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.

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.

The days of the week in Spanish are: Lunes - Monday Martes - Tuesday Miércoles - Wednesday

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.

Here are some fun expressions in Spanish that feature rhyming reduplication (kind of like “even Steven” or “easy peasy” in English).

Here is a short text using the future tense. Level: Intermediate/Advanced

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 object pronouns are, in the third person, different for accusative (direct object) cases and dative (indirect object) cases.

Here is a list of five Spanish and Latin American popular music genres you should be familiar with:

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.

Here are three interesting Spanish dialectal variations: 1. Castilian voiceless dental fricative.

Cuando era pequeño dormía mucho. Normalmente me levantaba a las ocho de la mañana y me acostaba a las diez de la noche.

Volver means the same as regresar: to return or to come back. Here are some examples:

Acabar means the same thing as terminar: to finish or to end something. Here are some examples:

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’ 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’

Here is a vocabulary list with some common tech/internet terms.

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.

Here is a 13th-century “cantar”, an oral poem that Castilian troubadours would recite in towns’ main squares and the like.

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?

Here is Federico García Lorca's Romance Sonámbulo, which was published in his collection Romancero Gitano in 1928.

Gone are the days of bulky pocket dictionaries. The following websites offer powerful, modern, online dictionaries you can use at no charge:

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, a general term used to describe severe cognitive decline.

Resting there, on a plate, humbly, it waits to be eaten in two or three bites and hear a voice to plead for another.

Recent studies have shown that forcing people to follow an early morning schedule can have harmful consequences.

We all love animals, don’t we? I am sure you have a furry pet at home, or if not you may know someone who has a dog, a cat, or perhaps a hamster.

How would you translate “the water is cold”? It would be: El agua está fría.

Here are three verbs you can use to say you are leaving/you are heading out.

Here is a Buzzfeed-style quiz: answer a few questions and we’ll tell you which Spanish-speaking country you should move to!

Generalmente decimos que el verbo ir procede del latín, concretamente del verbo ire. Sin embargo, su conjugación en presente en nada se parece al infinitivo: