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There are two ways of expressing the future in Spanish, just as there are in English. This lesson is about the one-word, or simple form in Spanish.

Manners matter! When these three verbs, and these three alone, are used as helping verbs, there are three forms each which convey no difference in …

This article takes you beyond the common but important observations about the differences between “salir” and “dejar” as …

Most of the difficulty with these two Spanish verbs results from their being improperly introduced to learners. This brief article sets the record …

Seriously, though: many students are comfortable with “hay” as the equivalent of “there is” and “there are” …

There are a number of ways in which English speakers use the word “wonder” – and each has a different solution in Spanish. This …

Every student of Spanish comes up against the problem of whether it is right to use “le” or “lo” – and sometimes …

In English, one can speak of someone “becoming” a firefighter or “becoming” angry, but in Spanish these require different …

If you look in any bilingual Spanish-English dictionary, you’ll discover there is no one-word translation for the English word …

This article takes you beyond being able to speak about color in Spanish than simply knowing the names of the three primary and three secondary …

Poder, querer, saber and conocer – four high-frequency verbs which, when used in the preterite, do not mean what they normally mean. Better yet: …

Words that join and unjoin…. conjunctions also play a stylistic role in Spanish. Read this brief article to know what they are and how they are …