91 Early Intermediate Spanish Subjunctive Confusions
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91 Early Intermediate Spanish Subjunctive Confusions

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 7, 202615 min
  • Language learning

In this fascinating lesson, we cover some key Spanish Subjunctive confusions over when we are dealing with one subject and two subjects! Do we use the subjunctive or not? And, of course, the answer is not a straightforward as we would like it to be. Spanish Subjuntive confusions come in many ways. Let us help you to remove on of them in this great Spanish lesson. You can get your copy of Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive from these and any other Amazon outlet! Get your copy from Amazon.com Get your...

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Ok. We are. We are. Well it was it was not the subjunctive it was the infinitive but that led to the subjunctive.

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Hola! Hola! Bienvenidos a Lightspeed Spanish. Bienvenidos! Well today we are going to talk about the Spanish subjunctive. Ok. We are. We are. Well it was it was not the subjunctive it was the infinitive but that led to the subjunctive. That led to the subjunctive yeah. Somehow. Well these things are all interlinked. It's all the fusion. And we're going to talk about the confusion that we sometimes have between when we use a subjunctive with one person or when we're talking about two people.

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Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. We're going to get into that. Pues hablamos de todo a continuación. so how did this all start Cynthia how did we end up talking about the subjunctive when we're

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talking about infinitives well I was preparing my self-socio and I thought we've never touched on the infinitive as a subject and I thought well let's talk about the infinitive as a subject because there can be different things in English and Spanish with infinitive and gerunds. So I came across this sentence and I thought that's a really good sentence.

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