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Numbers.
Can you spell numbers in Spanish up to 999,999?
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Days,
Months, Seasons, Classes. Do you remember all the days of the week, all the months of the year,
all the seasons, and can you tell someone what are all the classes you are
taking?
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Colors.
What are all the colors in Spanish and what do colors have in common
with other adjectives--especially in terms of agreement and placement in the
sentence?
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Survival.
Exactly what were those “survival sentences”?
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Syllabication
and accentuation. How do you break a work into its syllables
and find the natural accent?
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Possession.
Do we ever use an apostrophe “s” in Spanish? What other ways do we have to show possession in Spanish? What happens with the word “nuestro”?
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Time. What time is it? How do I express time in a sentence with an
active verb like “I study at 6 AM?
Ah, and how do I say “AM” in Spanish?
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Family.
Do you remember how to say “step-brother”, “mother-in-law”, “son”, and
all those more obscure family members?
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Demonstratives.
So how does all this “spatial pointing” work? What were the three distances and how do they relate to the
“pointing” words like “this”, “that”, and “those way over there”?
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Prepositions. Oh, no, here goes the
neighborhood! Do you still remember the
Jones—that family of invisible but meaningful “personal ‘a’s”? What are the three meanings of “a” and, of
course, the two meanings of “de”?
ü Idiomatic Expressions. Did you download and study sheet with all the “tener” idioms? If not, “debes tener prisa” and “debes comenzar a estudiar” them.
ü Progressive Tense. Do you remember this “time lapse” expression and how it differs from the three meanings of a conjugated verb like “hablo”? What were the few progressive tense verbs that are irregular? “¿No estás durmiendo?” eh?
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Saber vs. Conocer. Which of these
two verbs means “to be familiar with”?
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Ser vs. Estar.
Break out that “list of
reasons”. How many reasons were on each
side? Please, don’t forget to study of
these verbs as both vocabulary and as conjugations, despite the fact that we’ve
been using these verbs since Chapter 2.
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Verbs,
verbs, verbs and more verbs. Yes, the last and most
important step. Have you been studying
all those “ar”, “ir”, and “er” verbs, both as vocabulary and in conjugation
drills? If I said “hago”, you know what
that means in English? And, if I said,
“they bring”, you have that already conjugate in Spanish--and, in less time
than three long seconds? J