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    Why should you learn another Language?

    Why should you learn another Language?

    My first months in Panama, even after an entire year of living in Spain, I could barely order off a menu, let along muster up the courage to actually speak Spanish. How did I spend ...

    Feel Like Spanish?

    Feel Like Spanish?

    In English we can 'feel' like doing things.  We can also 'feel' a certain way.  For example,  we can feel like swimming, cooking, ...

    PERFECT SPANISH CONDITIONS

    PERFECT SPANISH CONDITIONS

     The Conditional Perfect Tense follows the same pattern as all the other perfect tenses of Spanish.  We can use the conditional perfect when we want to indicate what 'would have happened'.  We can also use the conditional perfect tense to indicate conjecture.  If you want to speculate on ...

    ONE POSSIBLE CONDITION..

    ONE POSSIBLE CONDITION..

      More on the Conditional Tense   Looking further into the conditional Spanish tense we find that sometimes a past ...

    ON ONE CONDITION..

    ON ONE CONDITION..

    The Conditional Tense The Conditional Spanish tense is another tense well worth becoming familiar with.   It is not a very difficult tense either.  And it is easy to know when to use the ...

    MORE HANDY PHRASES

    MORE HANDY PHRASES

    Below is a list of a few more Spanish phrases you can incorporate into your program.  Try to understand the logic of why they are said the way they are. ...

    SOME HANDY SPANISH PHRASES

    SOME HANDY SPANISH PHRASES

    In our quest to understand and be able to speak better Spanish, it is always a good idea to be familiar with as much theory as possible.  Knowing how to conjugate ...

    SE THERE!

    SE THERE!

    The Many Uses of the Spanish SE Whether you are a person who is serious about learning Spanish or someone who may just have a ...

    A VERY PERSONAL A

    A VERY PERSONAL A

    In Spanish there is a phenomenon know as the personal ‘a’.  Understanding when it is used is fairly easy.  But it is also easy to forget to use it because there is no ...

    ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE

    ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE

    In English we are always asking questions or requesting information.  We may ask for something to be done for us, or desire information about something.   We can ‘ask ...

    LET’S DO SOME SPANISH

    LET’S DO SOME SPANISH

    Most who study Spanish are familiar with the verb Hacer.  The most common English translation is to ‘make’ or ...

    HOPE YOU LIKE SPANISH!

    HOPE YOU LIKE SPANISH!

      More About Gustar and Gustar Verbs   Espero que le guste el español!  In the last article we looked at how someone would say they like something, ...

    DO YOU LIKE SPANISH?

    DO YOU LIKE SPANISH?

    ¿Le gusta el español? You have probably heard the verb gustar in conversation many times before. You already know that it means, to like, or literally to please. But ...

    PERFECT SPANISH UNCERTAINTIES

    PERFECT SPANISH UNCERTAINTIES

    There will always be plenty of Spanish language topics to write about. There are so many! Sometimes it takes a while to decide on the next best one. I also have to feel I ...

    DIRECT TO PRONOUNS

    DIRECT TO PRONOUNS

    If you think of how often we use pronouns in English, you wonder how we would be able speak without them.      It’s no different in Spanish.   There are many types of pronouns but the Direct ...

    SPANISH HOPES, DESIRES, AND UNCERTAINTIES

    SPANISH HOPES, DESIRES, AND UNCERTAINTIES

    Like many areas of the Spanish language, it is essential that we have a basic understanding of the present subjunctive.  Usually any time there is a sentence that has an element of uncertainty, desire, ...

    HOW ARE YOUR SPANISH REFLEXES?

    HOW ARE YOUR SPANISH REFLEXES?

    Whenever you are reading Spanish or listening to a Spanish conversation, have you wondered why the word “se” is used? Not to be confused with sé, which is the conjugated form of saber to say “I know (facts, information)”, the pronoun ‘se’ seems to creep into a lot of Spanish ...