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...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 13, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Tonight, I heard a non-native Spanish speaker make a MAJOR mistake in Spanish here in Medellin, Colombia. It is a very common mistake that many native English speakers make with the Spanish language so I wanted to bring this to your attention while it is still fresh...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 13, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
One question that I had when I first started learning Spanish is how do you say “to still be doing something” or “to keep on doing something” in Spanish. Well, Spanish uses the verb “seguir” with a progressive construction to say...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 11, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
In case you don’t know what an “amigo falso” is let me tell you. Here’s one that often tricks native English speakers. What do you think the Spanish word “pretender” means??? No, “pretender” does NOT mean “to...
by Patrick Jackson | Jun 10, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Today, I want to teach you how to say shut-up in Spanish? Which, by the way, reminds me of a common mistake that English speakers make when speaking Spanish. The Spanish word “quieto” does not mean the English word “quiet” or...
