Indirect Object pronoun

Those darn little words still mess me up so it's always good to review. Now that the Desafío is over I'm still going to blog, but I can keep them short and sweet just for my ownself. This is an example I pulled from Spanish Class with Jackie.

¿Qué hicieron ayer los monos en el parque zoológico?

Ayer los monos les tiraron la comida a los turistas!

• Direct Object: la comida, which receives the action of the verb. Answers the question, What did the monkeys throw? the food
• Indirect Object: les / los turistas, the recipients of the action of the verb. Answers the question, At/to whom did the monkeys throw the food? at the tourists.

les is the indirect pronoun for 3rd person plural, referring to the tourists, who received the action, that is, the throwing of the food by the monkeys

Simple right? On paper it is, using it in conversation is a different story.

And I end with a video of Pocoyo bailando el mono de alambre. I know it's a kid's show, but I still enjoy it. Still a kid at heart I guess?

LingQ

This morning we were requested to watch one episode of one of the series Pablo recommended in a video from earlier in the week. I just finished the series Extr@, so I watched an episode of Pocoyó. It was adorable, and I'll probably watch more just for practice.

But as usual I find myself sidetracked. This was a carry over from reading the comments on the Dreaming Spanish video about Extensive Reading. One writer mentioned she likes to do her reading on the LingQ app (not to be confused with the Ling app!). Since finding reading material at your level is a challenge I decided to pursue it.

LingQ Learning Languages Simply

I created a free account and selected my level (I chose Intermediate). Then selected the topics I was interested in and the amount of "points" I wanted to do daily. Then it generated a lesson for me.

The blue words are words you know, tap words you don't and they turn yellow and it gives you the definition and keeps track for future review. Stopping to look up definitions isn't recommended for Extensive Reading, but I'm willing to try it as a source for reading material. Plus it's free, for now.