These are the four tenses you need to master if you want to speak Spanish fluently:

Here is Rosalía de Castro's poem Dicen que no hablan las plantas. Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885) was a Galician poet who wrote both in Galician and Spanish.

Here are two interesting verbs in Spanish: faltar and sobrar. They are opposites. We use faltar to say we are short of something (or we lack or don’t have something) and sobrar to say we have an excess of something.

As we are sure you have noticed, English and Spanish share the same alphabet (and so do many other languages in the world). How did that happen?

The letter ñ is unique to Spanish. It represents a voiced palatal nasal sound that also exists in many other languages.

As we move through our shared times, those of us born a few decades ago try to share our cultural references with the younger ones among us.

Here is a list of Fall-related terms in Spanish. You can use some of them when you go apple-picking with your friends :)

If someone asked you these questions, would you be able to answer them?

Here are Miguel Hernández’s Nanas de la cebolla. He wrote them while in jail, in post-war Spain. He received a letter from his wife explaining how she and their baby were having very difficult times.

Here's a classic vocab list. It may seem silly, but some of these words may turn out to be extremely helpful should the zombie apocalypse strike.

What’s the difference between ir and irse? Well, they are basically different verbs.

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).

The meaning of these verbs is pretty straightforward: you probably already knew ver; prever is just ver with the prefix pre, which means "before" (it comes from Latin, and it’s all over the place in English).

Today, someone asked me: ¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana? This was my response:

In this article, we’ll be discussing five cases in which punctuation in English and Spanish slightly differ. Here they are:

Mis hijas son campeonas de taekwondo. Las tres tienen cinturones negros avanzados y van a competir para representar a Estados Unidos en las olimpiadas.

Here is a list of environmental terms in Spanish:

Here's a quiz to test your ser & estar skills. If you need to review how ser and estar work, here are three articles.

Ser and estar are tricky for anglophones. Here's a simple way of looking at them, for beginners:

At our core we are social beings. The narrative of our life is built pretty much through meeting people and establishing and maintaining relationships. In English we use basically two verbs to talk about this process: meet and know.

Here's a quick review of how numbers 1-100 work in Spanish. From 1 to 15, you just have to memorize each one: uno, dos, tres, etc.

La creciente popularidad del mezcal en los últimos años ha despertado la curiosidad de muchos sobre su origen, su proceso de producción y, sobre todo, sus diferencias con la bebida mexicana de mayor reconocimiento internacional, el tequila.

En YouTube hay un video que suma, mal contadas, 35 millones de impresiones. Son menos de cinco minutos en que no hay suspenso ni desenlace.

Here is a list of cooking-related terms, along with a recipe. (If you decide to make it, remember to a. wait until the red peppers are cool enough to peel and b. send us a picture!)

Students often get confused with these three verbs, as they can all be translated as to leave. Before we analyze the different uses, let’s review their conjugation for the presente, pretérito perfecto, and pretérito imperfecto tenses:

Watching movies is a great way to improve your listening skills and your accent. Here are five great horror movies in Spanish.

¿What’s the difference between traer and llevar? Traer means to bring something (or someone) “here,” while llevar means to carry, to “transport from point A to point B,” or “to bring something (or someone) to a place other than the place where the speaker is located.”

Here is an interesting expression in Spanish: ¡Estás mezclando churras con merinas! (You are mixing churras and merinas!)

Here's a new vocab list. Not the most fun topic, but important, nevertheless. Here are some key tax-related terms in Spanish.

Here are some tips for pronouncing B and V in Spanish: Tip #1: They are pronounced the same way: [b], with the lips touching each other. That's it.