By Os ¡Feliz Año Nuevo amigos! ¿How were your holidays? ¿Did you enjoy them? Snowball. It is hard to get one around here, isn’t it? Well, not this kind of snowball… This snowball is made of Spanish. We are gonna start with isolated words and by the end of this
Read MoreBy Os ¡Hola amigos! ¿Did you watch the games of “La Sele”? They did amazingly great, didn’t they? ¡¡We made historia for sure!! Last month we learned a super handy rule: The 2 WEEKS rule. ¿Remember how it goes? It goes like this: The 2 WEEKS rule is a handy
Read MoreBy Os Parte 1. SER = TO be I s oy you, s/he, it es we s omos you all, they s on The 2 WEEKS rule is a handy rule that we can
Read MoreComER = TO eat I com o you, s/he, it com e we com emos you all, they com en -ER verbs are the second set of verbs that you need to master. You will find that
Read MoreHablAR = TO speak/TO talk I habl o you, s/he, it habl a we habl amos you all, they habl an I am pretty sure you know why this verb is important… Right! It is important because it is the pattern that you follow when you have to conjugate hundreds
Read MoreBy Oz I know, I know. I know that I already gave you (according to me) the twelve most important verbs EVER. I call them “The Times Tables” because as in math, if you learn them by heart you will be able to do bigger operations and; most important, you
Read MoreBy Os Feliz día de la amistad y del amor – Happy Valentine’s Day. Because this is the month of friendship I am gonna introduce you to someone that I think should be your new B.F.F. He calls himself Señor Jordan, he’s from the U.S.A. and he is very humble
Read MoreBy Oz ¡Feliz Año Nuevo gente! = ¡Happy New Year people! I hope you had a Feliz Navidad. ¡Bendiciones=Blessings! I know, I know. I know that this is NOT an article about matemáticas, but I want to start this year giving you (according to me) the twelve most important verbs
Read MoreBy Os ¡Feliz Navidad amig@s! Quick review, before we start I need you to be sure that you can both understand and say these lifesaving pregunta words. ¿Cómo? = ¿How? ¿Qué? = ¿What? ¿Dónde? = ¿Where? ¿Cuándo? = ¿When? ¿Cuál? = ¿Which? ¿Quién? = ¿Who? ¿Cuánt@? = ¿How much? ¿Cuánt@s?
Read MoreBy Os Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? Today this column is celebrating two years of being around. Muchas gracias for reading it, and saying good things about it. You can find this and the other 22 (veintidós) articles on this website: www.OsCostaRica.com. I saw my friend Tom yesterday and he started
Read MoreBy Os Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? ¿Remember what we learned one year ago? I do. Let’s review it pretty quick. We learned that there are three big types of verbs: The verbos that end in “AR”, like HablAR; The verbos that end in “ER”, like ComER; The verbos that end
Read MoreBy Os I suppose that you have learned and memorized the “to be” words by now, haven‘t you? Well, just in case here they are: ESTAR TO BE SER Estoy I’m Soy Está you’re, s/he’s Es Estamos we’re Somos Están y’all are, they’re Son Now fill the box without cheating:
Read MoreBy Os Let’s review what we learned last month. Look at these dialogues and see how “ESTAR” works: ¿Cómo está usted? – Estoy bien. ¿Está bien? – Sí, estoy bien. ¿Está mal? – No, no estoy mal. Estoy bien.
Read MoreBy Os Look at these numbers and try to guess the next number in the pattern: 0 – 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 13 – 21 – 34 – ?? 55? ¡Yeah! If you said 55 you figured it out correctly. If you
Read MoreBy Os To be, or not to be; that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles… ¿To be or not To be? That is NOT the question. ¿Ser or Estar?
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