¡Hola, Socios! This week we have the first in a two part Chalk and Talk session about the Spanish SE and how you can understand it more easily when you read books and articles. Many students talk of the confusion they have when they see the Spanish SE in their books linked with other pronouns.... Read more »
Understanding SE in Spanish and how ‘It happened to me!’ Here we finish off the series on the pronouns by dealing with how to understand SE in Spanish when it is used in what we call the ‘victim structure’. Simply put, this is when we want to say that something happened that was outside of... Read more »
Could in Spanish and why it’s confusing for English speakers. Why is Could in Spanish so much of a confusion for English speakers? Well, the fact is that we have one word that we use across three tenses. In English it’s not clear which tense we are in. In Spanish, however, when we want... Read more »
Que vs Cual? Just as an aside, you may be wondering why we are writing, Que vs Cual without their respective accents. Well, the answer to that is that the Google search engines don’t like accents. Why? Because most people don’t use accents when they are searching for Spanish words, and that includes the majority... Read more »
Understanding and Using Spanish Reflexive Verbs No matter what level of Spanish we have, the Spanish reflexive verbs often catch us out. Why? Because quite often we don’t have the same concept in our own language. What’s more, we don’t always understand the basics of what Spanish reflexive verbs are all about. Here, we go... Read more »