by Andrew | Jul 6, 2020 | Articles/Posts (go here to start learning Spanish!), General Language-Learning, Learn Spanish from Spain
I get the appeal: sounds like fun, makes sense on the surface, get a little cultured, get a little drunk, catch of a bit of clap, come back home fluent in Spanish. However, it usually doesn’t work like that (fun-drinking-STDs yes, fluent in Spanish, no). I say...
by Andrew | Sep 1, 2016 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain, Spain, Spanish
It’s two-for-one day here on How to Learn Spanish! We’re going to cover two phrases in one Learn Spanish for Real post, primarily because they both mean the same thing: something is really far away. For the curious, this is from the Sochi Winter Olympics,...
by Andrew | Aug 31, 2016 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain, Spanish
Literally, it means “this is an armed robbery”, or more colloquially, “this is a stick-up”. An “atraco” is a robbery or hold-up, “mano” as you likely know means “hand” (but note that it’s feminine, so...
by Andrew | Aug 19, 2015 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain
Have you ever heard the expression “throw a shit-fit”? Well, regardless, you do now know how to say that in Spanish! …and apparently it’s available in t-shirt format, as you can see there on the left (that’s what “cabreo de...
by Andrew | Jul 6, 2015 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain
Real quick I just thought I’d share with you an interesting new expression I learned today from one of my Spanish tutors, Silvia (she’s very good, check her out if you’re in the market!), when I realized it would make a great 3rd installment in our...
by Andrew | Nov 16, 2014 | Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, & Cursewords, Learn Spanish from Spain
Welcome to the second installment of a category of posts I do called Learn Spanish for Real: Spanish Slang, Colloquialisms, and Curse Words! This post will be a sort of continuation on the first one in that we’ll be examining the same sentence from the same...
