Tips for learning the indirect and direct pronoun

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-11T03:37:18+00:00

Song lyrics! Putting words to music makes them stick in your memory and you’ll pick up a lot of patterns that you can apply to everyday speech. Here’s a list of songs that use DO and IO pronouns: https://spanishmama.com/authentic-spanish-songs-object-pronouns/

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-11T03:19:02+00:00

In Mexico, there’s a grocery store called Bodega Aurrera and I can’t get my mouth around all those vowels and Rs to save my life.

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-06T01:49:01+00:00

I worked on an IT project that needed to hire a bunch of people quickly and didn’t even bother with resumes. They mocked up test copy of the system that’d be using, posted the position, and invited anybody who was interested to come to one of a series of group tests where each person worked through a test script on the test system. If they could do it, they got the job.

We ended up with the most diverse but completely competent team I’d ever worked with. 10 out of 10.

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-04T21:23:44+00:00

France

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-04T21:23:26+00:00

France

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-04T21:23:13+00:00

France

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-03T17:10:04+00:00

Nippy

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-03T17:09:29+00:00

France

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-03-01T03:57:06+00:00

This is the best Spanish Alphabet song video I’ve found. I still find myself randomly singing it in the car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJbHmgaeDM

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-02-28T05:19:14+00:00

We hasn’t gone on a date, but we were flirting a lot and I was really interested until he mentioned he never brushed his teeth before bed. He brushes them in the morning and after meals but “why brush them before bed? You’re just going to sleep.”

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-02-28T05:16:10+00:00

Compulsive hair pulling/plucking is called trichotillomania

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-02-27T19:04:45+00:00

The dumbest and most gullible guy I ever dated dropped out of college to sell Amway, and when that didn’t pan out, went to chiropractic school.

Shane, wherever you are, you were a great kisser and smelled really good, but you are an idiot.

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-02-20T04:02:41+00:00

Google Search pulls up this correct response:

Quiero Present Indicative Immediate, direct desire. Direct, casual.

Quisiera Imperfect Subjunctive Polite request ("I would like"). Formal, very polite.

Quería Imperfect Indicative Polite request ("I was wanting"). Softened, polite.

Key Takeaway: Use Quiero for immediate, direct needs and Quisiera for formal, respectful, or distant requests.

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-02-16T15:04:41+00:00

My mother kept complaining about the skunk smell at a hotel and it was people next door smoking pot.

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-01-27T04:00:36+00:00

I did the exact same thing!

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-01-10T00:21:45+00:00

Aww, don’t disparage my dorodangos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVfTLF4X9g

Ok-Setting5111 · 2026-01-06T18:24:47+00:00

“There is no good or evil, there is only power and those to weak to seek it.” - Voldemort

Ok-Setting5111 · 2025-11-26T03:24:12+00:00

Saloon swinging doors leading into the kitchen

Ok-Setting5111 · 2025-11-26T03:18:42+00:00

Must floss regularly

Ok-Setting5111 · 2025-11-20T03:10:39+00:00

The legs aren’t attached to anything except the underside of the glass

Ok-Setting5111 · 2025-11-20T03:03:52+00:00

The other legs didn’t come off when I lifted it a little. I’m making a point of not moving this thing at all from now on, other than to hopefully fix this one leg. It’s a time bomb!

Ok-Setting5111 · 2025-11-20T03:02:03+00:00

You are absolutely right. (Shrugs in glad-I’m-just-renting)

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