Archive for 'Spanish Grammar'
Perífrasis: dejar de Posted by Adir on Aug 22, 2011
The periphrasis dejar de has several uses in Spanish. The first use shows the end of an action or habit. Dejé de fumar el año pasado. I stopped smoking last year. He dejado de asistir a clase por falta de tiempo. I stopped going to class for lack of time / because I didn’t have…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 20 Palabras que comienzan con ‘a’ tónica Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 17, 2011
In this advanced level Spanish lesson we will look at sustantivos starting with “a” tónica, for example: el agua, el hacha, el águila, el aula, el alma, el arma, el área, el hambre… You might think that these words are masculine, but curiously this is not the case. They are feminine words. This video lesson…
Learning tip: Revisiting! Posted by Adir on Aug 15, 2011
Hey, how’s it going? There’s a saying in Portuguese: a river doesn’t go through the same place twice, meaning if you go to the same place more than once the water won’t be the same, obviously. The same happens with learning. You may have enrolled in language courses once or twice and then when the…
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 20 Spanish verb tense “El Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo” Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 10, 2011
¡Hola a todos! Today we are going to see a new Spanish verb tense:“El Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo”. We will start by analysing its form and then afterwards we will see in which situations the “Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo” is used. -AR verbs: • (Yo) hablara/hablase: I spoke • (Tú) hablaras/hablases: You spoke (friendly) •…
Spanish Lesson Beginner 20 To need, to want, to prefer Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 3, 2011
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis? I hope very much that you are enjoying my Spanish video lessons and are starting to feel more confident with your Spanish. We are now up to lesson 20 in the beginner course and you have learned a great deal of the basics. Today we will look at three new, very useful…
Adverbial expressions Posted by Adir on Jul 25, 2011
OK, so you already know that you form adverbs by adding the -mente ending to adjectives, but did you know that there are several expressions that serve as adverbs and don’t end in -mente? Let’s check out some of them. Nos sirvió a galope. He served us very fast. Los visita a menudo. He often…
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 19 Spanish expressions of agreement and disagreement Posted by Laura & Adam on Jul 20, 2011
¡Hola a todos! Hoy vamos a ver cómo expresar acuerdo o desacuerdo en español. Today we are going to see how to express agreement or disagreement in Spanish. Algunas de estas expresiones son expresiones coloquiales. Creo que en los cursos intermedios es muy importante saber más sobre cómo habla la gente en la calle…