EASY SPANISH LESSONS

When you move to Spain, some of you want to start speaking with your Spanish neighbours ASAP so you look for Spanish lessons. Some city councils with a big foreign community organized free lessons, maybe, at the beginning, you will find attracted by this but, soon, you will realize you are not learning anything and you will give up. So, I´m not talking they are bad teachers but their way of teaching foreign adults is not the correct one. So let´s see the pros and cons about these lessons PROS 1 They are free 2  Only Spanish is spoken (but, are this really an advantage?)   CONS 1 Only Spanish is spoken (see? It´s not really a pro). If you start learning Spanish from zero, you will be lost from the first day because their method is speaking only in Spanish, a method that works for kids but not for adults facing a new language (even if they advertise the lessons are for over 18). 2  They teach “by the book” so you won´t learn the Spainsh spoken in real life but a grammar-per...

Today  we are going to talk about FECHAS  ( Dates ). Do you already know how to write dates in Spanish? Writing dates in Spanish is pretty much the same as in English...There´s a little catch! The date format that Spanish speakers prefer is the following:  day / month / year.    This is the opposite in US English where the month comes FIRST, before both the day and the year (that is: month / day / year)  But  British/UK English , however, allows the same format as the Spanish: day/month/year So, for example : Today's date is Ma y   4 , 20 26  or in UK 4th  of Ma y , 20 26 . In Spanish, we say "el cuatro  DE ma y o DE 20 26 ".    NOTE: You need the preposition " DE " in between the date, month and year. Yesterday was 3 rd  of May  20 26 . In Spanish: Ayer fue 3  de mayo  de 20 26 . Tomorrow is Tuesday , 5 th  of Ma y , 20 26 . Mañana es martes , cinco  de ma y o de 20 26 18. The ...