En mayo quiero seguir estudiando español en la biblioteca.

For months in Spanish, you normally use en to mean in:

• en mayo = in May
• en junio = in June

You do not usually say en el mayo when you simply mean the month in general.

You may see el with dates in other contexts, but for a basic time expression like this, en mayo is the normal choice.

Spanish often omits subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

• quiero = I want
• quieres = you want
• quiere = he/she/it wants

So quiero already tells us the subject is I, and adding yo is usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast:

• Yo quiero seguir estudiando, pero él no.
  I want to keep studying, but he doesn’t.

This is a very common Spanish pattern:

• querer + infinitive = to want to do something

Here, the thing the speaker wants is seguir estudiando:

• quiero = I want
• seguir = to continue / to keep
• estudiando = studying

So the structure is:

• querer + seguir + gerund

In English, we also stack verbs in a similar way:

• I want to keep studying

After seguir when you mean to keep doing something, Spanish normally uses a gerund:

• seguir estudiando = to keep studying
• seguir trabajando = to keep working
• seguir leyendo = to keep reading

So seguir estudiar is not the normal structure here.

A useful rule:

• seguir + gerund = keep doing / continue doing

Estudiando is the gerund of estudiar.

It is formed like this:

• -ar verbs → -ando
• estudiar → estudiando

The gerund is often equivalent to the English -ing form, but Spanish does not use it in all the same ways English does.

In this sentence, it is part of the expression:

• seguir estudiando = keep studying

Here español refers to the subject being studied, so no article is needed:

• estudiar español = to study Spanish
• hablar español = to speak Spanish

This is very common with languages after verbs like hablar, aprender, estudiar, enseñar.

You may see el español in other cases, for example when talking about the language more generally or contrasting it with another language:

• El español de España tiene diferencias con el de México.

But in this sentence, estudiando español is the normal form.

In Spanish, languages, nationalities, and days/months are normally written with lowercase, unless they begin a sentence.

So:

• español
• inglés
• francés
• mayo
• lunes

This is different from English, where Spanish and May are capitalised.

Because en has several common meanings, including in, on, and at, depending on context.

In this sentence:

• en mayo = in May → time
• en la biblioteca = in the library / at the library → location

So it is the same preposition, but it is introducing two different kinds of information:

1. when
2. where

Because this sentence describes location, not movement.

• en la biblioteca = in/at the library → where the studying happens
• a la biblioteca = to the library → movement toward the library

Compare:

• Quiero estudiar en la biblioteca. = I want to study in the library.
• Quiero ir a la biblioteca. = I want to go to the library.

Yes. Spanish word order is often more flexible than English, although some orders sound more natural depending on what you want to emphasise.

The original sentence is very natural:

• En mayo quiero seguir estudiando español en la biblioteca.

You could also say:

• Quiero seguir estudiando español en la biblioteca en mayo.
• Quiero seguir estudiando español en mayo en la biblioteca.

These are grammatically possible, but the original version sounds good because it places the time expression first, which can help frame the sentence.

Yes. Both are possible.

• seguir estudiando
• continuar estudiando

Both mean something like to continue studying or to keep studying.

However, seguir + gerund is extremely common in everyday Spanish and often feels very natural in conversation.

Not exactly.

• quiero seguir estudiando = I want to keep studying
• voy a seguir estudiando = I am going to keep studying

The first expresses desire or intention. The second expresses a future plan more directly.

So the sentence with quiero focuses on what the speaker wants.

A simple pronunciation guide would be:

en MA-yo KYE-ro seh-GEER es-too-dee-AN-do es-pa-NYOL en la bee-blee-o-TE-ka

A few useful notes for Spain:

• qu in quiero sounds like a hard k
• ll in biblioteca is normally like y
• ñ in español sounds like ny in canyon
• in much of Spain, the z sound and soft c are pronounced with a th sound, but there is no z or soft c in this sentence

Because biblioteca is a feminine noun in Spanish:

• la biblioteca
• una biblioteca

So when you say in the library, it becomes:

• en la biblioteca

This is just part of learning each noun together with its article:

• el libro
• la biblioteca
• el idioma
• la mesa