How to order food in Spanish like a pro

Learning in a classroom setting can at times be reminiscent of walking or running on a treadmill....


The Spanish future tense: Everything you need to know

What are you doing this weekend? Are you going to stay home? Are you going to go out with friends?...


The Spanish subjunctive: A comprehensive cheat sheet

The subjunctive can be a bit puzzling, right? It's not your typical tense; it’s more like a mood....

Spanish possessive adjectives

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. In red house, red is the adjective,...


Why do verbs ser and ir have identical conjugations in the preterite?

Verbs ser and ir are, as we know, different verbs in Spanish. Here are both verbs...


Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns, explained

The problemSpanish object pronouns are, in the third person, different for accusative (direct...


Volver a: Here's how it works

Volver means the same as regresar: to return or to come...


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. First of all, we...

El verbo ir y sus formas irregulares

Generalmente decimos que el verbo ir procede del ...

The "Big Four" Spanish tenses

These are the four tenses...

How to use mucho and poco with nouns

As we move through our shared times, those of us born a few decades ago try to share our cultural...

Spanish for beginners: Personal pronouns, ser & estar

Here are four videos. In the first one, Vanessa teaches her new student Jason all the pronouns, and...

Spanish past tenses (pretérito perfecto and pretérito imperfecto) in use

Este artículo puede ayudar a los estudiantes de ...

Antes VS después VS durante

Here are some considerations about using antes, después, and durante: Antes...

Ser & estar in depth

Beginner Spanish students are often told that ser is for permanent things and estar is...

We could have told you - Verb haber in Spanish

Most Spanish students are very familiar with the verb ‘haber’ in its present impersonal form ‘hay’,...

A tense of wonder: The Spanish future tense

No matter how conscientiously we plan our day, our week, our life, the only certain thing about the...

Las perífrasis verbales

La perífrasis verbal es una ...

The grammatical cases

Here are the most important grammatical cases, explained. Vocative -...

The shocking truth about double pronouns

This week we just wanted to post a quick reminder of how double pronouns work in Spanish. (There’s...

Different uses of the pronoun “se” in Spanish

You have probably seen the Spanish pronoun “se” everywhere and wondered what it is doing there....

Double pronouns in Spanish

We’ll explain it to you. Te lo vamos a explicar. Here’s how double...

Indirect speech in Spanish

We talk about the things we do, Vivo en Queens, and the things we want to do, Quiero...

Two-verb constructions (in depth)

Two-verb constructions are very common among languages and this term refers to phrases in which two...

The second person

Do you have a minute? I want to share a piece with you about the second person. If I were to...

The "personal A"

The “personal a” is sure one of those areas most students of Spanish struggle with. It is not...

Articles in Spanish

Articles are words that accompany nouns and give us information about their identifiability, or, in...