Yes, we know you already know this, BUT revising is never discouraged so: “you are” versus “your.” Are you ready? In English, it’s easy to confuse “you’re” and “your”: they are similar in structure, phonetics and seeing a lot of people make the same mistake makes you interiorise it. However, if we go back to …
You have been studying Spanish for a while, and you even know how to use the subjunctive! But you still sound like a textbook (“¿Dónde está la biblioteca?”). Here are some expressions in Spanish so that you can sound more natural. Good morning! There’s nothing like basic sayings to demonstrate your level of a language. …
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As a non-native Spanish speaker, you may be thinking: “what the… are all those??” Don’t worry, many Spanish speakers feel the same way. Lyngua Translations to the rescue! Let’s see the differences between these four words that are so similar in spelling yet so different in meaning. Por qué These two words are the Spanish …
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If you are learning Spanish, you might already know that water is feminine and, therefore, it should go with feminine articles. But that’s not always the truth. Today, we are going to learn about feminine nouns with masculine articles. Why do we say “el agua” instead of “la agua”? Short answer: because of cacophony. In …
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Part of learning Spanish is memorizing large amounts of vocabulary. Part of that is remembering false friends and using them correctly. We show you how! Definition and use A false friend is, according to the Cambridge dictionary, “a word that is often confused with a word in another language with a different meaning because the …
If you look at the title and think “What is going on?”, hold on. We are going to take a deep dive into grammar and linguistics, and the problems they cause in Spanish organizations. Linguistics is the study of language and its structure, which includes grammar, syntax and phonetics. In the case of grammar, there …
Are “Could have/could’ve” the same as “could of”? Native speakers tend to use them indiscriminately and we want to take a closer look at these two phrases. Keep reading to learn the differences and how to use them. Differences in spelling and pronunciation Let’s start with the obvious, they are not the same in how …
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Language is our way of describing the world, as well as sharing our opinion on it. English has an abundance of adjectives that we can write one after the other to share those opinions. That is why we can say we live in a beautiful little home, or that I gave my dad a handmade …
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