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anna8 - Excellent post.

That makes perfect sense. I figured the word 'ahi' was mostly lost due to elision. I was searching for any trace of the word but my untrained ears couldn't hear it.

I agree - it is fascinating how native speakers can still hear words that are all but gone.

I've been thinking about how I talk in English lately and am amazed that anyone can understand it sometimes.

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Thanks, Anstruther! I'm glad you found it helpful. I think it would be a great question for a Pa' que sepas type of show, don't you?

I'm hoping to see a new Q&A show up and running here one of these days and would like to see a new name for it. Pa' que sepas and Qué pasa sound so much alike that I was always getting them mixed up!

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Hi Anna8

You did a really excellent job in explaining that. Your use of the two colors to show the vowels really drove home what you were saying. For a beginner like myself, this is a really important point. Kudos.

Bye the way, do you teach Spanish or read a lot of grammatical material ?

Dave

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Thanks Anna8. I was aware of the concept of elision, because I taught English long, long ago in Japan, but I hadn't thought about it in relation to Spanish. A lesson on common phrases that are significantly altered by elision would be great. In Japan, I always used, "What are you going to do tonight."

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Dave 1-8, thanks! And no I'm not a Spanish teacher so please always read what I say very critically. I am, though, a lover of language, languages, and in particular, Spanish, a great fan of Spanishpod and a card-carrying grammar nerd:-)

Boochan, de nada, but please see the above disclaimer :-) (Wow, you taught English in Japan -- how interesting!)

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Anna8, pensaba que sonabas como profesora también. Tenemos mucha suerte tenerte aquí.

Anna8, I thought that you sounded like a teacher also. We are very lucky to have you here.

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Thanks Kikuyu! Back at ya!

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@anna8, @kikuyu, tenemos mucha suerte que vosotr...a?...s dos están aquí. Claro que nos habéis enseñado muchas cosas importantes. :)

@anna8, @kikuyu, we're very lucky that both of you are here. Y'all've taught us many important things. ;)

Puede ser muy interesante mirar, en representación gráfica, una grabación de tu lengua materna -- es muy obvio que no se pronuncia todo que está escrito. :) El poder de los centros de las lenguas del cerebro es increíble.

It can be very interesting to look at a recording of your native tongue in graphical form -- it's very obvious that we don't pronounce everything that's written. :) The power of the brain's language centers is incredible.

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Hi JP etc

Noticed on the PDF Lesson Transcript that "quire" and "saltes" were given translations in the infinitive under "key vocabulary".

Dave

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Dave

PDF and vocab fixed.