Above and below in Spanish
A lamp over a table or a ball under a chair? Compare two Spanish expressions for vertical position in everyday settings.
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Spanish: Choosing between similar words
Spanish: Distinguish easily confused meanings and constructions with contrasting contexts, clear boundaries and explained answers.
Adventure journal
Spanish: Choosing between similar words
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Near and far in Spanish
A pharmacy by the square or a village far from the coast? Express distance from a reference point with two Spanish phrases.
Read and practiseWell and good in Spanish
An action done well or a good idea? Distinguish the Spanish adverb from the adjective and make the adjective agree.
Read and practiseBad actions and bad things in Spanish
A bad performance, a bad day or spoiled soup: choose the Spanish form that describes an action or a noun.
Read and practiseKnowing a place and visiting it
A familiar neighborhood and a trip to a museum call for different Spanish verbs: distinguish knowing a place from visiting it.
Read and practiseReturning or giving something back in Spanish
A person comes back home, while a borrowed book goes back to its owner: compare two Spanish verbs for returning.
Read and practiseDejar and salir: leaving things and leaving places
Distinguish Spanish dejar for leaving an object somewhere from salir de for departing from a place, using six contextual examples.
Read and practiseHablar and decir: talking and saying in Spanish
Compare hablar de a topic and hablar con a person with decir something, using six contextual Spanish examples.
Read and practiseDesde and hasta: starting and ending points in Spanish
Distinguish desde for a starting point and hasta for an ending point in time and place, with six examples in context.
Read and practisePorque and por eso: reason and result in Spanish
Distinguish porque introducing a reason from por eso introducing a result, using paired Spanish examples.
Read and practiseHay and está: existence and location in Spanish
Compare hay for introducing the existence of something with está or están for locating an identifiable person or thing.
Read and practiseTodavía no and ya no: not yet and no longer in Spanish
Distinguish Spanish todavía no for something not yet true from ya no for a situation that no longer holds.
Read and practiseAntes de and después de: before and after in Spanish
Distinguish antes de and después de with a noun or infinitive to describe the order of everyday events.
Read and practiseTambién and tampoco: agreeing with positive and negative statements
Use también to add a positive match and tampoco to add a negative match in common Spanish responses.
Read and practiseSaber and poder with an infinitive: skill and possibility
Compare saber plus an infinitive for a learned skill with poder plus an infinitive for a current possibility or permission.
Read and practiseRecordar and acordarse de: remembering something
Compare the constructions recordar algo and acordarse de algo when talking about remembering a fact or thing.
Read and practiseIr and irse: going and leaving in Spanish
Compare ir to a destination with irse when the speaker highlights departure, using the matching personal pronouns.
Read and practiseEmbarazada and avergonzada: a Spanish false friend
Distinguish embarazada, commonly meaning pregnant, from avergonzada, meaning embarrassed or ashamed.
Read and practiseVer and mirar: seeing and looking in Spanish
Compare ver for seeing or perceiving with mirar for directing attention, while recognizing that uses can overlap.
Read and practiseAsistir a and ayudar a: attending and helping in Spanish
Distinguish asistir a una reunión, meaning attend a meeting, from ayudar a una persona, meaning help a person.
Read and practiseTener que and hay que: personal and impersonal obligation
Compare tener que when a person is specified with impersonal hay que when the sentence does not name who must act.
Read and practiseAprender and enseñar: learning and teaching in Spanish
Distinguish aprender for gaining knowledge or a skill from enseñar for helping someone learn it.
Read and practiseA tiempo, en punto and con retraso: talking about timing
Distinguish a tiempo for being on time or in time, en punto for an exact stated hour and con retraso for lateness.
Read and practiseApagar and cerrar: turning off and closing in Spanish
Distinguish apagar for turning off a light or device from cerrar for closing a door, window or program.
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