Archive for 'Spanish Vocabulary'
How to talk to foreigners, en español Posted by Adir on Jun 6, 2012
I know that you, my dear reader, is a very helpful person and when you see people in distress, you feel that uncontrollable urge to help, right? So this post today basically has some very useful questions to be asked when you want to lend a foreigner a helping hand. This time you will see…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 34 La palabra “Poco” Posted by Laura & Adam on Jun 5, 2012
Hola ¿Cómo os va todo? Hoy vamos a hablar de la palabra “poco”. Me imagino que alguna vez habéis dudado entre usar la palabra “poco”, “poca”, “un poco”, “pocos”, etc. Vamos a ver qué usar en diferentes situaciones. Si la palabra “poco” se refiere a un sustantivo, entonces tiene que concondar en género y número…
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 34 The different uses of the Spanish word Como Posted by Laura & Adam on May 29, 2012
Hola ¿Cómo estáis? Hoy vamos a ver los diferentes usos de la palabra “como”. Today we will see the different uses of the Spanish word Como. “Como” is another of those words that we use a lot in everyday Spanish conversation and for that reason it is a good idea to become familiar with all…
Spanish Lesson Beginner 34 The Spanish Pretérito Perfecto The Present Perfect Posted by Laura & Adam on May 22, 2012
In this Beginner level Spanish lesson we are going to learn all about the Present Perfect grammar tense in Spanish – El Pretérito Perfecto – that is used to describe things “we have done”. The English Present Perfect and the Spanish Pretérito Perfecto are fundamental grammar tenses that we use a lot in everyday conversation…
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…
Idioms with the word “polvo” Posted by Adir on May 15, 2012
¡Hola! Polvo is “dust”. You can limpiar or quitar el polvo (to dust something) and there are several idioms with it. Shall we learn some of them? The first idiom is hacer morder el polvo (literally to have someone bite the dust). It means “to defeat someone completely” or “to humiliate someone in a discussion”…
Adivina qué idioma hablamos. Posted by Magda on May 10, 2012
Today we are going play a guessing game. I´d like you to read this piece of writing, and try to tell me what language is being used, and try to tell me the meaning of every “odd” word you find in the text. We will talk about it very soon, and I will give youthe…