by Patrick Jackson | Jul 10, 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. Reflexive Verbs and Nonreflexive...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 9, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is a from an email that I sent to my readers in August of 2008. Here’s the email that I sent to my readers . . . I know it has been a while since my last email. That’s because I have been busy traveling this summer. I left Medellin,...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 14, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
One thing that I have noticed about the Spanish here in Colombia is that the Spanish here is very “puro” (pure). When I compare the Spanish here with the Spanish that I used to hear my Puerto Rican and Dominican New York City born friends in New York...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 13, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Tonight, I heard a non-native Spanish speaker make a MAJOR mistake in Spanish here in Medellin, Colombia. It is a very common mistake that many native English speakers make with the Spanish language so I wanted to bring this to your attention while it is still fresh...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 13, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
One question that I had when I first started learning Spanish is how do you say “to still be doing something” or “to keep on doing something” in Spanish. Well, Spanish uses the verb “seguir” with a progressive construction to say...
