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COGER AT YOUR OWN RISK: A STREET-SMART GUIDE TO GRABBING THINGS WITHOUT BLUSHING

The Day “Grab a Pen” Became “Sleep With a Pen” I was fresh off a redeye from Santo Domingo and running late for my first strategy session in M

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James

Coffee Culture Showdown: Spain’s “Cortado” vs. Colombia’s “Tinto”

Written by an expat who orders cortados in Madrid cafés at 7 a.m. and downs steaming tintos from Bogotá street carts at 7 p.m.—discovering tha

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Clipper Confidences: Talking Haircuts in Spanish

Fade Failures and Fresh Starts in Santo Domingo The first time I walked into Don Kelvin’s barbershop off Avenida Bolívar, bachata trumpets competed

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Catalan influence on Barcelona street Spanish

“Perdonar, que vaig fatal de temps”—real-life déjà vu at a Barcelona metro gate Fresh off a three-hour hop from Santo Domingo, I swiped my T-c

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Candles, Marigolds & Perico Ripiao: Explaining Latin Traditions in Spanish

The December heat in Santo Domingo wraps you like a flannel you never asked for. I was stringing blinking lights around our mango tree when my Colombi

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