Write in Spanish

A description, with examples of when to use 'dónde' and related terms such as 'dónde,' 'donde' and 'adónde' in Spanish.

Dates written in Spanish typically follow the day-month-year pattern.

If you're writing in Spanish, here are instructions for typing accents and Spanish punctuation using the Windows XP or Windows Vista. This page describes how to install the international keyboard software that is part of Windows.

An overview of the greetings and salutations used in personal and business letters in Spanish.

If you're writing in Spanish with a Mac computer and need to type an accented letter or an upside-down question mark, here's an explanation of how to do it.

If you're writing in Spanish using the Ubuntu distribution of Linux and need to type an accented letter or an upside-down question mark, here's an explanation of how to do it. The steps taken here should work also with any flavor of Linux using the Gnome desktop and should be helpful with other varieties of Linux as well.

Do you know the rules for using the subjunctive mood in Spanish? If so, you'll probably do well on this quiz.

The Spanish alphabet is very similar to the alphabets of most other western European languages.

List of some of the most common abbreviations used in cell phone text in Spanish.

Learn which syllable of Spanish word receives the stress and how that can be modified through the use of diacritical marks known as accents.

How well do you know the rules of written Spanish? Find out by taking this quiz.

Spanish uses significantly fewer capital letters than does English. Whenever Spanish capitalizes a word, the corresponding word in English is capitalized, but the opposite is far from true.

What is the longest word in Spanish? On this matter, at least, the famous book of world records is wrong.

Why is the abbreviation for Estados Unidos in Spanish EE. UU instead of E. U.?

They are also known as accents, tildes and diereses or umlauts.

Unlike other accent marks, orthographic accents don't affect pronunciation. But they are vital in proper writing.

Two of the most common conjunctions — y (meaning "and") and o (meaning "or") — can change spelling and pronunciation based on the word that follows.

Spanish vowels can be classifed as strong or weak, something that's important to know when syllables matter.

Learn more about when orthographic accents are used in Spanish. Although you may have learned they are used only in questions, there are some types of statements that use them as well.

If you need to type accented letters and are using Windows, here's one way to create the letteers.

Explanation of when written accents and umlauts are used in Spanish.