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
Spanish Terminology Opening a Bank Account— You’ll Hear in the Dominican Republic
Why Dominican Banking Spanish Differs from Textbook Spanish The first time I stepped into a sucursal (branch) of Banco Popular, I expected basic quest
Spanish Phrases for Volunteering and Community Work
Rice Bags, Rain Clouds, and a New Kind of Fluency One gray morning after Hurricane Fiona brushed the Dominican north coast, I joined a relief brigade
Spanish Phone‑Call Scripts for Non‑Native Speakers Dominican Style
I learned the hard way that “¿Diga?” can sound like “Digga” to untrained ears, and that a single dropped “s” over the phone in Santiago m