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
Decoding Telenovela Accents: Spotting a Country of Origin Before the Opening Credits Roll
The night my living-room became a linguistic quiz show I was holed up in my Santo Domingo apartment, battling post-beach sunburn, when my Colombian ne
Decoding Payroll Spanish—Making Sense of “Seguridad Social” & “IRPF” Without Losing Your Mind
The payroll panic that sent me to the notary My first full-time contract in Santo Domingo looked straightforward until the HR manager slid a second sh