How to use cual in Spanish
How to use cual in Spanish is a question of great interest to our students at Spanishviaskype.com. However, we must warn our readers that today we are not going to discuss the differences between cuál [...]
The Verb Olvidar in Spanish: How to Form it
The verb olvidar in Spanish is one of the trickiest verbs for our students at Spanishviaskype.com. According to the Dictionary of La Real Academia, when a person stops holding something or someone in his or [...]
How to Translate into Spanish Trendy Words
How to translate into Spanish the most trending English words is not an easy task. In fact, most journalists, influencers and online content creators don’t even make the effort to look for the equivalent in [...]
Curious Words in Spanish… and Pejorative Ones
Curious words in Spanish are many, however, some of them cause strangeness even among native speakers. Either because of their strange pronunciation or because of the difficulty in finding their origin, today we offer you [...]
Expressing reproaches in Spanish
Expressing reproaches in Spanish, as in all languages, is usually very stimulating for the person who give them, but very frustrating for the person who receives them. A reproach is a recrimination, a way of [...]
Indicative and Subjunctive in Spanish: a Fine Line
Indicative and subjunctive in Spanish; this is the topic that is always present in our Spanish lessons for different levels at Spanishviaskype. When an intermediate level student starts learning the subjunctive, he or she realizes [...]
Curious Facts about Spanish: the Letter “ñ”
There are many curious facts about Spanish, but perhaps the most popular is the letter “ñ”. This spelling has been used as a symbol of the Cervantes Institute, in the logo of the official SIELE [...]
Opinions in Indicative and Subjunctive in Spanish
Opinions in indicative and subjunctive, this is one of the first uses of the subjunctive that our students learn at Spanishviaskype.com: "With affirmative opinions we use indicative; when they are negative, they go with subjunctive"; [...]
Expressions with cara in Spanish
Expressions with cara in Spanish are very common in colloquial language. Now that we are living through a depressing time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a good advice could be al mal tiempo, buena cara. That’s [...]