Learn Spanish Online
It's 2016 For real. The Internet has been going on for a while, our connections are usually fast enough to stream video and audio and to power new ways of learning stuff. Unfortunately, learning a new language is »
Useful expressions in Spanish. A must-have for travelers
Whether you want to be always ready or impress your friends on holidays, these are essential phrases you'll thank me for: Encantado / Encantada - Nice to meet you. Use the one ending in -o if you are a »
Common expressions with "hacer".
It's true that there're a lot of expressions with "hacer" and not in all of them the word keeps its original meaning, which is "to make" or "to do" (remember we don't distinguish between those two). So I »
What's "usted" and "ustedes"? The polite form in Spanish.
In the Spanish language we have the option to talk to someone in a polite way. This is used at restaurants and other similar situations. Usted is the formal version of tú (you, 1 person), and ustedes is »
How to speak Spanish in the restaurant and do it politely.
¡Hola! So you already know the basics to interact with the locals when you go on holidays or when you meet someone from Spain or Latin America outside their frontiers (we are everywhere), but you want to be »
Spanish tortilla recipe
Well, I can’t deny it, this is one of my favourite meals. I have it EVERY SINGLE WEEK (I will leave a picture below so you can evaluate my cooking abilities, be kind!). A recipe is a »
Learn the Spanish imperative!
The imperative is the tense we use to order or encourage someone to do something, for example when giving directions or explaining a task. Some examples in English would be: (Hey, you!) Learn Spanish now! Let’s learn »
What is the difference between “mas” and “más”? And “él” and “el”?
If you are familiar with the basic rules for accentuation you know what a tilde is. If you don’t know, a “tilde” is the visual representation of the accent, found always on top of a vowel. Every »
¿Why two question marks?
You might have noticed that in Spanish we don’t have just one question mark, but two. We use an inverted question mark at the beginning of the sentence, and the same happens with the exclamation mark. ¡Wow, »
Por & para - When to use each.
I understand why sometimes my students say that Spanish is full of tiny little words, just like “por” and “para”. Understanding the use of them take some patience, yes, but we couldn’t live without them! So let’ »
Should I join a language exchange?
Language exchanges are available in almost all big cities and they’re very popular. There’s no doubt why. They bring together a lot of different people with the same aim which is to learn a new language. »
“G”: One letter, two sounds.
If you read the previous post you know why the “c” is pronounced in two different way The “g” follows the exact same pattern. Let me refresh it for you. It all depends on which vowels are next. »