Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Beginner Lessons”
Recently a friend of mine asked me to write something about the word cuenta and being the blogger that I am agreed to it without hesitation. And for a brief moment I thought “the word cuenta is pretty straight-forward, what is there to write about?” A few days later when I really sat down and started thinking about all the …
Your Spanish book will most likely tell you the verb Llevar means to take, and it does. But the verb Llevar has several uses that your Spanish book might have left out. Let’s take a look at a few of them. 1. To talk about what you’re wearing No llevo gorras I don’t wear ballcaps Ella decidió llevar la blusa …
Here is a short list of phrases that every beginning Spanish learner should know. Let’s get to it. One of the biggest challenges you’ll face as a beginner is understanding what’s being said to you, because everything sounds like one huge run-on sentence. You might actually understand what’s being said to you if they just didn’t talk so fast. Well, …
According to your Spanish textbook there are only two contractions in Spanish. Your Spanish textbook and most likely your Spanish teacher probably neglected to teach you several other Spanish contractions that are used so much I considered it the equivalent of criminal negligence not to teach it. Let’s talk about the official Spanish contractions first. We’ll start with the contraction …
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. …
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 …
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 …