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Tiempo Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto / Present Perfect Tense in Spanish

Introduction The Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto, also known as the Present Perfect Tense in Spanish, is one of the most commonly used verb tenses in everyday conversations. It allows speakers to describe past actions that are connected to the present or have relevance in the present moment. In English, the Present Perfect Tense is formed using “have” or “has” + past participle (e.g., I have…

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So I've been thinking a lot about Exorcists lately, and the different little hints at their lore through the series. Thanks to both Carmilla's observations and Adam's pep talk, we can safely assume they're all women. But what about outside of that?

Being an Exorcist doesn't seem like it's a job. Vaggie refers to herself as one in the present tense to Carmilla when she's been living in Hell with Charlie for years; there's also Adam's comment about how he's the one who chose her name, and the little detail about his lieutenant having a name that sounds like a pet name version of her title. So what, are Exorcists created in Heaven for the specific purpose of being Exorcists? Makes sense, sure...except when you think about what we've seen from Vaggie and what we know about Heaven. (This isn't counting any lore from before the main show came out, mind you, since we know some things have been retconned.) That's where, to me at least, things don't quite line up with that "Heaven-born" idea.

In the main show, we've seen Vaggie speaking Spanish. If Heaven created a class of angels for the express purpose of being Exorcists, they wouldn't need to know multiple languages. Considering the exterminations are top secret (or they were, until Adam threw the threat at Charlie in the middle of a courtroom), what need would Exorcists have for any skills other than killing? They wouldn't need other skills; they wouldn't even be bred with the capacity for unnecessary skills. If they're made for only one purpose, and their purpose is a secret, it would also make more sense for them to only exist in a military compound with no risk of that secret getting out; they wouldn't have any desire or permission to go anywhere but barracks and a training ground. But we've seen Lute out and about in the streets of Heaven, and Vaggie seemed like she'd been around the city already before she came with Charlie for their meeting.

Not to mention that if the Exorcists were created to be mindless killing machines, where do the emotions come from? Why would Adam's offer of a monetary reward for killing Vaggie get any response? What's up with Lute's...let's just say unique disposition? And why leave this class of angels created for the purpose of slaughtering demons with even the capacity to feel mercy and exercise free will? Heaven wouldn't put effort into making such complex soldiers for a once-a-year secret massacre; Sera said she agreed to the exterminations, implying that Adam (until his death of course) was the one who ran the Exorcists and their activities, even though he still technically reported to her as his superior. And from what we know about Adam, if he got to create his army of lady angels from scratch, he wouldn't give them the capacity for individuality. Not after what happened in Eden with Lilith.

But if Exorcists are human souls who went to Heaven, why did Adam get to name them? Why is it a whole identity, not a job? Without more information, my current theory is heavy conditioning.

Picture this. When the right kind of soul comes to Heaven (a woman who doesn't have anything she'd be looking for in the afterlife, who doesn't have anyone there who would be looking for her, who wasn't some perfect pacifist saint in her human life), Adam gets to her before she can properly settle in and recruits her. Breaks down her identity to rebuild her as an Exorcist, even choosing a new name for her himself (and possibly reshaping her physical form to be more uniform or maybe just more to his tastes), to the point that it becomes as much of an identity as any other. That type of conditioning also explains Vaggie's military tendencies, and the way souls who went to Heaven are so eager to come down and slaughter thousands of souls when for all they know they might be killing someone they knew when they were alive.

The selection process also explains why no one but the other Exorcists would have noticed Vaggie going missing, or the Exorcist who was killed by Carmilla; if they're souls who didn't have anyone in Heaven who would miss them, and who were conditioned to the point that they identified as Exorcists who didn't bother trying to form any outside connections (which would probably be part of that conditioning to ensure none of them let the secret slip to a non-Exorcist), no one would ever notice if one of them disappeared. Even Sera didn't give any real indication that she knew one Exorcist defected and another died before Lucifer set up a meeting for her and his daughter. She just said Adam "failed to contain the demons' unrest" to the point that Lucifer was getting involved; no mention of if she knew things were starting to fracture before Lucifer called her up with the implication of looking to change things after spending millennia just passively watching it all happen. Human souls being selected to become Exorcists because their lack of attachment makes them vulnerable to such complete conditioning would explain a lot there.

(As a side note, it makes even more sense that Sera didn't know about Vaggie, because from what we know, Vaggie might not technically be fallen, at least up until the end of the hearing. She was still able to physically enter Heaven while it's implied that Lucifer can't. Lucifer became fallen because the angels at the top of the hierarchy cast him out, but Lute and Adam don't have that kind of authority. They took her wings and halo and left her in Hell, but Adam still referred to her as a current angel both in their private confrontation and in the courtroom, not a fallen one. By that logic, "fallen" status can only be assigned by someone of a high enough rank, and Adam and Lute are too low on the angelic food chain to officially declare someone fallen. That would have had to come from someone like Sera, and no way was Adam going to admit to his boss that one of his elite Exorcists chose to defy the purpose of the exterminations and let a demon live. Sera probably only learned about it because Adam decided to hurt and establish control over a very defiant Charlie in the courtroom by outing Vaggie as a former Exorcist. Though that's definitely A LOT of speculation on my part.)

But conditioning does still leave room for them to possess individuality, because they were human, and humans do inherently possess individuality. Being bilingual, especially from a young age, is something that gets hardwired into the brain; hence why Vaggie speaks fluent Spanish despite her conditioning. Personality can still shine through; hence the excitement of the Exorcists as a whole, Vaggie's show of mercy and subsequent life in Hell, and Lute being her fucked-up unhinged self.

Plus this little bonus: when Emily, a Heaven-born angel, gets mad her angry flush is distinctly a bright blue, which implies Heaven-born angels have blue blood (which also makes sense in a symbolic way, with the phase "blue-blooded" and all); Exorcists, like Adam (a human soul), bleed gold. We know from Helluva Boss that Hellborns bleed black, but we've seen that Sinners bleed red. (Of course Charlie's a Hellborn with red blood, but considering she's the only Hellborn who has a human soul as a parent, she's kind of a special case.) In other words, in both Heaven and Hell, it human souls and souls that have no direct link to humanity have different blood colors.

It also goes back to what I mentioned awhile ago about Heaven just being a real-world broken government doing the same bullshit that happens on Earth. Conditioning is a thing that really happens while artificial creation of pre-conditioned soldiers isn't. Of course this is also all just me talking to myself while my chaotic little hyperfixated brain throws ideas at the wall to see if they stick, but I at least don't think it's entirely baseless.

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Chapter Twenty-Two: Spanish and Takeout

A knock at the door broke the comfortable quiet in the room, and Adam got up to answer it. Standing there was Chase, his usual grin in place.

“Hey, TJ,” Chase said, leaning in with an easy smile. “You wanna go over that Spanish homework? I feel like a fucking idiot with this stuff sometimes.”

TJ glanced at Adam, who gave him an encouraging nod. “Yeah, sure,” TJ replied, grabbing his notebook and textbook. He followed Chase down the hall to the study bubble on their floor, a cozy room with large windows, a couple of couches, and a whiteboard that stretched across one wall. It was a perfect spot to study and offered just enough seclusion from the bustling dorm floor.

As they settled in, Chase scratched the back of his head, flipping through the pages of his Spanish workbook. “I swear, this stuff is way harder than it looks. Half the time, I don’t even know what I’m saying.”

TJ chuckled, giving him a reassuring smile. “It’s not as bad as it seems. Spanish just has a few rules that don’t always make sense at first, but once you get those down, it clicks. Trust me.”

With a marker in hand, TJ stood at the whiteboard and started breaking down conjugations and sentence structures, illustrating each rule with simple sentences and examples. He wrote out conjugations for regular verbs in the present tense, adding little notes on each one as he went.

Chase’s face lit up gradually as he watched TJ explain, his brow furrowing in concentration but his eyes shining with understanding. “Wait… that actually makes sense,” he said after TJ broke down the difference between ser and estar.

“See?” TJ said, smiling. “You’re not an idiot. It just takes practice.”

They continued to work through the exercises, with TJ explaining each section and Chase growing visibly more confident. He tried writing a few sentences on his own, and each time he got stuck, TJ was right there to guide him. They fell into an easy rhythm, Chase listening carefully and TJ feeling a quiet thrill each time Chase looked at him with that genuine, grateful smile.

After a couple of hours, Chase’s stomach let out a loud grumble, and he laughed, leaning back in his chair. “Guess my brain isn’t the only thing that’s hungry. How about you, TJ? Ready for dinner?”

“Yeah, actually. I was getting pretty hungry too,” TJ admitted, capping the marker and setting it down. “Wanna head to the dining hall?”

Chase made a face, shaking his head. “Honestly? I’ve got this serious craving for Chinese food.”

TJ raised an eyebrow, intrigued. “Great Wall?”

“You know it.” Chase pulled out his phone, grinning as he navigated to DoorDash. “Nothing better than takeout on a study night. My treat.”

TJ’s heart did a small flip at the offer. “You sure? I don’t mind splitting it.”

“Nah, I’ve got this one,” Chase said, waving him off. “You saved my ass with this Spanish stuff. Consider it a thank-you.”

TJ smiled, feeling his face warm. “Alright, thanks. In that case, extra egg rolls for me.”

Chase chuckled, placing the order with a few quick taps. “Extra egg rolls, coming right up.”

As they waited, they kept working through a few more exercises, though the atmosphere grew more relaxed. Chase asked TJ about his interest in languages, and TJ explained how he’d started with French before picking up Spanish, sharing stories of his travels and even some of the music he loved.

By the time the food arrived, they were both laughing and chatting easily, their books and notes forgotten as they tore into the bags. The smell of lo mein, fried rice, and egg rolls filled the study bubble, and they wasted no time digging in, Chase practically groaning with satisfaction after his first bite of General Tso’s chicken.

“This,” Chase said through a mouthful, pointing his chopsticks at TJ, “was the best decision I’ve made all day.”

TJ laughed, his cheeks flushing. “Good company and good food. I’d call that a win.”

They shared a smile, their laughter echoing softly through the quiet hallway. For TJ, it was one of those small, perfect moments—the kind that felt real and familiar, the kind he hadn’t realized he’d been missing until now.

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Language Learning Log Week 47 (18/11 - 24/11)

Norwegian

Read 2x news articles

Read 1x scientific article

Read 2x chapters of Den Siste Magiker

Listened to 1x norskpodden podcast

Watched 12x episodes SKAM

Wrote 2x bokmål journal entries

Wrote short summary of article Sukkerforbruket Stuper I Norge

Spanish

Spanish class: revised indirect object pronouns, the simple past, the present perfect and house & furniture vocab

Spanish Tutor Unit 15 exercises A-K

Learned the pluperfect tense

Sooo I couldn’t sleep Thursday night because I was just angry at British politics and British people in general and I ended up binge-watching SKAM season 2. Oops. Honestly it’s so fucking depressing seeing these idiot politicians pull childish stunts and make a bumbling fool out of themselves on live TV, and knowing people are going to vote for them anyway and they’re likely to get more seats in Parliament than any other party. My faith in the British electorate is pretty much zero these days. But SKAM made me feel better. I’ve only actually started watching it recently - the first time I tried to watch it I just couldn’t get into it but this time round I’m enjoying it.

All in all, not the most productive week language-wise, but that’s okay. Friday evening was used to make chocolate meringue pie, Saturday I was at my brother’s all day and Sunday I was stilt-walking (which meant I spent some time during the week practising on stilts in preparation).

Some rough goals for this week:

Read at least 5 chapters of Den Siste Magiker

Write another article summary in Norwegian

Get back into watching Kveldsnytt every morning

Finish Spanish homework

Recap some Icelandic if I have time

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I got a 4 on the exam, but I’ve taken Spanish for 5 years at a high school level and I’m dual-enrolled in a college class, so hopefully I can help you out a little bit. (i know this test was last week but lol i forgot to post this so whatever. they’ll still be giving it next year)

1. You NEED to expose yourself to Spanish outside of class

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Some suggestions of how you can do that:

Listen to Spanish music while you study

here’s all the Latino spotify playlists to start

There’s a bunch of Spanish language movies and TV shows on Netflix. But if that’s not your jam, most Netflix-produced tv shows have the option to change the language to Spanish. See how much you can pick up (without subtitles) on your rewatch of Stranger Things or A Series of Unfortunate Events.

if you’re not at that level yet, turn on the English subtitles and see if you can tell how accurate they are.

change your phone’s language to Spanish. You’ll be forced to interact with it every day.

Talk to your friends who are also taking that class in Spanish once or twice a week and text them in Spanish as well. It’ll help you both practice.

Hopefully, your class is taught entirely in Spanish. If not, still try to take notes in the language and answer questions in it as well. 

If you know someone in your family or have a friend who is a native speaker, use that resource. Call and talk to them or start emailing them or writing letters.

If all else fails, there a bunch of websites and apps that can connect you to native speakers. Look at the langblr community on tumblr or apps like Hellotalk, which connect you with native speakers. 

2. Don’t try to translate what you’re listening to while you listen to it

This might seem like the exact opposite of what you need to do but trust me. The people in the listening sections of the tests are native speakers and your brain simply isn’t going to be able to go from Spanish to English fast enough to keep up.

Instead, don’t try to translate and write down notes of what you’re hearing in Spanish to go back to later. Otherwise, you’ll just get frustrated or behind and shut down for the rest of the selection. (I speak from experience.)

3. Know your complex tenses!

If you continue to study Spanish, you’re going to need to know them anyway, so you might as well know them now. 

Demonstrating you know the difference between preterite and the imperfect or what triggers the subjunctive shows you have a grasp of the language that goes above and beyond basic present tense conjugations.

What I suggest you should definitely know:

preterite and imperfect

subjuntive (at least the present tense)

commands

future

conditional

participles

progressive (-ing words)

4. Know the right vocab.

This shouldn’t be the only vocab you should know, but there are some themes that tend to come up on the test pretty often.

The ones my teacher highlighted included:

technology

the environment

politics (developing countries)

the arts (usually there’s some reading/listening passages about authors, painters, etc.)

your future/travel (college scholarships, studying abroad and volunteering, etc.)

Also know your idiomatic and transition phrases. If you can make your essays flow more smoothly, you’ll score higher and sound more like a native speaker.

5. Tips, tricks, and other things you need to remember

One of the writing exercises is usually an email or a letter. The recipient will vary so know how to format both formal and informal letters: greetings, farewells, when to use tú or Usted, etc.

Like I said above, idiomatic and transition phrases, as well as complex tenses are your friends. 

Circumlocution: a fancy word that basically means if you don’t know the word you want to say, use different ones to make the same point or talk around it. It might sound more awkward but it won’t completely paralyze you while writing your essay.

One of the speaking exercises will require you to compare your community with one in a Spanish speaking country. If you don’t have one you’re super familiar with already, pick one and study up a bit on the culture.

Take notes! Especially during the listening sections, jot some things down (in Spanish), especially for the longer ones or those they only play once. 

6. Practice, Practice, PRACTICE

The exercises are timed. You want to get used to how long writing for 15 minutes are. You want to know how long speaking for 20 seconds feels (it’s a hell of a lot longer than you think it is sometimes). 

Same goes for word counts. Figure out about how many words you write on a line so that way you don’t have to be counting word by word. Also, figure out how to hit that word count by using idiomatic expressions and transition phrases.

Getting familiar with how the exercises are set up and the format of the test is the most helpful thing you can do before you start. College Board posts past tests you can use to do this. They go from what is easiest for most people (reading) to hardest (speaking) so that definitely helps. (I found the listening section hardest though.)

7. You don’t have to be perfect.

Again, the test leaves room for you to make some mistakes. They know that, if you’ve been studying for three or four or five years and are not a native speaker, that you might forget an accent or leave out an “a” or forget to change “o” to “u” where you need to. As long as you’re making yourself understood, you’re on the right track.

Good luck! If you have any questions (or suggestions of your own), please send me an ask!

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When Memoria Press offered their Form Latin courses for review, I thought Super Hero might want in since he’s been studying Latin for a while.  So I visited their website and took a look as I always do. After seeing samples, watching video lessons, and reading reviews, I took a much closer look!  —First Form Latin would make an excellent choice not just for him, but for myself, too.  I had started to learn Latin along with my son when he did, but my intention fell through the cracks somehow.  Now, First Form Latin was offering us the chance to learn Latin together once and for all.

What We Received

Memoria Press sent us First Form Latin Complete Set, an incredibly generous package to get started with Latin. The complete package, which includes video lessons in a 3-DVD set, retails for $125.  Memoria Press offers a similar package with streaming video lessons instead of the DVDs, should you prefer that option instead.

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  What to Expect

Expect a big box with all the goodies: books, teacher guides & keys, workbooks, flashcards, CDs, and DVDs. First Form Latin includes everything you can possibly need to teach Latin with ease, even if you have no prior knowledge at all.  It’s impossible to overlook the fine quality of Memoria Press’ materials. The shiny, colorful book covers, with smooth, silky white pages in black and blue ink.  First impressions do matter I guess, and that alone makes you want to dive right in.

Course Structure

As with all Memoria Press courses, First Form Latin offers a very structured approach. The course is to last a full school year doing it every weekday. If there are co-ops and other activities begging for your time, it’s easy to adapt to 4, or even 3 days per week. I stopped trying to fit lessons into a fixed number of days long ago.  Inevitably something always happens that interfere with our schedule.  I like to keep it flexible:

Day 1: The Lesson. Either watch the lesson on the DVD or follow the Teacher Manual. Or watch the DVD, then just fill in with anything in the Teacher Manual the video might have missed.

Day 2:  Begin with recitations and grammar questions. Then complete one worksheet. Close with the flashcards.

Day 3+: The same as Day 2 until all of lesson’s worksheets are done. There are 4 to 6 worksheets per lesson.

Day 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 (depending on how many days the above takes us): Oral drills in textbook and quiz.

  Naturally, we play it by ear a bit. I don’t go through the entire list of grammar questions or flash all the cards every single time.  Nor do we play the recitations CD every day, mostly we recite quickly without the CD.  If this course is to succeed, it’s of vital importance we keep our load gentle and our pace comfortable.

Memoria Press suggests to follow the end of each lesson with optional history supplements. They suggest their own Lingua Angelica or Famous Men of Rome.  As secular homeschoolers, I’m not inclined to consider Lingua Angelica. But we did tag Famous Men of Rome to the end of lesson 1.  It’s relevant, and we enjoy it quite well. It’s definitely something I’d love to continue throwing in here and there, or perhaps more regularly.  We’ll see.

  Well Planned Out Lessons

The textbook and the DVD present very well planned out lessons.  Evidently Ms. Cheryl Lowe, the author, and her team devoted a great deal of time and effort putting it all together. I value the workbook exercises in particular, tackling topics from several angles.  They certainly help in understanding and deepening connections with Latin itself and with English.  Requiring a daily worksheet 4 to 6 days after each 20 minute lecture is such a wise approach.  —Slow and steady, that’s how the brain cements knowledge.  Pair those with the audio recitations, the questions, and the flashcards, and you’ll embrace pretty much all learning styles.

    The Video Lessons

The Instructor in the video lessons is just super. We both like Glen Moore a lot. He’s instructive and entertaining —a true edutainment experience! We enjoy his methodical lectures, and his jokes and relevant asides.  You can tell that he not only has experience teaching Latin, but he enjoys it as well. He’s a professional Latin teacher after all.

I do, however, take his Latin pronunciation with a grain of salt.  To be fair, he did clarify his recitations do not necessarily follow the correct pronunciation. The chants are to help memorization, so “feel free to stress the syllables any way you want.” Okay, that might be a valid reason, but I still would rather chant with the actual intonation lest I will get it wrong when I speak it.  —Not that I’m planning to have real conversations in Latin any time soon, or come to think of it, ever!  Still, it would be helpful to memorize correctly from the get-go.  Aside from his recitation disclaimer, I still believe he makes an error. He pronounces the third person, plural, of the future tense conjugation incorrectly.  The Latin ending is “bunt,” hence pronounced boont,  as in foot, not bunt as in, well, bunt.

Despite this mispronunciation point, both Super Hero and I, love watching Glen Moore’s lecture.  It takes about 15 to 20 minutes, which is the perfect length in our opinion.  Here’s a sample lesson so you can see for yourself the charming edutainer Glen Moore in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fqtqPFyVGc

  The next day (after the video lesson,) we begin with the grammar questions, as instructed in the Teacher Guide, then we do one worksheet, or two sometimes, depending on how quickly we finish.  Last, we rehearse our vocabulary with the flashcards. At the end of each lesson —that is after several days of working with worksheets, grammar questions, recitations, and flashcards, we practice the Oral Drill before we take our quiz. We haven’t yet taken a test. That’ll come at the end of the unit, or every 6 lessons.

  Our Thoughts about First Form Latin

Such structured methodology is working well with us for Latin.  As a matter of fact, it’s working wonderfully.  I’m liking it much more than I thought I would, which kinda surprises me a bit. The lessons have been gentle, yet rigorous, and crucial for a child —or any student: enjoyable!

We find ourselves looking forward to our Latin time. Super Hero who usually moans about having to write things down, has not uttered a single complaint. And there’s a fairly good deal of writing in the workbook!  On the contrary, he’s requested to do Latin first thing quite a few times already. Wow! That’s quite something, especially since we are both staunch nonfans of workbooks. Yes, I did buy a workbook just for myself 😉

    Unexpected Joys

Since Spanish is my native language, and Latin my “mother” tongue, or is it actually my “grandmother”? Anyway, I was saying, I find these exercises delightfully familiar.  I can’t help reminisce about the times of my own grammar school days long, long ago in Ecuador. I think of the times my teacher would make us recite and write down verb conjugations. And now, sitting with my son on my side doing something remarkably similar fills my heart with endearing nostalgia.

Regardless of my own reminiscences, studying Latin with Super Hero has been one of the best things I’ve done lately. I can’t tell you how much Super Hero’s loving it. He delights in filling the workbook together. Sometimes it’s like a game for him. He wants to beat me with faster, error-free performance.  Yet, other times, I think he likes being his mom’s equal: here we’re both “the students.”

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