If you're talking in English about a part of your body, let's say your heart, you would typically precede it by "my," as in "my heart." But in Spanish, you ... Read More

The indicative and subjunctive are the two most common verb modes in Spanish. There is also a third mode that is essential: the imperative mood. It is used for making ... Read More

If you've already learned the demonstrative adjectives of Spanish, you'll find it quite easy to learn the demonstrative pronouns. (The demonstrative pronouns are pronouns that point to a person or ... Read More

Estimados amigos — with that phrase, meaning "dear friends," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg began his re-election campaign's television advertising effort this week. Bloomberg's Spanish, reported by one news ... Read More

Add El Paso, Texas, to the list of U.S. cities with a Spanish-language daily newspaper. While English-language newspapers continue their decline in circulation in most of the United States, Spanish-language ... Read More

Did Mexican President Vicente Fox display a streak of racism Friday when he said that Mexicans in the United States are doing jobs that "that not even blacks want to ... Read More

Past participles are a versatile form of verb. Not only can they be used as verbs, in both Spanish and English they usually can be used as adjectives as well. ... Read More

Asked to list the verb tenses, you may quickly come up with past, present and future tenses. What may not come to mind so readily is the conditional tense, one ... Read More

Almost anywhere you live in the United States, there's at least one radio station broadcasting in Spanish. According to a recent study released by Arbitron, a company that tracks radio ... Read More

We might think of things as being in one of those places, here or there. But in Spanish, the so-called adverbs of location are just a slight bit more complex. ... Read More

Do you want to expand your vocabulary? You can, a word at a time, with our Word of the Day feature. This month, all the words begin with h, the ... Read More

The Asturian language — one of the minority languages of Spain that does not have the constitutional support that co-official languages such as Catalan do — is getting a boost ... Read More

Along with D, S is the most common consonant to begin Spanish words (the winning letter overall is E). This month, our Word of the Day features words that start ... Read More