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...
by newyorkers | Oct 12, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
When I took my recent trip to Marbella, Spain, I took plenty of notes from Spain and wrote down any differences between European Spanish and Colombian Spanish. Here are 6 things I noticed: 1. In Spain, they say “planta” in order to say “floor”...
by newyorkers | Oct 11, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Today’s topic is how to say “I have a cold” in Spanish, as in the common cold. Something interesting happened to me on the phone today when speaking to a friend from the Dominican Republic who is living in Spain. I am always learning or being...
