Apretón de manos

When greeting people for the first time, what do you normally do?

A handshake

A hug

Kisses

Tap on one's back

Make eye contact with the other person

Hold the handshake for a few seconds

Smile

Different ways of greeting people in various countries

In Spanish? Please, now try to think about the whole encounter situation and let's introduce you to our dear readers before you have a look at the document entitled: Presentaciones y saludos en Español.


To finish with, this is a video list about greeting in Spanish:

Besucones 

Spanish from Chile

Los Rodríguez

Through last post we focus on the importance of different accents and dialects of languages. Now we've got Spanish from Chile, together with American English in the same Blog: Los Rodríguez life. So, if you're looking for some real and updated Spanish from Chile to read through, this could be what you'll love reading about. It's fun, fresh and full of everyday expressions and common words.

Standard Spanish

Whenever we talk about accents using our own language, we normally feel proud of them, simply because they represent our own idendity, origin and culture and it's always a great pleasure to talk about one's town, city and language accent.

However, what about Spanish as a second language? how do you feel about your own Spanish accent? Is it from Spain or Mexico? Or maybe you'd like to learn a sort of  non-dilectal Spanish or the so-called Standard Spanish.

Through this post, I'd like to know your points of view, which are very likely to be different and these differences make us better speakers of Spanish, no matter the accent or origin you may have, depending on where you normally stay.

However, what about your learning experience?

Please feel free to leave your comments about this interesting topic.

To break the ice, me gustaría comenzar por mi propia experiencia: 

Nací en Galicia, por lo tanto tengo un acento gallego cuando hablo en español, sin embargo, sé perfectamente cómo debo emplear ese acento dependiendo con quién estoy hablando y en qué situación. Mi español tampoco está cargado de sonidos más propios del gallego, sino que posee cierta sonoridad.  Lo importante es reconocerlo y sentirse orgulloso de ser bilingüe. 

En cuanto a mi experiencia como aprendiz de otras lenguas diferentes al español y el gallego, creo que la clave reside en aceptar los diferentes acentos y variedades lingüísticas como algo más que debo aprender. ¿Acaso alguien desea no saber que matices e implicaciones tienen los diferentes acentos españoles? Todo el mundo necesita conocer los diferentes registros y rasgos dialectales para entender a las personas y para que todas las situaciones lingüísticas tengan sentido, sean dialectales o standard (Real Academia Española) I just wanna learn languages and that's it. 

Prepositions

Problems with Spanish prepositions? 


Every language has its own prepostions and so, there's no other way than learning them by heart. 


However, let's try to understand them with this document and these practical language activities.


Through this post, we'll focus on por and para. Y para terminar, quisiera agradecer a Kathryn de Inglaterra por su contribución.


Hace unos días me preguntaba la diferencia entre estas dos preposiciones, pues bien aquí tenemos algunos apuntes sobre esas complicadas preposiciones en español. Espero que os sirvan de ayuda y recordad utilizarlas en vuestras conversaciones cotidianas.

Ser and estar

Problems with ser and estar, this document will help you to understand their usage and what's more important for  you: plenty of language practice. Then, all you need to do is...

And test yourself every day, not only by TESTS, but also speaking, listening, writing, reading and turning your Spanish inside out.

Campeones, campeones, campeones!

Campeones! ¡Qué partido! España 4  vs Italia 0. ¡Qué juego, qué equipo, qué forma de pasar el balón a un toque! 


Si estás aprendiendo español, debes ver el partido. Si no sabes cómo, aquí tienes un enlace al canal de televisión: Telecinco:


http://www.telecinco.es/eurocopa/goles-de-eurocopa/Conexion-Chelsea-hacer-cuarto_3_1642665773.html

Disfruta de la selección española y deja fluir ese español que llevas dentro. Ooooolé, Oooooolé, Ooooolé  y Ooooolé. Cuatro goles. ¡Qué final!

Verbling

Today's web page is really made for purpose. Verbling  is the perfect web site to get together and  share many language exchanges all over the world.

Why not? Sólo es cuestión de empezar. Puede que al principio te de vergüenza, pero verás como poco a poco te irás soltando con tu español, tampoco necesitas hablar todo en español, pues son unos 5 minutos de inglés y 5 de español, sin embargo,  en realidad,  decides tú mismo en qué idioma hablas. Si no te atreves a utilizarlo, ésta es su dirección de facebook: http://www.facebook.com/verbling  Ah! no necesitas instalar ningún programa en tu ordenador, y sobre todo, lo mejor: es gratis. Yes, it is free!

So, let's talk to many people and you'll see how fast you'll get it better and better. I hope you enjoy this site and please, let me know about your own experience by leaving a comment below this post. 

Welcome to Spanish Conversation Online

Hello, my name is Daniel and this is the first post for learners of Spanish as a second or foreign language. So, welcome to everyone and  I hope you can learn some Spanish with this blog.


Some of the posts will be written in English and others  will be published in Spanish, just depending on the level of learners all over the world.


Here you'll have the chance to meet many different learners of Spanish, so that you can get the most of your speaking practice. You'll learn all the linguistic contents and I'll try to answer all your questions on-line, whether you need some on-line Spanish lessons or simply someone to talk to. Please,  feel free to contribute with this Spanish blog, leaving a comment, and you can even send me a message through skype.


My skype name is teacher.elp 


Now, it's time to enjoy the first video about learning Spanish: "Qué difícil es hablar el español"