Learning tip: Radio y Televisión Española Posted by Adir on Mar 9, 2009
Radio Nacional de España Mi gente, hoy les traigo algo muy pero que muy bueno. The thing is, I just stumbled upon Spain’s National Television and Radio website and I flipped out, ¡me he vuelto loco! You can listen to and watch lots of recorded programs like interviews, music reviews, politics, movies or live radio…
Latin expressions in Spanish Posted by Adir on Mar 6, 2009
There are many Latin expressions used in formal and written Spanish. Let’s learn some of them. ad hoc – a propósito (for the purpose) a fortiori – con mayor razón (with all the more reason) ex aequo – con igual mérito (equally) in extremis – en caso extremo (in an extreme case) modus vivendi –…
Business Spanish II – Negotiating Posted by Adir on Mar 3, 2009
Again some readers wrote me and asked about business Spanish vocabulary in negotiating. First off, we need to establish a rapport with the clients and try to sound them out to see what they really want, so we can pitch our product correctly. Here are some useful expressions when negotiating: Bien, en primer lugar ……
¡Átame! Posted by Adir on Feb 26, 2009
Antonio Banderas. You may not know this but this Málaga-born Spaniard heartthrob has more than 60 movies under his belt and is highly respected in the movie industry. Banderas started acting at the age of 19 with a series of movies by highly acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. His first American movie was The Mambo…
Homophones II Posted by Adir on Feb 23, 2009
In English we have words called homophones (homo = same, phone = sound) like bear and bare, idle and idol, among many others. Spanish also has homophones and, for the untrained ear, it can be somewhat difficult at first. We give you now some examples of words that have the same sound but are written…
Lexical influences in Spanish Posted by Adir on Feb 20, 2009
Remember that story that John loved Mary, who loved Charles, who loved…? Well, learning languages is not different, because each language ends up influencing others. You must know already that you can express things differently in Spanish depending on which country you are in, right? Let’s take for example the word “bus”: if you’re in…
Un poco de arte Posted by Adir on Feb 17, 2009
¡Hola, mi gente! Today we’re going to learn a bit about art, en español, through an activity. I’m going to give you 5 styles: cubista expresionista dadaísta surrealista futurista you’ll have to match these styles to their description, ok? Below each description there’s a link to a painting from each style. Shall we go for…