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Both the imperfect tense and the preterite tense are used to describe the past. However, they are used to describe different things. The imperfect tense is used to describe actions that happened repeatedl...

The gerund is the present continuous tense, and is used to describe things that you are doing. It is commonly translated with the ending -ing in English. For example, 'I am eating an apple', "estoy c...

When the direct object of a sentence is a person e.g. "ayer yo llamé a Juan", you must use the preposition 'a'. It is not necessary with inanimate objects, but any person/pet that you have a per...

In Spanish there are two different moods. One of these is called the indicative, which you'll already be familiar with. It is used for making factual statements, or describing obvious qualities in a perso...

There are different expressions you can use to connect two paragraphs that express opposite arguments, such as "sin embargo", "no obstante" and "por lo contrario". The use of...