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¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Español. Today we’re gonna practice talking about occupations. 

Here’s how it usually goes:
• ¿Qué haces? (What do you do?)
• Yo soy… (I am…)

Note that in Spanish we tend to NOT use articles (a, an) when describing someone’s job title:
Yo soy profesora. (Literally: I am teacher)


The other thing we have to keep in mind whenever we’re describing someone is their gender. These are the most common word endings when it comes to occupations:

• Gender neutral endings:
ISTA: el artista / la artista, etc.
NTE: el estudiante / la estudiante, etc.

• Feminine vs. Masculine endings:
O / A: el secretario / la secretaria, etc.
OR / ORA: el profesor / la profesora, etc.


Okay! Now that the explanation is out of the way, let’s practice a little bit. I’ll say a couple of sentences and you need to figure out if I could be describing a man, a woman, or either one:

Es arquitecta 🏗️
Es programador 💻
Es analista 📉
Es presidente 🏳️
Es veterinaria 🐾
Es electicista 🔌
Es asistente 📋
Es dentista 🦷
Es fotógrafo 📷
Es mecánico 🔧
Es doctora 🩺

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Spanish from zero

Listening practice for beginners • Talking about occupations

1. - is used at the end of a sentence to indicate a change and to express a definite tone of voice
2. - The particle "了" can also be used in the structure "要/快/就要/快要 +V/Adj+了" to indicate that the action is about to happen or that the situation is about to change.
3. - The negative adverbs "没有" and "了" cannot occur at the same time. For example, you can either say "我没吃早饭" or "我吃早饭了", not "我没吃早饭了". However, the verbs "没有" and "了" can appear at the same time, e.g.: "我没有钱了."
4.- Some adverbs that emphasise the late occurrence of an action cannot occur at the same time as "了", e.g. "刚、才、刚刚", etc.
5.-Adverbs that indicate that the action occurs frequently and "了" cannot occur at the same time, e.g. "经常、常常、每", etc.


Eva Wang的channel ——汉语语法对比合集

汉语语法之“了”

Turkish Dictation Exercises with Basak

Exercise 1

私はバターをたくさん使った料理やあぶらっこい料理が苦手です。
砂糖をたくさん使ったお菓子もあまり好きじゃありません。
私のパートナーも同じです。
私たちは他のことについては意見が合わないことが多いですが、食べ物については意見が合います。
でも、みなさんの中にはパートナーと食べ物の好みが合わない人がいるかもしれません。
片方がベジタリアン、ヴィーガンだったりするとレストランに行く時は困ると思います。
食習慣や食べ物の好みが合わないから別れるということもあるかもしれません。
私にとって食事は生活の中でとても大事なので、食習慣や食べ物の好みが合わないことはとても大きな問題になると思います。
みなさんは相手の食習慣や食べ物の好みに合わせることはできますか？

あぶらっこい：oily, fatty, heavy
意見：いけん opinion
食習慣：diet habit
片方：かたほう　either one
好み：このみ　taste
好みが合う： have the same tastes
別れる：わかれる　break up
相手：あいて　the other one, partner

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

食べ物の好み（Tastes Preference in Food）

Two very similar verbs, but different and very common in exams. Let's figure them out. 💡

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Слушать / Слышать

Two people talk about themselves and their families.


Beginner 

Meet the Teachers - (Be Verbs - Introductions)

CHISTES MEXICANOS

DOS CHISTES DE PEPITO. MUY FAMOSOS.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13KKNDcHq0FE5DH2BnCTN0OGk_YreZpiY/view?usp=drivesdk