by newyorkers | Jun 18, 2014 | Advanced Spanish, Grammar Lessons, Spanish Prepositions, Spanish Pronouns
This story illustrates when to use Por vs. Para in Spanish. This story is actually from a previous email that I sent several years ago, but I want to mention it again because it illustrates the confusion that can be caused if you do not know when to use the...
by newyorkers | Jun 18, 2014 | Conversational Spanish, Intermediate Spanish
The topic of today’s blog post is Spanish Words For Moving To A New Home in Latin America. This blog post is from an email that I sent to my newsletter subscribers: I am moving to another home in Medellín, Colombia. While I was looking for a new place, I had my...
by newyorkers | Jun 18, 2014 | Beginner Spanish, Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
Let’s talk about when to use the Spanish words llevar vs. traer. Over the weekend, I was at an American friend’s house here in Medellin, Colombia and I heard him make a mistake on the phone when speaking to his “empleada” (maid). I want to...
by newyorkers | Jun 18, 2014 | Intermediate Spanish
Present Perfect Tense for irregular verbs has the same format as the Present Perfect for regular verbs. Recall that the Present Perfect Tense is a compound tense, because it requires an auxiliary verb, haber (to have) and the past participle of the verb. As in...
by newyorkers | Jun 18, 2014 | Conversational Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
I was on a learning-Spanish forum earlier this week and someone posted the following question: How do you say you have bad breath in Spanish? No one had answered the question but I thought that I would share this with you in case you ever have the need to tell someone...
