Archive for 'Spanish Culture'
Beginner Spanish Listening Practice – Lesson 9 Speaking Spanish in a bar (Part 2) Posted by Laura & Adam on Feb 23, 2017
Review relevant Spanish grammar and vocabulary and then listen to a conversation between two people. More practice speaking Spanish in a bar using typical vocabulary and phrases.
Beginner Spanish Listening Practice – Lesson 5 Professions (Part 2) Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 27, 2016
In this Spanish lesson we will practice more about asking and stating your profession in Spanish. As usual, first we will review some relevant grammar and vocabulary and then see if you can follow a short listening. This lesson continues on from the previous lesson in this course which also looked at discussing professions in…
English Spanish Vocabulary – Navidad Christmas Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 20, 2016
Build your repertoire of Spanish words little by little by tuning in to these biweekly posts on English-Spanish vocabulary. You will find lots of really useful words on essential everyday topics, complete with audio mp3 recordings to help you with the Spanish pronunciation. Enjoy! Today we are going to practice useful Spanish vocabulary related to…
How to rent an apartment in Latin America and Spain (2) Posted by Paula on Nov 21, 2016
This Monday we discussed how to rent an apartment in Spanish. We learnt Spanish vocabulary related to the process of renting an apartment in America. Now we will see the differences with European Spanish. To begin with, we talk about ” un piso” and not “un apartamento”, very much like the UK-US difference between “flat”…
Spanish elections: There will be no third round Posted by Paula on Oct 26, 2016
If you have been following the news on politics, you’ll know that in addition to the US Elections scheduled for November 8th, and to the referendum in Colombia, in Spain we have had to repeat elections in July 2016 due to the impossibility to agree on a coalition government [gobierno de coalición] by all the minority forces…
Premio Nobel de Literatura 2016: Bob Dylan Posted by Paula on Oct 19, 2016
Last week Bob Dylan gave us all a big surprise. Or rather, the members of the Swedish Academy did. Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Hurricane is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy, about the imprisonment of…
Spanish Set Expressions: Estamos a mano (III) Posted by Paula on Oct 10, 2016
This week’s post presents the last set expressions in Spanish using hands. Today’s picture shows us the Cave of Hands in Santa Cruz, Argentina, a pre-historical painting of hands dating from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago. It’s a great precursor of stencil painting widely used nowadays! Estar a mano (to be at hand): When something…