by Patrick Jackson | Apr 5, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
In today’s blog post, I will talk about an email that a customer sent me. He wrote: “Patrick, yo soy americano y me gusta cocinar los platos latinos. Please explain what’s an arepa?” In one of the emails that you sent this week you said that a...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 4, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
I am going to cover several Spanish words that you will not find in your typical learning-Spanish vocabulary book. But I assure you that they are words that native Spanish speakers use. The first one I want to share with you because I heard a Gringo (American) here in...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 3, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from an email that I sent to my subscribers several years ago after taking a trip to “la República Dominicana” (the Dominican Republic). During my trip, I made several observations about the Latin American Spanish and culture of “la...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 2, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
Today’s topic is Common Mistakes With Spanish Adjectives and Participles. “Anoche” (last night) while I was at the “gimnasio” (gym) I heard an American, ask the gym’s “empleada” something that caught my attention. By the...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 1, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from one of two emails that I sent to my subscribers several years ago after taking a trip to “la República Dominicana” (the Dominican Republic). It involves a frightening experience in “aduana” (customs) in the...
