by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 11, 2026 | Blog
Short answer: not really. Unlike “Feliz Navidad,” “Feliz Año Nuevo” or “Feliz cumpleaños,” “Feliz Día de Muertos” is not something Mexicans normally say. You can say it, and it is fine, but it is rare. It is easy to see...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Oct 6, 2026 | Blog
Animal sounds in Spanish are often close to the English versions but spelled completely differently: a dog says guau guau, a cat says miau, a cow says muu. A few are truly different, and the rooster is the one that surprises everyone, because in Spanish it says...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 30, 2026 | Blog
To stay consistent learning Spanish, stop relying on motivation and build a small system instead: a routine of 20 minutes or less, tied to a habit you already have, that you can keep even in your busiest week. Hannah has taught Spanish for nearly 20 years, and she...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 28, 2026 | Blog
Code-switching is when a bilingual person moves between two languages in the same conversation, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. For Hannah, a Spanish coach from the US who lives in Mexico, it usually happens for three reasons: a Spanish word says something...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 25, 2026 | Blog
You freeze because your brain has practiced understanding Spanish far more than producing it, and because in the moment you are trying to build a perfect answer instead of a functional one. It is not a knowledge problem. It is a retrieval problem, and retrieval is...
by Guadalupe Pérez | Sep 24, 2026 | Blog
The Mexican expressions worth learning first are not the famous slang words. They are the ones people say without noticing: este arroz ya se coció when something is settled, valió chetos when something is ruined, and don and doña before the first name of older people...
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