PinPoint Spanish: Insights into Mexican Spanish

While some might insist otherwise, in Spanish, double negatives are valid when referring to the absence of people and things

People who attend conferences in Mexico will have discovered that they aren't much different here than anywhere else...

Mexican Spanish makes use of a good number of euphemisms, which play along well with Mexico's penchant for polite language

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

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

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'

So-called inclusive language has been creeping into use in Spanish, but the Real Academia Española is so far sticking to its guns