by Patrick Jackson | Jul 27, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Let’s learn how to say “facedown” in Spanish while learning how to avoid a common mistake that English speakers make when speaking Spanish. I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I practice an “artes marciales” (martial arts) here...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 23, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
You may remember my recent blog post where I wrote that one thing that always makes me laugh about the Spanish language is how Spanish-speakers add “on” or “ona” to a body part in order to describe someone. I then gave the following examples by...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 22, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
One thing that I have noticed about the Spanish language is that there is more than one way to express “doing something again” or “not doing something again.” The books that I used to learn Spanish taught me phrases such as: No voy a hacer eso...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 21, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is actually from an email that I sent to my subscibers in December of 2008. Celebrating Christmas in Colombia In 2007, I celebrated the holidays in Barranquilla, Colombia. But in 2008, I spent the holidays in Medellin. Barranquilla and Medellin,...
by Patrick Jackson | Jul 9, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is a from an email that I sent to my readers in August of 2008. Here’s the email that I sent to my readers . . . I know it has been a while since my last email. That’s because I have been busy traveling this summer. I left Medellin,...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 14, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
One thing that I have noticed about the Spanish here in Colombia is that the Spanish here is very “puro” (pure). When I compare the Spanish here with the Spanish that I used to hear my Puerto Rican and Dominican New York City born friends in New York...
