“It is not easy to express the inexpressible” (Arthur C. Doyle)
The phrase of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the famous British author of Sherlock Holmes, is extracted from the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887), with …
101 words with the “ñ” of the Spanish alphabet (ABC)
The ñ (eñe) is the 15th letter of the Spanish alphabet, and also a hallmark of our language. Perhaps does not find it in the your computer keyboard. But you …
“The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish” (Robert Greene)
Words of author: Robert Greene (California, 1959) in the essay The 48 Laws of Power: “The more you say, the more likely you are to say something …
“Some problems are bigger than our brains” (George Steiner)
Author’s Words: George Steiner (Paris 1929 – Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2020) in the speech he delivered when he received in Oviedo (Asturias, …
Children use both hemispheres of the brain to understand language
Washington / Infants and children use both hemispheres of the brain to understand language, specifically to process spoken phrases, unlike adults, who …
Learn to say “hace mucho calor” in Spanish (It’s really hot!)
“Apretar el calor” o “asarse”, “freírse” and even “¡ahogarse de calor!” are some of the verbs with which we …
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The confinement makes the Spanish consult the RAE like never before
Madrid / The Dictionary of the Spanish language (DLE) has registered in the last month the record of 100 million queries in its online version, as …
A table of numbers between 1 and 100 in Spanish to start practicing the figures
Hi! Are you lazy to work with numbers in Spanish? It’s because you haven’t got to it. You know, like us, that numbers are basic and you’ll …
20 phrases with “luego”, “hasta luego” and “desde luego” in Spanish
“Luego”, “hasta luego”, “desde luego”. Really, “luego” as adverb, conjunction, or part of a phrase as a …
(Español) “Tartamudeo cuando hablo, no cuando pienso” (Joacine Katar Moreira)
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“To think high, to feel deep, to speak clearly” (Antonio Machado)
Words of the Spanish author Antonio Machado (Seville, 1875 – Coillure, France, 1939), poet and playwright of the Generation of 98, referred, as it is …
(Español) Los premios de “Estudiante de español del año” en Irlanda
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(Español) “A los viejos se nos trata de ‘abuelitos’, aunque no lo seamos” (Abraham Santibáñez)
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