Author: Maura

ACTOR 1Dame las azules.(Give me the blue ones.) ACTOR 2Toma. Yo estoy haciendo las rojas, dámelas cuando las encuentres.(Here. I’m doing the red ones, give them to me when you find them.) ACTOR 1Dale.(Ok.) Hola, hola. If you clicked on this video it’s because you already know we’ll be talking about the verb dar (to…

MAURA’S CONSCIENCEMaura… ya es hora de comulgar con tu consciencia.(Maura… it is time to commune with your conscience.) MAURALo siento, pero ya estoy ocupada con otra cosa. ¿Podemos hablar luego?(I’m sorry, but I’m already busy with something else. Can we talk later?) MAURA’S CONSCIENCEYa que sueles ignorarme… no, no podemos hablar luego. Tiene que ser…

MAURAAlex, tengo algo nuevo para ti. Para que sigas aprendiendo español.(Alex, I have something new for you. For you to keep learning Spanish.) ALEX¿En serio? ¿Qué cosa?(Seriously? What is it?) MAURASe llama ChatGPT. Es un chatbot que, te juro, va a cambiarlo todo.(It’s called ChatGPT. It’s a chatbot that, I swear, is going to change…

AMANDAMaura, sabes…(Maura, you know…) MAURA¡Aaaah! Me asustaste, pensé que no estabas.(Aaaah! You scared me, I thought you were gone.) AMANDAAy, perdón. Lo siento, ¿me disculpas?(Oh, sorry. I’m sorry, will you forgive me?) So, sweet Amanda here is very dramatic and basically apologized in every way possible. It is useful for us though, since we are…

ALEX¡Vamos a la playa! ¡Estoy muy, muy, muy excitada!(Let’s go to the beach! I’m very, very, very _________!) MAURA(chokes while taking a sip from a drink) Do you get what just happened? ¿Por qué me reí? (Why did I laugh?) We’ll go over that specific example in a little bit. Just know that this is…

MAURA¿Comemos en casa o comemos fuera?(Do we eat at home or eat out?) CARLAComo no hicimos mercado, mejor comemos fuera.(Since we didn’t go to the market, we’d better eat out.) MAURAVale, pero vamos ya que tengo tanta hambre que me comería un elefante.(Okay, but let’s go because I’m so hungry I could eat an elephant.)…

MAURA¿Llevas la navaja por si acaso?(Do you carry your pocket knife with you just in case?) CARLA¡Sí, claro! Por cierto, Amanda preguntó si la podíamos llevar.(Yes, of course! By the way, Amanda asked if we could take her.) MAURAUff, vamos a decirle a Mauricio porque en nuestro carro va Alejandra y sabes que ellas no…

CARLA¡Hola, hola! No te imaginas lo increíble que estuvo el viaje a Galicia.(Hello, hello! You can’t imagine how amazing the trip to Galicia was.) MAURA¿Sí? ¿La pasaron increíble?(Yeah? Did you have a wonderful time?) CARLAIncreíble es poco. Todo estuvo perfecto. Ahora te muestro fotos.(Wonderful is an understatement. Everything was perfect. I will show you some…

Me llamo y ¿cómo te llamas? (My name is and what’s your name?) are totally acceptable way to say your name and ask for the name of the other person. But wouldn’t it be nice to add some variety to that? Let’s have a look at 4 alternatives that Spanish-speaking natives love to use as…

Holis, soy Maura de Spring Spanish (Hello, I’m Maura from Spring Spanish), and today you’re going to learn the Spanish imperfecto (imperfect). One of the tenses used in Spanish to speak about the past… but we’re going to do it as always, meaning, without having to memorize a conjugation table! To do so, I decided…