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This article is for you if you’ve been learning Spanish for a while, you’ve learned a lot of words, you’re doing all the grammar drills… but then, you’re in a conversation, and you still feel clumsy and can’t stop translating in your head.  If that happens to you and you sometimes think “What am I…

I’m Spring Spanish teacher Juan and, as a musician, I think one of the best ways to learn Spanish is listening to music, so here are 10 Latin songs you can listen to to learn Spanish and improve your pronunciation. They will appear according to the complexity level, so the first ones will be easy, but…

¿Te cuento un secreto? (Can I tell you a secret?) No Mexican speaks like a textbook. We make mistakes, use abbreviations and slang. Very often, we even have our own secret “language”. Everyone who uses it is recognized as one of the insiders.  Entonces, ¿qué significa eso para ti (So, what does that mean for…

¡Hola, mi gente! Yo soy Paulisima, de Spring Spanish. In this lesson I’m going to show you 5 funny and embarrassing mistakes I hear Spanish students make ALL the time and what to say instead, so YOU don’t make a fool of yourself with these funny Spanish mistakes! Solo tengo una pregunta (I only have…

The verb “pensar” (to think) is a very commonly used verb in Spanish. The verb “pensar” in Spanish means to reflect, consider, or have an opinion about something. It is the equivalent of the English “to think”. I’m Paulísima, your Spanish teacher, and today we are going to explore how pensar Spanish conjugation works, using…

Mis amigos, if you’re reading this, I assume you’re learning Spanish AND sometimes, when you’re struggling with a verb conjugation or word order, or forgot the gender of a word, or you watch TV and hear someone say… You think: “WHY is Spanish so hard to learn”? ¡No te preocupes! (Don’t worry!) You’re not alone!…

This piece is for you if you’ve spent a lot of time, effort, and maybe even money trying to learn Spanish up to a level you’re pretty comfortable with…  But right now your priorities have shifted, and you can’t spend so much time on your Spanish anymore… STILL you do everything, so you don’t forget…

Today’s article is all about the PLURAL in Spanish! Basically, there are 4 rules to create the plurals in Spanish which I, Cory, your favorite Spring Spanish teacher, will give you today.  Pero (But)… if you want to always get the plural right in a conversation, while speaking, ¡NO quiero que las aprendas de memoria!…

Admítelo (Admit it): we’ve all tried to memorize Spanish verb tenses, only to end up in an actual conversation thinking “should I use pretérito now or pretérito perfecto… or what’s the difference again?” Even like: how many tenses Spanish has really? And then, you haven’t even started conjugating the verb!  Result: brain meltdown, and you’re…

In this blog post, you will learn to… don’t panic when speaking Spanish! Let’s imagine a real-life situation: So, you’re in the middle of a conversation… entirely in Spanish! It’s exciting, maybe a bit scary, but everything is going well…. SPANISH SPEAKER¿Y qué hiciste ayer? (And what did you do yesterday?) SPANISH LEARNERNo mucho; tenía mucho…