Encontrar vs Encontrarse

Track #74 of Language Transfer Review. Mihalis introduces us to the verb elegir which means to choose (related to election). I choose is eligo, and if you notice, instead of splitting when it's stressed the 'e' changes to an 'i'.

• We choose - elegimos (not stressed, so the 'e' stays as an 'e')
• You choose (informal) - eliges

So if we were to say - I don't want you to choose for me. or I don't want you to choose on behalf of me. We would use the mood tense - No quiero que eligas por mi.

Romper means to break (related to rupture, corrupt, disrupt). Romperse means it breaks or it breaks itself. 

• No quiero que rompa - you're waiting to hear what you don't want broken
• No quiero que lo rompa - I don't want him to break it.
• No quiero que se rompa - I don't want it to break.

Encontrar means to find, whereas encontrarse means to meet up. Which is a word I need to try to use more often, since I'm always trying to use conocer. During conversation it still doesn't come to mind to use the reflexive form of this verb. If we want to say:

• We have met up in order to speak. - Nos hemos encontrado para hablar.

Finally, I include this video of the song I sang for the homework last Saturday. La Melodía by Joey Montana