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 4, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
I prefer to write blog posts that cover Spanish vocabulary about life and other cheerful things. But since death and dying are two things that are certain in life (and most Spanish courses do not cover such vocabulary), at the risk of sounding “mórbido”...
by Patrick Jackson | Feb 28, 2015 | Conversational Spanish, Spanish Vocabulary
You may recall that in one of my emails I mentioned that when I first started learning Spanish, I used to walk around with a “libreta” (little writing pad) and a “pluma” (literally, “feather”) or “lapicero” or...
