I used to be bad at this: mastering the ‘used to’ in English

[caption id="attachment_27638" align="alignnone" width="960"] "In Bogotá we are used to traffic jams"[/caption] People often get confused when...

FITB: The Best of Colombia in theatre

[caption id="attachment_27999" align="alignnone" width="1600"] An electric tribute to Nina Simone, Negra / Ánger rocks the stage.[/caption] The...

A wobbly start of 2018 for Colombian cyclists

[caption id="attachment_27955" align="alignnone" width="700"] Sergio Henao showing his Colombian champion jersey in France       ...

Oli’s Big Topic: Have you become a bitter foreigner?

[caption id="attachment_27838" align="aligncenter" width="696"] Oli Pritchard starts his new column as he means to go on - direct, honest, and maybe...

Colombia elections: Duque comes out on top in legislative elections

[caption id="attachment_27878" align="aligncenter" width="1060"] President Santos encourages Colombians to go and vote at the start of the day....

Lost in translation: Translation tricks between Spanish and English

[caption id="attachment_27639" align="alignnone" width="960"] A few translation tricks to help improve your English and Spanish.[/caption] With a...

Book review: Voices of Bogotá

Voices of Bogotá, the long-awaited selection of short stories from the Bogotá Writers group was one of several English-language books to be...

Big stories in 2017: Strikes, scandals and natural disasters

Big stories in 2017: Colombia is a country with big news and 2017 has been no exception. Many of those have been sad events but we have been proud to...

Festive celebrations: Colombian budget wine

  Wine isn’t an elitist thing anymore. You can get good wine in supermarkets now. The explosion of budget supermarkets has seen a...

English language advent calendar

Get into the seasonal spirit in December with a new word for every day before Christmas in our English language advent calendar. Open as a pdf or...