The SIELE Spanish Exam Online
The SIELE Spanish exam can also be taken online. With this news, the Instituto Cervantes surprised us a few days ago. Until now, candidates could only take the exam at an authorized examination center. This [...]
Spanish Idioms with ‘cuenta’
Spanish Idioms with ‘cuenta’ are plentiful. According to RAE, it is a polysemic term with which we can designate the action of numbering things, a mathematical operation, the deposit of money in a bank, the [...]
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 [...]
