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Jan
28
2012

Keeping It Short: Spanish Abbreviations

You probably don’t have to think too hard to figure out what the Spanish abbreviations a.m. and p.m. mean. But how about d.C. and ONU, which are also very common? To find out, check out our list of the most common abbreviations you’re likely to run across.

Jan
28
2012

Keeping It Short: Spanish Abbreviations

You probably don’t have to think too hard to figure out what the Spanish abbreviations a.m. and p.m. mean. But how about d.C. and ONU, which are also very common? To find out, check out our list of the most common abbreviations you’re likely to run across.

Jan
25
2012

Advanced Spanish Lesson 28 When to use Lo

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In this advanced level Spanish lesson we will analyse the little Spanish word “lo” and all its uses. This is a short, but vital word to understand and many students struggle on, never fully grasping all of the sides to “lo”. There is no one clear and simple translation [...]

Jan
25
2012

Don’t Get Rid of Quitar

Take a look at the verb quitar, and “quit,” “quite” and “quiet” may come to mind first. But don’t be deceived by these false friends. Quitar has nothing to do with quiet (although “quiet,” “quite” and quitar might be distant cousins, all possibly related to the Latin quitare), and it can mean “quit” only in [...]

Jan
23
2012

A Different Kind of Tense

Usually, when we think of verb tenses, we think of past, present and future. However, there’s another tense, the conditional tense, that doesn’t fit neatly in any of those categories. Sometimes known in Spanish as the futuro hipotético, it is usually the equivalent of the using the auxiliary verb “would” in English to refer to [...]