5 common Spanish mistakes that make you sound like a beginner
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Anabel walks you through five common Spanish mistakes that even intermediate and advanced learners keep making. From using "ser" instead of "tener" to confusing "a" and "en" with locations, she explains why these mistakes happen and how to fix them for good.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. I'm very excited and I'm very excited to help you take your Spanish to the next level by bringing you five of the most common mistakes in Spanish. |
| 0:21.6 | And just as a disclaimer, I am not going to be talking about |
| 0:25.6 | ser and start, |
| 0:27.6 | poor and para, or even the subjunctive. |
| 0:31.6 | The five mistakes I am bringing you are core basic mistakes. |
| 0:40.5 | Do you want to know if you cometees these errors? |
| 0:43.5 | Venga, no no us entretengers more and we're going to be the first error. |
| 0:51.5 | Ah, me dole my |
| 0:53.7 | my head? Dame your man or aggrathe Ah, me dole my my to give me |
| 0:55.8 | your man or |
| 0:57.7 | I go my deveres |
| 0:59.9 | These are some of the most common mistakes |
| 1:03.6 | learners make and it can be |
| 1:05.8 | a bit tricky to correct because |
| 1:07.7 | grammar-wise the sentences are kind of correct, but they sound strange. |
| 1:15.6 | Why is that? Because in Spanish, we don't use possessive adjectives, me, tu, |
| 1:23.5 | su, noso, wistro, and Su, with body parts. |
| 1:30.1 | This means we must say, me dule la Cabeza, or damme the mano. |
| 1:38.3 | Why is that the case? |
| 1:40.3 | Because we understand that body parts are part of ourselves. So it sounds redundant, repetitive |
| 1:48.9 | to use the possessive adjective in Spanish. If I am saying that something hurts to me, |
| 1:55.0 | it must be my head or my hand or my leg. That's why we don't need the possessive adjective. |
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