El Gerundio in Spanish

El Gerundio in Spanish

ByMariana

Queridos alumnos (Dear students), this is it: the last video you’ll ever have to watch about how and when to use el gerundio in Spanish!  What is el Gerundio?  El gerundio —or gerund in English— is a verb used to indicate two things:  something that is happening as I speak (for example, Estoy dando clase…

Finally master the preterite in Spanish

Finally master the preterite in Spanish

ByMariana

Mis queridos alumnos (My dear students), today you’re going to learn the Spanish preterite, or pretérito, the most used past tense in Mexico and most other Latin-American countries.  It is also known as pretérito indefinido and pretérito perfecto simple, but this is jargon. Let’s stick to pretérito alone, since that’s how most people call it…

Spanish Sentence Structure: Build Your FIRST SENTENCES IN SPANISH

Spanish Sentence Structure: Build Your FIRST SENTENCES IN SPANISH

ByMariana

Just started learning Spanish? In today’s beginner lesson, I, Mariana from Spring Spanish, am going to show you how to build tus primeras oraciones en español (your first Spanish sentences), plus sample sentences you can steal from us, so you can start using them in conversations right away! Ready? Here’s your first, easy, sentence…  The…

DON’T Learn the Spanish Future Tense Conjugation Table! (Do THIS instead to always use it correctly)

DON’T Learn the Spanish Future Tense Conjugation Table! (Do THIS instead to always use it correctly)

ByMariana

So, you’re in a conversation in Spanish, and your conversation partner asks: Oye, ¿qué vas a hacer mañana? (So, what are you doing tomorrow?) And you want to reply that you’re going to have lunch with a friend, so you start… But you’ve forgotten how to form the future tense in Spanish! The horror! Do…

DON’T Learn the Spanish Past Tense Conjugation Table! (Do THIS instead for fluent Spanish)

DON’T Learn the Spanish Past Tense Conjugation Table! (Do THIS instead for fluent Spanish)

ByMariana

Hello, my dear students! I’m Mariana, head of grammar at Spring Spanish, and today I’m going to show you how you can always use the past tense correctly while speaking Spanish in conversations… without having to think about conjugation tables!  We’re going to use our very own Conversation Based Chunking method to help you with…

Try This Simple Trick to Always Use Spanish HABER correctly – Hay vs Había vs Hubo

Try This Simple Trick to Always Use Spanish HABER correctly – Hay vs Había vs Hubo

ByMariana

Today, you’re going to finally master the verb haber and the 3 ways it’s most often used: hay, había and hubo. Ya sé (I know), there are a lot of explanations out there on the Internet about the verb haber, but if you’ve ever thought “I understand the rules, but I never remember them in…

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