¡Hola y bienvenidos!

Hello and welcome to my Spanish Grammar Help website. This is the place to find helpful resources for your Spanish class or to tune up your Spanish!

This is not another list of resources! I chose from many websites what I consider the best exercises and grammar explanations hoping you got the best shot for each grammar point!

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns please feel free to contact me.

Manuel Gómez-Navarro
e-mail: [email protected]

Lecturer of Spanish
World Languages Department
Boise State University

1. Pronunciation -5 vowels/5 sounds-

A "Ah" as in "Father"          E "E" as in "Red"          I "Ee" as in "Cheese"

O "Oh" as in "Old"          U "Oo" as in "Boo"          
Try/Prueba:
d
g
ll 
ñ canyon
q king, never kw like in queen
r
rr
http://videoele.com/A1_Pronunciacion_marcas.html
http://www.rocketlanguages.com/spanish/learn/pronunciation/

2. Gender and Number of Nouns -matching nouns and adjectives-
Grammar Gender
Grammar activity (Gender)
Grammar Number
Grammar activity (Number)
Interactive learning!/¡Aprendizaje interactivo!: 
Games!/¡Juegos!: 
More games!/¡Más juegos!: 

3. Definite and Indefinite Articles
VideoEle
Grammar
Game

http://videoele.com/A1_los-articulos.html

4. Subject Pronouns

SINGULAR
Yo como fruta / I eat fruit
Tú estudias español / You study Spanish
*Usted lee un libro / You read a book
Él bebe agua / He drinks water
Ella va a clase / She goes to class

PLURAL
Nosotros/Nosotras corremos un maratón / We run a marathon
**Vosotros/Vosotras tomáis el tren / You'l take the train
***Ustedes compran en el mercado / You'l buy in the market
Ellos bailan salsa / They dance salsa
Ellas viajan a España / They travel to Spain

*Usted and ustedes are used in formal contexts in Spain, and in both formal and informal contexts in other Spanish speaking countries
**Vosotros is currently used in Spain
***The form you´l in Latinoamérica is ustedes but is conjugated like the ellos/ellas form.

5. Direct Object Pronouns
Click here to edit.
http://videoele.com/A2_Pronombres_atonosI.html

6. Indirect Object Pronouns

7. Ser/Estar
Test: Ser/Estar

Ser and estar (contrasting uses)

When a noun follows the verb, use ser
When an adjective follows the verb, decide between "essence" (ser) and "condition" (estar)
To tell where something is from, use ser
To tell where something is located right now, use estar
To tell where an event is taking place, use ser
http://videoele.com/A1_Saber_ser_saber_estar.html

8. Present Tense Regular Verbs

Practice
http://videoele.com/A1_En-el-presente.html

9. Present Tense Irregular Verbs

Grammar Activity

10. Stem-Changing Verbs

o:ue      DORMIR : DUERMO

e:ie       CERRAR : CIERRO

e:i         REPETIR : REPITO
http://videoele.com/A2_Presente-irregular.html
Grammar Activity 1
Grammar activity 2

11. "Gustar" and similar verbs (fascinar, encantar, molestar, etc.)

http://videoele.com/A1_Las_cosas_que_me_gustan.html

12. Reflexive Verbs

http://videoele.com/A2_Verbos-reflexivos.html
SOME REFLEXIVE VERBS 

13. Regular Preterite Verbs

Quiz

14. Irregular Preterite Verbs
Test
Preterite review -ar, -car, -gar, -zar (reminder: only with yo)
SACAR    saqué
PAGAR    pagué
ABRAZAR   abracé

15. Imperfect tense

There are only three irregular verbs in the imperfect!: SER (yo era, etc), VER (yo veía, etc), IR (yo iba, etc).
Quiz: Imperfect tense
Quiz: ser, ver, ir

16. Preterite vs Imperfect
http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pretimp4.htm

http://videoele.com/B1_Algo_inesperado.html

17. Future Tense

Quiz

18. Subjunctive

HOW TO FORM THE PRESENT SUBJUNCTIVE: 

-ar verbs: -e                 yo cante, tú cantes, él/ella/usted cante, 
                                      nosotros cantemos, vosotros cantéis, ellos canten

-er/-ir verbs: -a            yo coma, tú comas, él/ella/él coma, 
                                      nosotros comamos, vosotros comáis, ellos/ellas coman

                                      yo viva, tú vivas, él/ella/usted viva, 
                                      nosotros vivamos, vosotros viváis, ellos vivan
http://personal.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/chart_pres-subj.php
http://videoele.com/B1_Hacer_un_regalo.html

19. Commands/Mandatos

AFIRMATIVE
SINGULAR COMMANDS
*tú > canta, come, decide
**usted > cante, coma, decida

PLURAL COMMANDS
*vosotros > cantad, comed, decidid
**ustedes > canten, coman, decidan

*Those forms are mostly used in informal contexts in Spain. 
**Usted and Ustedes can be used in both formal and informal contexts, but only in formal contexts in Spain.
NEGATIVE
SINGULAR COMMANDS
*tú > no cantes, no comas, no decidas
**usted > no cante, no coma, no decida

PLURAL COMMANDS
*vosotros > no cantéis, no comáis, no decidáis
**ustedes > no canten, no coman, no decidan
Quiz: usted/ustedes commands
Quiz: tú commands
Quiz: vosotros commands
The following verbs have special affirmative tú command forms:

decir  (to say, tell):  di                     
hacer (to do, make): haz 
ir (to go): ve
poner (to put, place): pon


salir (to leave, go out): sal
ser (to be): sé
tener (to have): ten
venir (to come): ven

20. Por/Para

http://www.alwaysspanish.com/2013/07/the-cause-effect-trick-to-remember-your.html?m=1
Quiz
Test

21. Saber vs conocer