Spanish "Golden" Phrases

This is so helpful!!!

May I recommend Palabra por palabra for people?

as they have some great phrases I can write some on here if people don't have it

I think so. My Spanish teacher loves it.
I only found it because I read the whole book for Spanish slangs :P

¡Hola a todo! Estudio en Escocia, y tengo muchos frases.

En primer lugar - First of all

A mi modo de ver - The way I see it
Desde de mi punto de vista - From my point of view
Según mi criterio - As for my view

Sino más bien al contrario - Quite the contrary
La otra cara de la moneda es que - The other side of the coin is that
Aunque quisiera pensar de otra manera - Although, I would like to think differently/otherwise
En cambio - Alternatively / Instead / Conversely
Lamentablemente - Regretfully / Regrettably
Es otra historia - It’s a different matter / It’s a different kettle of fish

Hoy en día resulta dificil abrir un periódico en el que no leamos que - Nowadays it's difficult to open a newspaper without reading that

No se trata de..., sino el quid de la cuestión es que - It's not about..., but rather the crux of the matter is that

Aunque parezca paradójico - Although it seems paradoxical

Es una ilusión creer que (subj.) - We're kidding ourselves by believing that (literally: It's an illusion to believe that)

Lo que pasa es que - What happens is that

O sea - To put it in another way / Or rather
En otras palabras - In other words

Yo de ti - If I were you

A cambio de - In exchange for
En lugar de - Instead of / In place of

¡Así sea! - So be it!
Así es la vida - That’s life / Such is life

¡Querer es poder! - Where there's a will there's a way
¡Saber es poder! - With knowledge comes power

Puede costar un ojo de la cara - It can be really expensive (literally: it can cost an eye from a face)

Aun así (better) / Así y todo - Even so

Después de mucho pensarlo - After a lot of thought
Sin pensarlo dos veces - Without a second thought
Casi sin pensar - Almost without thinking

Por esta razón / Por lo mismo - For that reason

Por último - Ultimately
Al fin y al cabo / A fin de cuentas - When all is said and done / At the end of the day
En resumen / En suma - In short
Esto nos lleva a la conclusión inevitable de que - This brings us to the inevitable conclusion that

Sea como sea - Whatever happens
Digan lo que digan - Whatever people say

Quizás sea por el hecho de que - Perhaps it may be due to the fact that

Hey, I'm a Spanish guy, if you need some help just tell me

BTW, I wanna improve my english skills (i'm on a intermediate level I think) so If you want to learn some Spanish we can teach each other by skype or mail or however

I like 'Como si fuese lo único que importase' -as if it were the only thing that mattered
and 'este sugiere que...' this suggests that...

Hey, I'm a Spanish guy, if you need some help just tell me

BTW, I wanna improve my english skills (i'm on a intermediate level I think) so If you want to learn some Spanish we can teach each other by skype or mail or however

It seems that a lot of people are using the imperfect subjunctive ending in ese etc but after living in Spain for a year, they never use it!! Maybe that's just because of where I was staying but it never seems to be used, except in literary texts like novels and poems but other than that not really Don't want to sound like a dick here but if you wanted to sound more native I would avoid it all together


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I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true. As a native Spanish speaker I can categorically state that imperfect subjunctive is used all the time in Spanish and most certainly not just in novels and poems...

I stayed in Corboda for 6 months and I could swear that it was barely used!! What part of Spain are you native to ? Do you have a preference when it comes to using it over the other one or is it just a pick and choose ?


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diria que- i would say that
es verdad que- it is true that
Afortunadamente- Fortunately
Desgraciadamente- Unfortunately
Lo malo es- The bad thing is
Lo bueno es- The good thing is

These are some A* phrases that i use and i am only in Year 9