Once we have seen adjectives already, the description becomes very easy. We can use some adverbs to quantify the adjective; in other words, to give to the adjective a more clear idea of its expression (very, a little bit, quite). Is better we see some examples to clarify the explanation. Adverbs that quantify an adjective: […]

As you can already guess with the title of this post, we are going to express the location according to the cardinal points: North, South, East and West. First remember: ¿DÓNDE ESTÁ BARCELONA? WHERE IS BARCELONA? BARCELONA ESTÁ EN ESPAÑA BARCELONA IS IN SPAIN   Now, let’s be a little bit more specific in its […]

In Spanish sometimes we are going to see when reading or use when speaking AL and DEL. We have mentioned it before in another post, but now, we are going to see it clear. Let’s start with AL. Basically, in Spanish when the preposition A (To) comes  right before the article masculine singular EL (The), […]

It is time to give the tools to tell the exact location. For instance, in English: to the right, inside, between…Let’s review first the previous lesson: ¿DÓNDE ESTÁ BARCELONA? WHERE IS BARCELONA? BARCELONA ESTÁ EN ESPAÑA BARCELONA IS IN SPAIN We did see already the preposition EN, that as has been explained as AT, ON […]

In this post, we are going to give a small introduction about the location of a thing or a person, or what is the same, we are going to tell how we do express the location of a thing or person.  Without knowing much about it, you might think that our personal location is given […]

There is something important that has to be explained. The personal pronoun IT. Basically this is an English pronoun that refers to things or animals; In Spanish we do not have this pronoun. Probably you did not think about that before because we are in the first stages of our learning, but, if you look […]

We have seen, in another post, permanent and temporary adjectives in order to describe the personal characteristics of somebody. Remember: YO ESTOY  SIMPÁTICO ⇒ CORRECT  I      AM        NICE (nice in a specific moment) YO SOY SIMPÁTICO ⇒ CORRECT  I      AM  NICE (A nice person permanently) This temporary/permanent idea […]

Now is the time to see what material is made out of a thing; can be glass, metal, wood… Eventually can also be important in order to describe a thing. The structure of the sentence is a bit different than English, but in general terms, it is the same.  First let’s the translation of material […]

Once we have seen the main adjectives in another post (if we have forgotten some that you are thinking of, forgive us) in order to describe a thing, it is time to color them and keep explaining characteristics of that specific thing. It is time to see colors of course: Once we have it all explained, […]

Things we have in class in Spanish For this very blog, we are going to learn how to describe things. Whether it is a whiteboard, a chair, a table.Remember that we have already seen this vocabulary when we were seeing masculine/feminine and plural/singular but we are going to use them again for our describing things […]