I Used To, But Not Anymore

Oliver Pritchard walks us through using the imperfect, past continuous and ‘used to’ tenses in English Writing stories and descriptions in...

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...

Life In Two Languages

Columnist Rachel Beresford asks if raising bilingual children is worth the effort?   A friend of mine went to a children’s birthday party...

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...

Grammar Focus

Here at The Bogota Post, we have a habit of using archaic (old-fashioned, out of use) language. So this week’s grammar point focuses on a verb, an...

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"...

Perfecting the present

We take a look at a perfectly good, yet underused tense... One of the tenses that is often ignored by Spanish speakers using English is the...

Life In Two Languages

Rachel Beresford asks if it’s possible to have different personalities in different languages The other day my boyfriend referred to me as his...

Passive Problems

Mastering the passive voice is an essential part of learning English. Oliver Pritchard explores this puzzling part of the language. ...

A Game Of Two Halves

Football, fútbol, fussball...it’s an international language... Except in the States, where they call it soccer. Oh, and Italy, they say calcio. ...