This morning I re-listened to Language Transfer Track #36. In this track Mihalis teaches us the future tense. He explains that the sounds we need to build the tense come from the sounds we learned from the verb "haber".
You add the sound to the end of the "to" form of the verb and move the accent to the end of the word. Mihalis describes it as "pushing the accent to the future. He says this is not a coincidence, that in Greek, the past tense is built by moving the stress backwards. How interesting.
For example: I will go is iré. It will go is irá. I will wait is esperaré. It will wait is esperará. And finally it will be is será. Which brings us to the video today.
I found this clip of Doris Day (with Spanish subtitles) from the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Jimmy Stewart stars as Doris Day's husband and she's singing (quite loudly) in hopes that their kidnapped son will hear her and cry out for help. A fun classic movie.
What's great is at the end of the track Mihalis says that the future tense isn't used very much, but it exists and now we've learned it. Perfect!
Great post! I’ll have to watch the Doris Day video!
ReplyDeleteI thought you would mention “Iran a Iran” as that was pretty funny!
I usually post on Language Transfer after the second time through. It takes me at least that much to process it. That was funny though!
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