Archive for 'Spanish Grammar'
Intermediate Spanish Lesson 41 Useful Spanish phrases Posted by Laura & Adam on Oct 23, 2012
In this intermediate Spanish lesson we will take a look at some commonly used and very useful Spanish phrases. Some of these Spanish phrases are used to convince someone of something, some explain the reasons for something, some are used to say that someone has convinced you of something, others are used to say that…
Beginner Spanish Lesson 41 Comparing Pretérito Indefinido and Pretérito Perfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Oct 16, 2012
In this Beginner Spanish lesson we are going to compare various key words of the Pretérito Indefinido and Pretérito Perfecto Spanish grammar tenses and compare the uses of these tenses. Both these Spanish grammar tenses are used to talk about the past, but they are quite different. There are various key words specific to each…
Advanced Spanish Lesson 40 Acentuación de las palabras (Part 3) Posted by Laura & Adam on Oct 9, 2012
Third Advanced Spanish lesson in the series looking at how to classify Spanish words according to the location of accents. In this video we see how to use Spanish accents with words that have various vowels together, using diptongos, triptongos, and hiatos. Hoy vamos a hablar de cómo acentuar palabras con varias vocales juntas. A…
Intermediate Spanish Lesson 40 Describing how things taste or smell in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Oct 2, 2012
In this intermediate Spanish lesson we will look at how to describe how things taste or smell in Spanish. There are many ways to describe nice tastes or smells in Spanish, such as Huele fenomenal (It smells great) or Está muy bueno (It tastes very good) and there are also many ways to describe bad…
Beginner Spanish Lesson 40 The other Past Simple in Spanish – El Pretérito Imperfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 25, 2012
In Spanish there are two grammar tenses which are equivalent to the English Past Simple tense. In the previous beginner Spanish lesson we looked at one of the Spanish Past Simples – El Pretérito Indefinido – and today we are going to see El Pretérito Imperfecto. El Pretérito Imperfecto is used differently to El Pretérito…
Advanced Spanish Lesson 39 Acentuación de las palabras (Part 2) Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 18, 2012
Second Advanced Spanish lesson looking into how to classify Spanish words according to the location of their accent. ¡Hola a todos! En la última clase de nivel avanzado vimos las reglas básicas de acentuación en español. Hoy, vamos a ver una regla un poco más compleja, la tilde diacrítica. La tilde diacrítica se coloca sobre…
Intermediate Spanish Lesson 39: Phrases and structures to react to the actions of others Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 11, 2012
In this Intermediate Spanish lesson we will look at various useful Spanish phrases and structures to express how much you like or dislike the actions of others, such as Me encanta que + subjuntivo (I love …) and Odio que + subjuntivo (I hate …). These are the kinds of phrases in Spanish that we…