100+ Sophisticated Adjectives in Spanish for Intermediate Speakers
Are you ready to supercharge your stockpile of adjectives in Spanish? Outrageous, extraordinary, spectacular, and amazing, are all sophisticated adjectives that enrich our conversations. They differ from the most common and used adjectives like good, bad, tall, and short, in that people don’t use them to describe everything. They are reserved for special occasions. Let’s call them...Read More
50 Common Spanish Adverbs to Start Using Today
Adverbs have a bad reputation. They give a lot of information, are essential to the meaning of their sentences, and still, many people don’t know how to use them. And I’m not even talking about adverbs in a new language! Adverbs are often understood (or misunderstood) in our own native language. Now, what about Spanish adverbs? If adverbs are complicated in English, odds are that...Read More
Llevar Conjugation: Free Spanish Lesson, Exercises, and PDF
Let’s find out how far llevar conjugation can take us. The verb llevar in Spanish is a regular verb—and definitely a useful and common one to learn and implement in conversation. Because it’s a regular -ar verb, llevar conjugations are relatively simple. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll go over everything including how to use llevar in sentences, as well as the conjugation of llevar in...Read More
Haber Conjugation: Free Spanish Lesson, Exercises, and PDF
Have you had the pleasure of dealing with haber? It’s an extra special verb in Spanish—and definitely one of the more advanced verbs to learn and implement in conversation. There’s no denying that haber conjugations are challenging. It’s ok, relax! We’re here to help with this comprehensive guide. We’ll go over everything including how to use haber as an auxiliary verb and as an impersonal...Read More
Ser vs Estar: Using Adjectives with These Spanish Verbs
To be or to be? That is the question in Spanish. You know it well: the famous ser vs estar situation. This is one of the trickiest parts of the language for new learners. It’s tricky because the differences between one verb and the other are minimal, but really important. In this post, I’m gonna take you down the ser vs estar rabbit hole, and then take a wild turn into...Read More
Preterite and Imperfect: Reading and Practice in Story Form
Do you know the difference between preterite and imperfect? Learning the tenses is one of the first things any Spanish learner gets to do. From the first day you’re speaking Spanish up to the very last, tenses will be present in your grammar. Today, we’ll learn two of the main forms of the past tense mentioned before: preterite and imperfect. Get ready for some easy to understand...Read More
Ser vs Estar: Quizzes in Present and Past Tense
Ser vs Estar, what’s the deal with these Spanish verbs that create so much stress for new learners of the language? Here at the Homeschool Spanish Academy blog, we have discussed the ser vs estar situation in a series of posts. One of them even focuses on All the ways to say “I am” in Spanish, which details the peculiarities of these two verbs. Let’s take a closer look at the...Read More
‘Ser’ Adjectives and How to Use Them in Spanish Sentences
Learning the different forms of the verb ser, Spanish for “to be,” is one of the more challenging aspects of learning the language. In English, conjugating the verb “to be” requires memorizing all of the irregular forms of the verb; the same case applies to Spanish. Unfortunately, most of these conjugations have no shortcut or easy way to learn them (with a few exceptions). On top of that,...Read More
Top 14 Spanish Grammar Resources of 2020: Something for Everyone
Michel de Montaigne once said, “The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.” Can you find the grammatical mistake he humorously made? The verb “are” should be “is!” If you didn’t catch that mistake, don’t worry. Grammar can be difficult, even in your native language, but it often becomes overwhelming when you start learning a second language like Spanish. Before...Read More