Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The subjunctive is a notorious quitting point for a lot of language learners. It doesn't need to be confusing, it's just taught wrong.

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0:01 Introduction
2:40 learn Spanish, French, German, or Italian with Lingoda
4:50 why W.E.I.R.D.O. isn't helpful for Spanish
6:00 TAM: Tense, Aspect, Modality
6:32 Tense
6:48 Aspect
7:40 Mood/Modality
8:24 two flavors of modality
8:29 Modal systems
10:46 Mood
12:01 Key concept 1: structural reasons: different or same subjects
14:23 Key concept 2: semantic reasons: non-assertion
14:51 Negated, unrealized, presupposed
15:44 Negated
17:51 Unrealized
20:00 Presupposed
21:58 ambiguous sentences in English
24:30 summary

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