Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Let's learn how to ask for wishes with our favorite teachers at El Aula Azul [The Blue Classroom]. This time, we'll even blow the candles!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Ester from El Aula Azul [The Blue Classroom] begins her series on subjunctive and indicative by setting up the scene for future lessons, introducing us to pictures of some friends of hers who are studying in San Sebastian and providing us with some background information about them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In the second part of this lesson, El Aula Azul's Ester uses the characters from the photos she has shown to her students to begin to introduce sentences with either the indicative or subjunctive, in order to teach them when to use each.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Part three of the Aula Azul's lesson continues to edify us as to when to use the subjunctive versus the indicative when providing information to someone in a conversation. We will additionally learn another, equivalent word to "aunque" [although], which often requires the subjunctive.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In today's class at El Aula Azul , we learn how the word "aunque" [although] should be used with either the indicative or the subjunctive, depending upon whether the information being conveyed is known or new to the listener.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In the final part of this El Aula Azul series, we look at several examples of sentences beginning with the Spanish word, "aunque" [although], followed by verbs conjugated in either the indicative or subjunctive mood. Although the English translations for such examples might be the same regardless of whether the verb is in subjunctive or indicative, this subtle difference in Spanish conveys whether the information being shared is new or already known to the audience.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
At El Aula Azul, the instructor, Idoia, has exciting news to share with her students as she introduces to them the concept of the second conditional. What would her students do if the same thing happened to them?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
At El Aula Azul, we'll learn how to use the second conditional and imperfect subjunctive to create hypothetical sentences. I bet you can't guess what Ivonne would do if she won the lottery!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Our teacher, Idoia, from El Aula Azul shares with us a very interesting trick for conjugating both regular and irregular verbs in the imperfect subjunctive.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
El Aula Azul's Idoia reiterates her "perfect trick" for conjugating verbs in the imperfect subjunctive while introducing us to the name of the verb tense that often follows it.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In this segment of El Aula Azul, we'll learn how to form the conditional tense with -ar, -er, and -ir verbs. Our instructor, Idoia, however, points out to us, that there are some irregular verbs, such as "hacer," that do not follow this formula.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In our last session at El Aula Azul, we contemplated what we would do if we won the lottery. Now it's time to employ different verbs and situations in order to continue to practice the second conditional. Let's see what the students come up with!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In this last part about the use of the second conditional, the students at El Aula Azul practice what they have learned with sentence examples.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
At El Aula Azul, the teacher asks her students for recommendations for her vacation. The students all have different suggestions, but... which one does she like? Let's explore this while learning about the verb, "gustar," which roughly corresponds to the English notion of "to like" and tends to be tough for native English speakers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In the second part of El Aula Azul's lesson on the verb, "gustar," the students learn how it functions differently from other verbs and begin to learn how to conjugate it with the various personal pronouns.
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