Spanish in Cabo

  “Whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't, you are right", Henry Ford.   " We are what we believe in", Wayne Dyer.   “The idea is not to live forever, the idea is to create something that does”, Andy Warhol.   How are you? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are or what time you are listening to us. Thank you very much for being here listening to us and practicing Spanish in these 5 minutes. As you can imagine, today's topic is to think about these two verbs: creer and crear.   Creer means: To believe Crear: to create, in this case it is a cognate.   Creer and crear are two powerful verbs that come from Latin.   They are only separated by a vowel in the infinitives which can lead to confusion for a speaker of Spanish as a second language.   Moreover, in the first person, yo, they coincide: Yo creo en la solidaridad.   I believe in solidarity. Yo creo una receta de cocina. I crea

  Hello, how are you? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, depending on where you are or what time you are listening to us. Thank you very much for being here and for wanting to improve your Spanish. We know that you usually listen to us and that makes us very happy. Pulsa para escuchar In these 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about a verb that does not have a direct translation in English and it is the verb: soler. For example, we can say: Los estudiantes de español suelen hacerse nuevos amigos en Spanish in Cabo Spanish students often make new friends at Spanish in Cabo. Los latinoamericanos solemos cenar muy tarde Cenamos a las 8:30 PM Latin Americans tend to have a very late dinner The first characteristic of soler is that it is always accompanied by an infinitive, that is, by a verb ending in ar, er o ir. Suelo comprar productos locales     I usually buy local products   María suele caminar por la playa    María usually walks on the bea

  How are you? Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are or what time you listen to us. Thank you very much for listening to us every Wednesday! On Monday, May 10, Mother's Day is celebrated in Mexico, it is a very important day, almost like a national holiday. Although it is a working day, many small businesses close in the afternoon because the owners go to visit their mothers. It is common to hear mariachis singing to the mothers. In normal years, i.e. without a pandemic, restaurants are full and the streets are lined with stalls selling roses and chocolates. Anna Jarvis In the United States Mother's Day is on May 9, as it coincides with a Sunday, this happens in other Latin American countries, but not in Mexico. Here Mother's Day is on May 10, even if it falls on a Monday, as it did this year. “Aunque caiga en lunes”, means: "Even if it falls on a Monday." Caiga (falls) is the subjunctive of caer, after aunque we u