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The questions the word lists cannot answer: which “to be” to use, when por beats para, what the subjunctive is really doing, and how much vocabulary you actually need. Free to read, written around the same data Fijario drills.
Ser vs Estar: How to Choose the Right Spanish “To Be”
Ser vs estar explained: both present-tense tables, real examples, the adjectives that flip meaning, and a drill routine that makes the choice automatic.
7 min readPor vs Para in Spanish, Explained Without the Long List
Por vs para without memorising twenty rules: one idea that covers most cases, the contrast pairs that prove it, the fixed phrases, and how to drill it.
8 min readHow Many Spanish Words Do You Actually Need?
What frequency data really says about vocabulary size: why the first 1,000 words do most of the work, and why coverage is not comprehension.
8 min readThe Spanish Subjunctive, Explained Without the Jargon
What the Spanish subjunctive does, how to build the forms from the yo form, the four situations that trigger it, and the traps that look like triggers.
8 min readPreterite vs Imperfect: Choosing the Right Spanish Past Tense
How to pick between the preterite and the imperfect: what each tense actually does, the forms, the verbs that change meaning, and how to narrate a story.
8 min readDirect vs Indirect Object Pronouns in Spanish
Lo, la, le, se and the rest: which pronoun to use, where it goes in the sentence, how to stack two of them, and why le turns into se.
8 min readHow to Learn Spanish Verb Conjugations Efficiently
A practical order for learning Spanish conjugations: the endings that repeat, the eight verbs worth memorising whole, and why typed drills win.
7 min readLearn Spanish in Chunks, Not Single Words
Why fluent Spanish is assembled from ready-made phrases, which frames give the highest return, and how to practise chunks so they come out at speed.
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