by Patrick Jackson | Mar 7, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
Let’s talk about a Spanish-speaking mistake that even native Spanish speakers make. Today, I heard a Gringo here in Medellín, Colombia make the same mistake when speaking Spanish. How To Say Shopping Center In Spanish I was having lunch in a “centro...
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...
by Patrick Jackson | Feb 28, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
You may recall that in one of my emails I mentioned that when I first started learning Spanish, I used to walk around with a “libreta” (little writing pad) and a “pluma” (literally, “feather”) or “lapicero” or...
