Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Another special kind of particles shared by English and Spanish are suffixes, used to build new words by being placed at the end of the stem of nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs. These affixes work in one of two ways: either by conferring gramatical information […]
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It’s hard to believe, but another year is winding down. ¡El tiempo vuela! (Time flies!). I hope all of our readers had a great year. My year was pretty amazing, mostly because of the return of música en vivo (live music). Fui a muchos conciertos y festivales de música este […]
In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice more using Regular Spanish Verbs in Present Tense. Start by reading the text in Spanish below. The English translation is provided later but please try not to look at it until you have read […]
Learning so-called “power verbs” is a great way to improve your fluency in Spanish. We’ve had a few posts about Spanish power verbs over the years. Here are links in case you missed any of the previous posts: necesitar, querer, gustar, poder, and ir. In this post, we’ll take a […]
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Ouch, argh, hmmm, great!… An interjection in any language could be defined as a word that happens almost instinctively during speech to convey a feeling or some kind of reaction before some kind of stimuli. We can thank interjections for the fact they make much easier […]
In this lesson of our English Spanish Parallel Texts course and we are going to practice using the Spanish verb Tener (To Have) to describe The Family. Start by reading the text in Spanish below. The English translation is provided later but please try not to look at it until […]