Home » Spanish Grammar » How to Master Spanish Negation: Key Negative Words, Forming the Double Negative and More Nunca quieres nada de sopa. (You never want any soup). Yes, that’s a double negative in Spanish, and it’s grammatically correct! Creating negative sentences is an important skill to have in any language, and one you’ll likely use daily. In this post, you’ll find a list of the most important negation words in Spanish along with plenty of examples in context. Plus, you’ll learn how to use Spanish double negatives, as well as triple and even quadruple negatives! Let’s get into…
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To celebrate their 15th birthday, Mawson Lakes Community Early Learning will be hosting a public Family Fun Day. The event will be held on Sunday 25 February 2024 from 11am – 3pm at Morara Park and The Denison Centre in Mawson Lakes. It will be an all-ages day with food and drink to purchase as well as a range of stalls inside the centre. There will be a range of prizes to be won on the day including an iPad, AFL tickets, paintball and more. There will also be activities such as: Face painting Rides Entertainment Guided tours of the…
This month we’re giving away book one in the series from Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother.My son is captivated by these stories, they are aimed at reading age 9-12 years old. Here’s a sneak peak…6,000 years ago, the land is one dark forest. Its people are hunters and gatherers. They know every tree and herb and they know how to survive in a world steeped in enchantment, menace, and powerful magic. Until an ambitious and malignant force conjures up a demon; a demon so evil that it can be contained only in the body of a ferocious bear; a demon so…
Theirs were already lives of great hardship, in camps for displaced people, after they had fled their homes in Nigeria’s embattled northeast. One recent day, they risked a foray into the countryside to collect firewood — and around 200 of them, some officials said, were kidnapped.Just days later, dozens of children — if not more — were reported abducted on Thursday from a primary school some 500 miles away in central Nigeria.Who was responsible was unclear, and the security services have made no statements. The first incident took place in the region terrorized by Boko Haram, the brutal Islamist group…
Home » Spanish Vocabulary » Por Versus Para: Your Ultimate Guide to Knowing the Difference [Audio Included] Knowing the difference between por and para can be tricky for most Spanish learners. Both can mean “for,” but they’re used in different situations. Por is used for reasons, communication, travel, how long something goes on, transactions, substitutes and favors. Para is used when talking about recipients, destinations, goals, opinions and deadlines. Read on to learn all about when to use each word, plus expressions that contain one or the other. Contents Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that…
The world’s largest showcase of French cinema outside of France returns to South Australia from 21 March to 21 April 2024. The program will screen from 21 March to 16 April at Palace Nova Eastend and Prospect Cinemas in Adelaide. Screenings will also take place in Renmark between 22 March and 6 April in the Chaffey Theatre; in Victor Harbour from 4 to 10 April in the Victa Cinema and in Mt Gambier from 17 to 21 April in the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre. The 2024 edition spotlights contemporary creation, focusing on the emerging talents and innovative voices shaping the…
One of my favorite spots and this area was made more prominent by being the location of the hit show ‘Friends’. The casts’ apartment block is found on 90 Bedford Street at the corner of Grove. These tree-lined streets have a relaxed vibe with cafes, bars and pretty brownstone houses. In the center is Washington Square Park. This is a great place to pass a couple of hours, listening to musicians performing and people mingling in the sunshine. From here you can also see Fifth Avenue which stretches from the to West 143rd Street in Harlem. Hotels are reasonably priced in this…
In March of 1961, Dr. Anthony Epstein, a pathologist at Middlesex Hospital in London, almost skipped a visiting physician’s afternoon lecture about children with exceptionally large facial tumors in Uganda.The physician, Dr. Denis Burkitt, a native of Ireland who called himself a bush surgeon, showed slides of bulbous tumors that emerged along the jawline and occurred in tropical African regions where rainfall was high. During his lecture, Dr. Burkitt mapped a veritable pediatric cancer belt that extended across equatorial Africa.Despite Dr. Epstein’s initial reluctance to attend the talk — he sat in the rear to make a quick escape —…
Home » Spanish Grammar » Tenses and Conjugation » The Most Comprehensive Spanish Past Tense Guide (Beginner-friendly with Examples) Spanish is widely known as one of the easiest languages to learn for native English speakers, so the Spanish past tense is definitely a grammar lesson you can conquer. There are five past tenses in Spanish—the preterite (prtérito indefinido), past imperfect (pretérito imperfecto), past progressive (imperfecto progresivo), present perfect (perfecto compuesto) and past perfect (pluscuamperfecto). And they each express different things. Let’s check out the rules so that your confusion with Spanish past tenses can be a thing of the past!…
Tom Gleeson – Gear: Adelaide Fringe 2024 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An easy five stars for Gleeson’s ‘dodgy opinions’! Tom Gleeson has been entertaining audiences at the Adelaide Fringe for many, many years now and it’s no wonder his shows sell out. Well known for his TV programs’s Hard Quiz and Taskmaster, he is at his absolute best when standing alone on a stage, in a tent in Adelaide, with a microphone in his hand! Be prepared to laugh for a full 60 minutes as he shares his many ‘dodgy opinions’ and recounts amusing tales of past events in his life. Even if…