Archive for 'Spanish Grammar'

Practice using adjectives to describe transport in Spanish with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.

Practice using the verb To Go – El verbo Ir with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.

Another special kind of particles shared by English and Spanish are suffixes, used to build new words by being placed at the end of the stem of nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs. These affixes work in one of two ways: either by conferring gramatical information to that word with an inflectional suffix—like when adding…

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Practice discussing buying clothes in Spanish with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.

Welcome to part 3 of my blog dedicated to the most common prefixes in Spanish and English. This will be the last part dedicated to these affixes, as the next one will focus on the other type of particles that share traits in English and in Spanish: the suffixes. For now, let’s say goodbye to…

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¿A dónde va el tiempo? (Where does the time go?) It’s hard to believe that the year is almost finished. The old phrase “el tiempo vuela” (time flies) is appropriate as we prepare to ring in the New Year. Before we pop the champagne, we like to look back on the past year and see…

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Practice discussing clothing in Spanish with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.