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Friday Treat – expectation vs. reality

November 28, 2014

The Friday Treat is an “easy” Vine in with minimal or no dialogue, that you can understand and enjoy without an explanation. Today’s Friday Treat is by SrDeLaPera from Panama. It’s a perfect illustration of the words expectativa and realidad. Weekly Review Here are the Monday and Wednesday Vines. Watch them one more time and then quiz yourself below. Monday: “I don’t care what it’s called!” Wednesday: “Are you listening to me?” Quiz Yourself Translate to […]

Wednesday Vine – ¿Tú me estás escuchando?

November 27, 2014

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decir / objects / past preterite / present progressive / Puerto Rico

Today’s Vine is by Daniel El Travieso, who is turning into one of my favorite Viners. He’s from Puerto Rico and has also been featured in two earlier posts. If you’re ever looking for extra practice/entertainment, I recommend visiting his Vine channel and watching all of his videos. Fun fact about his username: Daniel El Travieso is the Spanish name for Dennis the Menace. travieso = naughty el travieso = the naughty one The Vine Transcript Guy: ¿Tú […]

Monday Vine – no me importa cómo se llama

November 24, 2014

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commands / Mexico / objects / present tense / reflexive verbs

Today’s Vine is by Daniel Sosa from Mexico. He has become well known due to a series of Vines recreating things his mom says to him. This is one such Vine. Here’s the caption (I color-coded it so you can see how the Spanish words match up to English words): Como cuando tu mamá dice mal el nombre de las Apps y si la corriges se enoja más Like when your mom says the name of the app wrong, and […]

Friday Treat – correcting math on the street

November 1, 2014

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Argentina / beginner / Friday Treat / numbers / present tense

The Friday Treat is an “easy” Vine in with minimal or no dialogue, that you can understand and enjoy without an explanation. Today’s Friday Treat is by Zepet from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I think you’ll be able to understand it with no explanation. The caption is: Qué imbeciles. (Recognize that word?) The one new spoken word is: es = it is / he is / she is Weekly Review Here are the Monday and Wednesday Vines. Watch them […]