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Let it snow… February and snow in Spanish sayings. Posted by Magda on Feb 28, 2013
Hoy es el último día de febrero, y tenemos fiesta en Andalucía. Por suerte, ya que ha estado nevando en muchas ciudades del sur de España a lo largo del día, y hemos podido disfrutarlo a tope. Aunque tenemos Sierra Nevada muy cerca, no estamos acostumbrados a tener nieve en la ciudad, y ha sido…
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 15 Telling the time in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Feb 26, 2013
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis? Today in this Spanish review lesson we will practice how to ask and tell the time in Spanish and how to state at what time we do things in Spanish. Answers to all tasks involved in this lesson will be given at the end of the post and you can also follow…
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 14 Spanish Verbs in the Present Tense (Part 2) Posted by Laura & Adam on Feb 19, 2013
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? Today in this Spanish review lesson we will continue practicing how to describe things that we usually do using regular Spanish verbs and the Spanish Present Tense. Specifically we will practice the different verb endings that we use for a group of people, to say that “we” (nosotros) do something, to say…
Oscar vocabulary quiz Posted by Adir on Feb 18, 2013
¡Hola! Next Sunday we will have the 85th Academy Awards so I decided to do a little movie vocabulary quiz for you. You have 14 words and their definitions in Spanish, taken from the online version of the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (www.rae.es). Las palabras 1. Banda sonora ___ 2. Cámara ___ 3…
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 13 Spanish Verbs in the Present Tense (Part 1) Posted by Laura & Adam on Feb 12, 2013
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? Today in this Spanish review lesson we will practice how to describe things that we usually do using regular Spanish verbs and the Spanish Present Tense. Answers to all tasks involved in this lesson will be given at the end of the post and you can also follow a link with this…
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 12 Using Ser and Estar to make descriptions in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Feb 5, 2013
¡Hola a todos! Today in our Spanish review lesson we will practice using the Spanish verbs To be – El verbo Estar and El verbo Ser – and describing personality and feelings in Spanish. Answers to all tasks involved in this lesson will be given at the end of the post and you can also…
Spanish surviving sentences in a restaurant or a hotel Posted by Magda on Jan 31, 2013
Good day everybody! Today´s post is intended to be a quick review and practical excercise on some typical expressions you will need when going into a bar, a restaurant or a hotel. I´m giving you the Spanish one, and the idea is that you try to translate them into English, and provide some answer to…