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5 minutos de español: ¡Ya hice la tarea de español / ¿Cuándo usamos YA en español?/ When we use YA ei Spanish?

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  ¡Ya hice la tarea! English Version How are you doing? Good morning, good afternoon or good night depending on where you are or the time you hear us. In the 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about a word that without a doubt attracts attention because it is very small and has many meanings.   Click here Do you already know which word it is?   Ya Male tell them what we are going to talk about!   It's "ya", You heard that word, right? It's a time adverb like yesterday, today, tomorrow, but "ya" is used in different ways   Ya, let's get to the examples!     Ya, ya      - significa enough Ya, ya, termina con eso.  Enough, enough, finish with that   ¡Ya cállate!  Shut up now!   Ya me voy     I´m leaving now   Ya voy, ya voy enseguida. En México ya mero      I´m going right now   ¿Ya hiciste la tarea de español?   Have you already done the homework?   ¡Pagas y ya!      You pay and that´s it!   Ya no comemos más azúcar   We d

5 minutos de español: Influencia de las lenguas africanas en el español latinoamericano / Influence of African languages on Latin American Spanish

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  Conga   Click aquí See the Spanish version below Hi, how are you doing? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are and the time you are listening to us. In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about another continent that influenced a lot the Latin American culture and of course, what we are interested in, which is the language. We saw the influence of native languages, especially Nahuatl, European and Arabic and now another continent. Yes, Africa, with the massive arrival of Africans to work as slaves in America, a transculturation took place. We have traces of Africa in the culture, music, way of being, songs, religion and of course in the language. What countries did they come from? From many regions, especially from West Africa. On each ship they mixed their prisoners so that they could not communicate, since each tribe had its own language. People did not know where they were going and could not talk to

¿Qué hubiera pasado si...? 5 minutos de español/What would have happened if ...? 5 minutes Spanish

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  Escucha el audio How are you doing? Good morning, good afternoon or good night depending on where you are and the time you hear us In these 5 minutes of Spanish we are going to talk about some hypothesis, of what would have happened if .......... Oops! we are going to have to think a little. ¿How do you say in English “si no hubiera venido”?        if he had not come … From Europe to America perhaps...? And yes, we are in the week of October 12 which in many countries of the Americas is a holiday, with different names: Day of the Hispanic, of race, of cultures, Columbus Day; of the Americas, of indigenous resistance and others. Many are against celebrating this day because in reality, America was populated for more than 40,000 years during the glaciations by groups that came from Asia through the Bering Strait, that is, Columbus did not find something for the first time, he did not discover anything new. Mural de Diego Rivera There was a looting of wealth, an imposition o