Dan Berges

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.”

Here is an interesting expression in Spanish: ¡Estás mezclando churras con merinas! (You are mixing churras and merinas!)

Here's a new vocab list. Not the most fun topic, but important, nevertheless. Here are some key tax-related terms in Spanish.

Here are some tips for pronouncing B and V in Spanish: Tip #1: They are pronounced the same way: [b], with the lips touching each other. That's it.

Here’s a list of TV-related terms. They can be useful should you decide to move to a Spanish-speaking country and binge-watch local TV/Netflix/Hulu/HBO Latino for a few months to improve your Spanish listening skills.

Here's a list of 10 very famous songs in Spanish (famous at the level of "I Will Survive", "Hotel California", or "Sweet Child O' Mine").

Here are some common and some less common greeting formulas in Spanish (there are so many!):