Foreign Native

A trip to Mexico City could well be graced with a visit to the Aztec Stadium to see a football (soccer) match. The massive concrete structure located in the south of the capital on Calzada de Tlalpan, seats more than 100,000 people. It has been the site of two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986), […]

Thanks to modern technology, there’s no longer any need to learn how to put accents on Spanish words. Instead of bothering with complicated, picky rules, just announce firstly and loudly that the keyboard on your palm pilot, or better yet, your iPhone, “doesn’t DO accents.” Contemporaries will take this as a perfectly acceptable euphemism for […]