Comments for James Spanish School https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com Spanish language school, teaching Castilian Spanish to English speakers Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:06:04 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Lesson 4 by Katie Colella https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/test-course/lessons/lesson-4/#comment-15512 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:06:04 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=2800#comment-15512 Hi James, what lesson is the Christmas lesson please (I may do that one, and come back to the correct order, just due to the time of year)? Thank you

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Comment on Lesson 21 by Jacqueline Lowe https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-21/#comment-15510 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:11:32 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3210#comment-15510 In reply to Admin_JSS James.

Looking forward to the spoken lessons this is where I lack confidence

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Comment on Lesson 21 by Admin_JSS James https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-21/#comment-15509 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:04:04 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3210#comment-15509 In reply to Jacqueline Lowe.

Glad you enjoyed the first listening test, when you get to the spoken, they are very similar to this, but obviously much much longer…. the good thing is that you have nobody listening to you or watching so you can repeat every spoken lesson multiple times before moving on, the spoken section is far more time-consuming than the core learning lessons You are on now….

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Comment on Lesson 21 by Jacqueline Lowe https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-21/#comment-15508 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:54:23 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3210#comment-15508 Hola james I really enjoyed the tongue twister lesson I think I need to go back and practice them every day. Also listening to the short videos is good practice just what I need I surprised myself though 19/20 did take me a while though. I’m nervous and terrified of reaching to the spoken part of the course . Hopefully we will have more of these lessons to prepare us. Muchas gracias

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Comment on Lesson 11 – Christmas – Watch in December by Admin_JSS James https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-11-christmas-preferably-watch-in-december/#comment-15499 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:53 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=6792#comment-15499 In reply to Michelle Spence.

Glad that you enjoyed! I promised none of the things in this lesson were made up!! Thank goodness that Google will show that I’m telling the truth!

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Comment on Lesson 11 – Christmas – Watch in December by Michelle Spence https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-11-christmas-preferably-watch-in-december/#comment-15498 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:56:09 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=6792#comment-15498 Not only a cultural lesson, I just laughed all the way through thanks James made my day!

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Comment on Lesson 29 by Admin_JSS James https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-29/#comment-15497 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:44:12 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3239#comment-15497 In reply to Nancy Perez.

Sorry for the delay in my reply! You can’t really use the verb to like to offer somebody some cake….please remember as I said at the start of the course that in Spanish, we do not say “would you like” some cake? We say in Spanish do you want some cake? Quieres tarta? If you say: te gusta la tarta? you are actually saying: do you like the cake? rather than do you want some cake? Also gusta stays the same all the way down. Me gusta, te gusta,!le gusta, so te gusta la tarta would be what you would say to a Spaniard when they are halfway through eating the piece of cake that you have given them, not before you offer it to them…. halfway through eating it you would say: do you like the cake? But to offer them a piece you would say.: quieres tarta?

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Comment on Lesson 29 by Nancy Perez https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-29/#comment-15492 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:41:14 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3239#comment-15492 Hi James, I am enjoying the course and getting a lot of good review and education here.
I am confused about the use of gustar.
Me gusta la torta. I like the cake
¿Te gustas la torta? Can you offer cake to someone with this phrase? So it’s only the conditional tense of gustar that is imaginary?
I have cake on the table.
How do I offer someone a piece of cake?

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Comment on Lesson 20 by Patricia Chu https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-20/#comment-15469 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:22:43 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3208#comment-15469 In reply to Admin_JSS James.

Got it, thank you!

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Comment on Lesson 20 by Admin_JSS James https://staging.jamesspanishschool.com/courses/jss-1-50-c/lessons/lesson-20/#comment-15468 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:14:30 +0000 https://jamesspanishschool.com/?post_type=sfwd-lessons&p=3208#comment-15468 In reply to Patricia Chu.

If you are not up to lesson 30 yet, you must be referring to this point, which is covered in lesson 20, the above mentioned 3 meanings of como, started in this video 20 around the 23 minute mark… covered again on lesson 30

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