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 [...]
October is time of changes. The last breath of the summer weather opens the way for cold mornings, rains and leaves falling off trees. Our habits become steadier and we spend more time at home than before. All those changes affect everybody except us. At Spanishviaskype.com, we are introducing our favourite section to you one [...]
If we did a survey about what is the hardest topic for our students at Spanishviaskype.com, we’re sure that they would answer ‘the subjunctive mode’. During these years, we’ve analysed many uses of subjunctive from a functional point of view: how to express wishes, opinions, probabilities…, but also giving syntactic [...]
There are words that, for some reason, are funny for our students at Spanishviaskype.com. These terms may have a rare pronuntiation, maybe are false friends, they could have multiple meanings, or even opposite ones. The noun ‘rollo’ and its derivatives are a good example of this. It comes from Latin [...]
