Allison Schleck's blog

One of the biggest problems for Spanish beginners is how to learn a large amount of vocabulary in the shortest time possible. Well, there are no quick solutions, but here are some patterns to help identify, write and learn Spanish words with more ease...

You’ve been studying Spanish a while and decide to take the next step: You’re going to a Spanish speaking country. Just make sure that you have researched the country well and I am not talking necessarily about safety and the hotspots but the vocabulary! That’s right, the vocabulary. Crazy?!? I don’t think so.

Many countries do not use the same exact vocabulary that we learn in the classroom. That seems obvious, but even the vocabulary we use in class may have a different connotation depending on the country you choose to visit. Two classic cases of miscommunication are local terminology and interpretation...