Category: Cultural

Café, Receipts, and the Annual Panic Every March my favorite colmado in Santiago rolls out

The Subjunctive: Why This Mood Deserves Its Own Spotlight If the indicative is a camera

Why Talk About Moods at All? If verbs are the engines of language, moods are

First Day, First Impression The jasmine outside Colegio Santa Clara smelled sweeter than courage. I

I learned the hard way that “¿Diga?” can sound like “Digga” to untrained ears, and

Written by a decade‑long expat who has napped on Caribe Tours buses between Santiago and Santo Domingo,

If I’d received a dollar (or better yet, a peso) for every Spanish blunder I

I used to believe language lived in books alone, until a broken bus radio on

Why Melodrama Makes Words Stick Better Than Flashcards I used to tape flashcards above my