When you travel, learning even a little Spanish can turn strangers into friends faster than you can say paella. In fact, something as simple as joining a Spanish cooking class in Málaga can open the door to conversations, shared laughter, and friendships that last far longer than your holiday tan.
Read More »Can Fiesta Spanish Help You Make New Friends While You Travel?
If you really want to experience the heart of a Spanish festival, don’t just watch the parades—eat them. Festivals in Spain aren’t just about music, dancing, and fireworks; they’re also a rolling feast, with every plaza and side street transformed into an open-air dining room. And here’s the good news: you don’t need to sit down at a fancy restaurant to tuck into something delicious. Grab a paper plate, brush up on your foodie Spanish, and you’re ready to go.
Read More »Street Food Spanish: How Do You Eat Your Way Through Local Festivals?
So… you’re learning Spanish. But no one around you is. Not your partner, not your friends, not even your dog (although you’ve definitely tried saying ¡siéntate! a few times just to see). It can feel like you’re on a solo mission to fluency while everyone else is off binge-watching Netflix in English. The good news? You’re not alone in being alone—and there are ways to stay motivated and actually enjoy the process (yes, even if your only Spanish conversation today was with Duolingo).
Read More »Feeling Alone in Your Spanish Journey? Here’s How to Stay Motivated
The start of a new year is the perfect time to dream big and set goals, and what better way to do it than in Spanish? Whether you’re learning the language or just looking for a fun twist on your resolutions, the future conditional tense (el condicional simple) is the perfect tool to help you express what you would do in the year ahead. Let’s break it down and build your resolutions list, step by step!
Read More »Master the Future Conditional: Write Your New Year’s Resolutions in Spanish
We use this expression a lot in English; “I’m looking forward to going on holiday”, “I’m looking forward to seeing my friend”, “looking forward to Christmas”. We use it so much that we forget it’s actually an idiom which is something that doesn’t say exactly what it is so it makes it difficult to translate this phrase into Spanish. To help I’ve written this blog post highlighting some different ways to say “I’m looking forward” in Spanish.
Read More »How to say “I’m looking forward to that” in Spanish
Do you dread the thought of going to the hairdressers in a Spanish speaking country? Would you rather wait until you get home or take the scissors to your hair yourself than go and have to sit and struggle through a very painful hairdressing appointment? Well in today’s blogpost you’re going to learn some Spanish vocabulary and phrases that will make your hairdressing experience in a Spanish speaking country much more enjoyable.
Read More »How to prepare for a visit to the Hairdressers
The main mistake that people make when they are in a conversation with somebody and they are asked or they want to talk about where they’re from is they confuse the verb vivir, which means to live, with the verb ser, to be, where you’re actually from. So one thing is where you live, and the other thing is where you’re from.
So, in this blogpost, I thought I’d take you back to basics and recap how to say where you’re from in Español. We’re not doing where you live, we’ll save that for another post.¿Listo? ¡Vamos!
Read More »How to say where you are from in Spanish
In this blog post you’ll learn how to say “what a shame” in Español.
Read More »Useful Spanish Phrase: How to say “What a shame” in Spanish
Want to move forward with your Spanish but feeling overwhelmed with what to do next? In this blog post I share with you ten actions you can take RIGHT NOW to improve it. Read on…
Read More »10 Things you can do RIGHT NOW to improve your Spanish
There are two different verbs n Spanish that mean “to know”. The first is conocer and the second saber. It takes a bit of practice… Read More »Saber V’s Conocer – The difference between the two “To know” verbs in Spanish