¡Adivina adivinanza, otra vez! Posted by Magda on Mar 3, 2011
Both children and grown ups usually enjoy riddles when they are learning a language. I love them myself, as I told you once. It is also a good way of getting a brain workout, and this way we kill two birds with one stone. So in today’s post I’ll give you a few, not too…
Spanish Lesson Beginner 13 Spanish Verbs: Present Tense (Part 1) Posted by Laura & Adam on Mar 2, 2011
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? Today we are going to learn how to describe things that we usually do using regular Spanish verbs. “Verbs” are words which describe actions (to talk, to eat, to dance, etc) and “regular” verbs are those verbs which follow a specific rule or rules without exception. All Spanish verbs in their original…
Las Leyes de Murphy (con humor) Posted by Adir on Mar 1, 2011
Vamos a reírnos (let’s laugh) un poco con esta interpretación bien divertida de las Leyes (laws) de Murphy. Murphy se hizo (became) famoso al reformular la ley de la probabilidad diciendo: “Todo pan con mantequilla (bread with butter) cae al suelo (falls on the floor) siempre con la mantequilla hacia abajo (butter-side down)”. Aquí tienes…
Language learning success: the story of Victor González Posted by Adir on Feb 28, 2011
Hey, there! How’s it going? Today we have a guest writer here on the blog: Victor González. Victor is a Peruvian friend of mine who lives in São Paulo and he wrote something really cool about his experience with learning Portuguese when he came to Brazil. Victor is a translator and you can check out…
How to have people over in Spanish Posted by Adir on Feb 26, 2011
Hey, there! How’ve you been? We never know when we’re going to have a Spanish-speaking guest in our home so let’s learn some useful expressions. A la llegada de los invitados ¡Hola! – Hi! ¿Encontraste el camino fácilmente? – Did you find the way all right? Qué bueno que viniste. – I’m glad you could…
Syllabification in Spanish Posted by Magda on Feb 25, 2011
Pronunciation is a big issue when acquiring a new language. To be good at it, we need to know how to separate a word into syllables. That will be the topic of this post. A syllable is, according to Wordreference, “a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, and forming…
Talking about movies in Spanish Posted by Adir on Feb 24, 2011
¡Hola! ¿Cómo les va? A todos nos gusta ver películas y hoy les traigo algunas expresiones bien útiles cuando vamos a hablar de cine y películas. ¿Qué tipo de película te gusta? – What kind of movie do you like? No soy aficionado a las películas de horror. – I’m not into horror movies. ¿Ya…