Let’s discuss heavy equipment. Not something I run into in every day conversation but good things to know when I am about town. Here we have many trucks with signs saying doble remolque. That is to let you know they have a double trailer. Good thing to know when trying to pass. A grúa is [...]

Matriz means womb or uterus. It is also the word matrix in English. But the oddest use of the word that I have seen is when it refers to a company, or main office. When referring to a company it would be the parent company, or more specifically the mother company of a business.

Today I took my son to a class at one of the local sports complexes. It is a class that we have to pay a fee for. They have a computer system that they keep their records in. But, typically, the lady working the computer only knows how to do the six steps that has [...]

Some words one can just look at and guess approximately what it is, not with these. Escoba is a broom. Barrer is what you do with a broom, to sweep.

Spanish cartoons have helped my children learn most of their Spanish. Me too. One such cartoon introduces a little girl and says she is graciosa. Graciosa or gracioso can mean what it looks like gracious or graceful but it also means funny. And this is how it is used in reference to the girl.

Promedio is the average or middle of something. While there is nothing too exciting about the noun promedio, I thought it was interesting to find there was a verb, promediar. It means to divide in two or to mediate.

One of the things that make the Internet useful is that it has vínculos. A vínculo is a link from one website to another. It is what bonds or ties the two pages to one another. Like many words on the web, it is not web specific. It is used when trying to make a [...]