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Footnotes is a blog in which you can complain, express yourself, scream, or open your heart to whatever feelings you have about learning Spanish. To learn a foreign language is always difficult and it requires practice and a lot of group work. The objective of the blog is to provide a space in which Spanish students can share their learning experience. You can ask a question, complain about a difficult in a grammar point, or give an answer or tip for those same questions and complains. Teachers can also provide new information or guidance to make the process a lot easier. You may also find some websites that may be helpful, or give new ones for the benefit of everybody. I hope you enjoy this experience and that Footnotes will be part of your learning experience. Go ahead! Empieza!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Back to the basics

To understand Spanish grammar you need to understand the logic of it. The basics of it lays on the sentence and its different components. Remember that a complete Spanish sentence goes like this:

Subject + Verb + Direct Object + Indirect Object + Circumstantial Objects

A complete example for you to have an idea:

Mi mamá le regaló una tarjeta a mi papá para su aniversario.

Remember that in Spanish we have what is called the double indirect object, which means that if an indirect object exists in the sentence (a mi papá), you will always need the indirect pronoun there (le).

If you know how a sentence is structured, you will sure understand a lot more its basic grammar.

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October 25, 2009 at 11:48 PM

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