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Three Step Spanish for Beginners - Learn #23 - Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses in Spanish - Grammar

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

learn how to describe a person’s strengths and what areas they need to improve

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Let's look at the sentence pattern.

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Do you remember how the character said,

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She's excellent at oral presentations, but she needs to improve her spelling?

0:17.0

It's excellent in presentations

0:20.0

but needs to

0:21.6

make a more your orthography.

0:24.6

It's excellent in presentations orales,

0:27.6

but needs to make a more your orthography.

0:31.6

This sentence follows the patterns here.

0:35.6

Pattern one,

0:36.6

Excellent in, plus field or skill.

0:41.3

Excellent at something.

0:43.3

In Spanish, we use special patterns to talk about what someone is good at or what they need to improve.

0:51.3

The first pattern is excellent in something,

0:56.0

which means is excellent at something.

1:00.0

You use this with a field or skill.

1:03.0

Pattern two,

1:05.0

Necessita Mejorar plus skill or area.

1:10.0

He and she needs to improve plus skill or area. He, she needs to improve plus skill or area.

1:14.6

The second pattern is Necessita Mejorar,

1:18.6

meaning he or she needs to improve,

1:22.6

followed by the skill or area that needs work.

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