Negotiating a Salary Package in Spanish: Stories, Phrases, and Cultural Nuance
Why Salary Negotiation Demands Its Own Spanish Toolkit Ordering lunch in Spanish flexes one set of muscles; asking a recruiter to bump your base salar
Negotiating a Bicycle-Taxi in Santo Domingo: Street-Level Spanish for Short Rides and Sharp Ears
El Callejón de los Sueños Cortos: Why a 2-Minute Ride Became My 10-Year Classroom I still remember the first time I hopped onto a bicycle-taxi—loc
NCF on Your Receipt: Tax Vocabulary at Supermarkets, Pharmacies, and Facturación Electrónica
The Day I Accidentally Claimed to Own a Pharmacy I still remember the cashier at a Santo Domingo farmacia tilting her head when I, after ten years of
Navigating Vosotros and Ustedes: A Two-Continent Adventure in Second-Person Plural
The Night a Spanish Backpacker Blew Up My Pronouns It was karaoke Wednesday in Santo Domingo, and my Colombian friend Marisol and I were cozying a cor
Navigating Vegetarian & Vegan Dining in Spanish
The first time I asked for a vegetarian option in Santo Domingo I nearly caused a kitchen revolt. It was a sweltering Saturday at a sea-view fritura,