Don’t Just Study Abroad: Live Abroad in Spain with These Culture and Language Tips Looking forward to jamón ibérico, scorching beaches or meandering chats after class over tapas and vino (snacks and wine)?…
All Aboard! Important Vocabulary for Spanish Train Travel I’ve always found train travel to be a delight. Whether I’m rolling along the Costa Brava on a small cercanías…
No Need to Shout: All About Negative Commands in Spanish Do you feel bossy today? Do you feel like telling someone what to do? Or—better yet—what not to do? I …
Here’s Looking at Yo: All About Spanish Verbs with Irregular Yo Forms Love talking about number one? There’s one little quirk of Spanish that might get in your narcissistic way—those pesky …
Spanish IR Verbs: Your First Guide to Conjugating and Using Them in Sentences Spanish verbs have three possible endings: –ar, –er and –ir. Here we’ll shine our spotlight …
How to Tame the Crashing Waves of Spanish’s E-to-I Stem-changing Verbs The waves of incomprehensible muck are coming at you, lapping at your ankles, picking up— Hold up. That’s no way …
Bachata + Spanish: The Best Songs for Winning Some Ravishing Lingual Skills with the D.R.’s Sultry Dance Dancing is like flirting or joking: If you know how to do it well, you can charm people into …
The Beginner’s Guide to Spanish Possessive Adjectives An anarchist communist friend in Spain tells me that someday we’ll all live together joyously without any concept of private …
How to Use Spanish Demonstratives to Talk About This, That, These and Those At some point in your travels to Spain or Latin America, you’re going to be reduced to pointing to …
How to Form the Spanish Present Progressive in 3 Steps What are you doing right now? What’s happening around you? To answer these questions in Spanish, you’re going to …
19 Gestures for Talking Spanish with Your Hands Sure, maybe you’ve got some Spanish coming out of your mouth. But what are your hands doing? Are they still …
Master the Near Future with the Spanish Form “ir + a + Infinitive” Ready to travel through space and time? The Spanish verb ir (to go) can be used for talking about moving …
Spanish Infinitive Verbs: 5 Usual Uses of Spanish’s Most Vanilla Verb Form Using Spanish infinitives is like opting for basic vanilla instead of triple chocolate. It’s like dancing bachata without spins, or …
9 Spanish Verb and Preposition Combinations That Are Infamously Tricky for Learners Prepositions can seem like tiny nuisances, but one false step with your prepositions and your Spanish gets very silly sounding…
The 27 Letters of the Spanish Alphabet and How to Learn Them I guarantee you won’t break a sweat while learning the Spanish alphabet. If you’re reading this, that means you have …
“I Want to Learn Spanish!” The Starter Guide for Personally Motivated Learning Absolutely anyone can learn Spanish. If you really want to, you can do it. All you need to do is …
No English Allowed: 8 Native Dictionaries in Spanish and Spanish Only Your Spanish-English dictionary is doing you the disservice of taking you out of “Spanish mode.” If you’re an advanced Spanish …
The Most Diverse List of Greetings and Goodbyes: 40 Phrases in Spanish for All Situations It’s fabulous that you know hola (hello) and adiós (goodbye) but those are really only going to get you so …
Bring It On, Bolivia: 53 Essential Bolivian Spanish and Quechua Phrases Bolivia is not the first destination people tend to fantasize about visiting in Latin America. Not when they could …
Have You Met “Haber”? The Many Conjugations and Uses of the Impersonal Verb How would you shout “Hey, there are whales over there!” in Spanish? Well, I’ll tell you—this is the total guide …
Check My Spanish! The 5 Best Spanish Grammar Checkers Online Automated grammar checkers are obviously not ever going to replace the advice and corrections of a native speaker. But …
From Coffee to Shots: How to Order Drinks in Spanish Like a Local In my first week of high school Spanish, I carefully memorized this sentence: Yo quisiera un refresco, por favor.…
Paella, Tortilla, Gazpacho and More: The Common Foods in Spain You Oughta Know How do I boil an octopus? One of the major and under-appreciated joys of learning a language is that you’ll …
32 Spanish Dance Terms You Ought to Tango With Tango addict? Just getting into tango or other Latin dances? Perhaps you are still skeptical—or doubting your ability to learn …
20 Peruvian Slang Words That’ll Have You Living the Good Life in Lima Think you can live it up right in Lima or Cuzco with just the Spanish you learned in high school?…
10 Unique Resources to Learn Latin American Spanish, Plus 6 Handy Tips for Mastery! Spanish is one of the most regionally varied languages out there. Even if you know you don’t want to go …
6 Pithy Quotes About Life from Great Spanish-language Writers One of the great pleasures of taking on a new language is discovering its top writers. Revered Spanish-language literature is …
Tú vs. Usted: Navigating the Vexing Distinctions of Formality in Spanish If you hail from a language without formal and informal forms of you (like modern English), you’re probably perturbed …
The Latin American Spanish Starter Guide: 50+ Phrases for Getting Around “Don’t sit down to dinner without popping in your dentures,” says my granny. “Don’t try to pound in a nail …
Go Native: 12 Topical Spanish Podcasts That Native Speakers Are Listening to Now This post goes out to my fellow Spanish learners who are looking for more than language. Especially to those of …
Flirting in Spanish: 50+ Words and Phrases for Charming the Pants Off Your Sweetheart On my first university study trip to a Spanish-speaking land, one of my American peers let slip that her …
The Yearning Learner’s Guide to Spanish Imperfect Subjunctive To delve into the past, you’ll eventually need to slip some imperfect subjunctive (a.k.a. the past subjunctive, el imperfecto …
5 Swingin’ Songs to Learn Spanish (and Salsa!) on the Dance Floor What could be better than a sweat-drenched night of twirling and shaking to the driving beat of salsa’s clave?…
Where to Find the Best Spanish Tutors Online (Updated for 2022) Thanks to the internet nowadays, you can easily find and connect with a Spanish tutor online. And they can …
51 Lively Cuban Slang Phrases: Fish, Mangos, Camels, Papayas and More Maybe you’re one of the 2.5 million tourists descending on Cuba each year for the year-round warm beaches, ropa vieja …
24 Chill Informal Spanish Phrases from Spain to Whip Out at the Bar Informal Spanish vocabulary will help you sound like a native speaker—or at least a culturally aware, advanced-level speaker. Here’s my …
20 Animal Sounds in Spanish: Can You Bray, Squawk and Meow en Español? Sure, you think you can quack like a duck. But can you quack in the language of Cervantes? This post …
