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This is often challenging for students at the beginning. Both words can be broken down into 4 categories of use, which together can make it a lot simpler to understand when these two different words that ...

First of all, this is a great question and something which almost every English speaker struggles with when learning Spanish because we only use one verb to convey both uses of 'ser' and 'estar'. The main...

This is something almost all English speakers learning Spanish struggle with, particularly since all the rules seem to have exceptions!Generally speaking, you use 'ser' for characteristics (descriptions, ...

The preterite and imperfect are both past tenses in Spanish. In general, the preterite tense is used to describe actions that took place in the past and are completed, wh...

The perfect tense (eg. to have done something) in Spanish functions exactly as it does in English. We take the verb haber, which works like 'to have' in English and conjugate it:(yo) he(tú) has(él/ella/us...