https://springlanguages.com/learn-spanish/indirect-object-pronouns-in-spanish/ Modern Online Language learning Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:17:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://springlanguages.com/learn-spanish/indirect-object-pronouns-in-spanish/#comment-1002375 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:22:48 +0000 https://springlanguages.com/?p=528138#comment-1002375 Hi Paulina, I’m a frustrated student who’s been struggling to learn Spanish for…longer than I’d like to admit! There is a something in your video/notes on indirect objects that suggests that the i.o. pronoun is always necessary, even when the i.o. is specifically mentioned (Les deje’ una lasana a ustedes). But in any teaching website I’ve ever been to, it seems to assume that the students know this implicitly, so it doesn’t need to be said explicitly. However, as someone representing a typical native English speaker, I can tell you for sure that including “les” with “a ustedes” doesn’t make sense to us in the beginning. Yes, I do see some discussion of this topic on message boards between students, but never from actual teachers. The other issue is that the people on these message boards often contradict each other, so I’m never sure that the redundant i.o. pronoun is really always necessary. Maybe this could be included in future videos along with an explanation of why we have to use the redundant i.o pronoun (if there is an explanation)? Thanks so much!

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