by Patrick Jackson | Apr 10, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish, Intermediate Spanish
Patrick Jackson After reading this blog post, you will have learned the following: 1. How to say shoe in Spanish 2. How to say sneaker or tennis shoe in Spanish 3. How to say sandal in Spanish 4. How to say boot in Spanish 5. How to say house slipper in Spanish 6. How...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 5, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
In today’s blog post, I will talk about an email that a customer sent me. He wrote: “Patrick, yo soy americano y me gusta cocinar los platos latinos. Please explain what’s an arepa?” In one of the emails that you sent this week you said that a...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 4, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
I am going to cover several Spanish words that you will not find in your typical learning-Spanish vocabulary book. But I assure you that they are words that native Spanish speakers use. The first one I want to share with you because I heard a Gringo (American) here in...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 3, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from an email that I sent to my subscribers several years ago after taking a trip to “la República Dominicana” (the Dominican Republic). During my trip, I made several observations about the Latin American Spanish and culture of “la...
by Patrick Jackson | Apr 1, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from one of two emails that I sent to my subscribers several years ago after taking a trip to “la República Dominicana” (the Dominican Republic). It involves a frightening experience in “aduana” (customs) in the...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 31, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from the second of two emails that I sent on the topic of adding “ito” or “ita” in Spanish. I received quite a few responses after the first email I sent to my subscribers where I discussed how the Spanish language allows you...
