by Patrick Jackson | Mar 27, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Let’s cover 8 common Spanish vocabulary words today. If you live in a Spanish-speaking country you will hear these words. But you will probably not hear them used in a typical Spanish course. buy bactroban online...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 27, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is from an email message that I have copied and pasted which I had sent to my subscribers and customers a few years ago when I left Colombia for several weeks to visit home – – “Nueva York” (New York). After reading this email...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 26, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Let me tell you about one of my favorite “amigos falsos” (false friends). In case you don’t know what an “amigo falso” is I will tell you. The phrase “amigos falsos” is used to describe Spanish words that sound similar to...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 25, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Upon arriving to Colombia and before moving to Medellin, Colombia, I lived in Barranquilla, Colombia — a coastal city on the Atlantic side of Colombia. While I was there I filled an entire “cuaderno” (notebook) of Spanish words that I learned while...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 24, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Today’s topic is How To Say Someone Or Something Is In Your Way in Spanish. In this case, we use can use the verb “estorbar” both literally and figuratively. Let’s look at some examples: ¡Muévete, me estás estorbando! Move, you are in my way!...
by Patrick Jackson | Mar 23, 2015 | Common Mistakes, Conversational Spanish
A couple of days ago, I received an email from a customer. I want to share his email with you because it illustrates a common mistake. And that’s translating everything literally from English to Spanish and forgetting that English and Spanish are two completely...
