Traditional Puerto Rican Food (with recipes!)
Mark Robert Alexander
Improving your Spanish is an exciting and rewarding project, but doing it alone is not always easy. That’s why I created MexicanSpanish.com.
Here you’ll find my and for improving your Spanish, based on my experiences and observations after a decade of life with Mexicans.
Recent posts
Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics is the best book out there for understanding the structure of Spanish. I recommend it for upper intermediate or advanced learners who want a linguistically informed treatment.
Here are some photos I took recently of a heated argument between some street soccer players and the referee. And since this is the Mexican Spanish blog, we'll mention a few linguistic points to keep in mind when talking about soccer in Spanish.
Plural nouns in Spanish are often grammatically gendered but semantically mixed. With this in mind, let's look at the common-sense interpretation of words like novios, padres and tíos.
The interjection ¡A huevo! — a borderline obscene expression due to its association with huevo = ball (testicle) — can be useful when you're shooting the breeze among pals.
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