
Learning English – Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing
Adjectives ending in -ed or -ing can be confusing. For example, when the bilingual mother of my friend answered the phone and it was a sales call, she would politely…
Adjectives ending in -ed or -ing can be confusing. For example, when the bilingual mother of my friend answered the phone and it was a sales call, she would politely…
In today’s lesson you’ll learn how to talk about weight management in Spanish. This is lesson 5/5 of our well visit / routine visit series – thank you so much…
This is lesson 4/5 in our Spanish Well Visits series. Well Woman visits and gynecologic exams review all sorts of topics, but in this lesson we focus on: Spanish vocabulary…
In today’s video viernes lesson, you will learn how to talk about cancer screenings in Spanish. Specifically, here is what today’s lesson covers: Cancer screening vocabulary in Spanish How to…
This blog post is in English first, followed by Spanish. Scroll down to read it in Spanish. Do you ever wonder when should you use which of these verbs: look,…
Lesson 2 in our routine well visit series is all about blood pressure management and hypertension in Spanish. In this lesson we’ll cover: Important vocabulary for blood pressure conversations in…
What are direct object pronouns in Spanish? Los complementos directos o los objetos directos often the answer to the “What” of the verb and receive the first action of the…
The most requested topic for our series of Routine & Well Visits in Spanish is how to talk about different lab tests and lab results in Spanish. In this lesson…
Thank you for taking the Well Visit survey over the last couple of weeks! Here are the results and the topics that we will cover over the next 5 weeks…
ADD in Spanish is “TDA: el trastorno de déficit de atención” and ADHD is “TDAH: el trastorno de déficit de atención e hiperactividad”. In this post you’ll learn how to…
PTSD in Spanish PTSD is lesson 4 in our 5-lesson series on discussing mental health in Spanish. If you missed the previous lessons, be sure to check out the lessons…
In today’s lesson, we’re addressing topic #3 from the mental health survey that our community members asked to learn about: addiction & substance abuse in Spanish. Here is the Discussing…
This is Lesson 2 of 5 in our Mental Health in Spanish series. In this free Medical Spanish lesson, you will learn how to talk about anxiety in Spanish with…
This is Lesson 1 of 5 in our Mental Health in Spanish series. In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to talk about depression with your patients…
Collocations are two or more words that go together in an expression, such as fast food, pay attention, or happily married. Collocations make our vocabulary richer. They make it easier…
Bien y Bueno/a son unas de las palabras que suelen generar confusión cuando estás aprendiendo español: ¿Cómo saber cuándo usar “bien” y cuándo usar “bueno/a”? En este artículo explicaremos su…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson, you will learn how to give clinical recommendations in Spanish and how to start using the subjunctive: Cómo dar recomendaciones clínicas en español y…
Many or much? A few or a little? Fewer or less? How do you know which of these words to use when you are describing the quantity of something? This…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to talk about upper respiratory infections in Spanish: Infecciones de las vías respiratorias superiores. We will be talking about: Respiratory…
If you’ve ever had trouble saying “for” in Spanish, you’re not alone! Although POR and PARA in Spanish may both be translated as for in English, they cannot be used interchangeably in…
SER and ESTAR, they both mean “to be”?! Why does the Spanish language have two verbs expressing “to be” while in English there is only one? Both verbs have very…
When you listen to conversations in English, you will hear the verb to get in many different contexts. It is one of the 100 most common words in the English…
When you talk about contraception in Spanish, you generally cover a handful of subtopics: cost, effectiveness, any STI protections, OTC vs prescriptions, etc. So in this free medical Spanish lesson,…
Stuck at home trying to figure out how to work productively and support your kids’ learning at home? In this video Rory & Leslie Foster share some tips from their…
How often do you use idiomatic expressions in your Spanish conversations? Do you know some “dichos” en español? Whichever your native language is there are so many colloquial / idiomatic…
In this Spanish for Educators lesson, you will learn how to give commands in Spanish. When we think of common classroom management phrases used in the classroom, many of them…
Medical Spanish Tú commands are a little bit tricky. When you work with kids in the clinical setting, you use commands all the time. Simple things like: “open your mouth”,…
Giving instructions, suggestions and requesting things is a daily aspect of working with patients. In order to say something like: “sit down, please”, “follow me”, “wait here for a moment”,…
Abruptly, one day you’re teaching your students face to face and the next you’re faced with the daunting challenge of teaching your students online. Where do you begin? How do…
In this Spanish for Educators lesson, you will learn three steps to implement redirective language or “lenguaje redirectivo” in your classroom. Here are the 3 Steps to Implement Redirective Language…
This is the first lesson of a new series called “Manejo de aula” (Classroom Management). This Manejo de aula series focuses the Spanish you need in order to manage behavior,…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn: How to use “¿Cuánto tiempo hace que… ?” and “¿Hace cuánto que…?” Examples in the clinical setting to start using these…
En esta lección, estaremos conversando sobre un tema muy interesante en la mayoría de países de Latinoamérica y, en especial, de Argentina: El fútbol. Spanish teachers you can incorporate this…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how 36 Medical Spanish Transition Words Notes TODAY: Palabras de transición para español médico. In this free Medical lesson you will…
Do you ever feel like you know exactly what you want to say, and you have all the right words in Spanish, but you just can’t get them out in…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to say use some medical Spanish adverbs of location, frequency and manner: adverbios de ubicación, frecuencia y manera en español…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to talk about the Coronavirus in Spanish with your patients: Cómo hablar sobre el Coronavirus en español. In this free…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to have Mental Health Conversations in Spanish with your patients: Conversaciones sobre salud mental. Here is the Mental Health Conversations…
Verbs are the glue that stick all of your Spanish vocabulary together and allow you to string together complete thoughts in Spanish. In this lesson you will learn 192 essential…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson, you will learn how to have high blood pressure and hypertension conversations in Spanish: Presión alta e hipertensión. Here is the High Blood Pressure…
In this free Spanish for Educators lesson you will learn how to respond with a simple answer en español to this common parent question: ¿Mi hijo califica para recibir educación…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson, you will learn how to talk about media use amongst children and adolescents in Spanish: Consumo de medios, tiempo de pantalla y redes sociales.…
In this Maestro Miércoles lesson you will learn how talk about 13 disability categories in Spanish with parents and guardians: 13 categorías de discapacidades. Su reto profesional: use this new vocabulary…
In this free Spanish for Educators lesson we are talking about Spanish for Parent – Teacher Conferences: Reuniones de padres y maestros. The objective of this Spanish lesson is for…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson, you will learn how to talk about smoking, vaping, and tobacco cessation in Spanish: Fumar, vapear y dejar de usar tabaco. In this lesson…
In this Spanish for Educators lesson, you will learn 10 Spanish conversation starters to uncover the personal and educational backgrounds of your Spanish Speaking students. This beginning of the school…
The first thing to learn is the different terms used in English and Spanish: Motivational Interview is Intervención Motivacional. In some Spanish speaking regions is also acceptable to say Entrevista…
Teachers in our Spanish for Educators community speak up and we love it! Following your suggestions about the vocabulary you need to master in the classroom, we have developed this…
In this free Medical Spanish lesson you will learn how to talk about weight loss and management anticipatory guidance in Spanish: Orientación temprana para controlar peso y evitar obesidad. Last…
In this Spanish for Educators lesson, you will learn how to talk about the growth mindset in Spanish: La mentalidad del crecimiento. As teachers, we never stop learning! And as…