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Practice using irregular Spanish comparatives with these English Spanish Parallel Texts. Read the Spanish version and do your best to understand before later checking the English translation.

In this second part of my blog dedicated to suffixes, we will check another four of the most recognizable particles shared by Spanish and English. It must be said that, at least in the case of one of them, there are obvious differences in the way they are used that make them worthy of careful…

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Practice comparing 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 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.