Archive for 'Spanish Grammar'
English Spanish Parallel Texts – Buying food in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 14, 2021
Practice buying food in Spanish with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.
English Spanish Parallel Texts – Telling time in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 7, 2021
Practice telling time in Spanish with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.
English Spanish Parallel Texts – Using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense (Part 3) Posted by Laura & Adam on Nov 30, 2021
Practice more with using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.
Prefixes: Where Spanish and English Go Hand in Hand (Part 2) Posted by Anais on Nov 29, 2021
Welcome to part 2 of my blog dedicated to the common prefixes in Spanish and English. It is worth recalling one important fact about prefix spelling in la lengua de Cervantes. Each and every prefix must always be written directly attached to the word they are modifying, with only two major exceptions: If the modified…
Prefixes: Where Spanish and English Go Hand in Hand (Part 1) Posted by Anais on Nov 26, 2021
If there is an aspect where Spanish and English truly match, it is the fact that both languages make extensive use of affixes to change the meaning of established words in a logical way. Specifically in the case of prefixes, the long-standing influence of Latin and Greek has left a notable mark in our modern…
English Spanish Parallel Texts – Using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense (Part 2) Posted by Laura & Adam on Nov 23, 2021
Practice more with using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.
Spanish Power Verbs – Tener Posted by sasha on Nov 17, 2021
Learning so-called “power verbs” is a great way to improve your fluency in Spanish. We’ve had a few posts about Spanish power verbs over the years. Here are links in case you missed any of the previous posts: necesitar, querer, gustar, poder, and ir. In this post, we’ll take a look at yet another power…