Your blog is fantastic! Just wondering, how did you learn English so well? Thank you! That’s nice of you to say… and now I feel…
[Jorge Diz Pico]
Your blog is fantastic! Just wondering, how did you learn English so well? Thank you! That’s nice of you to say… and now I feel…
Este Tumblr es lo máximo!! Deberían leerlo todos los que quieren aprender español!!:) sigue así maquina!:D ¡Muchas gracias! Esto lo hago por vosotros, me alegra…
«Bien. Porque yo creo que es usted un dinosaurio machista y misógino.Una reliquia de la Guerra Fría»M. ¿Conocen ustedes el índice Big Mac? Es una…
This is a sándwich: This, on the other hand, is a bocadillo: The bread matters. Sándwiches are made with sliced bread; the most typical being sándwich…
The dialect of Spanish that is taught at my school, like at many schools, leans more towards being Mexican. Therefore, I never learned vosotros conjugation.…
What is a telediario? Well, it comes from tele- (from televisión) and diario (“daily”, and thus an older, more formal word for periódico, “newspaper”). So…
Welcome to Spaniard Talk 101. This word is very characteristic of the Spanish dialect. When, e.g., Mexicans want to make fun of Spaniards, they pepper…
The amazing girls over at beautiful-basque-country tagged me in a music tag game two weeks ago. I have been busy so I apologize for taking…
I’m trying a new experiment today. I call it “etymology boomerang”. We’ll find a link between two current words by taking a detour through past…
The word zenith is a mistake. It came to be because Medieval lettering was not exactly optimal. Latin scribes misread the Arabic expression سمت الرأس, samt…
This word combos with the one I taught you last time, and at the end of the post you’ll see why. In its common meaning,…
Molar is a basic verb in colloquial Spanish. In its basic usage, it means “to like”, and as gustar, the subject is the likee, while…
Dice el diseñador Mark Rosewater que cuando algo no te gusta simplemente lo ignores: no fue hecho para ti. De ello se deduce que todo…
For today’s expression I will slowly build up from things you might already know. Let’s start with basic “ser de”, meaning being original of a…
Salt has been a very valued spice for thousands of years, and that has rubbed off on our language. In Roman times, wages were paid…
Your blog is amazing! I just wish I would have found it before I came to Spain. I was studying in Euskal Herria. Ill be…
Do you have any favorite/particular Spanish expression you use the most? Do you know churros? They are a kind of pastry commonly taken for breakfast,…
Time for a handy comparison. Here’s the full saying: El perro del hortelano, ni come ni deja comer.The farmer’s dog, it does not eat nor…
A short entry restating something that I feel needs emphasizing. Many teachers, specially those with Latin American backgrounds, tend to skip teaching vosotros in Spanish…
Are you a native Spanish speaker or did you learn it? I’m a native Spanish speaker. I was born and raised in Coruña, Galicia. I…