Test your Spanish listening skills This is not a typical Chalk and Talk session. Here, apart from a little English, I speak in Spanish only. This lesson is designed to help you hone your Spanish listening skills as well as understand a little bit about LightSpeed Spanish. This C&T was requested by Clare Ashplant. She... Read more »
More Spanish verbs of Becoming. This is a two part lesson in which we cover some more verbs of Becoming. This is, we think, the third time we’ve talked about Spanish verbs of becoming. Why? Because it’s such a big subject and we often have more questions from our Socios on this tricky subject. Is... Read more »
Compliments in Spanish and Phrases deliberately shortened. Perhaps you’ve heard of the famous compliments in Spanish for which all builders from Spain are famed. Here we offer a lesson talking about those kind of compliments along with a series of words that Spanish speakers shorten on purpose. If you really want to be the master... Read more »
The Spanish YO and the ME and the MÍ. In this Chalk and Talk requested by Jean Dook, (hola, Jean) we look at the way that we use the Spanish Yo alongside the other first person pronouns like ME and MÍ. Unlike the English ‘I’, the Spanish YO has a couple of jobs that can... Read more »
¿ Fue vs Era ? Handy tips to get it right. Whenever we are faced with Fue vs Era and the terrifying words ‘It was’, we often crumble into a heap and quite often, faced with so many overwhelming rules in our head, we end up choosing at random (and many times we just plumb... Read more »