Archive for 'Spanish Vocabulary'
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 42 Comparing El Pretérito Indefinido and El Pretérito Imperfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 29, 2013
Hola ¿Cómo estáis? In today’s interactive Spanish review lesson we are going to practice using the Spanish grammar tenses El Pretérito Indefinido and El Pretérito Imperfecto. We will compare these two past tenses to understand their important differences. Answers to all tasks involved in this lesson will be given at the end of the post…
Do You Want to Have it All? Posted by Adir on Aug 23, 2013
Hello, there! Today is Friday and we are going to review some very useful and common collocations with verb “tener” (to have). These collocations are very important because they are part of everyday conversation and if you want to be fluent and speak good Spanish, learn them! Oh yeah! Are you ready to take your…
Americanisms in the Spanish language Posted by Magda on Aug 22, 2013
What do you think is the first Americanism that came into Spanish? Yesterday, while I was looking for the origin of some funny expressions, I found an interesting article talking about the first words that came into Spanish from the New World. Borrowings from different languages have always been a good source to increase a…
Idioms with the word “corriente” Posted by Adir on Aug 21, 2013
Hello, there! ¿Cómo están ustedes? I was translating an article from English into Spanish these days and I came across the expression “to lose your train of thought”. I found out I didn’t know how to say that in Spanish so I went to look it up. We say “perder la corriente”. However, the word…
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 41 Comparing El Pretérito Indefinido and El Pretérito Perfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 20, 2013
Hola ¿Cómo estáis? Today we are going to practice comparing the uses and key words of the two Spanish grammar tenses El Pretérito Indefinido and El Pretérito Perfecto. 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 post…
New Words in Spanish Posted by Adir on Aug 13, 2013
In 2012 the Real Real Academia de la Lengua Española (RAE) added more than a thousand new words and meanings in its dictionaries. Here are some common ones you should know: Autonomismo: Independencia o ausencia de vinculación; sistema de organización estatal que faculta a comunidades o regiones para regirse mediante la asunción de determinadas competencias…
Beginner Spanish Review Lesson 40 Practice using The Past Simple in Spanish El Pretérito Imperfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 12, 2013
Hola ¿Cómo estáis? In the previous interactive video review lesson in this course we looked at the Past Simple in Spanish El Pretérito Indefinido. Today we are going to practice the other Past Simple in Spanish El Pretérito Imperfecto. In English the Past Simple is much simpler. In Spanish there are two different tenses which…