Spanish in Cabo

  What shocks you checks you   How are you? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are or what time you are listening to us. In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about two very common verbs in the Spanish spoken in Latin America. Surely you have heard them at some point.   ¿Checaste todos los verbos que analizamos en los 5 minutos de español? Did you check all the verbs we analyzed in the 5 minutes of Spanish?   You ask a co-worker something on the phone and he answers: Lo checo y te llamo. I'll check it and I will get back to you.   At the gas station: Le checo el aceite / Do I check the oil? Voy a checar si tengo todos los puntos en mi declaración de impuestos I'm going to check if I have all the items on my tax return.   Checar or chequear comes from the English to check, it is accepted as a verb that means to examine, control, review and also to have a med...

  ¡Tengo ganas de estudiar español! Hi, how are you doing? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are or what time you hear us. In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about an expression very used in Spanish: “(dar/tener) ganas (de)”.   It can express desire, hunger, natural will to do something or disposition and we use it daily.   It is translated into English in several ways, depending on whether it is a physical or emotional sensation, if it is a present situation or if it implies a future or if it is affirmative or negative, among others. “Hace tiempo que teníamos ganas de conversar de las ganas de hacer algo en los 5 minutos”. / We've been wanting to talk about “ganas de “in the 5 minutes for a long time.   Podcast This is the most direct translation:                            To want or to desire ...