My little girl is a red head and as such she suffers from what many other redheads do, freckles. She is very fair skinned so her freckles really stand out. The other day a friend who we have known a while noticed her freckles and commented on them. The Mexicans who we know have freckles [...]

When I first saw damnificados I was shocked to see it used in a newspaper headline. I immediately thought of our similar looking English word. Imagine my surprise when I looked up the word to find out it simply means victims. Particularly the newspaper was telling about victims of a hurricane. Every use of the [...]

The verb gustar is most commonly associated with the word like. It would be used in most places that we use the word like in English. However, it is not a grammatical equivalent, which is why English speakers have such a hard time knowing how to use gustar. But if you think of gustar as [...]

At church the other day, I noticed that a couple of the verses we read started with the phrase por tanto. I couldn’t reason out the meaning to myself. I knew that tanto was much or a lot and the verses just did not make sense with this meaning. One of the verses was: Por [...]

Previously I had posted the word capacitar. Usually the person who is doing the capacitación is called an asesor. The word means an adviser, but when they are capacitando someone, they could be called a trainer. I hear this word used more in one on one situations where one person is being trained for a [...]

This last week there was a drug related assassination in town. This was carried out by sicarios, or hired assassins. The police arrived after being tipped off that something odd was going on. Unfortunately, they were not able to get there before the hit men had done their work. However, they did arrive before the [...]

What disappears when you stand up? Regazo or lap. I am sure that is one of those words they taught us in school. But I heard it this weekend and it was new for me. Now if I can just remember it when I need to use it. Fortunately, I have been living in a [...]