DGII Spanish for Humans: Filing IR-1/IR-2, Understanding ITBIS, and Asking for a “Devolución”
Ten years ago, on an August morning that smelled like café de greca and diesel, I walked into the Dirección General de Impuestos Internos (DGII) in
Designing 90-Day SMART Goals for Spanish
A Wake-Up Call in a Dominican Barber Chair Three months ago, in Santo Domingo’s barrio Gazcue, I plopped into my barber’s squeaky chair and boaste
Describing Symptoms at the Pharmacy in Spanish
Opening Scene: Why Pharmacy Spanish Is Its Own Dialect Ordering a coffee or booking a hotel tests your vocabulary; explaining that the rash on your ar
Describing Flavors Beyond “Delicioso” Spanish Vocabulary
Why “Delicioso” Isn’t Enough We’ve all been there: you bite into a warm arepa, fresh from a street vendor in Medellín, and all you manage to
Dental & Doctor Visit Spanish for Little Ones
The day Emma bit the tongue depressor Last February in Santo Domingo my three-year-old, Emma, developed a cough right as I was about to board a flight