Spanish Level III

Learn Spanish Lesson 31

• Dinner at Mrs. Molina's
• Past progressive construction
• Nominalized verb forms as subjects of a sentence
• /-ndo/ forms in absolute constructions

Learn Spanish Lesson 32

• A conversation after dinner
• Cardinal numbers, days of the week, months of the year
• Some semantic correlations: /saber-conocer/ and /pedir-preguntar
• Strong stress as a function differentiator in verbs: 1sg
• present vs. 2-3 sg. past I
• Strong stress as a function differentiator in verbs: sg.
• command vs. 1 sg. past I

Learn Spanish Lesson 33

• Saying good bye to Mrs Molina
• Articles before nominalized adjectives
• Ordinal numbers
• Spanish reflexive clitics as the equivalent of English possessives in identifying items whose ownership is obvious.
• Definite articles with days of the week and time expressions.

Learn Spanish Lesson 34

• Molina talks with an economist from the Point IV program
• The phase relators /por/ and /para/
• Colors
• Review drills - Lack of construction correlation
• English subject-verb - Spanish object-verb'
• Relative position of the parts of a Spanish progressive construction in questions

Learn Spanish Lesson 35

• A country barbecue on Columbus Day.
• Nominalization of articles
• Some sematic correlations: /tomar - llevar, salir - dejar/
• Position of the clitics in commands
• Agreement of adjectives - hundreds

Learn Spanish Lesson 36

• Carmen phones the Harris house
• Present subjunctive after /ojalá/
• Spanish infinitive for English -ing forms as objects of relators
• Placement-of verb modifiers

Learn Spanish Lesson 37

• A cocktail party at the Harrises'
• Present subjunctive in noun clauses functioning as the object of a verb
• Certain indefinite adjectives as modifiers
• Review of gender in demonstratives

Learn Spanish Lesson 38

• John gives up smoking to buy a car
• Present subjunctive in noun clauses functioning as the subject of a verb
• Use of definite articles.- Generalized plurals - uncountables vs. countables
• Use of indefinite articles with modified nouns after /ser/

Learn Spanish Lesson 39

• John White buys a car
• The derivational suffix /-(es) it-/
• The derivational suffix –isim-
• The compounding suffix /-mente/
• Spanish verbs with included subject
• The adjective /todo/

Learn Spanish Lesson 40

• Carmen's grandmother dies
• Present subjunctive in noun modifying clauses
• Adjective position - obligatory postposed adjectives
• Nominalization of demonstratives

Learn Spanish Lesson 41

• A student strike
• Present subjunctive in verb modifying clauses - obligatory occurrence.
• Compound phrase relators
• Nominalization of possessives

Learn Spanish Lesson 42

• At the barber shop
• Present subjunctive in verb modifying clauses - conditioned occurrence
• Compound clause relators (relator plus /Ice!) vs. simple relators in English
• Nominalization of descriptive adjectives

Learn Spanish Lesson 43

• At the gas station
• Comparison of inequality
• The position of /no/ in expressing contradictions and reservations
• English verb +relator: Spanish verb

Learn Spanish Lesson 44

• At the beach
• Comparison of equality
• Exclamatory expressions
• Irregular /-do/ forms
• English verb-relator-verb equivalent to Spanish verb-verb
• Stress pattern contrast in singular regular and irregular past I forms

Learn Spanish Lesson 45

• A baptism
• The past perfect construction
• The shortening of certain adjectives
• The /-do/ forms for postures
• English verb-adjective-'to'-verb; Spanish verb-adjective-verb
• Theme class in present subjunctive forms

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