Rockin’ the chocolatina

[caption id="attachment_4497" align="alignright" width="259"] ‘Se ve que se toma la sopita’. Photo: Marcelo Träsel CC BY-SA 2.0[/caption] We...

When it rains it pours

[caption id="attachment_4017" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo: Wagner Machado Carlos Lemes CC BY 2.0[/caption] Katie Jacoby outfits you with...

Por-alysis Para-lysis

Mastering por and para is part and parcel of speaking good Spanish. Katie Jacoby crams everything you need to know into her no-frills...

Oh So ‘Juicioso’

Katie Jacoby takes a look at the multi-faceted Colombian Spanish term juicioso, which doesn’t translate in the way you might think When I came...

How to Hacer

Oliver Pritchard explains why direct translation often causes errors Your English teacher has probably said to you “don't translate!”. ...

Talkin’ ‘Bout Collaboration!

Katie Jacoby takes a look at the verb colaborar, which doesn’t get used in quite the same way as collaborate... At first glance, colaborar and...

Greetings in Bogotá

We look at mastering the art of hello in The Bogotá Post’s first Spanish language column [caption id="attachment_2595" align="alignright"...

Que Pena Con Usted…

Brendan Corrigan dissects 'que pena', one of Colombia’s favourite phrases It’s not always best practice to translate sayings/phrases in...