Spanish as it is actually spoken in Lima
Most Spanish courses teach a Spanish nobody speaks. These lessons teach the one you will hear in a Lima taxi, a market, or a friend's kitchen.
Latest lessons
- Spanish for accessible tourism: the words, and the current ones
Ramps, signage, guide dogs and staff training in Spanish — plus which disability terms are current in Peru, which are dated, and why person-first order matters.
- A, hacia, de: to, towards and of in Spanish
A is the destination you arrive at, hacia the direction you face, de the origin or the link. Plus the two contractions al and del.
- Spanish for art: materials, movements and saying what you think
The vocabulary of the studio and the gallery — pigments, canvas, movements — and the one grammar rule art talk forces: negated opinions take the subjunctive.
- Spanish augmentatives: -ón, -azo and -ote
How -ón, -azo and -ote work in Peru: -azo is the productive one, it means a great one or a blow with one, and -ón often insults the person.
- Spanish adverbs of manner: -mente, bien and mal
How to build an adverb from an adjective, why bien is not bueno, and the short forms Peruvians use instead of the long ones.
- The three Spanish conditionals, side by side
Si tengo, si tuviera, si hubiera tenido — three if-sentences making three different claims, and the one rule that stops the commonest error.