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In this advanced level Spanish video lesson we will learn all about the Spanish version of the Present Perfect grammar tense: El Pretérito Perfecto. This is a tense that is tricky for Spanish students to use 100% correctly as it is often used quite differently to its English counterpart. In this lesson we will focus [...]

If you’ve studied the lesson on translating “next”, you may recall that Spanish has several ways of saying that something will be coming next. The same is true when talking what will be last, as our newest lesson, on translating “last”, explains. Mainly, you’d use a different word to say
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After a day of wandering around the cobblestone streets of Valladolid, enjoying the architecture and the crystal clear water of the cenote, we headed out on a day-trip to explore the ruins of Ek’ Balam, another ancient Mayan city. As the ruins are a good 30 km away from the city, we took a collectivo [...]

One way to mark yourself as someone who doesn’t care about Spanish pronunciation is to pronounce the Spanish z as it sounds in English. With the possible exception of some rare foreign words, the z of Spanish never has the sound of the typical “z” in English (although sometimes the Spanish s does). In fact, [...]

In case you missed the written post from earlier in the month, or even if you read it and you just want to see more, here’s a short video tour of the city of Valladolid, Mexico.