Yearlyglot

I’m noticing a troubling theme in the language-learning and language-blogging community: people who are looked to as subject matter experts, time and time again, encouraging their readers and followers to forego grammar.
I’m deeply troubled by this.

One of the most versatile words in many languages is “mother”, but there is probably no language in which it is more versatile than in Spanish. To a person who is learning Spanish but doesn’t know slang, one could easy walk away from a conversation wondering why people talk about their mothers so much.… continue reading

If you want to learn a foreign language, but you don’t know which one to learn; or if you want to learn several languages and you don’t know which one to start with; or, if you think learning a foreign language is too hard, and you want something that will be easier, the Spanish is definitely the best choice.

Continuing along my “to be” theme, today I am going to discuss the difference in Spanish between ser and estar, both verbs with mean “to be”. After yesterday’s extended discussion of the Russian way, today will be a piece of cake! In fact, in Spanish, the difference is even easier to remember than in Italian!