Dan Berges

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

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… ...

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. ...

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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’ 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’...

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is a Buzzfeed-style quiz: answer a few questions and we’ll tell you which Spanish-speaking country you should move to!...

Generalmente decimos que el verbo ir procede del latín, concretamente del verbo ire. Sin embargo, su conjugación en presente en nada se parece al infinitivo:...

These are the four tenses you need to master if you want to speak Spanish fluently:...

Here is Rosalía de Castro's poem Dicen que no hablan las plantas. Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885) was a Galician poet who wrote both in Galician and Spanish....

Here are two interesting verbs in Spanish: faltar and sobrar. They are opposites. We use faltar to say we are short of something (or we lack or don’t have something) and sobrar to say we have an excess of something....

As we are sure you have noticed, English and Spanish share the same alphabet (and so do many other languages in the world). How did that happen?...

The letter ñ is unique to Spanish. It represents a voiced palatal nasal sound that also exists in many other languages....

Here is a list of Fall-related terms in Spanish. You can use some of them when you go apple-picking with your friends :)...

If someone asked you these questions, would you be able to answer them?...

Here are Miguel Hernández’s Nanas de la cebolla. He wrote them while in jail, in post-war Spain. He received a letter from his wife explaining how she and their baby were having very difficult times. ...

Here's a classic vocab list. It may seem silly, but some of these words may turn out to be extremely helpful should the zombie apocalypse strike....

What’s the difference between ir and irse? Well, they are basically different verbs....

Unlike English, Spanish only has 5 vowel sounds, which always correspond with the 5 written vowels: /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ (A, E, I, O, U). ...

The meaning of these verbs is pretty straightforward: you probably already knew ver; prever is just ver with the prefix pre, which means "before" (it comes from Latin, and it’s all over the place in English)....

Today, someone asked me: ¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana? This was my response:...

In this article, we’ll be discussing five cases in which punctuation in English and Spanish slightly differ. Here they are:...

Here is a list of environmental terms in Spanish:...

Here's a quiz to test your ser & estar skills. If you need to review how ser and estar work, here are three articles....

Ser and estar are tricky for anglophones. Here's a simple way of looking at them, for beginners:...

Here's a quick review of how numbers 1-100 work in Spanish. From 1 to 15, you just have to memorize each one: uno, dos, tres, etc....

Here is a list of cooking-related terms, along with a recipe. (If you decide to make it, remember to a. wait until the red peppers are cool enough to peel and b. send us a picture!)...

Students often get confused with these three verbs, as they can all be translated as to leave. Before we analyze the different uses, let’s review their conjugation for the presente, pretérito perfecto, and pretérito imperfecto tenses:...

Watching movies is a great way to improve your listening skills and your accent. Here are five great horror movies in Spanish. ...

¿What’s the difference between traer and llevar? Traer means to bring something (or someone) “here,” while llevar means to carry, to “transport from point A to point B,” or “to bring something (or someone) to a place other than the place where the speaker is located.”...