Spanish Lessons with Lissette

Dinner dialogue in Spanish: My students also learn through dialogues that I share with them about situations they will find in everyday life, or about conversations that we have together at the beginning of class. Here’s a sample of a couple’s dialogue before heading to dinner at a restaurant. (Original text by Lissette) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis: ¿Dónde quisieras ir a cenar hoy? Where would you like to hav

I love teaching patterns that help my students learn Spanish grammar in a fast and easy way. In fact, there is an easy pattern that you can use to build the past tense, and here it is! As you can see in the chart below, there is a similarity on how each ‘person’ in the AR, ER and IR verbs conjugates in the past (I have bolded the similarities). Notice a couple of vowel changes in those conjugations (in red for AR verbs, in blue for ER-IR), and you will be able to memorize th