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Una nueva forma de practicar español: SpanishUp2U: ¿quieres ser de los primeros? / a new way to practice Spanish!

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  ¡Qué tal amigos! Estamos muy entusiasmados con nuestra nueva forma de experimentar el español: SpanishUp2U. ¿Qué es SpanishUp2U? Es un club online en el cual vamos a volcar estos 12 años de experiencia y trabajo en Spanish in Cabo para facilitarte el aprendizaje español pues tendrás tu práctica cuando quieras, sin tener que organizar una cita semanal o separar un tiempo especial. Sí, en tu casa o en tus viajes, a tu ritmo y a tu tiempo, podrás practicar español con tu maestro favorito de Spanish in Cabo, ¡como si estuvieras en Los Cabos! Por supuesto que seguimos con las clases y los cursos de inmersión de Spanish in Cabo, sumamos esta otra opción para que tengas más contacto con el español y lo practiques a tu ritmo. ¿Quiénes forman SpanishUp2U? Tú, tus compañeros del club y todo el equipo de Spanish in Cabo que estaremos junto a ti entregando materiales originales para que practiques en pequeños pasos bien organizados adaptados a tus necesidades. ¿Cuáles son las...

5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week / La comida

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Escucha aquí Hey, Hi. Thank you very much for listening to the 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week. Let's talk about cooking vocabulary, it's not very intellectual, but actually cooking and eating is something we do every day, at least one of the two actions. When do we eat? Uh, actually, all day, we shouldn't eat so much. In the morning we have breakfast. How do you form the word breakfast? The prefix "des" means denial, not fasting. We break the healthy fast we have during the night, about 10 hours. It's the same in English: breakfast, break fast. How is breakfast in the Latin world? In Mexico, breakfast is abundant, just like in the rest of North America. In other Latin American countries breakfast is coffee with milk, toast or bread and a fruit juice, it is the same as in Spain. And at noon? It is the main meal of the day; it is called lunch in Mexico. In South America and in Spain, lunch. Lunch is...

Amigos y falsos amigos: 5 minutos de español/Friends and false friends

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1 English version  Hi, how are you? We met again in the 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week. If you are an English speaker and you are learning Spanish, there are a lot of words you already know. This means that you have a great advantage in your learning, compared to a person born in Japan or China, for example. There are words that are the same in both languages, they are cognates, they have the same origin: Latin. traffic        tráfico per cent     por ciento executive   ejecutivo                debate      debate popular       popular client          cliente fantastic     fantástico But... there's always a but. Sometimes, we have false cognates or false friends. That is to say words that are similar in form but their...