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Learn Spanish in ten years Posted by Adir on Feb 20, 2012
My business partner Alessandro Brandão, from Montes Claros, MG (Brazil), wrote this awesome post about how nowadays we want to hurry into learning things and don’t respect the proper timing to do so. Alessandro is an IT consultant and has developed online learning systems and things of the sort. In this post he writes about…
2022 Mexico Holiday Calendar Posted by sasha on Jan 6, 2022
¡Feliz año nuevo a todos! I’m sure you were happy to say goodbye to 2021. Let’s all hope this next year is better than the last, although that bar is pretty low… ¿Cuáles son tus resoluciones de año nuevo? (What are your New Year’s resolutions?). I hope one of them is to study Spanish and…
Top Spanish Blog Posts of 2021 Posted by sasha on Dec 22, 2021
¿A dónde va el tiempo? (Where does the time go?) It’s hard to believe that the year is almost finished. The old phrase “el tiempo vuela” (time flies) is appropriate as we prepare to ring in the New Year. Before we pop the champagne, we like to look back on the past year and see…
¿Cómo es la comida chilena? Posted by sasha on Feb 11, 2021
In case you haven’t noticed by now, we love talking about food here on the Spanish blog. You can find some of my past posts introducing the cuisine from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, for example. In today’s post I’ll continue our gastronomic tour around Latin America by answering the question “¿Cómo es la comida chilena?”…
Top 20 Spanish Blog Posts of 2020 (Part Two) Posted by sasha on Dec 31, 2020
As we get ready to say adiós to 2020, it’s a good time to look back on this dumpster fire of a year and try to find something positive about it. For us here at the Spanish blog, that means going through the data to find which posts were the most popular with our readers…
Rhythms of Latin America: Gaita Zuliana Posted by Anais on Dec 28, 2020
The gaita is one of the most important components of Venezuela’s musical heritage, as it has been representing since decades two very distinctive elements: the Zulian culture as a whole and the nationwide celebration of Christmas and the New Year’s Eve. As is the case for other Latin-American genres, Zulian gaita’s history began as a…
Mi Banda Favorita (My Favorite Band) Posted by sasha on Nov 19, 2020
Amo escuchar música. Escucho música todo el día, todos los días (I love listening to music. I listen to music all day, every day). I really enjoyed Laura’s recent post about music and how to talk about it in Spanish (click here if you missed it). It inspired me to try my best to write…