Archive for 'Spanish Vocabulary'
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…
Idioms with verb “echar” Posted by Adir on Sep 27, 2012
Hello, everybody! It has always amazed me how the verb echar can be used in so many situations, like the verb “get” in English. Of course you don’t need to memorize the list below so it’s a good idea to print it out and review it from time to time. And whenever you come across…
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…
Ser más feo que Picio Posted by Magda on Sep 20, 2012
Esta es una frase hecha que usamos de forma habitual, para referirnos a la fealdad de una persona. Sin embargo, nadie a quien hasta el momento había preguntado, sabía quien era este Picio lamentablemente famoso. Cual fue mi sorpresa al descubrir que el personaje real parece ser Francisco Picio, un zapatero natural del pueblo de…
Talking about the weather in Spanish II Posted by Adir on Sep 18, 2012
¡Hola, mi gente! As you may already know I live in Brazil, in the state of São Paulo, in a town called Bebedouro (Drinking Fountain). It is usually warm here but these days it has been very, very hot. So I decided to pick up where my Spanish friend Laura left off with her video…
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…