Cats are cute and mysterious, loyal and traitorous, independent and loving. If you are a cat lover, here are six Spanish slang expressions or modismos that use cats as their central figure. Idiomatic expressions are an important part of the Spanish learning process and perhaps one of the most difficult. In many cases, popular sayings […]
4 Examples of Non-Verbal Slang: Spanish Language Without Words
You gotta be careful with slang. You have to be pretty darn confident with a language to correctly understand, let alone use, slang. Making errors using verbal slang is one thing. Often, what happens is that you are generally attempting to sound cool in that language, but with the slip of a vowel sound, you can […]
Argentina Spanish Street Slang Graffiti Accuses the United States
Argentina is an eye-opening place. With permanent financial ups and downs, openly corrupt public figures, incredible food and a capitol city the size of Los Angeles or New York, my first visit there in 1997 introduced me to a new world. It was a memorable weekend not just for the experience, but also because it […]
Fed Up with Formal Spanish? A List of Spanish Slang Expressions for FED UP
Sick and tired of using the formal and correct forms of “proper” Spanish? We have the cure to that ailment. Try this: Enter the English term “fed up” in the box under the Search Words & Phrases red tab. Click the Search button and see all the Latino variants for the English slang word “fed […]
8 Tools Spanish Speakers Can Use to Improve English Pronunciation
This is the last article of the series English Pronunciation Challenges: What a Latina Learned in an Accent Reduction Class where I share some of the resources I used during my class. These “tools” includes books, apps and web pages that will help you during this process. Posts in this series: English Pronunciation Challenges for […]