Home » Spanish Grammar » Tenses and Conjugation » The Gerund in Spanish: What It Is, How to Form It and When to Use It Did you know that you can give orders, descriptions and exclamations all with the same word in Spanish? What is that fantastic word? The gerund. Most likely you already know a little about gerunds, the –iendo or –ando form of verbs (corriendo, andando). And if you do, you’re ready to start using the gerund in Spanish in all sorts of different situations. Let’s have a look at the many ways we can use the ever-versatile…
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Justin’s BIG Balloon Show – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2024 The ultimate stage show experience is coming to the Adelaide Fringe Festival for the first time, led by the one and only Justin Williams, winner of Australia’s reality TV show BLOW UP! With non-stop entertainment from start to finish and high energy special guest performances, this 60 minute performances is bursting with grand illusions, thrilling circus stunts and, of course, Justin’s signature BIG balloon creations from the big screen that have to be seen to be believed. Intimate performance pieces will seamlessly blend with large, grand scale illusions. Audience participation…
Soldiers who seized power in three West African nations announced on Sunday that they would pull their countries out of their regional economic bloc.Military juntas in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso said they were withdrawing from the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, because of sanctions the group imposed in response to the coups that were carried out.In recent years, a string of coups have erupted across the Sahel, the arid strip south of the Sahara, forming an unbroken strip of military-run countries stretching coast to coast across the continent.While attempts by the regional bloc to reverse some…
Home » Spanish Grammar » Learn How to Say “Want” in Spanish with Querer and Express Your Desires How do you say “I want to learn Spanish”… in Spanish? All you need to know is how to use the irregular Spanish verb querer (to want)! Learn how to express your deepest desires and say what you want in Spanish with confidence thanks to this guide. Contents Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that you can take anywhere. Click here to get a copy. (Download) How to Use Querer (to Want) in Spanish The verb for expressing…
Squishy Taylor and the City-Wide Ghost Plague: Adelaide Fringe 2024 Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 Stars for a clever activity that kids and adults can do together at home Review by Claire Davill Squishy Taylor and the City-Wide Ghost Plague is an activity designed for adults and kids to complete together. This is not a show, it’s an interactive, clever activity that includes a story, puzzles, activities and a mystery to be solved. You’ll be mailed a top-secret package containing Squishy’s Sleuthing Scrapbook, and you’ll need to put your thinking caps on to solve the mystery of the ghosts that are…
More than 70 people were killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, a local gold mining group leader and a local official told AFP on Wednesday. Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 14:40Modified: 24/01/2024 – 14:42 1 min “It started with a noise. The earth started to shake. There were over 200 gold miners in the field. The search is over now. We’ve found 73 bodies,” Oumar Sidibe, an official for gold miners in the southwestern town of Kangaba, told AFP, of the incident on Friday.The same toll was confirmed by a local councillor.Mali’s ministry of…
Home » Spanish Vocabulary » An Easy Guide to “Acabar” in Spanish: Conjugation, Translation and Example Sentences Acabar can be a challenging verb to learn in Spanish, but one that comes with lots of rewards. Acabar literally means “to finish” or “to end,” but it can convey a few different meanings depending on how it’s used and you’ll probably see it quite often. With explanations of the verb’s various uses, examples and tips on practicing, this guide will help you get the hang of acabar, and have fun doing it! Contents Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable…
Listen to your childYou may be struggling to know what kinds of activities to expose them to, and a great way of finding something they’re going to be interested in and stick to is by listening to your child. Take note of which activities capture their attention, and listen to what makes them excited when they’re talking to you. More often than not, an interest in a hobby is sparked by something they see or hear, so exposing them to a wide range of activities may just help ignite an interest in something new.Give them opportunitiesOnce you have an idea…
Back to homepage / Shows / Eye on Africa Issued on: 24/01/2024 – 22:38 12:55 In tonight’s edition: Chad’s junta leader is hosted in Russia and hails ties with the Kremlin. Moscow says it will help Mahamat Idriss Déby stabilise his country. Also, Tunisia is eliminated from the Africa Cup of Nations whilst Namibia stay in the game to reach the last 16 for the first time ever. And we report on how a Cameroonian fashion designer is hoping to empower migrant workers living in Lebanon. Read more on related topics:
Back to homepage / Shows / Eye on Africa Issued on: 25/01/2024 – 22:43 13:30 EYE ON AFRICA © AFP Dirty tricks, alleged impostors, systems stacked against him: Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader walks away from his party, accusing the ruling ZANU-PF of using underhand tactics to torpedo the CCC. Nelson Chamisa’s critics say he’s to blame for the failure. Also, Ghana’s first treason case in half a century ends in a death-by-hanging sentence for six people convicted over a coup plot in 2019. And we look back at the satisfyingly turbulent group stages of the Africa Cup of Nations in…