by Patrick Jackson | Jul 24, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
Let’s talk about How To Use Vos In Spanish or another way to say “you” in Spanish besides tú, usted, and ustedes. Here’s something about the Spanish of “Paisas” (people of Medellín, Colombia) that I have never mentioned in my...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 23, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
You may remember my recent blog post where I wrote that one thing that always makes me laugh about the Spanish language is how Spanish-speakers add “on” or “ona” to a body part in order to describe someone. I then gave the following examples by...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 22, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
One thing that I have noticed about the Spanish language is that there is more than one way to express “doing something again” or “not doing something again.” The books that I used to learn Spanish taught me phrases such as: No voy a hacer eso...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 21, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is actually from an email that I sent to my subscibers in December of 2008. Celebrating Christmas in Colombia In 2007, I celebrated the holidays in Barranquilla, Colombia. But in 2008, I spent the holidays in Medellin. Barranquilla and Medellin,...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 13, 2015 | Intermediate Spanish
I got a ton of emails from readers who completely disagreed with my statement that “the Spanish language has more words than the English language.” One reader wrote: “Patrick, you have to be kidding. If I include scientific words the English language...
