an infinitive such as “to tell him” or “to ask him.” Is there a rule as to whether to use decirle or decirlo, for example? Each question in this course has only one correct answer. Usually, the answer ends with le when referring to a person but not always. Thank you.
In this example, expanding the original definitions, we’ve got:
decirle
= to tell him
= to say to him
= to tell her
= to say to her
le is an indirect object pronoun.
Meanwhile,
decirlo
= to say it
= to tell it
where lo in this case is a direct object pronoun.
Unfortunately, there are some regional variations relating to this, but I’m using a standard Latin American formulation in these courses (that should be understood anywhere in the Spanish speaking world).
I would advise reading an intermediate level grammar book to get this stuff nailed down. My suggested reference (full of examples) would be:
Thank you, Ian.
Received Spanish Demystified in the mail today. Bought it on Ebay for $7.00 after reading your recommendation. Looks to be a good one, thanks ian_mn!
Glad you like that book - I’ve pretty much worn out my own copy, and might need to buy a replacement on e-bay myself.
I’ve recently been reading one (~2 page) short story per day from the following series of books. The stories are reasonably interesting, and often have amusing twists.
I’ve just finished #3 verbs Ian. Excellent stuff, many thanks.
Great course, Thank you for all your hard work on these awesome courses.
Level 2, he forgets, olvida - the audio sounds weird to me. The audio seems to be stressing the first and third syllables. Is this correct?
I agree - I just changed the audio, so the “olvida” audio now has the stress only on the “i”.
Thanks for letting me know.
Other commands have the ¡ … ! in the Spanish if the English has !
Thanks, I’ve changed it to !discúlpame¡
