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These little words like de, en, a, por, la, el, or sometimes nothing can feel very random in Spanish, but there actually is some logic behind them. The hard part is that Spanish does not always match English word-for-word. For example: Salgo de casa a las ocho de la mañana. I leave the house at 8 in the morning. We use de because salir de means “to leave from” or “to go out of.” So the phrase is not really thinking “I leave the house” the same way English does. Spanish is thinking: I go out from home. Salgo de casa. That is why we say: Salgo de casa. I leave home / I leave the house. Salgo del trabajo. I leave work. Salgo de la oficina. I leave the office. Salgo del restaurante. I leave the restaurant. The de shows the place you are leaving from. Now, the reason it is casa and not la casa is because casa is often used like “home” in Spanish, especially in common everyday phrases. So: Estoy en casa. I am at home. Voy a casa. I am going home. Salgo de casa. I leave home. Trabajo desde casa. I work from home. In these phrases, casa works more like “home” than “the house,” so Spanish usually does not use la. But if you are talking about a specific physical house, then you can use la casa. Example: Salgo de la casa de mi abuela a las ocho. I leave my grandmother’s house at eight. La casa es grande. The house is big. Estoy limpiando la casa. I am cleaning the house. So the difference is: casa = home, in a general/routine sense la casa = the house, a specific physical house A helpful way to remember it: Salgo de casa. I leave home. Salgo de la casa de mi amiga. I leave my friend’s house. Voy a casa. I go home. Voy a la casa de mi amiga. I go to my friend’s house. Estoy en casa. I am at home. Estoy en la casa de mi amiga. I am at my friend’s house. This is one of those areas where it helps to learn common chunks instead of trying to translate every word separately. Some important chunks: salir de = to leave from llegar a = to arrive at ir a = to go to

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¡Un gran aplauso para @Emily Pollard! 🎉 Emily se va a un programa de inmersión en español de 7 semanas en Middlebury College, en Vermont, y nos pidió a @Ramón Otazú y a mí que la ayudáramos a prepararse con muchos cursos intensivos privados antes de irse. Para eso sirven las clases privadas: práctica enfocada, confianza y mucha conversación antes de una meta importante en español. Estamos muy emocionados de ayudarla a prepararse. ¡Vamos, Emily! 🙌 Amigos, pueden ¿Tienes interés en clases privadas? ¡Mándeme un mensaje privada! También usted pueden comentar y animar a Emily, pero ¡UNA REGLA, NADA DE INGLÉS!