¡Feliz Navidad (Merry Christmas!) everyone! By the time you read this, you will have celebrated Christmas with your family and friends. If you thought that www.spanishviaskype.com was going to leave you alone these days, you were totally wrong. People say that Spain is different and we agree, but at Christmas [...]
Winter is not a synonym of cold at www.spanishviaskype.com. We want to keep your Spanish learning warm. We know that Christmas is here and you will probably have family meetings, trips and other activities during your holidays. However, we’d like to be part of your own Christmas presents. During the [...]
One of the most satisfactory moments of being a teacher at www.spanishviaskype.com is when you encourage your students to be curious. Sometimes, teachers play the role of an interviewer, but when the students make questions, then it’s when they actually learn. Today, we’re bringing you the second article of this series about frequently asked questions [...]
Portugal and Spain share many centuries of culture and history. As real brothers, these countries have fought with each other (to expand their territories, both, in the Iberian Peninsula and America) and they felt envy of the other’s success. However, both nations feel a kind of love for the other. Linguistically, the Portuguese and Spanish [...]
The myth says that cats have seven lives; or are they nine? Maybe six? Well, depending on the place where you were born, you might have heard a different amount. In some Spanish speaking countries, seven is the number. In Turkey and Arabic countries they claim felines have only six. [...]
The Spanish language is not the most difficult one to learn, at all. Lists on the net don’t agree about the hardest one. Most of them include Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic and Finnish in the top 5. However, the majority of experts coincide on one thing: Spanish is not one of them. So, you might wonder [...]
The parts of the body is one of the first lessons in the A1 course at www.spanishviaskype.com. These contents pf vocabulary prepare students of Spanish for speaking about themselves. However, we don’t only teach this kind of words in basic levels, but also in C1 or C2, where we prepare [...]
A Spanish proverb says “la curiosidad mató al gato”; nevertheless, what would have happened to humankind without curiosity? We might not have discovered the fire, the wheel, the uses of steam or even, Internet. The fact is that our students at Spanishviaskype.com, often ask questions, based on their curiosity, mostly. [...]
Danny Elfman hammered away at us in the movie The nightmare before Christmas, with that tune. Now, schools, nightclubs and malls do the same: today is Halloween. We’ve already talked about the origins of this festivity. It’s not been familiar to Spaniards until the last decades. In Spain, the tradition [...]
It’s finally here, the feared change of time. Next Sunday the 28th, we’ll need to reset our clocks in all European Union countries. At 3:00 a.m., we’ll have to set our clocks back one hour. Is it really necessary in Spain? Last month we knew the results of a survey made by the UE: more [...]
