Bilingual Chore Charts: Turning Household Tasks into Everyday Spanish Lessons
The laundry basket that spoke two languages One Saturday in Santo Domingo, my living room looked like a piñata had exploded—blocks, beach towels, a
Beyond “Hace Calor”: Mastering Weather Talk in Spanish
Sweat Drops and Fog Banks It was 7 a.m. in Santo Domingo when the security guard of my building greeted me with, “Papá, hoy hay un solazo del diabl
Barranquilla Carnival Participation: Learning “Cumbia” Commands
From a Rooftop in Santo Domingo to a Street in Barranquilla Ten Dominican winters ago, I found myself on a rooftop in Santo Domingo staring out over t
Balcony or Platea? Cracking the Colombian Theater Code and Expanding Your Spanish Vocabulary
How I Almost Ended Up Standing for a Shakespeare Play in Bogotá Ten years of living in Santo Domingo have taught me to dance bachata without stepping
Baby Shower in Medellín: Gift-Giving, Small Talk, and the Spanish Vocabulary That Makes It Flow
Three weeks ago I found myself balancing a tower of pañales tier cake in one hand and a suspiciously rattling gift bag in the other, inching through