Which Spanish Should You Learn?
Want to learn Spanish but don’t know which one to choose? The good news is, there’s no wrong choice!
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When it comes to learning a language, there are a myriad of resources one can choose from to add authenticity to the experience: from travelling to the countries where the language is spoken to finding a tandem partner or listening to music in the target…
Ahorita, an elusive temporal concept
As a Peruvian-German, I’m often torn between two distinctly different languages and thus two distinctly different cultural styles of communication. Because I grew up in Lima and my mother is Peruvian, I have a more emotional connection to Spanish. There is no way that I…
Reasons to Learn Spanish
We live in a time where it seems that the English language is taking over the world. More and more people are learning how to speak English across the globe and it has become the go-to language where people from every part of the world…
False Friends and Common Mixups in Spanish
Whenever you are learning a new language, you are bound to make mistakes. Some of these, are possibly going to sound funny to native speakers that hear you making them. An example of these are so called false friends, where you use a word that…
Christmas Holidays in Spain
Spain is historically a culturally diverse country with many different traditions for the holidays in its various regions. Some of them, however, are common across the whole of the country and due to history, sometimes in Latin America as well. This article will look at…
10 Funny Spanish Expressions You Should Know
When you think about them, expressions and idioms in any language are often funny and sometimes bizarre, but in your own language, you’ll be used to them and probably not give them much thought. In foreign languages, however, it can be great fun to know…
Listening to Podcasts to Learn Spanish
Podcasts have come a long way since the term was coined in 2004 by joining up the words “iPod” and “broadcast”. Besides listening to them on your iPod or mp3 player, you can now download or stream them on your computer, tablet and phone, and,…
Spanish from Spain vs Latin American Spanish
Due to its vast geographical reach and large number of native speakers, Spanish, like English, has diverged in many different ways as it has come under a variety of influences. These influences are sometimes the result of Spanish or “proto-Spanish” moving into an area where…
Lost in translation? Ways to say buddy in Spanish
The tricky thing about Spanish is that it quite often happens that speakers from different places use words in ways that make absolutely no sense to Spanish speakers from other places. The same word means different things in different places and this can often lead…