Accidental Reflexive
The reflexive construction, used mainly with pronominal verbs, can also be used passively to describe accidental and unplanned occurrences.
B2 – Upper-Intermediate Spanish
B2 is upper-intermediate Spanish, consisting of conversational language that allows for in-depth discussion, opinions, and spontaneity – learn more.
Arabic Influence
Learn about the tremendous Moorish influence on Spanish language and culture in this video (with transcript and translation).
Compound Tenses
Spanish verb conjugations can be divided into two categories: simple tenses and compound tenses, and the latter can be further divided into two categories: progressive tenses and perfect tenses.
Conditional Perfect
The Spanish past conditional (aka conditional perfect) is used to indicate an action that would have occurred in the past if a certain condition had been met.
Conditional Progressive
The Spanish conditional progressive is very similar to its English counterpart (would be + -ing). In both languages, the conditional progressive expresses an action that would be in progress at a certain point in time.
Día de Muertos
Learn about Mexico’s Día de Muertos while working on your Spanish listening comprehension in this cute, fast-paced video.
Demonstrative Pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns (this one, that one, the one[s], these, those) refer to a previously-mentioned noun in a sentence. Spanish demonstrative pronouns are more complicated than their English counterparts, because there are three different sets and because they must agree in gender and number with the noun they replace.
Dictation Exercises
Practice Spanish listening comprehension, writing, and spelling at the same time with dictation exercises from PwLS.
Elemental Sounds of Spanish
Improve your Spanish pronunciation and listening comprehension with The 39 Elemental Sounds of Spanish Master Class, a series of webinars by Idahosa Ness.
Enlace / Encadenamiento
Enlace or encadenamiento is the phenomenon in Spanish whereby each word seems to run into the next, as if there are no boundaries between them.
