Common Ground International

01/13/2026

Our High School Spanish Immersion trips in Costa Rica and Ecuador are specifically designed to improve your Spanish skills and help you gain cultural understanding. This summer trip is so much more than your average Spanish student travel for teens!
Students may experience…
✅Personal growth
✅Gratitude
✅Independence
✅Respect

Learn more about this program and register on our website! http://www.commongroundinternational.com?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

01/12/2026

In this Spanish Quick Tip Lesson you will learn an easy 3 step process to quickly conjugate verbs in present tense subjunctive form!

Learn how to conjugate the Spanish subjunctive in 3 easy steps and be on your way to having more confidence in your speaking!

01/12/2026

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

01/12/2026

Hola amigos! You may have heard or seen that twice a year we offer a Free 10-Day Medical Spanish Crash Course online. Our next session starts in January! Here is some more info:

The idea is to help you take your next step with Spanish by creating a space online where you can LEARN medical Spanish from the Common Ground team, and PRACTICE your medical Spanish with other community members in the Crash Course.

This is our 12th Medical Spanish Crash Course since we started offering them in December '19. Every time we offer it, our students walk away with the helpful phrases and essential vocabulary they need to work with their patients in Spanish. They also get a 6 month guide for improving their medical Spanish on their own. And that's not all, they earn 6 free CME credits as well!

Our next FREE 10-day Crash Course starts Friday, January 16th. Do you want to join us? It's 3 self-paced lessons + 2 live class sessions between 1/16/26 and 1/25/26.

Register here to join our free medical Spanish Crash Course: https://commongroundinternational.com/medical-spanish/crash-course/

01/11/2026

How to Say "Screening" in Spanish: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals - there are two commonly used words for screening.

01/10/2026

Have you ever gotten stuck trying to express sentences like these in Spanish...?
- "I just went to the store."
- Or how about... you FINALLY did something that you've been putting off for a long, long time!
- Or you ended up doing something that you had not planned on doing.
- You need to know how to say that something is FINISHED as in, it's OVER, destroyed, ruined, done forever! You broke up with your partner 😬.
Acabar is the verb you are looking for! Acabar can be a tricky verb - it has subtle differences depending on how you use it. You can use it with prepositions, reflexively or all by itself and its meaning changes.
Watch this Spanish quick tip lesson and learn 4 uses of the Spanish verb acabar to speak Spanish more like a native speaker.

Learn these 4 uses of Acabar to express that you just did something, it's over, done, ruined, destroyed or finally finished!

01/09/2026

In Spanish, this first set of numbers has specific names for each of them, so you just need to memorize them.

01/09/2026

¿Te gusta leer? ¿Cuál es tu libro favorito?
Do you like to read? Which one is your favorite book?

01/08/2026

How to Say PTSD in Spanish - Trastorno de Estrés Postraumático (TEPT) learn how to discuss PTSD, its symptoms, and treatments in Spanish.

01/08/2026

Adverbios de manera – Adverbs of Manner

01/07/2026

In this lesson, you'll learn:
1. Common Spanish vocabulary around coping strategies
2. How to describe the concept of coping strategies in Spanish
3. Spanish examples of coping strategies that fit common categories like: Active coping strategies, Creative coping strategies, Social coping strategies, Relaxing coping strategies, Cognitive coping strategies, and unhealthy coping strategies.

Estrategias de afrontamiento. In this lesson you'll learn vocabulary, examples & descriptions of coping strategies in Spanish.

01/07/2026

¿Cuál fue el último libro o texto que leíste?
What was the last book or text you read?📚