Hay mucha bulla en la calle
In my last post I shared some of the Dominican Spanish I learned with you and in this post I'm going to pick up where I left off. None of these words are in any particular order, unless you consider...
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¡Vamos por un chimi!
In my last post about my adventures in Santo Domingo, I made a reference to an unnamed place where my friend Hector took me to grab a bite to eat. Well, it's time to name this unnamed place and tell...
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Mamajuana
The Dominican Republic is famous for it's beaches and food. It's also famous for something called Mamajuna.Mamajuna is a mixture of various herbs, plants, roots and other ingredients. You just add rum...
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Conversación con una chapina
I enjoy meeting Spanish speakers from different parts of the Spanish speaking world because I always learn something new. I especially like to learn words or expressions unique to their region and...
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¿Qué lleva?
Today I'm going to talk about the verb llevar. It has many uses, some of which you might find surprising. This post by no means covers every possible usage of llevar, but I talk about several, so...
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In the last post I talked about the verb llevar and among other uses, you can use it to talk about taking people from one place to another. If you haven't read that post, you can click here to read...
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Gira a la derecha, mas adelante
Just about everyone has a GPS these days, and if you're serious about learning Spanish, you should be getting your directions in Spanish.If you haven't changed the language on your GPS yet, today...
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¿Unos mates?
I've recently become friends with an Argentino - a man from Argentina. He's a really nice guy and he's been teaching me a lot of Spanish as well as some things about Argentina. In fact, we even went...
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No seas haragán
This piece of Spanish that I'm going to talk to you about today came out of a conversation I had on Facebook. In fact, I've been picking up a lot of Spanish from chatting with my amigos on Facebook....
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¿Por qué no te echas un coyotito?
If there's one word in Spanish that probably everyone in the US learns, it's the word siesta. I doubt that I need to explain what it means, but just to make sure no one gets left in the dark, a siesta...
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Estoy de cumple
Everybody loves birthdays. Too bad our Spanish books didn't teach us everything we need to know to celebrate them properly. But don't worry, today you're going to learn some Spanish that will...
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Estoy a punto de llegar al cuarto piso
In my last post I talked about birthdays in Spanish - Estoy de cumple. If you haven't read it yet, you should, because I talk about several birthday-related words your Spanish book left out. Today...
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¡Qué bien sienta soltar un taco!
There's one Spanish word everyone in the US knows probably before they turn 3, and that word is taco.On the bizarre chance you don't know what a taco is, here's a photo:But like many words in Spanish,...
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Más minutos menos lana
More minutes, less wool. Say what?Sometimes Spanish is just plain confusing. Well, it is if the only thing you ever do is read your text book.Your dictionary will tell you that lana means wool. And...
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¿A cuánto la boleada?
If you have no idea what a boleada is, don't feel bad, up until recently I had no what a boleada was either.If you spend enough time walking up and down the streets of Mexico, you'll see something like...
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¿Qué has hecho?
For those of you who have been long time readers of my blog, you've probably noticed that I don't post as much as I used to. There are a couple of reasons for that, so without wasting any more of your...
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Orále wey
When it comes to Mexican Spanish, you almost can't get any more Mexican this.No cabe duda (there's no doubt) that when you hear the word orále you're either speaking to a Mexican or speaking to someone...
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¿A qué hora es la hora de entrada?
Even though it's been a while, my long time followers will remember that I promised to actually write about some useful Spanish every once in a while. Well, today is one of those days.Today we're...
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Today I have something special for you all. My friend Ted who writes the blog No Hay Bronca, has written a great post for us. No Hay Bronca is where Ted writes about his experiences living and...
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No me baja
If you don't know what a regla is, it's a ruler. But that's not the only definition of regla, nor is it the definition we're here to talk about.When you hear someone refer to la regla, it's a way of...
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