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So, you’re at a restaurant, you’ve ordered some delicious tacos… but it takes them ages to arrive. Then, your food finally arrives… and it’s half cold. And the worst part: there’s ONION in your food! If there’s one thing I hate on my tacos is ONION!  That’s it, ¡basta! Time to tell your waiter what…

Admit it: sometimes we hear someone rambling, or nagging, or just talking too much, and we REALLY want that person to just… SHUT UP! In Spanish, just like in English, there are polite and less polite ways to communicate this to someone. In this article, I’ll teach you four phrases to ask someone to stop…

Today’s article is all about the PLURAL in Spanish! Basically, there are 4 rules to create the plural version of a word… 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…

Dating a Mexican, like me, comes with some amazing benefits… We’re loving, warm, and fun to be around! But there are some very specific things about our culture that ALWAYS lead to problems in relationships between foreigners and Mexicans… Yes, if YOU are dating a Mexican maybe you’ve already encountered some of these… If you…

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?” And then, you haven’t even started conjugating the verb!  Result: brain meltdown, and you’re completely tongue-tied! Your conversation partner is staring at…

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 trabajo. (Not much; I had a lot of work) But suddenly, in the middle of your sentence, there’s a…

Ordering your food in flawless Spanish at a restaurant… Impressing your in-laws or Spanish-speaking family with an interesting and thoughtful conversation… Chatting away in Spanish at a bar… What an amazing experience that would be… if only you weren’t so nervous every time you had to speak Spanish, right?  If you’ve ever felt tongue-tied, if…

Imagine you’re talking to a Spanish native speaker who’s helped you, and you want to say “Very good! You did a good job!”, and you start your sentence… Muy… bueno… buen… bien… Hiciste un… bien trabajo… buen trabajo… bueno trabajo? Frustrating, right? Well, my friend, after reading this piece, no te volverá a pasar (that…

So, you’re on Tinder too?! We all are! Si estuviéramos en la misma área, ¿haríamos match? (If we were in the same area, would you and I match?!) Maybe… if you know what to put in your Tinder profile… Mi gente, Tinder in Mexico is BIG: 54 million people use it! Every month, se hacen…

Most Spanish learners don’t know when to use por and when to use para. Are you among them? After learning the trick I’ll give you in this article, you won’t be anymore! Depending on context, these two little words may be translated as either for, by, to, on, through, according to, because of, in exchange…