The post where I went on a tangent about gender issues garnered some interest so I thought I’d elaborate on the topic. The main question…
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Articles and asks from a Tumblr about teaching Castilian Spanish to foreigners.
The post where I went on a tangent about gender issues garnered some interest so I thought I’d elaborate on the topic. The main question…
Feliz Dia de San Valentin! Any unique expressions used in Spain to express love or endearment? Gracias! (Gods, I let some of those asks pile…
Your blog has been extremely useful so far, and I am hoping you can help me. I’m going to study abroad in Spain and was…
I noticed that one of your examples was “Me hice un sándwich de pavo antes”, meaning “I had a turkey sandwich before.” Does “me hice”…
You are the first person I’ve encountered since I’ve been back from Spain who speaks Galician (I was an exchange student to Galicia) :3 That’s…
Is there an example of a word like “un(a) máquina”, but in reverse, where both genders can be used for a woman but only the…
I feel like food is one of the harder things to translate exactly because boundaries of what’s what vary between countries and cultures. That said,…
Please update more!! This blog es lo mejor!! Thanks you! I’m sorry I was missing for such a long time. I did feel guilty for…
Also, what other languages do you know and why did you decide to learn them? (Hope you don’t mind all the questions!) Not at all!…
Hi, you’re blog is seriously the best especially since I’m currently studying abroad in Valencia. I was wondering if you know of any Spanish food…
Me encanta tu blog! Es lo maximo! I am moving to Spain in a month & I’ve learned so much from your blog. Can you…
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…
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…
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…