The future perfect tense in Spanish (futuro perfecto or futuro compuesto) is an essential verb tense that allows you to express actions that will be completed before a specific point in the future, or to speculate about past events.

The Spanish verb gustar follows a different grammatical pattern than its English equivalent "to like." Understanding how indirect objects work with prepositions clarifies not only gustar, but an entire category of similar verbs.

The history of the Spanish language is inseparable from the bloody history of the land now known as Spain — and Spain’s colonization of the Americas.

If you've scrolled through social media lately, you've probably seen ads promising fluency through AI-powered conversation practice.

The process of learning Spanish is mentally stimulating, but it can feel wildly inefficient—especially if you compare the painstaking process of committing new verb forms to memory with learning a language as a child.

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!

Every Tuesday I go to the supermarket. For real. Todos los martes voy al supermercado.

Ready to upgrade your Spanish skills with a bit of style? Whether you’re traveling to a Spanish–speaking country, shopping in a local store, or even chatting with Spanish–speaking friends, knowing the names of clothing items is super helpful!

Spanish accent marks, known as tildes in Spanish, are small diagonal lines that are written above vowels to indicate how a word should be pronounced (á, é, í, ó, ú).

The greeting ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? is one of the most common questions in any language, but in Spanish, there are many ways to ask how someone is doing, whether you're speaking to a friend or your boss.

Learning in a classroom setting can at times be reminiscent of walking or running on a treadmill. It’s good for building up your endurance, or skills in the case of the classroom setting, but it lacks the satisfaction of direct results.

Our language offers various ways to discuss past events, depending on the context, timing, and frequency. As the name indicates, the past perfect, pluperfect, or pluscuamperfecto is a past tense;

Are you familiar with how to discuss measurements in Spanish? Countless things in the world can be measured, spanning various categories such as physical quantities, time, information, and more.

Writing dates in Spanish is very similar to English: We need the number of the day, month, and year.

¿Qué tiempo hace? (What’s the weather like?) ¿Hace frío donde vives? (Is it cold where you live?) Do you know how to answer these questions?

¿Alguna vez has estudiado el presente perfecto? (Have you ever studied the present perfect?) ¿Has estado en España? (Have you ever been to Spain?)

Matemáticas (or matemática), mates, math or mathematics… hated by some, loved by others. Do you like math?

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;

The Spanish word ahora comes from agora, an archaic Spanish term which in turn comes from the Latin hac hora.

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:

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?

There are many ways to express past actions in Spanish. Sometimes those events or activities we are referring to are completed, some still have an effect or result in the present, sometimes an action or event was in progress or ongoing in the past, or perhaps we are referring to an activity that was habitual or repeated.

What are prepositions? As the name indicates, prepositions are words that precede or appear before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase.

Desgracia, suceso que produce dolor o pena. As you may glean from the cognates in this definition, desgracia means disgrace, an event causing pain or shame.

It is estimated that the average person in the United States consumes twenty-seven pounds of Musa acuminata each year, or ninety per person.

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.

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

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.

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…