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...
by Patrick Jackson | Aug 25, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
One question that I am always emailed from customers is “how do you trill the double ‘r’ in Spanish?” Until now my response has not been too helpful. I usually respond by saying something like “flap your tongue on the roof of your mouth...
by Patrick Jackson | Aug 24, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
This blog post is actually a re-post of an email that I sent to my customers back in 2007. Before I moved to Medellin, Colombia, and when I still lived in Barranquilla on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. Here it is . . . I am emailing you to tell you about an...
by Patrick Jackson | Aug 22, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
Today’s blog topic is “How To Say Branch in Spanish.” I bank at a bank in Colombia called Bancolombia. Earlier this week, I heard an English speaker asking the teller a question. From his accent, I would imagine that he’s from Texas. Although I...
