Here are all the rules to know when Nouns are feminine or masculine. Read them carefully, and then take one by one and practise using these words along with the articles, until they become second nature. If you are doing your GCSE’s, you will discover that nobody teaches you this, and as a result, you...Read More

We have a bunch of options to express doubt. -quizá, quizás: these two adverbs mean “who knows”. You can use one or the other. Notice that the final S in “quizás” is not a plural ending, is simply the last letter of the word. So we can say “quizás viene mañana” or “quizá viene mañana”...Read More

Violeta Parra, la Violeta. Yo tenía más o menos diez años cuando la descubrí. Había un disco de ella en casa, con una canción que se llama “Me gustan los estudiantes”, que era típica de los años 70, en los que en Latinoamérica, por influjo de ciertos fenómenos sociales como la Revolución Cubana, había surgido...Read More

“Alfonsina y el mar” es una canción muy famosa, con letra de Félix Luna y música de Ariel Ramírez, ambos argentinos. Está inspirada en la escritora argentina nacida en Suiza, Alfonsina Storni, que vivió entre 1892 y 1938. Murió joven, ya veremos en qué condiciones. Tuvo una vida dura, empezando por una infancia pobre, por...Read More

I explain how to form this tense in the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAGeT_LP4as As you see, the regular forms are very simple. But the party begins with the irregular forms, because this is by far the most irregular tense in Spanish, so be sure that you can use the regular verbs and then proceed with the next...Read More

We have a proper future, as in English, to say things like “I will travel to Japan”, but in normal conversation, we prefer to say “I am going to travel to Japan”, which is “voy a viajar a Japón”. To form this future, you need: the verb “to go” (ir) + a + infinitive (the...Read More

To start with your tenses, I suggest you to watch this video, where I explain all the aspects of the Regular Present Tense: youtube.com/watch?v=b5tkObfogB0&t=1s Here you have a chart which will help you to remember this tense. Now, I will give you some examples, putting some more elements in the phrase. To do this, I...Read More

We are going to delve into some very useful adverbial forms. Además, demás, de más, demasiado: -además: it is used to add more information, translated as “besides, additionally, furthermore”: “Bebimos una limonada y además, comimos pastel de fresas” (we drank a lemonade and additionally, we ate strawberry cake”. -demasiado: it is an adverb to express...Read More

Seguramente todos ustedes cometen alguno de estos errores, así que vamos a repasar algunos conceptos básicos. Un poco vs pequeño: “un poco” es lo opuesto a “mucho” y tiene valor adverbial. Recuerden: un adverbio modifica a un verbo (por eso se llama adverbio, que significa “cerca del verbo o en relación con el verbo”): comí...Read More

This tense works in the same way in English and Spanish. Basically, we use it when one thing happened before the other, and both are in the past tense. For example: When she arrived, I had already finished the job. Cuando ella llegó, yo ya había terminado el trabajo. She arrived in the past and...Read More