by newyorkers | Dec 31, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
This is blog post is from an email that I sent to my customers in April of 2007. This was before I moved to Medellin and still lived on the Atlantic coast of Colombia in a city called Barranquilla. Here’s the email that I sent: I noticed something that native...
by newyorkers | Dec 30, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
“Patrick, you overlooked the obvious. The way you end your emails with ‘nos vemos.’ Isn’t that a perfect example of how native Spanish speakers often use the present tense when native English speakers would use the future tense?” Yes, I...
by newyorkers | Oct 12, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
When I took my recent trip to Marbella, Spain, I took plenty of notes from Spain and wrote down any differences between European Spanish and Colombian Spanish. Here are 6 things I noticed: 1. In Spain, they say “planta” in order to say “floor”...
by newyorkers | Oct 11, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Today’s topic is how to say “I have a cold” in Spanish, as in the common cold. Something interesting happened to me on the phone today when speaking to a friend from the Dominican Republic who is living in Spain. I am always learning or being...
by newyorkers | Oct 10, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
Today, I want to talk about how to express in Spanish what you would do if you were to win the lottery. I can think of 3 similar ways in English to express this same idea or thought: 1. “If I were to win the lottery, I would buy a mansion.” (I have heard...
