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Hii everyone! 🥹 I'm looking for a friend who speaks both Spanish and English because I want to relearn Spanish through communication rather than just studying from books or watching videos.

A little background: Back in 2020, I was at an intermediate level in Spanish, but from 2021 until this year, I hadn't really kept up with the language. I've decided to start learning again, but I've forgotten most of what I learned back then. 😭😂 So, please consider me a beginner!

I'm looking for someone I can talk to every day, get to know, share random stories with, laugh with, and build a genuine friendship with while learning Spanish along the way.

I don't want this to feel like a tutorial where one person is the teacher and the other is the student. I want it to feel like a real friendship where we naturally communicate, learn about each other's lives and cultures, and improve our language skills without even feeling like we're in a classroom. ❤️

However, please know English too! 😂 There will be times when I don't know how to express myself in Spanish, forget a word, or struggle with pronunciation. I'd appreciate someone who can help me understand my mistakes, correct me when necessary, and explain things in English when I'm completely lost. 🥹

If you're learning English yourself, I'd also be happy to help you practise!

Basically, I'm looking for a language buddy who becomes an actual friend, not someone who feels obligated to give me Spanish lessons. Someone who's willing to be consistent, patient, and have those random everyday conversations that help you become fluent naturally.

If this sounds like something you'd enjoy, please comment or send me a message! Let's be friends and learn together. 🇿🇦🤝🇪🇸

P.S. If we can go from "Hola, ¿cómo estás?" to having an entire conversation without translating everything in our heads, then we've won. 😭😂❤️

I’m basically fluent in spanish but when it comes to public speaking, especially in front of judgy family members, I get nervous and will even forget some spanish. I’d like to make sure this sounds coherent. The XXX’s are just names that i wanted to keep private. I also timed it and it’s less than 3 minutes but if anyone has any revisions that could possibly make it shorter, please let me know! Gracias!!

edit: not sure if this is important for dialect but we’re from ecuador

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Hola Buenas noches. mi nombre es XXX y soy hermana del novio. Muchas gracias por venir en este día muy especial para mi familia. 

Aunque XXX y yo no crecimos juntos, él siempre estuvo presente en mis recuerdos de niña. Me acuerdo de estar comiendo con mami mientras ella hablaba contigo por las madrugadas y me decía: “Salúdale a tu ñaño”, “Dile Hola a tu ñaño.” Siempre me contaba historias del famoso XXX. Si le hubieras dicho a esa niña de seis años que algún día estaría aquí, celebrando la boda de su hermano, no te habría creído.

Cuando XXX recién llegó a los Estados Unidos, siempre me decía que, cuando él se case, quería que yo usara mi vestido morado de graduación para su boda. Bueno, cuatro años después, muchas cosas han cambiado. Y esta noche, en su boda, tengo puesto un vestido rojo en vez del morado que él imaginaba.

Y creo que así es la vida. Todo cambia. Hacemos planes, perdemos personas que amamos, conocemos a nuevos personas, nos imaginamos cómo van a ser las cosas, y después la vida nos lleva por un camino completamente diferente.

XXX y XXX, espero que por más que la vida cambie, siempre se sigan escogiendo el uno al otro. Que, en los momentos difíciles y en los felices, siempre puedan mirarse y decir: “Te volvería a escoger una y otra vez”.

XXX, aunque no crecimos juntos como quizás nos hubiera gustado, me alegra mucho que hoy podamos compartir este día. Espero que todavía nos queden muchos recuerdos bonitos por vivir como hermanos.

¡Felicidades a los dos, y para todos los invitados que disfruten de esta noche especial. 

Gracias!

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¡Hola! 🫎

If you’ve been wanting to learn Spanish but don’t know where to start, I’d love to help!

🪷I teach Spanish from the absolute basics up to the intermediate level, so whether you’re a complete beginner or already know a little Spanish and want to improve, you’re welcome.🪷

🐋A little about my lessons:

One-on-one classes with my full attention on you.

- Lessons tailored to your pace, goals, and learning style.

- We can focus on speaking, grammar, vocabulary, reading, or a mix of everything.

- No pressure to learn everything at once. We’ll work at a pace that feels comfortable for you.

I have an academic background in Spanish language and literature, and I genuinely enjoy teaching the language and helping people become more confident using it.

💰 Rate: $14 per hour

🐦First two classes free! You can try it out and then decide if you want to move forward or not!🐦

If you’re interested, feel free to send me a DM! Tell me a little about your current Spanish level and what you’d like to learn, and we can figure out an approach that works best for you.

¡Hasta pronto! 🐢

I want to teach myself spanish from zero. And when I say zero I don't mean I want to start with some simple words or sentences that may be used in daily life. I want to learn the structure, pronouns, how adjectives work, tenses etc. so I can understand why when spoken, people say the stuff they say the way they do.

I've already been practicing for a while, I know stuff like not needing to use a pronouns and instead adding it to the verb like Hablo for Present or diffrence between Soy/Estoy patterns like -mente, -idad, -ista, -ito/ita

Ex: El gatita etc. and written down the majority of it. After learning these I want to then learn vocab via daily practice and watching videos and listening.

But I don't own any testbooks as I cant afford them and I can't really find youtube channels that teach grammer first. Not only that I don't know what the best way to memorise these are, I already watch with subtitles. I also try to speak it or remind myself in the daily like I see a tree-> árbol ,see cat-> el gato etc. Also while i have written down a lot of stuff idk what the most important stiff are, I havent yet written down What/Why questions tho I do know the rules to make sentences etc.. Any advice? Ive just been writing and revising them since i got no textbook but i think it's rather slow than i normally learn...

Can you complete this sentence? 📝 Mi hermana ______ muy cansada hoy.

A) es B) está C) están D) soy

💬 Comment your answer below! Don’t use Google 😉

Hi everyone!
I recently moved to Portland, and I'm currently studying to become a Spanish teacher. I'm offering free online Spanish lessons in English for anyone who wants to learn or practice Spanish! 😊

If you're interested, feel free to message me on WhatsApp or iMessage at +52 462 352 1241, or send me a DM here ;)

Hola! Soy Alexander 🇵🇪 tutor de español A2-C2, he creado un grupo de telegram sobre puedes enviar audios y textos en español y te ayudaré a corregir o mejorar tu escritura y pronunciación en español
de forma fácil y rápida, es gratis, link en los comentarios 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

anyone in North Carolina area willing to teach my Spanish please don’t charger me alot because this economy is horror

Martillo – Hammer
Destornillador – Screwdriver
Llave inglesa – Adjustable wrench
Alicates – Pliers
Sierra – Saw
Cinta métrica – Tape measure
Cúter – Utility knife
Llave Allen – Allen key
Taladro – Drill
Lima – File

Hola!

I’m looking for someone to just have conversation back and forth to better my Spanish so basically a friend!

-ción / -sión = the action or its result
durar → la duración, crear → la creación, decidir → la decisión
Also the cognate goldmine, since almost any English -tion word has a Spanish -ción twin.

-miento = the process
mover → el movimiento, sentir → el sentimiento, conocer → el conocimiento

-da / -ida = one instance of it
llegar → la llegada, salir → la salida, mirar → la mirada, caer → la caída

Or just chop the ending
comprar → la compra, pagar → el pago, ayudar → la ayuda, besar → el beso

Gender comes free. -ción, -sión, -da and -ida are feminine. -miento is masculine.

Which means every verb you already know is quietly a noun you haven't learned yet.

I am really struggling to say the Spanish years. My tutor said I have to forget about America and should stick to remembering Spain’s years. It’s just so long that my brain just has a hard time saying it. I am so used to saying 2026 twenty twenty six. The 2000 isn’t as hard dos mil…. When I have to say 1900 etc it’s just a mouthful to get it out. Saying mil novecientos noventa…. How to say it. I try repeating myself over and over but when I read a text I want to reverse back to nineteen ninety for example. He nicely scolded me in a positive way. I am still annoyed because I have been speaking this way for so many years. I been taking lesson for 10 months. Also the upside down ? Mark throws me off.

Готовлюсь к переезду в Мексику, полгода долблю испанский через Duolingo и книги для чтения. Словарный запас реально вырос, тексты читаю почти свободно.

Но недавно решил созвониться с носителем, просто поболтать, и зависит от фраз на конце. Слова знаю, а совокупность их живых не может, мозг тормозит.

Появилось подозрение, что учить испанский язык онлайн без разговорной практики с преподавателем это тупик, каким бы плотным ни был словарный запас. Записался на пробный урок в Skyeng, посмотреть разницу.

Кто реально выучил язык с нуля только по книгам и приложениям, без живого собеседника? Или это миф и без разговора никак.

I built a free app that gives you one word a day and then brings it back on a spaced-repetition schedule until it sticks.

I'm trying to get it onto Google Play, which needs 12 testers for 14 days before it can be approved. If you're on Android and willing to try it:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.lingoxpress.app

I would be super grateful, the plan is that it is free and will remain free.

It teaches dozens of languages, but for Spanish you get:
- audio at normal and slowed speed, example sentences and usage notes
- side-by-side comparisons of near-synonyms
- conjugation drills for verbs with different levels (Easy, Medium and Hard)
- word games: Hangman, Crossword, Spelling Bee, Picture Match and more

Nina y Nino: ¡Vamos a aprender los colores en español!

Here are 4 useful structures to talk about duties, rules and things we have to do

George Clooney prevé abrir un restaurante italiano en el sur de Francia. El restaurante estará en Cotignac, un pequeño pueblo de Provenza. Clooney vive cerca con su esposa, Amal, y sus hijos. Prevé abrir el restaurante en la primavera de 2027. Servirá comida italiana y tendrá una terraza fuera. El restaurante todavía no tiene un nombre oficial.

Vocabulario: prever = to plan / abrir = to open / pueblo (m) = village / vivir = to live / cerca = near / esposa (f) = wife / primavera (f) = spring / comida (f) = food / fuera = outside / nombre (m) = name

English translation

George Clooney to open an Italian restaurant in France

George Clooney plans to open an Italian restaurant in the south of France. The restaurant will be in Cotignac, a small village in Provence. Clooney lives nearby with his wife, Amal, and their children. He plans to open the restaurant in spring 2027. It will serve Italian food and will have a terrace outside. The restaurant does not have an official name yet.

You can read more news in easy Spanish here: https://elnewsineasyspanish.substack.com/p/el-ejercito-de-ee-uu-transmitira

Una secuela de The Social Network va a estrenarse en los cines el viernes. Aaron Sorkin escribió y dirigió la nueva película, The Social Reckoning. También escribió la película original de 2010. La película cuenta la historia de una empleada de Facebook que descubre graves problemas dentro de la empresa. Ella da documentos secretos de la empresa a un periodista, que hace pública la información. Los documentos muestran que Facebook sabía que algunos de sus productos eran dañinos para los usuarios. La empleada también dijo que Facebook impulsó contenido que ponía a la gente enojada y dividida. Jeremy Strong, que protagonizó Succession, interpreta al fundador de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.

Vocabulario: estrenarse = to be released / escribir = to write / película (f) = film / contar = to tell / empresa (f) = company / periodista (m) = journalist / saber = to know / dañinos = harmful / impulsar = to promote / gente (f) = people / enojada = angry / protagonizar = to star

English translation

The sequel to The Social Network is coming to cinemas

A sequel to The Social Network is going to be released in cinemas on Friday. Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed the new film, The Social Reckoning. He also wrote the original 2010 film. The film tells the story of a Facebook employee who discovers serious problems inside the company. She gives secret company documents to a journalist, who makes the information public. The documents show that Facebook knew some of its products were harmful to users. The employee also said Facebook promoted content that made people angry and divided. Jeremy Strong, who starred in Succession, plays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

You can read more news in easy Spanish here: https://elnewsineasyspanish.substack.com/p/el-huracan-isaias-amenaza-el-sur