Last week I talked about the type of Spanish that is spoken in shops, offices, everyday conversations, movies, on street corners and among family and friends.This slang is ofteen referred to as “Street” or Colloquial Spanish.
If your goal is to speak the language fluently and understand native speakers, you should study the expressions
You may find it hard to believe that there is almost as much difference between the Spanish you learn in school and the Spanish spoken in everyday life, as there is between Spanish and English. That is to say what we call,”Street Spanish” is really another language.
Many students spend years studying Spanish in a formal setting only to
In Spanish there are four different ways of talking directly to people other that yourself. In English, we use the single word “you’ to express these four ways of addressing other people. Therefore, it is not suprising most English speakers get confused when trying to state the different forms of saying “you’ in Spanish since
In Spanish there are two different verbs which mean ‘to give’ — dar and regalar. let’s first start by examing the verb dar since it is used more frequently and is an important part of many idiomatic expressions.
Dar is most often used as follows: Give me a glass of water / Dáme un vaso de agua or I want to give
Recently I wrote an article about a short cut to speaking in the future in Spanish. We call this method the “false future.”
Briefly, we form the false future by placing the conjugated present tense form of the verb “IR” followed by the letter “A” before any unconjugated verb. For example, Voy a comer
