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LearnCraft Spanish

178: Encima vs Además

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference in Spanish between encima and además? Let's learn a bunch of new Spanish adverbs, including the words for "besides", "around", and "including".

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/178

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is simply la mejor.

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Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:10.0

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:15.0

Today we're going to learn a bunch of new adverbs,

0:18.1

including the words for around besides and including let's start with some

0:26.6

really easy ones remember that sometimes an english adverb turns into a spanish

0:32.4

adverb when the l y at the end is replaced with Mente.

0:38.7

We saw that with the word really,

0:41.5

which is sometimes translated into Spanish as realmente.

0:46.7

And exactly, which is exactly.

0:51.9

This trick doesn't always work, but it sometimes does.

0:56.0

The word in Spanish for probably and simply do work for this.

1:02.0

So probably is probably and

1:05.0

and simply is simplymente. These words are pretty long, but it helps to break down the rhythm of the

1:17.1

words into their stressed syllables. Both words stressmente at the end. In the case of

1:25.6

Probablemente, it might help to put a slight stress on Bob and a strong

1:32.0

stress on ment. Probablemente. And for Simplemente, put a slight stress on Simp and a strong

1:42.4

stress on mint. Simplemente.

1:46.0

Here are a couple of examples.

1:49.0

This view is simply the best.

1:53.0

This vista is simply the

1:58.0

mehore.

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