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Puerto Rican Spanish: Step-by-Step Course
Lecciones de español puertorriqueño
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Lessons build on one another from pronunciation and basic sentences through verbs, tenses, and grammar, toward natural Puerto Rican Spanish.
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🔊 Pronunciation & First Words
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Start Speaking Spanish
Empieza a hablar español
Try a first conversation, then explore every topic in the Free Quick Reference: useful phrases, numbers, time, verbs, everyday words, and more.
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Beginner — Sounds & Reading / Principiante: sonidos y lectura
Read Spanish sounds, syllables, and accent marks.
Lee los sonidos, las sílabas y las tildes del español.
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Beginner — Sounds & Reading / Principiante: sonidos y lectura
Read Spanish sounds, syllables, and accent marks.
Lee los sonidos, las sílabas y las tildes del español.
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Beginner — Build Your First Sentences / Principiante: primeras oraciones
Build a basic sentence and make nouns, articles, and adjectives agree.
Construye una oración básica y haz que los sustantivos, los artículos y los adjetivos concuerden.
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Beginner — Build Your First Sentences / Principiante: primeras oraciones
Build a basic sentence and make nouns, articles, and adjectives agree.
Construye una oración básica y haz que los sustantivos, los artículos y los adjetivos concuerden.
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Beginner · Step 5 of 21
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Words → Phrases → Sentences
Palabras, frases y oraciones
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Who + Does What + To What?
Sujeto, verbo y objeto
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Articles: el, la, un, una
Artículos definidos e indefinidos
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Adjectives & Agreement
Adjetivos y concordancia
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Beginner — Essential Verbs / Principiante: verbos esenciales
Use present-tense verbs to express needs, plans, likes, possession, and existence.
Usa verbos en presente para expresar necesidades, planes, gustos, posesión y existencia.
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Beginner — Essential Verbs / Principiante: verbos esenciales
Use present-tense verbs to express needs, plans, likes, possession, and existence.
Usa verbos en presente para expresar necesidades, planes, gustos, posesión y existencia.
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What Is a Verb? -ar, -er, -ir
Verbos e infinitivos
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Present Tense: -ar Verbs
Presente: verbos en -ar
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Present Tense: -er & -ir Verbs
Presente: verbos en -er e -ir
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Ser vs. Estar
Ser y estar
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Hay, Tener & Hacer
Existencia, posesión y expresiones
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Essential Verbs: Needs, Plans & Likes
Verbos para necesidades, planes y gustos
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Beginner — Everyday Communication / Principiante: comunicación cotidiana
Ask questions, locate things, describe routines and plans, express likes, and understand instructions.
Haz preguntas, localiza cosas, describe rutinas y planes, expresa gustos y entiende instrucciones.
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Beginner — Everyday Communication / Principiante: comunicación cotidiana
Ask questions, locate things, describe routines and plans, express likes, and understand instructions.
Haz preguntas, localiza cosas, describe rutinas y planes, expresa gustos y entiende instrucciones.
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Question Words & Making Questions
Interrogativos y preguntas
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Here, There, This & That
Lugar y demostrativos
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Prepositions & Contractions
Preposiciones y contracciones
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Near Future: ir a + Infinitive
Futuro próximo
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Reflexive Verbs & Routines
Verbos reflexivos y rutinas
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Gustar: What Pleases Whom
Gustar y verbos semejantes
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Commands: Tú, Usted & Ustedes
Mandatos
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Intermediate — Object Pronouns / Intermedio: pronombres de objeto
Replace direct and indirect objects and combine pronouns.
Sustituye objetos directos e indirectos y combina pronombres.
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Intermediate — Object Pronouns / Intermedio: pronombres de objeto
Replace direct and indirect objects and combine pronouns.
Sustituye objetos directos e indirectos y combina pronombres.
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Direct Object Pronouns
Pronombres de objeto directo
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Indirect Objects & Pronouns
Objetos indirectos y sus pronombres
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Two Pronouns & Placement
Dos pronombres y su posición
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Intermediate — Talk About Time / Intermedio: hablar del tiempo
Describe events in the past, present, and future.
Describe acontecimientos en el pasado, el presente y el futuro.
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Intermediate — Talk About Time / Intermedio: hablar del tiempo
Describe events in the past, present, and future.
Describe acontecimientos en el pasado, el presente y el futuro.
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Present Tense & Stem Changes
Repaso del presente y cambios de raíz
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Preterite: Completed Events
Pretérito: hechos terminados
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Imperfect: Background & Habits
Imperfecto: contexto y hábitos
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Preterite vs. Imperfect
Pretérito e imperfecto
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Future Tense
Futuro simple
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Present Progressive
Estar + gerundio
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Present Perfect
Pretérito perfecto compuesto
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Intermediate — Connect Ideas / Intermedio: conectar ideas
Connect clauses, compare things, and explain reasons.
Conecta cláusulas, compara cosas y explica motivos.
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Intermediate — Connect Ideas / Intermedio: conectar ideas
Connect clauses, compare things, and explain reasons.
Conecta cláusulas, compara cosas y explica motivos.
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Por vs. Para
Por y para
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Comparisons
Comparaciones
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Connect Ideas: Because, But, So
Conectores: porque, pero y por eso
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Relative Clauses: que, quien, donde
Oraciones de relativo
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Advanced — Express Complex Ideas / Avanzado: ideas complejas
Express wishes, uncertainty, hypotheticals, and relationships between events.
Expresa deseos, incertidumbre, situaciones hipotéticas y relaciones entre acontecimientos.
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Advanced — Express Complex Ideas / Avanzado: ideas complejas
Express wishes, uncertainty, hypotheticals, and relationships between events.
Expresa deseos, incertidumbre, situaciones hipotéticas y relaciones entre acontecimientos.
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Conditional: Would & Polite Requests
Condicional
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What Is the Subjunctive?
Introducción al subjuntivo
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Present Subjunctive Forms
Formas del presente de subjuntivo
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Emotion, Doubt & Uncertainty
Emoción, duda e incertidumbre
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Past Subjunctive
Imperfecto de subjuntivo
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If… Then…: Conditional Sentences
Oraciones condicionales
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Perfect Tenses: Before Another Time
Tiempos perfectos
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Reported Speech
Estilo indirecto
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Complex Sentences: Time & Contrast
Oraciones complejas: tiempo y contraste
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Advanced — Natural Spanish / Avanzado: español natural
Choose register and understand natural speech using grammar and context.
Elige el registro y comprende el habla natural mediante la gramática y el contexto.
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Advanced — Natural Spanish / Avanzado: español natural
Choose register and understand natural speech using grammar and context.
Elige el registro y comprende el habla natural mediante la gramática y el contexto.
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Formal vs. Informal: Tú, Usted & Ustedes
Registro y formas de tratamiento
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Written Spanish & Natural Speech
Español escrito y hablado
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Common English-Speaker Mistakes
Errores frecuentes de angloparlantes
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Understanding Natural Puerto Rican Spanish
Comprender el español puertorriqueño natural
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