My friends spoke little English, and they thought " VACANCIES" meant"holidays", because the Spanish word for " holidays"is "vacaciones". So they did not go to the house where the sign outside said " VACANCIES ", which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to the...
My friends spoke little English, and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays”, because the Spanish word for “holidays” is “vacaciones”. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said “VACABCUES”, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to ...
While a big part of learning a language is building your vocabulary, grammar is the vehicle that actually transports the individual word-passengers to their destination: meaningful, context-specific communication. Grammar-phobia Before you start to seize up with flashbacks of the tediousness of ...
If Spanish is your native language, you may be using the Spanish “sound system” when you speak English. You may not be stretching and shrinking your English vowels to shape each word. You may be using a Spanish melody for your English words, but English has it’s own melody. [bctt t...
My friends spoke little English and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays” because the Spanish word for “holidays” is said “vacaciones”. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said “VACANCIES” which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to ...
” I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English and they thought “VACANCIES” meant “holidays” because the Spanish word for “holidays” is said “vacaciones”. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said “VACANCIES” ...
They taught me my first Spanishword, “hola", and we became friends soon after.②In the fall of the same year, I chose Spanish as a foreign language course throughout the nextsix years in my junior and senior high schools.③As the old saying goes, “There is nothing impossible to him...
One of the most common mistakes that English speakers make in Spanish is adding additional dipthongs or pronouncing vowels in different ways when they appear at different parts of the word, much as we do in English. For example, the city of Barcelona in Spain should not be pronounced “Barcel...
In Panama, they take the word for that sound and use it to mean money. Neat! Me quedé sin chenchén, primo.(I have no money left, bro.) 30.Pirapire Where it’s used:Paraguay This is another beautiful example of indigenous words and food being incorporated into Spanish. ...
Byline: By Sara LongSara Long, account manager, Working Word PRMY parents' decision to send me to a Welsh-medium primary and secondary school when neither they, nor anybody else in my family spoke Welsh, is the one thing I am most grateful for.Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool was full...