I bet you’ve encountered articles and funny pictures on social media concerning ‘difficult’ languages which appear impossible to learn. Languages with no prepositions (e.g. Finnish, Estonian) are often considered difficult. Tonal languages, languages in which stress and pitch change the meaning of a word (e.g. Chinese, Japanese), languages with many strict rules (e.g. German) or languages with a completely different alphabet (e.g. Russian) are also regarded as being difficult. But the truth is that no language is too difficult to…
We Finns like to grill. Charcoal grills start popping up on our back yards the minute the first rays of spring sun touch the grass, and from Midsummer on, the smell of freshly roasted grill delicacies fills up the neighborhoods almost on a daily basis. But what kind of grilling habits do people have in other countries? We discovered some interesting barbecue and picnic traditions from different parts of the world. Perhaps some of these are already familiar to you!…
For me, listening to Spanish music has been one of the best ways to pick up new vocabulary and grammar. Every time I hear a good Spanish song, I look up the lyrics immediately to be able to sing along the next time I hear it. This is a method I can truly recommend, because by singing along, you don’t only learn vocabulary and grammar, but also lots of things about the local culture and colloquial language. Para bailar la…
If you want to take part in a Spanish conversation, you need to be brave and fast. Especially in a group, volumes tend to go up when people interrupt and talk on top of each other. Spanish conversations are usually so eventful that for a foreigner, it might feel difficult to get in. Bursts of laughter follow each other and the subject of the conversation changes before you have even had a chance to formulate and voice your comment to…
To be able to form simple sentences in Spanish, you need to know a few nouns, verbs, pronouns (I, you, he/she…) and common prepositions to help you indicate things like place and time. All these you can learn with WordDive. When you start learning Spanish, one of the first things you’ll notice will probably be that – surprise, surprise – Spanish nouns have a gender. And learning genders might feel like a mission impossible, especially for those whose mother tongue…
Are you going on a holiday under the Spanish sun? We have gathered a handy list of useful expressions that will help you in many situations. If you want to impress yourself, your travelling companion and the local people when travelling, learn at least these! ¿Hola, cómo está? – Hi, how are you? ¿Me podría ayudar? – Can you help me? Una cerveza, por favor. – One beer, please. You can use the same phrase to order coffee or a glass of sangria…