By Os ¿How are you guys? ¿Cómo están? ¿Did you get some rest during the Semana Santa? I hope you did. Before we start I need you to be sure that you can both understand and say these lifesaving pregunta words.
Read MoreBy Os Hola amigos. ¿How is everything going on? This is the third and last article of this series. So let me ask you this question again: Guys: ¿Do you know how to make a Wh. question in inglés? ¿Do you start the question with an action word (verb), with
Read MoreFeliz día de la amistad y del amor – Happy Valentine’s Day. Let’s start with some lines that you may use this febrero: Estoy enamorado(a) = I’m in love. Te amo = I love you. Te quiero mucho = I love so much. Quiero darte un beso = I want
Read MoreBy Os ¡Feliz Año Nuevo gente! = ¡Happy New Year people! I hope you had a Feliz Navidad and everything is all right. ¡Bendiciones=Blessings! Students and friends always tell me that they don’t know how to put the things together in Spanish. Well, let’s start the year learning that, ok?
Read MoreBy Os ¡Feliz Navidad amig@s! Let me show you some vocabulario for these dates: Regalo = gift. Presente = present. Árbol de navidad = X-mas tree. Portal = Nativity. Noche Buena = X-mas Eve. Papá Noel = Santa Claus. Aguinaldo = An extra payment that employees get in diciembre. Tamal
Read MoreBy Os Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? Today this column is celebrating one year of being around. Muchas gracias for reading it, and saying good things about it. You can find this and the other 11 (once) articles on this website: www.OsCostaRica.com Last month there were two little (but VERY important)
Read MoreBy Os Hola gente. As this is a two months issue I asked permission from the woman in charge to make this article bigger than usual. I hope you like it. Prepare yourselves guys. VERBOS are here. Tranquil@s, it’s not the Armageddon, relax. A verb is where the action is.
Read MoreBy Os Today I’m gonna steal some phrases from a book named: “Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish”. It’s a good one, I recommend it 100% to those who want to learn and gain some confidence in Spanish; I hope Margarita Madrigal (the author) doesn’t mind… At this moment you know
Read MoreBy Os This month we are gonna talk about ¿Who’s who? We are gonna define the Personal Pronouns, just for the record a Personal Pronoun is a word that we use to substitute persons or things when they are the subject of the sentence. For example: Marcela eats a lot.
Read MoreBy Os This is the octavo-eighth month that I write in a row, so I have decided to do a little “test-review” of some of the stuff we have been reading and learning in SPANISH SUCKS… Say 1, 2, 3, en ESPAÑOL… ¡WOW! Now say and write the numbers between
Read MoreBy Os ¿Todo bien gente? ¿Everything is ok people? Last month we learned “Los Días de la Semana”, right? So, I suppose we should learn “Los Meses del Año”-“The Months of the Year” right now: ENERO is the only one that doesn´t look very similar to the one in inglés.
Read MoreBy Os You know the days of the week en español, don’t you? Nooo? Why am I not surprised? Joke….Ok, let’s learn them: Domingo (Sunday) de Ramos, everybody gets a piece of palm to welcome Jesucristo. El lunes (Monday), el martes (Tuesday) and el mièrcoles everything is normal until midnight
Read MoreBy Os Now let’s learn how to say “The” en español (AGAIN)… There are 4 ways to say “The” en español. There are 4 “words” that equal “The” en español. They are NOT interchangeable, ok?. Let’s learn ALL of them today: Word # 1 * the = el * when
Read MoreBy Os Feliz día de la amistad y del amor – Happy Valentine’s Day. Let’s start with some lines that you may use en febrero: Estoy enamorado(a) = I’m in love. Te gustó? = Did you like it? Quiere salir conmigo? = You wanna go out with me? Te casarías
Read MoreBy Os Hola amigos: Happy New Year! – Feliz Año Nuevo! I hope you had a Feliz Navidad and everything is all right. Did you have any trouble during your X-mas shopping understanding some numbers-números? Problems with the totals-totales? Still struggling to understand how much the bill-la cuenta is? You
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