Spanish tutorials The following interactive tutorials will teach you some areas of basic Spanish and allow you practise making simple sentences with on-line exercises.

Basic adjectives with ser and estar

In this tutorial you'll learn to make simple sentences involving the equivalent of am/are/is plus an adjective, such as he's English, I'm tired etc. This tutorial teaches all of the present tense forms of ser and estar. The exercises are designed to give you guided responses to your answers rather than a simple "correct"/"incorrect".

Introduction to Spanish verbs

An overview of the Spanish verb system, plus simple exercises and information allowing you to learn and practise;

• the present tense of regular -ar verbs
• the Present tense of -er and -ir verbs
• radical-changing verbs
• verbs with irregular yo forms
• continuous verb forms such as está esperando: introduction to their forms, on-line exercise, plus information on when and when not to use them;
• the imperfect tense: how to form the imperfect in Spanish, and how and when to use it compared to other past tenses;
• the perfect tense, looking at how to form the perfect tense and when to use it;
• the preterite: how to form the preterite and when to use it vs other tenses;
• the present subjunctive

How to say I like... in Spanish

A guide to sentences such as I like tennis, where Spanish expresses these sentences "the other way round".

Difficult vocab in Spanish

A summary of various Spanish words that can cause difficulty to English learners (and learners in general), including various so-called falsos amigos: Spanish words that look like English words on the surface, but have a subtly (or sometimes totally) different meaning.

Requirements

Note that to use the interactive content, you require a recent version of Java. If you don't see the interactive exercises, then see the guide to installing Java.

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