Dan Berges

Dan Berges

Dan Berges is the Managing Director of Berges Institute.

Future perfect tense in Spanish: Complete guide with examples

The future perfect tense in Spanish (futuro perfecto or futuro compuesto) is an essential verb tense that allows you to express actions that will be completed before a specific point in the future, or to speculate about past events.

The one preposition rule that explains 'gustar' type verbs

The Spanish verb gustar follows a different grammatical pattern than its English equivalent "to like." Understanding how indirect objects work with prepositions clarifies not only gustar, but an entire category of similar verbs.

Can AI chatbots really teach you Spanish? What they miss

If you've scrolled through social media lately, you've probably seen ads promising fluency through AI-powered conversation practice.

Office & work in Spanish: The only guide you'll need

Ready to take your Spanish skills to the workplace? Whether you're preparing for a job in a Spanish-speaking country, collaborating with Spanish-speaking colleagues, or simply want to expand your professional vocabulary, this guide has everything you need!

How to conjugate 'ir' in Spanish: complete guide across all tenses

Every Tuesday I go to the supermarket. For real. Todos los martes voy al supermercado.

Best 10 podcasts to learn Spanish

Listening to podcasts is a fantastic way to improve your Spanish comprehension and pronunciation skills. You can listen to them at home, at the gym, in the subway…

Is Spanish hard to learn?

Learning a second language takes time and effort, but it can also be highly rewarding. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, and it’s the most commonly learned second language in the United States.

Spanish possessive adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun. In red house, red is the adjective, and house is the noun. In big car, big is the adjective, and car is the noun. In Spanish, they tend to go after the noun: casa roja, coche grande.

Days of the week in Spanish

The days of the week in Spanish are: Lunes - Monday Martes - Tuesday Miércoles - Wednesday

Colors in Spanish: A comprehensive guide

Here are the most important colors in Spanish. We've used colors from the RGB system, which is an additive color model used to represent colors in digital devices.

Spanish rhyming phrases

Here are some fun expressions in Spanish that feature rhyming reduplication (kind of like “even Steven” or “easy peasy” in English).

Spanish future tense practice: reading about weekend plans

Here is a short text using the future tense. Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Why do 'ser' and 'ir' share the same past tense in Spanish?

Verbs ser and ir are, as we know, different verbs in Spanish. Here are both verbs conjugated in all six persons, in the present tense:

Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns, explained

Spanish object pronouns are, in the third person, different for accusative (direct object) cases and dative (indirect object) cases.

5 Spanish and Latin American popular music genres

Here is a list of five Spanish and Latin American popular music genres you should be familiar with:

Spanish vocabulary: Fitness-related terms

Here is a list of fitness-related terms. They might be useful if you decide to hit the gym while traveling around Spain or Latin America.

Understanding Spanish dialects: Key pronunciation differences explained

Here are three interesting Spanish dialectal variations: 1. Castilian voiceless dental fricative.

Spanish reflexive verbs for daily routines: from waking up to going to bed

Cuando era pequeño dormía mucho. Normalmente me levantaba a las ocho de la mañana y me acostaba a las diez de la noche.

How to say 'again' in Spanish: using 'volver a' + infinitive

Volver means the same as regresar: to return or to come back. Here are some examples:

How to say 'just' in Spanish: using 'acabar de' + infinitive

Acabar means the same thing as terminar: to finish or to end something. Here are some examples:

Summer vocabulary in Spanish

Here is a list of summer-related terms. If you go to the beach this summer, don't forget to take your Spanish textbook with you!

Juernes: A Spanish neologism

‘Juernes’ is a neologism (a newly coined word) used both in Spain and Latin America to refer to a Thursday that feels like a Friday. As you can probably guess, it’s built by combining the words ‘jueves’ and ‘viernes’

Spanish vocabulary: Tech and the internet

Here is a vocabulary list with some common tech/internet terms.

Is it "por la mañana", "en la mañana", or "de la mañana"?

Well, it depends. Here is how it works: When we talk about a general timeframe, without including a specific hour, we can use either por la mañana or en la mañana.

'La jura de Santa Gadea': 13th-century Spanish poem about El Cid (with vocabulary

Here is a 13th-century “cantar”, an oral poem that Castilian troubadours would recite in towns’ main squares and the like.

'Romance Sonámbulo' by Federico García Lorca: Spanish poem with vocabulary and explanation

Here is Federico García Lorca's Romance Sonámbulo, which was published in his collection Romancero Gitano in 1928.

4 essential dictionaries for Spanish language students

Gone are the days of bulky pocket dictionaries. The following websites offer powerful, modern, online dictionaries you can use at no charge:

Learning a foreign language will not prevent Alzheimer's, but it can delay its onset dramatically

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, a general term used to describe severe cognitive decline.

El agua está fría: Feminine nouns with masculine articles in Spanish

How would you translate “the water is cold”? It would be: El agua está fría.

Three ways to say "I'm heading out" in Spanish

Here are three verbs you can use to say you are leaving/you are heading out.