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Newbie - The Neighbor

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Hosts: Liliana,  JP
ID: 0027
Difficulty: Newbie
Published: December 18, 2007
Topics: Neighbors
Functions: asking about others
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Lesson Introduction

SpanishPod users are warm, friendly people, and when you see someone new moving in on your block, I'm sure you all send the welcome committee with flowers, pies, casseroles... Today's dialogue is about a couple of lazy people who are too lazy to get up and introduce themselves to a new neighbor they see coming down the street. How anti-social!

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jpvillanueva says
The verb conocer, when used in the present tense, means to know or to meet someone. Here's the question: ¿Conoces a algún famoso? Yo, por ejemplo, conozco personalmente a la famosísima Jenny Zhu de ChinesePod.
December 17, 2007 from the Web.
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lilianamata says
Yo conozco al famoso JP Villanueva, y si conozco a mi vecino. ¿Ustedes conocen a su vecino?. Do you know your neighbor?
December 18, 2007 from the Web.
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estibalitz says
Yo no conozco a nadie famoso,jeje. Bueno a alguien sí,pero no puedo contarlo. Don´t tease me Liliana!jajjaja
December 18, 2007 from the Web.
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lilianamata says
¿Dinos a quien conoces Esti?
December 18, 2007 from the Web.
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jennyzhu says
I listen to JP and Lili everyday. feliz navidad!
December 18, 2007 from the Web.
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estibalitz says
Sometimes neighbors can be annoying. A veces los vecinos pueden ser unos toca-pelotas. I used to have one living upstairs who used to play drums...I used to hate him!!!Lo solía odiar!!!So one day, I went to his door, and in a very polite way I ask to stop that unbearable noise.And do you know what was his answer?He told me he heard the noise of my shower!!! I answered: and what! ¡Y qué!I think is pretty normal to have a shower at home but quite idiot to have drums!!!¡¡¡Es muy normal tener una ducha en casa pero bastante idiota tener una batería!!!jajajaja Thanks God, they moved.
December 26, 2007 from the Web.
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tatloanimexica says
jennyzhu por estos rumbos? que agradable sorpresa
January 9, 2008 from the Web.
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lilianamata says
Jenny is really learning Spanish, she has a great accent!
January 9, 2008 from the Web.
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lilianamata says
¿Conoces a tu vecino?
January 10, 2008 from the Web.
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pussycat says
Cuando vivía en Devon mi vecina y yo íbamos de vacaciones juntos pero ayora vivo muchos kilometres distancia de ella y solo hablamos por telefono.
February 17, 2008 from the Web.
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superbigmuch11 says
No conozco a nadie famoso, pero "I have met" (?) algunas personas famosas, como Billy Bragg, Garrison Keillor, Gloria Steinem, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, y Anne Lammot. Extrano, si?
February 17, 2008 from the Web.
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lilianamata says
superbigmuc11, "I have met" it's "he conocido" (present perfect of the verb conocer).
February 18, 2008 from the Web.
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fofa says
No conoczco personas famosas ni mis vecinos. Soy "anti-social", solo hablo hola, no tenemos tartas ni pasteles.jaja
March 29, 2008 from the Web.
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guest says
Mi vecinos son Gualtemaltecos, por yo no vea mucho....pienso allí la mudanza hoy.
March 30, 2008 from the Web.
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jpvillanueva says

corrections to PDF

June 15, 2009 from the Web.
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cobre says

One of these days, I'm gonna get around to cleaning the  neighbor's garage.

Uno de los días, vaya a obtener en torno a la limpieza el garaje del vecino.

ahmmm, have you seen my car?

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/615832.html

¿Has vistó mi coche?

July 30, 2009 from the Web.
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donperigo says

jejeje tendrá que devolver el dinero del seguro :-)

July 30, 2009 from the Web.
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evandar says

Sí, conozco a algún famosa, pero ella sólo es famosa en mi cuidad. Ella es la compañera de mi hermanastro.

November 2, 2009 from the Web.
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marcobestgen says

Hola ! En los ejercicios hay que poner la traducion de "you know" y la respuesta en el ejercicio es "conocer", pero ¿no seria "to know" ? Porque "you know" seria "conoces". Hay a veces formas gramaticales en el mp3 Lesson Review (por otras lecciones) que no son formas del infinitivo que son traducidas por el infinitivo en español y me parece extraño, porque no es la traducion exacta. ¿Hay una razon a eso ? Gracias , buen dia :-)

November 6, 2009 from the Web.

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