With today being Thanksgiving, el Día de Acción de Gracias, I thought I would give you another way to say thank you. Agradecer is a bit trickier in that it is a verb and not a noun like gracias. If you try to apply the word appreciate to agradesco, it will really help you understand [...]

Colegio does not mean college necessarily. It can be if applied to a group of people, but typically it is used to mean school, and usually school up to the American English understanding of college. An American English college would be universidad in Spanish. However, there are times when colegio can be applied to mean [...]

I have always heard the word pelón applied to someone’s baldness. Often it is used as a term of endearment. You can used it to refer to your bald friend. This weekend I was helping to track down a wiring problem in a building. This was a new building and the wiring had just been [...]

I love to sew. When I go shopping for fabric I am not looking for fábrica. Fábrica is a factory or a place where things are manufactured. What I need in the fabric store is tela.

There is a commercial on here that I have seen quite frequently and it uses the phrase lo que me late. I couldn’t figure out what it was talking about in context so I used my handy translator. It informed me lo que me late means what barks at me. Now I was really confused [...]

Quehacer is two simple words, que and hacer, joined together to make a new word. Que and hacer of course are that and to do. Quehacer is occupation, business or tarea.

To me the word rumbo has always sounded fun and exciting, a game or a dance or something like that. But alas, it is not. Rumbo is a direction. It can also be a path that you try to follow. Not all that exciting but still a fun word.