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...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 13, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
Today, I’d like to share a link with you to a Free Resource To Learn Spanish Grammar. I am sharing this link because a reader sent me an email saying: “Patrick, I seem to be learning really fast how to speak Spanish with your Spanish course, Learning...
