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La Familia is a part of our everyday life and a very useful Spanish lesson to take as well. Today we’re all about the family. We’ll cover vocabulary for family members and then we’ll focus on how to describe your own family too. With Mother’s Day coming up (for many) on Sunday, I think the […]
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Possessive pronouns or Possessive Adjectives According to Grammarly.com, Possessive Pronouns show that something belongs to someone. The possessive pronouns, in English, are my, our, your, his, her, its, and their. Possessive pronouns simplify constructions that show possession of a noun. For example: *Peter enjoys reading Peter’s books. It sounds odd to use Peter’s name […]
Read MoreAccording to Grammarly.com, Adjectives are words that describe/ modify the qualities or states of being of nouns, egs. enormous, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven. In English the adjectives are usually easy to spot because they come immediately before the nouns they modify. Examples: The enormous structure […]
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What is this gender business? How is it related to language? In romance languages, of which Spanish is one, nouns are either masculine or feminine. We can sometimes (but certainly not always) tell whether a word is masculine or feminine by looking at its ending. There is a very wide generalisation that words ending in ‘a’ […]
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Welcome once again to Spanish Class! We’ll continue our beginner level Spanish lessons today with a discussion on Pronouns or Pronombres. So, What Is a Pronoun? A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Here are a few examples: he, she, it, they That means that a pronoun can […]
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Bienvenidos a la clase de español. Today we’re going to discuss our feelings. A couple of months ago we went through a list of common greetings in conversational Spanish. In that list we looked at how to say “How are you?” and how to give a couple quick responses to that question. Check out that […]
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Hola y bienvenidos a la clase de español. Hoy vamos a hablar de ocupaciones y nacionalidades. Today we’ll talk about occupations and nationalities. Nationalities and Discussing Nationality This list includes Spain and the Latin American countries. List of Nationalities in Spanish Country Nationality – Male Nationality – Female Argentina Argentino Argentina Bolivia Boliviano Boliviana […]
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Hola, Bienvenidos a la clase de español. ¡Cumpleaños Feliz! Is today your birthday? Well if it is, many happy returns to you. If not, please accept my greetings in advance 😊 Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve learnt how to count, learnt vocabulary associated with dates and learnt how to write the date. (Lesson […]
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Hola Bienvenidos a la clase de español. Today we’re going to build on what we covered in Lesson 7. I hope you’ve been practicing your numbers and how to say the days of the week and months of the year in Spanish. In today’s class you’re going to learn how to: Ask what day it […]
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Bienvenidos a la clase de español. Today we’re going to focus on numbers one to forty, the days of the week and the months of the year. Soon you’ll be ready to discuss days, dates and ages! Count to 40! 1 Uno 21 Veintiuno 2 Dos 21 Veintidós 3 Tres 23 Veintitrés 4 Cuatro […]
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