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January 23, 2025

Colombia

ColombiaLearn and practice Spanish listening, grammar, and writing with these Colombia-themed exercises from Progress with Lawless Spanish.


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Published on January 23, 2025 06:00

January 22, 2025

Past Perfect aka Pluperfect

Italian past perfectThe past perfect, also called the pluperfect, is a verb tense that distinguishes between two related things that happened in the past, indicating which one occurred before the other. The use of the past perfect is very similar in Italian and English.


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January 21, 2025

To Teach

French verbs to teach







French has five different verbs that can mean "to teach," depending on the who, the what, and the how of the teaching in question.


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January 20, 2025

Pretérito Conjugations: Stem-Changing Verbs

Spanish simple pastSpanish verbs which are stem-changing in the present tense may or may not have that stem change in the pretérito.


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Published on January 20, 2025 06:00

Yabla French Videos

Yabla French videosFrench videoEager for a new way to work on your French listening comprehension? Take a look at Yabla French, a subscription site with a massive collection of original videos featuring native speakers to help you learn and practice French at any level.


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January 17, 2025

Avoir le seum

Avoir le seum







Don't get frustrated with the familiar French expression avoir le seum.


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Published on January 17, 2025 06:00

January 16, 2025

En el centro comercial – Indirect Object Verbs Quiz

Shopping center







Test yourself on indirect object verbs like gustarle with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:


   En el centro comercial


Note: You must be logged into your Progress with Lawless Spanish account to take this test. If you don't have one, sign up - it's free!


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Published on January 16, 2025 06:00

PwLF Super Study Lists

Progress with Lawless FrenchTake your Progress with Lawless French account to the next level with these super study lists that bring together all the lessons on a particular grammar topic.


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Published on January 16, 2025 06:00

January 15, 2025

Di

Italian prepositionThe preposition di usually means "of," but it also has numerous other meanings and uses.


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Published on January 15, 2025 06:00

January 14, 2025

Sembler – to seem

Sembler


The regular -er verb sembler means "to seem" and sometimes needs to be followed by the subjunctive.


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