The grammatical gender is a hard bone to chew for English speakers, for two main reasons. First, because we don’t have it in English, and second, because there is no logic to decide if a word is feminine or masculine. Actually, if you compare, for example, Spanish, English and German, you find this: English: the...Read More

Modal Verbs are a group of auxiliary verbs, i.e., can, should, must, which express conditions such as possibility, ability, necessity, obligation, and permission. They are usually followed by the main verb: I can do this. Puedo hacer esto. I must study for the exam. Debo estudiar para el examen. Here they are: In general, they...Read More

All the students have some problems when they start speaking and have to decide about “hay, es, está, tiene”. Let’s see one by one: Ø HAY: there is, there are. Notice that it is the same form in Spanish, for one or more than one item. Hay una mesa en la cocina. There is a...Read More

When something is small, we have two options: either we say something like “una casa pequeña” (a small house), or we add a suffix to the word. A suffix is a letter or a group of letters added at the end of words, which have a grammatical meaning. One example in English could be -less,...Read More

This is a neglected topic, because some people tend to think that it is intuitive, but it is not. In fact, some languages do not have articles, and in some others, we use them in a different way. Compare this: I am a teacher (with article). Soy profesora (no article). I like sushi (no article)....Read More

You know that, as in English, we add an -s or -es to form the plural, so we have “perro, perros” and “animal, animales”. But we also have some words that are singular and end with an -s, and you already know some of them! Remember the days of the week: lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves,...Read More

Articles (artículos in Spanish) are little words that we put in front of Nouns: The house A house The problem is, as always, that in Spanish we have masculine, feminine, singular and plural. Look at this: The house is white. La casa es blanca. The houses are white. Las casas son blancas. The floor is...Read More

This is a very short blog, because everything is explained in the video. The topic is Reflexive Verbs, which is a group of verbs where the subject of the sentence reflects the grammatical object, as a mirror reflecting an image. They are very easy, but we don’t have this structure in English, so it is...Read More

Prepositions are words that we use in some languages preceding other words (hence the name pre-position, something that is positioned in front of other words, although in conversational English, it is frequent to see them at the end, as in “What are you talking about?”. Prepositions express a relation to other words which follow them,...Read More

I created a video where I explain all about these little words to say “I, you, he, she, we, you, they”. However, I will explain a little more in depth about the “you” form. Remember that English is an exception, because we say “you” in any context. Compare this: YOU are my friend. TÚ eres...Read More