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 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 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...
