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In Spanish there are three different ways you can say excuse me using the words perdón, con permiso and disculpe, but you can’t always use them interchangeably. In today’s podcast we’re going to look at the differences between them so you can learn how to use them properly. Here are a few more episodes of the Real Life Spanish podcast series to …
A lot of people say Colombian Spanish is the “best Spanish in the world”. Well, I don’t know about all of that, but I will say based on my experiences in Colombia and talking to Colombianos in general, the people from Medellín and Bogotá speak pretty clearly and are relatively easy to understand. However, if you don’t understand the local …
According to your Spanish textbook there are only two contractions in Spanish. Your Spanish textbook and most likely your Spanish teacher probably neglected to teach you several other Spanish contractions that are used so much I considered it the equivalent of criminal negligence not to teach it. Let’s talk about the official Spanish contractions first. We’ll start with the contraction …
I love to help people with their Spanish. Every week I’m exposed to many beginners and people just starting their journey down the road to Spanish fluency. With that said, I hear a lot of the same errors over and over again. So this is the first of a new series of posts called Spanish Blunders to help you identify …