Soccer superstar David Beckham has learned some choice Spanish words — but probably the ones that are best not repeated here. Beckham, who plays for Real Madrid and started learning ... Read More

Sometimes, a sandwich in Spanish is simply un sandwich (usually, but not always, spelled without an accent on the a). But there are plenty of other words to refer to ... Read More

Does the word elite require an accent on the first syllable? Why does the Ecuadoran newspaper El Universo use the spelling of Iraq instead of Irak? How do you write ... Read More

El actor mexicano Diego Luna reconoce la importancia que tiene el cine en español. Afirma que su "plan es hacer cada dos a˜os una película en español porque es mi ... Read More

Some of the users of About's forums (also known as bulletin boards) have been logging in through the Delphi Forums login page. Although that way of logging in has not ... Read More

As fires threaten people and homes in southern California, emergency communications with Spanish-speaking residents are often hit or miss. Although some search-and-rescue personnel and Red Cross workers speak Spanish, in ... Read More

Here's an interesting question asked of native speakers in our forum recently: Other than the accent, what are the most common things that tip you off that the person is ... Read More

It isn't often that a major American-produced film shows up with an official web site in Spanish before its English-language site debuts. But exactly that has happened with Mel Gibson's ... Read More

It may be too late to travel to this year's Festival Internacional Cervantino, the International Cervantes Festival, in the north-central Mexican city of Guanajuato. But it isn't too early to ... Read More

Spanish has become the most important foreign language for graduate students in Norway, the Spanish news agency EFE reports. In fact, Spanish has surpassed French, English and German as languages ... Read More

Antonio Skármeta, a novelist from Chile, has won the prestigious Planeta literary prize for his novel El baile de la victoria. The novel is a love story set during the ... Read More

La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, has a been anything but peaceful in recent weeks. But a popular uprising against Bolivian President Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada could ... Read More

When you live in an English-speaking environment, getting to the point where you can start thinking in Spanish is a challenge. Here's what works for the writer of a letter ... Read More

Lawmakers in Puerto Rico are considering a bill that would make Spanish the commonwealth's only official language. Current law recognizes both English and Spanish as official. Supporters of the change ... Read More

By Hollywood standards, $10 million isn't a lot of money to spend on a major motion picture. But by the standards of Mexican cinema, it's a huge amount. That's approximately ... Read More

Consonants between vowels in Spanish are quite softly pronounced, a phenomenon that is known as lenition. Among those is the D, whose sound is similar to that of the English ... Read More

Suppose that your knowledge of Spanish is limited and for some reason you have to take care of some Spanish-speaking children. What would you say to them? Participants in ... Read More

The Spanish language will come up against three types of pressure in the coming years, writes Eduardo Villar in the Argentine newspaper Clarín. They are 1) the growth of the ... Read More

No debemos alabar a Cristóbal Colón, dice Hugo Chávez, presidente de Venezuela.  Chávez inauguró este fin de semana un encuentro internacional de "Resistencia Indígena" donde calificó como "genocidas" e "invasores" ... Read More

The Instituto Cervantes, which promotes the teaching, study and use of Spanish and advancement of Spanish and Hispanic cultures, is opening its new facilities in New York City today (Oct. ... Read More

A new analysis of information gathered during the 2000 U.S. Census shows that nearly one out of five Americans speak a language other than English at home — and the ... Read More

Whatever the critics of California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger accused him of during his campaign, they didn't claim that he was corrupt. So why did Spanish-language newspapers around the world quote ... Read More

How do you translate a simple sentence such as "stop him!"? Here are some of the possibilities: ¡Deténgalo! ¡Párenlo! ¡agárrenlo! And if you're a police officer telling someone to halt, ... Read More

Both the preterite and the past perfect tenses are used to describe events that happened in the past. However, the two tenses are not the same. The past perfect ... Read More

Spanish-language news media in California have often given a different picture of the state's gubernatorial recall election than have English-language media, says David Hayes-Bautista of the Center for Study of ... Read More

Spanish-language radio broadcasts of upcoming Major League Baseball playoffs and the World Series will be provided by a partnership of ESPN and ABC Radio. The broadcasts will be a precursor ... Read More

Traditionally, a male lawyer in Spanish is un abogado and a female lawyer is una abogada. But it is becoming more common to see constructions as la abogado to refer ... Read More

This year could go down as the year that Spanish-language newspapers became mainstream in the United States. Three major U.S. newspaper chains — the Tribune Co., Belo Corp. and ... Read More

Regular visitors to this site know what the first day of the month brings: another collection of vocabulary words. Our Word of the Day continues to be one of the ... Read More

AOL is launching AOL Latino, a new Internet service designed specifically for U.S. residents who speak Spanish. Although AOL has marketed its services to Spanish speakers previously, the new ... Read More