How to learn Spanish at home?
How to learn Spanish at home? COVID-19 has put the world in jeopardy and we must be responsible and stay home. Now, many Europeans are in confinement and we cannot leave home for some weeks, [...]
Prepositional Verbs in Spanish
Prepositional verbs in Spanish are a kind of verbs that require or are often followed by a preposition. Some of them are even formed with the reflexive pronoun se. This extraordinary nature makes them very [...]
Por and para in Spanish: other uses
Por and para are still on our minds. We learnt about two uses of these prepositions some weeks ago: space and time. However, there are more questions to take into account. Today, we’ll go deeper [...]
Happy New Year 2020!
Happy new year 2020, ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! The staff of Spanishviaskype.com want to wish you un próspero 2020. A new decade started and it’s time for buenos propósitos (good resolutions). Learning a new language is [...]
The Word “Gracias” in Spanish in 4 different uses
The word “gracias” in Spanish is worldwide known. It’s maybe one of the first five words you learnt when you started studing Spanish. It’s a sign of good manners and politeness. Tomorrow it’s Thanksgiving Day [...]
How to Express Future in Spanish
How to express future in Spanish? That is a good question during an election campaign. Next Sunday, Spaniards will decide their future, one more time. Politicians love talking about future, [...]
Indicative Past Tenses in Spanish
Indicative past tenses in Spanish is one of the steps that you will need to climb if you want to reach the intermediate level. You will need to master the [...]
Clauses of purpose in Spanish
Clauses of purpose in Spanish (also known as final clauses) are subordinate adverbial clauses expressing the objective of a verbal action. They are a reply to the question ¿para qué? [...]
Gerund in Spanish: 5 different uses
The gerund in Spanish is a non-personal verbal form. What does it mean? Well, the infinitives, participles and gerunds are not conjugated forms, that express, in addition to their verbal sense, other meanings. The [...]