by Patrick Jackson | Mar 4, 2015 | Spanish Verb Lessons, Spanish Verbs
Today’s topic will be Pitfall Spanish Verbs That Confuse English Speakers. I saw (heard) something very funny this weekend here in Medellín, Colombia. A friend from the States who lives here in Colombia asked me to go to the home of the parents of his...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 4, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
I prefer to write blog posts that cover Spanish vocabulary about life and other cheerful things. But since death and dying are two things that are certain in life (and most Spanish courses do not cover such vocabulary), at the risk of sounding “mórbido”...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 3, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
Today I want to continue talking about How To Think In Spanish. Recently, I read the following comment from a “friend” on Facebook: “I hope I don’t offend anyone, but why do Mexicans say such ridiculous things like ‘open the water for...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 2, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
She wrote, “Patrick, you have an error in your previous email. You wrote: El acróbata caminó por la cuerda floja en el circo. (The acrobat walked across the tight rope in the circus.) Patrick, you wrote that ‘cuerda floja’ means ‘tight...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 1, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
I have 5 Spanish vocabulary words that I want to share with you. I learned these vocabulary words when I first started learning Spanish and I used to walk around with a “libreta” (little writing pad) and a “lapicero” (writing pen). And every...
