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Gerald's Spanish Language Blog June 2007 Archive

By Gerald Erichsen, About.com Guide to Spanish Language since 1998

Money matters

Friday June 22, 2007
The most common unit of currency in Spanish-speaking countries is the peso, followed by the dólar estadounidense. How many other currencies can you name? See the currency list...

Counting isn't always as easy as uno, dos, tres

Saturday June 16, 2007
Learning the basics of counting in Spanish is matter of learning perhaps a couple dozen words and how to combine them. But the numbers of Spanish have their quirks. For ... Read More

In the end, meaning matters

Friday June 15, 2007
Spanish is a language rich in suffixes. Take a simple word such as mundo (world), for example. With suffixes it can become mundanal (having to do with the human world), ... Read More

Andar not meant to be always understood literally

Thursday June 14, 2007
In its literal sense, andar means "to walk." But if you always understand it literally, andar often won't make sense. It is often much more vague in meaning, sometimes even ... Read More

Contrasting pero and sino

Saturday June 9, 2007
Both pero and sino are usually translated to English as "but." But that doesn't mean they are interchangeable. Read more...

Are you new to learning Spanish?

Saturday June 9, 2007
If Spanish is a new language for you, or if you learned the language years ago and need to brush up, be sure to check out our collection of lessons ... Read More

Heading in the right direction

Thursday June 7, 2007
East is east and west is west, but in Spanish it's slightly more complicated. Spanish has two words for each of those directions, and a few adjective forms that don't ... Read More

One way to turn a verb into an adjective

Thursday June 7, 2007
When most people think of present participles in Spanish (if they think about them at all!), they usually think of verb forms ending in -ando or -endo. They are the ... Read More

Need for noun-adjective agreement is fundamental rule

Monday June 4, 2007
One of the basic rules of Spanish grammar is that nouns must agree in number and gender with the adjectives that accompany them. If you're new to learning Spanish, this ... Read More

Learn a new word — or more — today

Saturday June 2, 2007
Learning words as they are used in real life is one of the best ways to build your vocabulary. And that's the way our popular Word of the Day feature ... Read More

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