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Spanish lessons and posts focused on different life situations, like restaurants, making plans, giving directions, etc. If you plan on spending your holidays in Spain, this tag will get you ready.

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Prepositions in Spanish - Practice (describe where things are)
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Prepositions in Spanish - Practice (describe where things are)

Prepositions are used to describe where things are. These can be objects, people or places when we're giving directions. On the picture below you can see the most common prepositions: Let's describe the room using prepositions. You have »

  • 07 February 2017
  • on Situations, vocab, Practice
Expressions to sound more natural in Spanish
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Expressions to sound more natural in Spanish

Hello! We all want to sound authentic when talking in a different language, and use the informal expressions like natives do. Obviously, there's loads of them! So probably there'll be more posts about it. But for now, these »

  • 29 December 2016
  • on vocab, Situations, Advices
Talking about meals in Spanish
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Talking about meals in Spanish

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  • 19 December 2016
  • on Infographic, Situations, vocab, Cultural
Expressions to complain ( using subjunctive).
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Expressions to complain ( using subjunctive).

Expressions are a great thing, because they allow us to be more emphatic and vocal with our opinions and feelings. This is important because that's what you want your second language to do, express who you are. So, »

  • 03 October 2016
  • on Situations, Tenses, Cultural, Verbs
Describing yourself and others II. Personality.
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Describing yourself and others II. Personality.

¡Hola! A couple of weeks ago we learnt to describe people physically on this post and today we're going to learn how to describe personalities! Just like in the other post, the only difference describing yourself or other »

  • 29 August 2016
  • on Situations, vocab, listsandgrids
Describing yourself and others I. Appearance.
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Describing yourself and others I. Appearance.

¡Hola! Let's learn to describe yourself and other people. This is an essential in Spanish for beginners. This is all the vocab you need to describe yourself (general stuff, face features and basic style). To describe other people »

  • 13 August 2016
  • on Situations, Practice, vocab
Summery and delicious video task for all levels.
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Summery and delicious video task for all levels.

This task is based on the short film filmed by Alberto Rodríguez for the beer brand Estrella Damm this year. The brand is famous for their Summer commercials. They're full of food, beautiful places and a lot of »

  • 05 August 2016
  • on Practice, Cultural, Grammar, Situations, Video-task
How to give directions in Spanish
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How to give directions in Spanish

¡Hola! Sometimes we need some help with finding that great place we saw in Trip Advisor, or we have the chance to be nice to somebody and give some directions. If you are a beginner or an intermediate »

  • 28 July 2016
  • on Situations, Practice, Grammar, Verbs, Cultural, Tenses
Organising your text  and expose arguments in Spanish
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Organising your text and expose arguments in Spanish

As you know, organization is very important when you want to make a point, or explain something, specially if it's a speech or an essay of any length. We want to convince and we want our ideas to »

  • 11 July 2016
  • on listsandgrids, Tips, Grammar, Situations, Verbs
How to recommend or give advice in Spanish.
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How to recommend or give advice in Spanish.

We've learnt how to give our opinion in Spanish but let's go a little further. You may be in the situation of wanting to give advice or recommend something to someone, maybe a place in your city, maybe »

  • 05 July 2016
  • on Grammar, listsandgrids, Situations, Verbs
Essential Spanish notions for this Summer. Understand us a little bit better.
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Essential Spanish notions for this Summer. Understand us a little bit better.

Everytime I'm in Spain I notice the same differences in the "atmosphere" when I compare it with the UK. My fight arrived a day ago so I thought I would share what I think you must know when »

  • 10 June 2016
  • on Cultural, Advices, Situations
How to express your opinion in Spanish
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How to express your opinion in Spanish

We all want to give our opinion, no matter in what language! It's an essential part of the Spanish for beginners curriculum. Let's see the expressions that you need to give all type of opinions in Spanish. But »

  • 05 June 2016
  • on listsandgrids, Situations, Grammar, Verbs
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