¿To be or not To be? Parte III.
By 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.
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¿To be or not To be? Parte II.
By 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 More¿To be or not To be? Parte I.
By 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?
Read MoreI have a question = Tengo una pregunta
By Os ¿How are you guys? ¿Cómo están? ¿Did you get some rest during the Semana Santa? I hope you did. Before we start I need you to be sure that you can both understand and say these lifesaving pregunta words.
Read MorePutting things together. Parte III.
By Os Hola amigos. ¿How is everything going on? This is the third and last article of this series. So let me ask you this question again: Guys: ¿Do you know how to make a Wh. question in inglés? ¿Do you start the question with an action word (verb), with
Read MorePutting things together. Parte II.
Feliz día de la amistad y del amor – Happy Valentine’s Day. Let’s start with some lines that you may use this febrero: Estoy enamorado(a) = I’m in love. Te amo = I love you. Te quiero mucho = I love so much. Quiero darte un beso = I want
Read MorePutting things together. Parte I.
By Os ¡Feliz Año Nuevo gente! = ¡Happy New Year people! I hope you had a Feliz Navidad and everything is all right. ¡Bendiciones=Blessings! Students and friends always tell me that they don’t know how to put the things together in Spanish. Well, let’s start the year learning that, ok?
Read MoreFeliz Navidad = Merry Christmas
By Os ¡Feliz Navidad amig@s! Let me show you some vocabulario for these dates: Regalo = gift. Presente = present. Árbol de navidad = X-mas tree. Portal = Nativity. Noche Buena = X-mas Eve. Papá Noel = Santa Claus. Aguinaldo = An extra payment that employees get in diciembre. Tamal
Read MoreFeliz cumpleaños = Happy Birthday
By Os Hola amig@s. ¿Todo bien? Today this column is celebrating one year of being around. Muchas gracias for reading it, and saying good things about it. You can find this and the other 11 (once) articles on this website: www.OsCostaRica.com Last month there were two little (but VERY important)
Read MoreLet’s Play with VERBOS
By Os Hola gente. As this is a two months issue I asked permission from the woman in charge to make this article bigger than usual. I hope you like it. Prepare yourselves guys. VERBOS are here. Tranquil@s, it’s not the Armageddon, relax. A verb is where the action is.
Read MoreSpanish is not a stranger
By Os Today I’m gonna steal some phrases from a book named: “Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish”. It’s a good one, I recommend it 100% to those who want to learn and gain some confidence in Spanish; I hope Margarita Madrigal (the author) doesn’t mind… At this moment you know
Read More¿Who’s who?
By Os This month we are gonna talk about ¿Who’s who? We are gonna define the Personal Pronouns, just for the record a Personal Pronoun is a word that we use to substitute persons or things when they are the subject of the sentence. For example: Marcela eats a lot.
Read MoreLet’s Review…
By Os This is the octavo-eighth month that I write in a row, so I have decided to do a little “test-review” of some of the stuff we have been reading and learning in SPANISH SUCKS… Say 1, 2, 3, en ESPAÑOL… ¡WOW! Now say and write the numbers between
Read MoreLots of stuff. Prepare yourself.
By Os ¿Todo bien gente? ¿Everything is ok people? Last month we learned “Los Días de la Semana”, right? So, I suppose we should learn “Los Meses del Año”-“The Months of the Year” right now: ENERO is the only one that doesn´t look very similar to the one in inglés.
Read MoreAgreement/Matchment
By Os You know the days of the week en español, don’t you? Nooo? Why am I not surprised? Joke….Ok, let’s learn them: Domingo (Sunday) de Ramos, everybody gets a piece of palm to welcome Jesucristo. El lunes (Monday), el martes (Tuesday) and el mièrcoles everything is normal until midnight
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