PinPoint Spanish: Insights into Mexican Spanish

When Mexicans make fun of Anglo-Saxon efforts at speaking Spanish, they usually focus on the flat r's and incorrect verb conjugations

An exploration of the complexities that exist in Spanish surrounding the use of the terms "there is," "there are," and "to have"

Some complications arise with object pronouns in Spanish when you're dealing with third persons singular and plural

The phone rings when you weren't expecting a call. ¿A dónde hablo? (where am I calling?) comes a sharp, testy voice

You'll become familiar with the phrase "No Hay," that inevitably makes itself apparent at some point when something you want or need isn't available right now

In Spanish, feminine words end in an 'a' and masculine words in an 'o', and so do corresponding adjectives—but there are a number of exceptions

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

One of the most rewarding, and frequently neglected, parts of learning another language is finding out the names of the different animals

Exploring a tidy arrangement of words in Spanish usage that most usually leads to the listener’s disappointment

There are many pairs of words in English-Spanish that look and sound similar but have very different meanings, known as 'false cognates'

Mexico has a wide variety of sayings, maxims, or phrases intended to convey truth or natural wisdom that admits no argument

There is one area where Spanish language usually omits a negative which in English is necessary, related to the word 'Hasta'