by newyorkers | Jan 6, 2016 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
While dining in a restaurant here in Medellin, Colombia tonight, a Colombian friend used a word when her wine glass fell and splattered wine all over her new dress. No, the word that she used was NOT a “grosería” (swear word, curse word). How To Say Stain...
by newyorkers | Jan 5, 2016 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
You probably already know that the Spanish word “pequeño” means ‘small’ in English. But there’s another way to express ‘smallness’ in Spanish. Recently, while at the “gimnasio” (gym), I noticed something...
by newyorkers | Jan 4, 2016 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Let’s talk about 5 (five) phrases that seem to confuse English speakers learning Spanish: 1. How to say sitting 2. How to say kneeling 3. How to say squatting 4. How to say bending down 5. How to say standing The Spanish words for kneeling, squatting and bending...
by newyorkers | Jan 4, 2016 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
Today I want to talk about 2 Mistakes English Speakers Make When Speaking Spanish. Before moving to Medellin, I lived on the Atlantic or Caribbean coast of Colombia in a city called Barranquilla. One night while in a movie theater and waiting for the movie to begin an...
by newyorkers | Jan 1, 2016 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from an email that I sent to my customers back in 2007 before I moved to Medellin and still lived on the Atlantic coast of Colombia in Barranquilla. The email covered the topic of a common mistake that Spanish-language learners make when saying...
by newyorkers | Dec 30, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
“Patrick, you overlooked the obvious. The way you end your emails with ‘nos vemos.’ Isn’t that a perfect example of how native Spanish speakers often use the present tense when native English speakers would use the future tense?” Yes, I...
