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Grammar Notebook: Saber + A

Saber + a = To Taste Like

In Spanish, if you wish to say “[something] taste like…” then you will use the verb “saber” followed by the preposition “a”.

Let’s look at some examples:

• The ice cream tastes like coconut.

• El helado sabe a coco.

• The coffee tastes like hazelnut.

• El café sabe a avellana.

Tip: I recommend writing down some of your own sentences using this structure to practice ✏️

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The Contest of Meaning | Kelia Anne MacCluskey | 2016

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Le bonheur, 1965

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jessica pineda

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If anyone knows any cozy spanish vlogs with english subtitles feel free to drop the link <3333

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recent breakfasts that were all winners

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Another video I've found incredibly helpful in getting off on the right foot with my Spanish learning <33 This isn't one of those vids that claims to show you how to become fluent in 40 days or whatever, its genuinely just full of really excellent advice as far as how to structure your learning process and the speaker is very fun to listen to.

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spanish resource lists for learners

a list of lists!! levels are estimated.

refold has a crowdsourced resource list for spanish, curated & with notes | A1 to C2

dreamingspanish on reddit has a crowdsourced spreadsheet with over 90 channels geared towards learners | A1 to C2

learn natively has a huge deck of spanish books sorted by difficulty by learners | A1 to C2

prensa escrita has a list of news websites sorted by country & sometimes city | B1 to C1 probably

the CI wiki has an editable list of CI resources and a couple of native content links | A1 to like B2?

comprehensible hub has tons of spanish podcasts for learners | A1 to B2

letterboxd has a ton of very fun #español lists, e.g. movies mentioned in the wild project podcast, latin american female directors, made in puerto rico | ~B2 to C2

there are also a ton of moocs in spanish for intermediate to advanced learners (moocs are online courses, usually free) | B1 to C2

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body hair appreciation post

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Anyone have any mexican shows or movies to recommend? I'll check out whatever I can but I'm partial to horror if anyone's got anything

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Many languages available. One of the hardest audio practice sites I have found. Enjoy!

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Danish, Hebrew, Latin, Esperanto 

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this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Spanish. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

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comparison of portuguese and spanish

“este user habla español” userbox

fun facts

how spanish got its ñ [video]

how similiar are spanish and portuguese [video]

in spanish we don’t say…

language learning profile

overview of the history of spanish

playlist of samples

the story of spanish [scans]

“this user is learning spanish” userbox

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Queen of the rodeo, 1952

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How can I start learning Spanish?

If you are an absolute total beginner, my biggest recommendation is to check out www.studyspanish.com/grammar and to check out www.conjuguemos.com which are online grammar lessons

Truly what I've found is you start with the fundamentals and you just go through your language learning journey accumulating knowledge, and it always feels like an uphill battle until one day you're aware of all the things you don't know/understand yet, but you also know how to look up what you don't know - and that's how you know you've made it

I personally find that when you're starting Spanish from nothing you need to focus on conjugations and the most essential verbs; most verbs are regular so when you understand the basic rules for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs you can do a lot in Spanish

The most irregular verbs of all time - which tend to be irregular in multiple tenses

ser

ir

ver

dar

estar

tener

venir

decir

querer

poder

poner

hacer

caber*

haber

*caber is annoyingly irregular but not the most super common verb used; it's "to fit (into a space)" like "capacity" so it's useful when you need it, but otherwise more limited

The are other little bits of grammar knowledge that you'll learn as you go, like when to use saber vs conocer, or ser and estar... things that take practice and repetition but let me know if there are any questions you have as you go and I can help give some more insight

There are other things that are important, but less all consuming, like stem-changing verbs [E->I, E->IE, O->UE] or certain irregularities, and exceptions like conocer or little things like fingir or vencer - which are littler things though more easily understood when you have some more experience

You're also going to want to devote a lot of time to the present tense which is the very first tense you're introduced to

Also - Things You Should Know At Each Level - though for your purposes I'd say you're probably A1 and A2 and try not to focus on the rest for now; you'll get discouraged if you think of all the things you don't know, trust me I was there

Additional resources:

Recommendations for beginners

https://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/ats/

Word Reference Conjugator

http://spanishskulduggery.tumblr.com/post/102019421622/spanishskulduggery-spanish-tenses-moods

https://conjuguemos.com/activities/spanish/verb/1

https://conjuguemos.com/tenses/spanish/

Verbs you should know as a beginner

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For any other absolute language-learning beginners like myself, I found this vid extremely helpful as far as getting a foothold on organizing a learning process. This vid is about Spanish specicically but it's got a lot of really helpful advice as far as prioritizing certain skills, resources, study tips, etc that could probably be applied across numerous target languages <3

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I feel like most of the langblr Blogs I've been following overs the years have become inactive and the langblr community as a whole has kinda disappeared?

Are there any active langblrs focusing on

Spanish,

Norwegian,

French and/or

Korean?