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...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 12, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
You may remember a recent blog post where I talked about how Spanish uses the “se” construction with certain verbs to express “unplanned,” “unexpected,” or “accidental” events. And I listed some of those verbs: 1....
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 11, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
One thing that I have noticed about Spanish reflexive verbs is that when you use a non-reflexive verb when you should have used a reflexive verb, you can completely change the meaning of what you intended to say – and vice versa. Here’s one example that...
