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Calm Words, Clear Mind: Booking a Therapist Session in Spanish—A Field Guide for Expats

“¿Te animas a hablarlo?” That question—“Do you feel like talking about it?”—rolled off my Dominican friend Mariela’s tongue one muggy T

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Buying Second-Hand Furniture in Santo Domingo: Facebook Marketplace Spanish

El día que un mueble viejo me enseñó más que mil clases de gramática My first apartment in Santo Domingo looked like a bachata song gone wrong—

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Buying Prescription Glasses in the Dominican Republic: A Street-Level Guide to Spanish Vocabulary That Actually Works

By James, your roving Anglo-Caribe word nerd who thinks of bifocals as a rite of passage, not a mid-life crisis. The Morning I Misread a Bus Sign and

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Buying Fresh Fish in Puerto Plata: Market Jargon & Negotiation for the Ambitious Expat

I still remember the first time I swaggered into Puerto Plata’s seafront market convinced my high-school Spanish would buy me the fattest dorado on

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Buying Building Materials in Santiago, DR: Hardware-Store Spanish That Actually Works

How a Wobbly Ladder Became My Spanish Classroom I still remember the first time I tried to buy a ladder in Santiago. I had just moved from the capital

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