{"id":144678,"date":"2023-02-05T22:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/blogs-in-spanish\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T04:54:13","slug":"blogs-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/spanish\/blogs-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Spanish Blogs to Bookmark Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

You surely already have a few blogs you follow regularly for different reasons.\u00a0Well, why not turn your blog reading into real active Spanish learning?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spanish blogs give you access to great reading material because bloggers need to produce high-quality information to attract followers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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1. Vivir al Maximo<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>Spanish
\nCountry:<\/strong>\u00a0Spain
\nTopics:<\/strong> Travel, entrepreneurship, healthy living and eating, starting an online business<\/p>\n

Vivir al M\u00e1ximo\u00a0<\/em>(Living Life to the Fullest) is an excellent blog for travelers, adventurers and anyone interested in starting an online business. Its young author \u00c1ngel will give you a firsthand look at Castilian Spanish (Spanish from Spain) with its slang and common expressions woven into posts.<\/p>\n

In addition, this blog boasts an active and very respectful discussion board where many readers, including non-native Spanish-speaking readers, engage in discussion and share their opinions.<\/p>\n

\u00c1ngel is an avid traveler and often goes to the US, South America, Asia and many European countries to meet his readers in person and organize social events.<\/p>\n

Sign up on the home page<\/a> and start viviendo al m\u00e1ximo\u00a0<\/em>(living life fully)!<\/p>\n

2. Autorrealizarte<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>Spanish
\nCountry:<\/strong> Spain
\nTopics:<\/strong> Reinventing your professional career, online business, business success and resources<\/p>\n

Autorrealizarte\u00a0<\/em>(Self-Fulfillment\/Realization) follows the inspiring story of a corporate worker who turned his whole professional life around at the age of 35.<\/p>\n

This blog is full of great resources for getting an online business going, but if you’re not specifically interested in that, it also has information on time management, professionalism and habits of successful people.<\/p>\n

3. Positive Viajes<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>Spanish
\nCountry:<\/strong> Argentina
\nTopics:<\/strong> Budget travel, Generation Y, practical travel tips, positivity<\/p>\n

Positive Viajes <\/em>(Positive Travels) is a blog written by a young Argentinian who embarked on his first trip around the world as a teenager and continued to travel years later.<\/p>\n

This is a fantastic blog for exposing yourself to South American Spanish, Argentine Spanish specifically<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is another great blog for discussions and also for meeting up with Spanish-speaking readership in person, since the author, as the title suggests, travels a lot!<\/p>\n

4. Inteligencia Viajera<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>Spanish
\nCountry:<\/strong> Spain
\nTopics:<\/strong> Travel, architecture, blogging, philosophy<\/p>\n

Here’s another Spanish blog that gives you exposure to Castilian Spanish<\/a>. This inspiring young blogger left school and decided to travel alone. There’s as much talk about philosophy here as there is about traveling and blogging.<\/p>\n

Similar to Vivir al M\u00e1ximo,\u00a0<\/em>this blog has a live discussion board where many readers partake in active conversations.<\/p>\n

It has many guest bloggers on the front page, so this is a great resource for connecting with other blog writers and their readerships as well.<\/p>\n

5. Spanish Obsessed<\/a><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>English
\nCountry:<\/strong> Colombia
\nTopics:<\/strong> Learning Spanish, Colombian culture<\/a>, travel, history<\/p>\n

Spanish Obsessed<\/em> is a comprehensive Spanish learning website run by English native and fluent Spanish speaker Rob and his Colombian partner Liz.<\/p>\n

What’s really neat about their blog posts is that they are written in both languages. Rob writes in English and Liz in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Their posts explore many aspects of the language from basic, intermediate and advanced vocabulary and phrases to insightful articles about its structure and how best to go about learning the language.<\/p>\n

Rob\u2019s posts cover topics such as getting to grips with the subjunctive, memory tricks to help you learn, and a guide to ser<\/em> and estar<\/em> (Spanish language learners will know how tricky it is to master the two forms of the verb \u201cto be\u201d).<\/p>\n

Liz\u2019s posts are on anything and everything, such as vacations and following the peace process in Colombia.<\/p>\n

6. Notes in Spanish<\/a><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>English
\nCountry:<\/strong> Spain
\nTopics:<\/strong> Spanish vocabulary, food, travel, nature\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to all the great videos and audios, Notes in Spanish<\/em> also runs a blog for Spanish learners of all levels.<\/p>\n

This comprehensive website is run by a Madrid-based couple: Ben who\u2019s an Englishman and Marina Diez a native Spanish speaker.<\/p>\n

The posts are typically based on a single topic and include the key words and phrases you are likely to hear in conjunction with the post’s theme.<\/p>\n

Each post is well-constructed, informative and nicely presented. The blog also promotes the couple\u2019s excellent podcast and video series.<\/p>\n

7. Let\u2019s Go Spanish<\/a>\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>English
\nCountry:<\/strong> Guatemala
\nTopics: <\/strong>Spanish grammar, commonly confused verbs, Guatemalan slang<\/a>, everyday expressions<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Go Spanish<\/em> is a mixed bag of language learning goodies, a series of blog posts\/lessons that get under the skin of the Spanish tongue to provide an all-embracing immersion into its construction and how it is spoken.<\/p>\n

A lot of time and effort goes into providing thoughtful articles that highlight plenty of useful phrases and key vocabulary.<\/p>\n

The large photographs are a nice and occasionally whimsical touch that makes reading these blogs an even more pleasurable and valuable experience.<\/p>\n

8. Learn Spanish with Andrew<\/a><\/h2>\n

Written in: <\/strong>English
\nCountry:<\/strong> Spain
\nTopics:<\/strong> Self-studying Spanish, online resources, product reviews, travel<\/p>\n

This blog is run by Andrew Tracey who taught himself Spanish<\/a> via the internet.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s acting like your personal language learning detective who scours the far reaches of the web to find good and inexpensive means of learning Spanish.<\/p>\n

His posts talk about and point to videos, books, music, audio, TV shows and so on that are useful for all levels of Spanish language learners.<\/p>\n

Learn Spanish with Andrew<\/em> is a good starting point that will save the student hours of their own time. Within just a few minutes of reading Andrew\u2019s posts, you\u2019ll have a handful of links to great resources to continue your immersive journey into the language.<\/p>\n

Why Read Blogs in Spanish?<\/h2>\n

They\u00a0give you access to structured and straightforward Spanish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blog posts are purposely written in straightforward language, adhere to an organized structure and use simpler vocabulary.<\/p>\n

So no matter your level, you can read posts without getting as lost as you might in a newspaper article.<\/p>\n

To ease into it, you can start with blogs about learning Spanish since these usually feature a mix of Spanish and English.<\/p>\n

You can pick up different varieties of Spanish<\/strong><\/p>\n

With blogs, you get access to many writers from different countries\u2014and you can, little by little, start picking out the linguistic nuances specific to certain places<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s slang, other vocabulary or sentence structure, you can learn a lot by seeing region-specific Spanish<\/a> used consistently throughout a blogger’s posts.<\/p>\n

This point won’t be as obvious or beneficial for beginners, but for advanced learners, this is a great opportunity for you to refine your Spanish further.<\/p>\n

You can join a community of online Spanish speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blog discussion boards and comments sections are teeming with opinions, information and (hopefully) peaceful back-and-forths.<\/p>\n

If you’re a beginner, this is an excellent opportunity to read short tidbits of Spanish writing (just be aware that there may be incorrect grammar and spelling, of course).<\/p>\n

And if you’re a more advanced learner, why not join the conversation? This will get you into regular, accessible Spanish interaction, which helps your vocabulary and writing skills immensely.<\/p>\n

You can meet native speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joining a Spanish-speaking blog community is a great opportunity to\u00a0connect with native Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n

In addition, blog authors are often avid travelers and organize meetups and get-togethers with their readers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Some blogs even get so popular that local groups are created so readers can get together for social activities. This could be your way into a Spanish-speaking club based around your interests!<\/p>\n

You can get consistent reading practice<\/strong><\/p>\n

To succeed in language learning, it’s important to keep your learning consistent.<\/p>\n

Most good blogs publish at least one article weekly, so if you subscribe to the email list, you’ll have a new post in your inbox every week.<\/p>\n

This reminds you that you need to read, and if you pick a blog on a topic that interests you, you’ll want to read!<\/p>\n

You can learn vocabulary that’s relevant to you<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you love fashion<\/a>, get into a fashion blog and you’ll quickly notice how quickly you begin picking up words from posts and the website itself.<\/p>\n

This is great because you can then finally begin talking about things that really matter to you in Spanish.<\/p>\n

How to Turn Blog Reading into Active Spanish Learning<\/h2>\n