Diptongo e Hiato

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I have just created a new page about Diptongo e Hiato. These are when Spanish words have two vowels together and how sometimes they are pronounced as one syllable (diptongo) or as a part of two individual syllables (hiato). In Chile this topic is seen by 3rd and 4th...

Videos to learn Spanish

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FINALLY!!!! We have started creating videos to help students learn Spanish. We created the channel in 2011 though have only just started adding videos now in October 2016. Our intention is to add one or two new Spanish videos every month (unless we are really busy)....

Botar vs Votar

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A common mistake I see in written Spanish are with the verbs BOTAR and VOTAR and how sometimes a person writes Botar instead of Votar and vice versa. This is common among native speakers. Why is this? According to the Real Academia Española, the letters B and V are...

Trabalenguas con R y RR – Tongue Twisters

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Earlier this year we talked about the RR sound in Spanish and how rolling the R can be difficult for some nationalities. Well, we have created a long list of tongue twisters in Spanish that practice the R and RR sound. Trabalenguas = Tongue Twisters Do you see how...

Where to put the accent in Spanish words

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Ever wondered where to put the accent or emphasis on a word in Spanish? Well in Spanish there are 4 types of accents. These are the Palabras agudas, Palabras graves (or sometimes called palabras llanas), Palabras esdrújulas and Palabras sobresdrújulas. Learning these...