The verb invitar means to invite, and it’s usage is pretty straight-forward. Quiero invitarte a mi casa I want to invite you to my house ¿Hiciste una fiesta y no me invitaste? You threw a party and didn’t invite me? Te invito a festejar mi cumple I invite you to celebrate my birthday While we’re on the subject of birthdays, …
If you’re completely new to Spanish, then you should learn the basic greetings, and here’s a great lesson to help you with that: Basic Spanish Greetings While knowing the basic greetings is really important, they aren’t very exciting. In this post I’m going to talk about some very colloquial greetings that your Spanish book or teacher may not have mentioned. …
A critical part of being able to speak Spanish is being able to understand it when you hear it. Easier said then done right? Sure it’s hard, but there are things you can do to improve those wanna-be Spanish ears of yours. Let’s look at some of the ways you can improve your listening skills. Movies, Television and video Turn …
Welcome to the first in a series of posts I’m going to call All About Verbs. I’ll be discussing the real life use of a montón (a ton) of Spanish verbs. We’ll get things started with hacer, so let’s get to it. Your Spanish book will tell you the verb hacer means to make or to do, but it actually …
Sometimes there are things that we just have to do. Well, if you ever need to tell someone what that something you have to do is in Spanish, then you’ll need the expression tener que. Tener by itself means “to have”. Tengo 21 años I’m 21 Tengo dos coches I have two cars Add the word que after it and …
I love to help people with their Spanish. Every week I’m exposed to many beginners and people just starting their journey down the road to Spanish fluency. With that said, I hear a lot of the same errors over and over again. So this is the first of a new series of posts called Spanish Blunders to help you identify …
While I don’t consider myself a teacher by any stretch of the imagination, today I’m going to try and simplify a concept that can be a sticking point for many learners of Spanish, expressing accidental actions. Let’s pretend you accidentally broke a glass and need to fess up to it in Spanish. You may be tempted to think of translating “I …
At about the 2 year point in my learning Spanish journey, I had two short trips to Mexico under my belt. The first trip served to rekindle the desire I had to learn Spanish and the second trip taught me that the I was learning a lot, but what I was learning wasn’t nearly enough. I was building a really …
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and learn Spanish. That’s fantastic, but you may find yourself asking the question many people ask. Where do I start? What’s a wanna-be Spanish speaker supposed to do? Every week I meet Spanish students and speakers that ask me “How did you learn Spanish?”. Nearly everyone finds the answer quite surprising. Soy …
I run a Spanish Meet Up group and every week the same question comes up, “How long have you been studying Spanish?” And my answer is always the same: Llevo casi 10 años aprendiendo español I’ve been learning Spanish for almost 10 years Some of you may be surprised to see that you can answer that question with the verb …