by Patrick Jackson | Aug 14, 2015 | Intermediate Spanish
First of all, I want to start out by letting you know that I insist that English is NOT easier to learn than Spanish. Spanish is easier to learn than English. But today I want to talk about why some people disagree with me. Many native Spanish speakers have told me...
by Patrick Jackson | Aug 13, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is actually from an email that I sent to my customers and subscribers on New Year’s Day of 2008. In the email, I discussed what it’s like to spend New Year’s Eve on the Coast of Colombia after spending New Year’s Eve 2007 in...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 29, 2015 | Intermediate Spanish
This blog post is actually from an email that I sent to my newsletter subscribers where I tried to play devil’s advocate and argue that Spanish has more words – despite the fact that linguists say that the English language has more words. After I sent an...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 29, 2015 | Intermediate Spanish
In my last email, I said that I would make my last and final argument why I insist that Spanish has more commonly used words than English. Well here it goes . . . Let’s compare the Spanish verb “hablar” with the English word with the same meaning (to...
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...
