Archive for 'Spanish Culture'
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 35 Describing people negatively in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Jun 19, 2012
Hola ¿Qué tal? Hoy vamos a ver adjetivos de carácter negativos en español. Today we will see negative Spanish character adjectives such as Chulo (Arrogant), Pardillo (Naive) and Muermo (Boring). We will also see how to describe people negatively in Spanish with different sentence structures such as Qué + adjective or Ser + un/una +…
Proverbs in Spanish: the comeback! Posted by Adir on Jun 10, 2012
Hi, there! Back in 2008 I wrote a little post with some Spanish proverbs and sayings and today I’m going to give you some more common wisdom sentences so you can show off your Spanish a little bit more! We don’t usually blurt out sayings and proverbs so here are some sentences to introduce your…
Cartoon names in Spanish! Posted by Adir on Jun 7, 2012
Hey, everybody, how’s it going? I grew up in the 80’s and we used to watch lots of Hanna Barbera’s cartoons after school. So I decided to look for some these characters’ names and share them with you guys! Let’s go for it! Los Pitufos – The Smurfs Los Picapiedra – The Flintstones Los Supersónicos…
La Tarasca Posted by Magda on Jun 7, 2012
Estos días estamos de feria en Granada, la celebración del el Corpus Christi. Conciertos, casetas, y ganas de pasarlo bien son ingredientes esenciales. El miércoles los coles terminan temprano, y todos los pequeños van acompañados de sus padres a ver el desfile de la Tarasca, entre cabezudos, y gigantes disfrazados de moros y cristianos. Esta…
How to talk to foreigners, en español Posted by Adir on Jun 6, 2012
I know that you, my dear reader, is a very helpful person and when you see people in distress, you feel that uncontrollable urge to help, right? So this post today basically has some very useful questions to be asked when you want to lend a foreigner a helping hand. This time you will see…
Llanito, el idioma de Gibraltar Posted by Magda on May 17, 2012
El otro día os dejé un pequeño texto escrito en un idioma muy particular, que algunos rápidamente, y con razón relacionasteis con el Spanglish. Espero que no resultase muy difícil de entender, y traducir. Sin embargo, este idioma tan solo puede escucharse en una pequeña parte de la península Ibérica, Gibraltar, y se conoce como…
Review: Dichos y refranes populares Posted by Adir on May 11, 2012
Spanish is full of dichos and refranes populares. Here are some of them: “El que con lobos anda aullar se enseña.” “Al mal tiempo buena cara.” “Siempre quiebra la soga por lo más delgado.” “A buen sueño no hay mala cama.” “Al que a buen árbol se arrima, buena sombra no cobija.” “Querer es poder.”…