Culture —– Regional Variations in Spanish

June 22, 2009

A few weeks ago, one of our subscribers asked me to address the differences between Spanish in Latin America and Spanish in Spain. This week, I will talk a little about those differences as well as a few regional word differences from Central America to South America and so forth. To learn Spanish, click here.

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Culture —– Hand Gestures Part III – The “Someone’s in Trouble” Gesture

June 15, 2009

Now, for the last hand gesture in our series. This is my favorite gesture of all the Latin American hand gestures. Being an American and not from Latin America, it took me a while to perfect it, but it is fun and very expressive. As you can see by the title, I like to call [...]

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Culture —– Hand Gestures II – The “Thief Sign”

June 8, 2009

Bienvenidos (welcome) to this week’s culture section. Before we start into the culture topic for this week, I wanted to remind you to look into this week’s special offer on the complete Visual Link Spanish™ course if you have not purchased it yet.
This week we will continue with hand gestures. The Latin hand gesture [...]

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Culture —– Hand Gestures (gestos)

June 1, 2009

Today we are going to cover a certain Latin hand gesture that is essential to know. Some of you may be disappointed who wanted to learn how to do a gesture involving a particular “middle” finger to show anger. Sorry—remember, this is a family-friendly website. (By the way, that finger sign means nothing to native [...]

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