Spanish C1 · Day 20
Day 20: Gobernanza global y cooperación multilateral — Adversative connectors: ahora bien (part 1)
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- Grammar: Adversative connectors: ahora bien (part 1)
- Reading: El futuro de la gobernanza global: entre la fragmentación y la cooperación multilateral
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Grammar point: Adversative connectors: ahora bien (part 1)
The connector «ahora bien» is a sophisticated C1 adversative marker used to accept what has just been said and then introduce a qualification, a restriction, or a shift in perspective that complicates the preceding claim. It does not flatly cancel the previous statement. It is a way of saying “that being said” or “this, however, needs a further consideration.” You typically encounter «ahora bien» in formal, …
Key vocabulary (8 of 19 words)
- el multilateralismo – Multilateralism (the principle of coordinating relations between three or more states)
- la soberanía – Sovereignty
- el actor, -es – Actor (in political science, an entity playing a role in international relations)
- la norma, -s – Norm
- la institución, -es – Institution
- la legitimidad – Legitimacy, justification
- la búsqueda de acuerdos – Consensus building
- el derecho internacional – International law
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