Splitting the Cuenta Like a Local: Mastering Nequi & Daviplata Spanish
My first summer weekend in Medellín, I was feeling pretty slick. Ten years of Caribbean living had trained me to navigate Dominican banks, motoconcho
Specs Without Spanglish—Crafting Technical Documents in Plain, Powerful Spanish
The day my API spec became a telenovela Two springs ago in Santo Domingo, I wrote a 12-page API specification for a Colombian client. I sprinkled it w
Speak With Your Hands: Reading Body Language and Hand Gestures Across the Spanish-Speaking World
A three-finger mix-up that almost cost me a coconut Picture a hot Santo Domingo afternoon, the kind where traffic horns melt into bachata riffs. I was
Spanish Vocabulary Navigating Cost-of-Living Chats
The Day Rent Went Up and the Conversation Got Real A humid Tuesday in Santo Domingo, I was sipping chinola juice at Don Julio’s colmado when my land
Spanish Vocab: Polite Haggling Tactics for Latin-American Flea Markets
The first time I bargained in Spanish, I was drowning in merengue. It happened at Santo Domingo’s Pulga de la Duarte—a maze of plastic tarps, sizz