by Patrick Jackson | Jul 28, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
I recently heard an English speaking friend here in Medellin, Colombia talking to his “novia” (girlfriend), actually she’s his “prometida” (fiancée) — while using his “celular” (cell phone). I heard him make two mistakes...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 27, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Let’s learn how to say “facedown” in Spanish while learning how to avoid a common mistake that English speakers make when speaking Spanish. I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I practice an “artes marciales” (martial arts) here...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 27, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
Today, let’s talk about how do you give commands with the verbs “competir,” “hervir,” “gemir,” “preferir,” “morir,” “sugerir,” and other stem changing “ir” verbs as well as...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 26, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
In a recent blog post, I said that I would tell you how to use the command form or imperative form of “vos.” And these are basically two (2) rules for using “vos” with commands. Regla Número Uno: El imperativo de vos nunca tiene cambios en las...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 25, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
In my last blog post, I said that I would tell you how to conjugate Spanish verbs when using the pronoun “vos.” A common beginner mistake is to confuse Latin America’s Spanish pronoun “vos” with Spain’s pronoun...
