Archive for 'Spanish Grammar'
Spanish Lesson Advanced 33 El futuro y el condicional para expresar probabilidad Posted by Laura & Adam on May 15, 2012
Advanced level Spanish video lesson explaining how to use the Spanish future and conditional tenses to express probability. Hola ¿Cómo estáis? Hoy vamos a ver cómo expresar probabilidad con el tiempo futuro y el tiempo condicional. Como ya hemos visto, hay diferentes formas de expresar probabilidad. Por ejemplo, puedes usar expresiones como “Tal vez” o…
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 33 Spanish Superlatives Posted by Laura & Adam on May 8, 2012
In this Spanish video lesson we will look at Spanish Superlatives – “Superlativos”. A “Superlative” is the form of an adjective or adverb that indicates that the person, thing, or action referred to has the quality of the adjective or adverb to a degree greater than that of anything it is being compared to. There…
La apócope Posted by Adir on May 8, 2012
Three years ago I wrote about la apócope in Spanish and today I’m going to review some rules and give you more examples. La apócope is when the last word or syllable of a word is lost, due to phonetic reasons. In Spanish the following words are apocopadas (shortened): 1 – Some words that come…
Vocabulary differences in Latin American Spanish Posted by Adir on May 4, 2012
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? Latin American Spanish is a little different from the Spanish spoken in Spain and one of these differences happens in the verb coger. In Spain it means to take, to get, to fetch. In Latin American it is a very vulgar way to say “to have sex” (got my drift, right?). So…
How to use the verbs “haber” and “tener” Posted by Adir on May 3, 2012
The verbs haber and tener are used to express necessity or obligation. Haber – We use hay que to express necessity and we can replace it with es necesario (it’s necessary). Hay que estudiar mucho para aprender bien el español. [You need to study a lot to learn Spanish well.] Hay que cambiar la ventana…
Spanish Lesson Beginner 33 The modal verb Can in Spanish: El verbo Poder Posted by Laura & Adam on May 3, 2012
In this Spanish video lesson we are going to look at another very useful Spanish verb: El verbo “Poder”. Poder is the modal verb “Can” in Spanish. This is a Spanish verb that we use all the time in regular, everyday conversation and therefore merits attention and practice. We will learn how to conjugate “el…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 32 Cuándo no debemos usar el Pretérito Perfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on May 3, 2012
In this advanced level Spanish video lesson we will learn all about the Spanish version of the Present Perfect grammar tense: El Pretérito Perfecto. This is a tense that is tricky for Spanish students to use 100% correctly as it is often used quite differently to its English counterpart. In this lesson we will focus…