Make sure you always have a Spanish language class on your calendar every week. Having to put yourself in front of the instructor and classmates will make you accountable for your learning progress.

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.

Learning a new language is definitely a challenge, and it can sometimes be very frustrating because languages cannot always be translated literally.

Learning a language is an endless process. We never stop learning even in our native language. Your progress can only be proportional to the time spent, your drive, your need for it, the use of it and even just your curiosity and desire to understand every aspect of it.

We talk about the things we do, Vivo en Queens, and the things we want to do, Quiero vivir en una mansión frente a Central Park.

October of 2000 was a memorable month for New York City baseball fans. The Yankees and the Mets squared off at the World Series and the ambiance in a pre-September 11 city couldn’t be more festive.

Throughout my years of teaching Spanish, I have often been approached with the question “When do I use ‘¿Qué?’ and when ‘¿Cuál?’ ?”. I would like to bring some light to those that are still struggling with this dilemma.

One of the first things the student of Spanish learns is that all nouns have a gender, and that this is either masculine or feminine.

Two-verb constructions are very common among languages and this term refers to phrases in which two verbs are connected to each other to express additional information about any particular action.

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?

There are four main indicators through which we judge our understanding of a language in the most general of terms: Listening, reading, speaking and writing.

As a Spanish instructor, one of the questions my students more frequently ask is how long it takes to become fluent.

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.

Do you have a minute? I want to share a piece with you about the second person. If I were to translate the same question I just asked into Spanish, I would have more than one way of doing so.

The “personal a” is sure one of those areas most students of Spanish struggle with. It is not that the concept itself is difficult to understand.

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).

Reaching a high level of proficiency in a new language requires the acquisition of thousands of words as well as learning the mechanics of how these words combine in a system through which communication is possible.

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.

Have you ever wondered why Mexico is written in Spanish as “México” but we still say “Méjico” (mé-hee-ko)? We would like to invite you on a journey through time and discover the origins of one of the most mispronounced letters of Spanish.

Apart from class, other environments you frequent may lack stimulants or triggers to keep learning Spanish alive. While at home, work or online, you can enhance your environment to complement your Spanish studying by increasing your vocabulary and knowledge of idioms and meanings.