Punto y coma Ep.6: Typical Mistakes 🎧

Spanish Grammar Podcast

Inma and Silvia teaching

In our “Punto y coma” podcast series, you’ll listen to KwizIQ teachers Inma and Silvia‘s light-hearted chats in Spanish about fun topics that are focused on very interesting grammar.

Listen out for their very different accents: Inma is from southern Andalusia, while Silvia is from the Basque Country in northern Spain.

To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will often be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons and interesting links to go further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to have the whole experience.

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🎧 Today’s podcast: Typical Mistakes 🎧

Today’s podcast is about some of the most common grammar mistakes that learners of Spanish make. We cover errors that students make at every level, from beginners to advanced learners.

After listening, check out our lessons and test yourself using the notebook we’ve put together, which you can find at the end of this page.

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📚 Grammar: Typical errors

 

Here are some of the lessons related covering the grammar mistakes mentioned in our podcast:

A1 Gustar (to like doing something)
A1 Gustar (to like something)
A2 Personal “a” verbs
A2 Había and Hubo (There was/There were)
B1 Deber in the conditional (should)
B2 Continuar/Seguir + present participle
C1 Ir, Salir, Venir + preposition “a”

Test yourself on this notebook below with all these lessons in one place.

Remember you can test against all lessons in the notebook by clicking on Test your knowledge, or just choose the lessons you’re more interested in and add them to your notebooks individually (this is a Premium feature).

 

 

📕✏️ Practise More!

 

Try these great KwizIQ activities to practise some of these tricky grammar points:

 

Fill-in-the-blanks:
Una despedida de soltera inolvidable (B2 – verbs with prepositions)

Reading:
Viviendas y mascotas en España (A1 -modal verbs)

 

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Author info

Inma Sánchez

After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.

Silvia Píriz

Silvia is a multilingual educator with expertise in English, French, and Spanish, and a passion for helping students excel in language learning. After gaining extensive international teaching experience in the UK and other countries, Silvia returned to her hometown of Vitoria in 2019. Since then, she has been sharing her knowledge and love for languages with learners of all levels. With over a decade of experience, Silvia’s creative and dynamic teaching methods make language acquisition both fun and accessible.