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How to improve your vocabulary in Spanish Posted by on Aug 20, 2012

Here’s a little info about me: I have been teaching English, Spanish and Portuguese for 20 years and one of the biggest difficulties students have shown is lack of vocabulary. Now what to do? Well, making very long lists won’t help you. So here are some tips. 1. Contextualize! When you come across a new…

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Jarabo, the last Spanish condemned man Posted by on Aug 20, 2012

Hace algunos días falleció un gran actor español, Sancho Gracia. Su voz y su imagen están asociadas a mi niñez, ya que de pequeña no solía perderme ni uno solo de los capítulos de la serie que lo encumbró a la fama: Curro Jiménez. Serie que curiosamente estoy viendo estos días. Hablando con un amigo…

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Informal adjectives in Spanish Posted by on Aug 17, 2012

Hello, there! Here’s the answer to Monday’s vocabulary exercise.   ADJETIVO SUSTANTIVO ADJETIVO SUSTANTIVO vanidoso vanidad ancho anchura amoroso amor intolerante intolerancia inteligente inteligencia duro dureza educado educación rápido rapidez oscuro oscuridad dulce dulzura lento lentitud sonoro sonoridad blanco blancura egoísta egoísmo alto altura amigo amistad débil debilidad rico riqueza malo maldad pobre pobreza bueno…

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Beginner Spanish Lesson 38 Spanish verbs of movement with prepositions Posted by on Aug 14, 2012

In this Beginner Spanish lesson we are going to learn some important Spanish verbs of movement and the Spanish prepositions which accompany them, such as Ir + a, Llegar + de and Venir + a. Spanish verbs of movement are Spanish verbs that describe movement such as el verbo Ir which means To go in…

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Vocabulary review exercise: adjectives and nouns Posted by on Aug 13, 2012

¡Hola! I wrote a workbook to accompany our live Spanish classes and a very popular exercise is the word formation exercise with adjectives and nouns en español. I like it so much that I decided to share it with you, my dear reader of the Spanish blog. Why don’t you try doing the exercise and…

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Expressions: ¡Más te vale! ¡Que te conste! Posted by on Aug 10, 2012

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? Today is Friday and let’s learn two very useful expressions in spoken Spanish: ¡Más te vale! and ¡Que te conste! ¡Más te vale! means something like “You’d better do that!”, like in a threat. Here are some examples: A: Pedrito, ¡ve a arreglar tu habitación! [Pedrito, go clean up your room!] B…

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Our last goodbye to Chavela Vargas Posted by on Aug 9, 2012

Nuestro panorama cultural está perdiendo figuras muy importantes estos días. Posiblemente todos vosotros sepáis que la cantante Chavela Vargas, de 95 años, murió hace tres días. Mujer de gran personalidad y una voz muy particular, fue musa de escritores, cantantes y directores de cine tales como Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Joaquin Sabina, o Pedro Almodovar. Aunque…

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