Gerald's Spanish Language Blog

Possessive pronouns can come in handy when talking about all sorts of things. In the sentence "El mío es mejor que el tuyo," ("Mine is better than yours" in English), ... Read More

At some time, you've probably run across the word apagón, usually translated as "blackout," although it can refer generally to any power outage. Apagón is, of course, related to the ... Read More

While watching the pageantry of the papal memorials and selection on TV in the past few days, I've been struck by how much of the Latin I could understand, at ... Read More

What do Spanish students want to know? For one teacher who participates in our forum, it is who decides what makes a word masculine or feminine, and where the feature ... Read More

Author Thomas Keyes tells what he like about Spanish (such as dependable pronunciation) and what he doesn't like (such as verb conjugation) in a recent article at Useless-Knowledge.com. Overall, he ... Read More

Pop superstar Shakira is releasing a new Spanish-language album, Oral fijación 1, on June 7. A companion English-language album with a similar title, "Oral Fixation 2," will follow shortly afterward. ... Read More

If you want to keep your mind from showing the effects of age, one way may be to learn another language. In a study published last year, researchers measured the ... Read More

It is becoming more and more common, a writer for La Opinión of Los Angeles notes, that actors and others speaking for an international audience be required to use a ... Read More

What comes to mind when you think of Argentina — gauchos, the tango, Juan Perón? All these and more are part of the South American country's rich history and culture. ... Read More

Sometimes, "idiom" refers to a pattern of speaking. But at other times it refers to a single phrase. Learn more...

It shouldn't come as any surprise that Pope John Paul II, known in Spanish as Juan Pablo II, who died today, was one of the most beloved people in the ... Read More

As an aid to expanding your Spanish vocabulary, you can receive a Spanish-language saying, proverb or quotation each day via email. If can you understand the saying you receive, congratulations. ... Read More

Our march through the alphabet continues today in our Word of the Day feature. This month, the words all begin with the letter R. Learn another R word...

Like all living languages, Spanish is changing — and the biggest change these days is the continual adoption of English words. Some English words, such as camping (which usually means ... Read More