PinPoint Spanish

Learn about the context and nuances of Mexican Spanish language usage with this PinPoint Spanish series

In Spanish, ordinal numbers get complicated way before cardinal numbers; this article guides you through the variations

It's said that even people who can waltz through a lie-detector test will stumble doing arithmetic in a foreign language

Modern conversations in Mexico are frequently interspersed with the word "güey"—which means several things and, just as often, nothing

Mexico's widespread use of a word whose English equivalents have nothing to do with matriarchal figures

A quick lesson in getting to grips with soft and hard consonants in Spanish

"Los siete pecados capitales," as they’re called in Spanish, crop up every now and again in conversation

If you have lived in Mexico for a while, the title of this article will sound a familiar ring

Explaining the difference between "bring" and "take," and when to use one and when the other

There are many pairs of words in English-Spanish that look and sound similar but have very different meanings

Object pronouns in Spanish are reasonably straightforward unless you're dealing with third persons singular and plural