A few of my favourite Spanish words

[caption id="attachment_17751" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Colombian Spanish contains as much colloquial words as the next...

Sporting Spanish – En sus marcas, listos, ¡fuera!

[caption id="attachment_17303" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The llama olímpica![/caption] Katie Jacoby journeys the lexical road to Rio with a...

All happening at the language zoo

[caption id="attachment_16380" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The literal monkey on the back![/caption] Katie Jacoby looks at the animalistic side...

The right place for placeholders

Katie Jacoby furnishes us with all the do-das, whatsits and thingamajigs placeholders we need to forget words like a native Sometimes you just...

Spanish book talk

Katie Jacoby shows her bookworm side with some useful reading vocab You’re reading this article right now, so I know we have at least one...

Eat my words

Sink your teeth into some restaurant-related language with Katie Jacoby As you can see from our recent gastronomy feature, Bogotá has a...

The language of elections

[caption id="attachment_8484" align="aligncenter" width="960"] When elections care oming up, be sure you’re prepared with all the...

From dawn till dusk

[caption id="attachment_7991" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The amanacer, as some of you may know, can be as spetacular as this.[/caption] Katie...

Language bank

[caption id="attachment_7660" align="alignnone" width="610"] Time to take the big step forward and put away the piggy bank?[/caption] Katie Jacoby...

On the run: running vocabulary in Spanish

[caption id="attachment_7225" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Go on, get out there and get some exercise![/caption] Katie Jacoby runs through all...