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Light look at Spain
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A blog on various locations in Spain, spanish language tuition, spanish culture, spanish book and film reviews
- Author: Jan & Matthew
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- Tags: spain spanish language spanish culture spanish grammar spanish people spanish cities
Recent Posts
‘Compromiso’
This one comes up a lot, especially if you do business in Spain, and it’s a nasty one to get wrong. It looks like ‘compromise’, but it actually means ‘commitment’, so you can see in a business context how that might caus...
Architecture of Cartagena
Cartagena has a wonderful mixture of architecture – Punic and Roman remains, old military installations and Modernist buildings. Restoration projects are imaginative. Those invoved are remarkably good at preserving old facades and blending them...
‘Comer frijoles y repetir pollo’
To eat beans and to burp chicken (literally to have chicken repeat on you!) Does anyone want to have a guess what the English equivalent might be? I’ll give you a clue, beans are cheaper than chicken....
Question & Answer
Hello Matthew, How would you say to become dark? as in it gets dark early at this time of year. Is it se hace oscuro en esta epoca del año? Hello Phil, ‘Se hace oscuro’ works well, but there are two verbs that are the second group of ver...
‘Mucha tela para cortar’.
This literally means ‘a lot of cloth to cut’, but it is used idiomatically to mean that there’s a lot to do, or a lot to talk about. Very often it is used to mean that there’s more to do than you think. Here’s an example...
‘Echar párrafos’
I love this one! ‘To chuck out paragraphs’ means ‘to talk a lot’!...
