I have just created a new page about Diptongo e Hiato. These are when Spanish words have two vowels together and how sometimes they are pronounced as one syllable (diptongo) or as a part of two individual syllables (hiato). In Chile this topic is seen by 3rd and 4th grade students during language classes (lenguaje). […]
FINALLY!!!! We have started creating videos to help students learn Spanish. We created the channel in 2011 though have only just started adding videos now – October 2016. Our intention is to add one or two new Spanish videos every month. Some videos will be for people learning Spanish as a foreign language (ELE – español como lengua extranjera) […]
A common mistake I see in written Spanish are with the verbs BOTAR and VOTAR and how sometimes a person writes Botar instead of Votar and vice versa. This is common among native speakers. Why is this? According to the Real Academia Española, the letters B and V are pronounced exactly the same in all […]
Earlier this year we talked about the RR sound in Spanish and how rolling the R can be difficult for some nationalities. Well, we have created a long list of tongue twisters in Spanish that practice the R and RR sound. Trabalenguas = Tongue Twisters Do you see how this word is formed? From the […]
Ever wondered where to put the accent or emphasis on a word in Spanish? Well in Spanish there are 4 types of accents. These are the Palabras agudas, Palabras graves (or sometimes called palabras llanas), Palabras esdrújulas and Palabras sobresdrújulas. Learning these 4 types of words will help you know when to put the accent […]
The RR sound in Spanish The letter R in Spanish can be pronounced two ways: as a single R sound or a rolling RR sound. The double R (or RR) sound is one that does not appear in English. The RR in Spanish is a rolling sound where you tongue vibrates (or trills) on the […]