Office & work in Spanish: The only guide you'll need
Ready to take your Spanish skills to the workplace? Whether you're preparing for a job in a Spanish-speaking country, collaborating with Spanish-speaking colleagues, or simply want to expand your professional vocabulary, this guide has everything you need!
Spanish present perfect tense explained: Complete guide with practice
¿Alguna vez has estudiado el presente perfecto? (Have you ever studied the present perfect?) ¿Has estado en España? (Have you ever been to Spain?)
Math in Spanish: The only guide you’ll need
Matemáticas (or matemática), mates, math or mathematics… hated by some, loved by others. Do you like math?
Spanish subject pronouns explained: from tú to usted to vosotros
In the year 1660 George Fox, a leader of the Quaker movement, published a book with a short, catchy title: A Battle-Door for Teachers & Professors to Learn Singular & Plural;
Understanding 'ahora' in Spanish: when 'now' doesn't mean right now
The Spanish word ahora comes from agora, an archaic Spanish term which in turn comes from the Latin hac hora.
Spanish reflexive verbs: The only guide you'll ever need
Have you ever heard of reflexive verbs? Reflexive verbs are very common in Spanish and we use them daily, especially because many of them have to do with our daily routine, for example:
Spanish stem-changing verbs explained: Complete guide with practice
Have you ever wondered why some verbs in Spanish are spelled one way in the infinitive but then a vowel is added or changed once it is conjugated?
Banana in Spanish: Two fruits, many different terms
It is estimated that the average person in the United States consumes twenty-seven pounds of Musa acuminata each year, or ninety per person.
What’s the best way to learn Spanish as an adult? Should you take Spanish classes? 10 tips for adult learners
One reason is that languages were taught differently back then. Most modern second language learning methods are inductive—students practice producing sentences in a target language and eventually infer the underlying patterns.
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? Will you travel next year?
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.
Body parts in Spanish: The only guide you'll need
Learning Spanish body parts is not only about knowing the terms themselves, but also about learning what verbs are used and how to use them.
Best 10 podcasts to learn Spanish
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…
Is Spanish hard to learn?
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.
Spanish possessive adjectives
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.
Days of the week in Spanish
The days of the week in Spanish are: Lunes - Monday Martes - Tuesday Miércoles - Wednesday
Colors in Spanish: A comprehensive guide
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.
Spanish rhyming phrases
Here are some fun expressions in Spanish that feature rhyming reduplication (kind of like “even Steven” or “easy peasy” in English).
Spanish future tense practice: reading about weekend plans
Here is a short text using the future tense. Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Why do 'ser' and 'ir' share the same past tense in Spanish?
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 direct and indirect object pronouns, explained
Spanish object pronouns are, in the third person, different for accusative (direct object) cases and dative (indirect object) cases.
5 Spanish and Latin American popular music genres
Here is a list of five Spanish and Latin American popular music genres you should be familiar with:
Spanish vocabulary: Fitness-related terms
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.
Understanding Spanish dialects: Key pronunciation differences explained
Here are three interesting Spanish dialectal variations: 1. Castilian voiceless dental fricative.
Spanish reflexive verbs for daily routines: from waking up to going to bed
Cuando era pequeño dormía mucho. Normalmente me levantaba a las ocho de la mañana y me acostaba a las diez de la noche.
How to say 'again' in Spanish: using 'volver a' + infinitive
Volver means the same as regresar: to return or to come back. Here are some examples:
How to say 'just' in Spanish: using 'acabar de' + infinitive
Acabar means the same thing as terminar: to finish or to end something. Here are some examples:
Summer vocabulary in Spanish
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: A Spanish neologism
‘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’
Spanish vocabulary: Tech and the internet
Here is a vocabulary list with some common tech/internet terms.
Is it "por la mañana", "en la mañana", or "de la mañana"?
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.
'La jura de Santa Gadea': 13th-century Spanish poem about El Cid (with vocabulary
Here is a 13th-century “cantar”, an oral poem that Castilian troubadours would recite in towns’ main squares and the like.
How to sing Happy Birthday in Spanish
Get ready to party, Spanish style! When's your special day? Are you a fan of birthday festivities? Do you appreciate getting heartfelt birthday greetings?
'Romance Sonámbulo' by Federico García Lorca: Spanish poem with vocabulary and explanation
Here is Federico García Lorca's Romance Sonámbulo, which was published in his collection Romancero Gitano in 1928.
4 essential dictionaries for Spanish language students
Gone are the days of bulky pocket dictionaries. The following websites offer powerful, modern, online dictionaries you can use at no charge:
Learning a foreign language will not prevent Alzheimer's, but it can delay its onset dramatically
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, a general term used to describe severe cognitive decline.
What makes tacos so special, according to a Spanish language teacher from Mexico
Resting there, on a plate, humbly, it waits to be eaten in two or three bites and hear a voice to plead for another.
La noche: Spanish for night owls
Recent studies have shown that forcing people to follow an early morning schedule can have harmful consequences.