Specs Without Spanglish—Crafting Technical Documents in Plain, Powerful Spanish
The day my API spec became a telenovela Two springs ago in Santo Domingo, I wrote a 12-page API specification for a Colombian client. I sprinkled it w
Speak With Your Hands: Reading Body Language and Hand Gestures Across the Spanish-Speaking World
A three-finger mix-up that almost cost me a coconut Picture a hot Santo Domingo afternoon, the kind where traffic horns melt into bachata riffs. I was
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