Dan Berges

What do you think when you hear someone is bilingual? Do you picture that person speaking two languages in a “native” way, with no foreign accent?

If you ask your friends and family about it, you’ll find out a lot of people have very strong feelings about the Oxford comma, AKA the serial comma.

While sentence structure in Spanish is similar to English, for the most part, verb usage is super different, and mistakes typically occur there. Make sure you practice your verb conjugations often, and try to put the most thought into the verb part when you put sentences together.

We've found ourselves talking about millions, billions and trillions a lot lately. If we are going to talk about it in Spanish, we should remember that billions and trillions are not the same as billones and trillones.

On August 29, 2019, we conducted a survey in which we asked some of our current and former students the following question: Which skill do you find most challenging?

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).

Taking classes is not really necessary. We can learn most things by ourselves, right? Well, technically yes, but we often learn much faster if we have a. professional guidance, b. a well-thought-out curriculum that limits the amount of information we have to assimilate each week in packets we can easily digest and c. some external pressure that "forces" us to maintain a good pace.

Both verbs can be translated as to know, but they have different meanings.

Use ser for defining attributes of things or people (such as being tall, being big, being good-looking).

According to the legend of the Tower of Babel, the biblical structure could never be built as the architects, engineers and workers involved in its construction were unable to communicate with each other after humanity had been divided by languages and nations as a divine punishment meant to destroy its arrogance.

Articles are words that accompany nouns and give us information about their identifiability, or, in other words, whether the noun that it accompanies constitutes previously known information.

On September 20, 2018, we conducted a survey in which we asked some of our current and former students in NYC and Chicago the following question: Is English your first language?

"Oh, I'd really like to learn other languages, but"… The sentence after the 'but' doesn't really matter. A great percentage of native English speakers that wish to learn other languages never do because the process is too rigorous.

On June 29, 2018, we conducted a survey in which we asked some of our current and former students in NYC and Chicago the following question: What was the main reason behind your decision to learn and/or improve your Spanish?

Really, grammar is super important, and it’s fun; think of it as the logic behind the language. You probably enjoy watching videos and reading articles about how things work.