November 11, 2018
If you are a bilingual speaker of English and Spanish, regardless of which is your dominant or first language, you have probably scratched your head when […]
November 15, 2018
Both pero and sino translate into English as but, however, their usage is not interchangeable. Let’s start with pero. The word pero, meaning but, is an […]
November 23, 2018
Many students of Spanish and even native speakers of Spanish do not know when to place a written accent on certain Spanish words. This Tip for […]
November 29, 2018
The compound tenses, as they are often called because they are two-word tenses as opposed to the one-word conjugated verbs, which are called simple tenses. The […]
December 7, 2018
Michelle Obama’s recent autobiography serves as a welcome point of departure for exploring how translators and interpreters deal with the English verb to become as well […]
December 14, 2018
This Tip for the Week is the first in a two-part series introducing readers to helping verbs in Spanish, more technically known as auxiliary or modal […]
December 22, 2018
Some frequently encountered Spanish helping verbs deviate slightly from the simple pattern of verb-plus-infinitive construction you read about in the previous Tip for the Week. This […]
December 29, 2018
The verb dejar as a stand-alone verb, means to leave something or someone behind. Thus, it can mean to abandon or to jilt, or to stand […]
January 6, 2019
There are a number of verb pairs in Spanish that cause difficulty for English speaking learners of Spanish. Usually, the confusion is because there is only […]