We arrived in Argentina a couple of days ago. Therefore the DSWU website is active again. What new words we are learning! Peaje can be used to talk about a toll booth or the toll you have to pay when driving on a toll road. In Mexico we used the word cuota which did not […]

We are moving and will be storing our stuff at someone’s house. I mentioned that I needed to get something to lift the items off the floor in case of a hurricane. The man who will be watching our stuff told me I needed tarimas. Of course I was thinking a pallet. Tarima is a […]

While watching the Olympics the announcers talked about the accomplishment of one of the athletes. He used the word hazaña. It means a great or heroic deed, an achievement, a feat.

Your medio ambiente is your environment. This refers to your cultural, social or natural environment.

Sinsabor is a descriptive term for something that is without taste or pleasure. I presume it can be used to talk about food, but the usage I have heard has been when talking about the discomforts or displeasures of life. Troubles or problems that people struggle with.

The place to park your car is the estacionamiento. It is the noun for a parking lot or a parking space. The verb is reflexive and is estacionarse. One of the worst “spanglish” words I have heard is parquear meaning to park. I suppose out of all the bad combinations of English and Spanish I […]

Along with the word muelle being used to mean pier or jetty, the word malecón can also mean the same thing. But when I have heard malecón used it refers to a sea wall, or breakers at a beach.