Vocabulary

False friends in language learning are cool but somewhat frustrating.

Learning Spanish from English is fantastic because it means that before you even start you will already know thousands of Spanish words.

But, if you run into Spanish false friends, also known as false cognates, when you try to guess the meaning of these words, you may get into trouble.

The Spanish words sino and pero are troublesome. They aren’t really interchangeable, yet the natural temptation is to use pero more often than you should when speaking Spanish.

These two Spanish words are also difficult to explain. So I’m not going to explain how they are used but rather demonstrate their use through examples. [Read more…] about Pero vs Sino – How to Avoid Mistakes with “But” in Spanish

If you want to learn the Spanish present perfect tense, you only have to know one verb conjugation, how to form a past participle and a few phrases that trigger this tense.

As a tense, the Spanish present perfect gives so much in terms of versatility and simplicity. [Read more…] about How to Use the Spanish Present Perfect Tense

In this post, you’ll learn the 12 main irregular Spanish past participles. This will allow you to conjugate any verb in the present, past, future, or conditional perfect tenses. [Read more…] about 12 Irregular Spanish Past Participles That’ll Perfect Your Grammar

“No dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy.” – Spanish proverb.

As the sixth most commonly used verb in Spanish, poder is equivalent to the English verb ‘to be able to’ and can be used to talk about abilities, capabilities, and probabilities. [Read more…] about 3 Uses of Poder – How to Convey Power, Ability & Probability

There are three Spanish words you can choose when translating the English word ‘time’: tiempo, hora and vez.

To complicate matters you can also use tiempo to talk about the weather.

In this post, you’ll learn all you need to know about discussing time in Spanish including asking for the time, referring to ‘a time’ and giving a quantity of time. You’ll also learn a few important false friends that pop up around the idea of time in Spanish. [Read more…] about Tiempo vs Hora vs Vez – How to Talk About Time (and the Weather)

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