In 2019, Spain was the second most visited place on the planet. How many of those visitors knew some basic vocab? Read this list of the most necessary phrases, with pronunciations, before your trip.

It can be hard to digest the fast-moving pace of events lately!  Thankfully there are so many online treasures in the public domain to keep our minds active.  Now, with these links, you can take advantage of the time you spend in your home by absorbing new worlds of knowledge and beauty, at no cost.

Foto por @ugurarpaci Carnaval is one of the most fun and important parties on the planet, but especially in Latin culture. It is a celebration that is lived in the street, where people dress up in colourful costumes and masks, in addition to non-stop singing and dancing! But from where and when did Carnaval originate? [...]

Spanish World in the Time of Coronavirus In the past 10 months, Hong Kong has been through a number of unprecedented events.  Just as the protests were beginning to simmer down, a new threat presented itself: an unknown infection, with a risk of quickly spreading among humans, within one of the densest cities in the [...]

Within the world of Latin music, J.Lo was more widely known as the wife of Marco Antonio, than as an artist in her own right.  Is this because of any language barrier?  In the opinion of Spanish World, not necessarily.  J.Lo’s Spanish is good, exhibiting a grasp of word order and grammar, but perhaps not with a huge vocabulary.  A solid B2 level, if we had to assess based solely on this video. 

Our friend Cecilie Gamst Berg brings a little bit of Hong Kong to her new home in Mallorca, Spain.  Join Cecilie as she progresses through the Spanish language while sinking into the Mallorcan culture!

Do you have any friend called James, Jacob or Jamie? Try asking him what’s his name in Spanish. If he doesn’t know the answer, he may want to read this blog and find out the history behind it.

James (in English), Jacques (in French), Giacomo (in italian), Yakub (in Malay) or Yakobu ヤコブ (in Japanese) are all variants of the same Hebrew name, Jacob (יַעֲקֹב‎).