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Spanish Past Tense Verbs

After a few days of not studying, I’m finding it easy to get back to where I left off. I went to the previous lesson of my Learning Spanish Like Crazy and have gone over my current lesson a couple of times, which is working on the past tense. A little confusing but not too [...]

How to Trill Spanish R’s

Most of us gringos have trouble trilling our r’s and especially the Spanish rr’s. Everything I’ve been able to find says practicing this tongue twister over, over and over is the best advice I can find. I’m open for any other suggestions!

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A video lesson about Spanish Reflexive Verbs. This is in addition to my other post about reflexive verbs here. Learning Spanish Reflexive verbs seems a little more difficult for some people. Here’s a better explanation about the grammar of reflexive verbs from a Professor with an entire Youtube series on Spanish grammar.
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Reflexive Verbs in Spanish

For anyone new, I’m going through Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Almost half way through at lessons 13, 14 and 15, they are going through Reflexive Verbs. There are a lot of comments in the forum about lesson 13. The narrator and the actors change, which isn’t a big deal, but this lesson is the first [...]