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Spanish punctuation

The purpose of this post is to give you a quick guide for Spanish punctuation. It is not hard and you do not need a whole course in Spanish grammar to understand a couple things about how to punctuate properly. Comparing English and Spanish punctuation marks Question marks and exclamation marks are the only real […]

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Spanish Firefox addons

What is the best tool for Firefox is you are learning Spanish? Are you learning Spanish?  Here is a tool you can get from Firefox by Peter Carroll that will help you, not only learn Spanish but give you the ability to type Spanish accents and special characters without messing with your Windows language setting […]

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Spanish accents

This post is about Spanish accents.  What are Spanish accents? Do not be confused, it is not the way people talk from region to region in Spain or Mexico. Rather I am referring to the written marks above the letters. Some people call these the Spanish funny letters. Why another page online about Spanish accents?  […]

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Spanish Pronunciation

A Spanish pronunciation online guide must be clear and on one printable page to be useful. Often Spanish language pronunciation guides are spread out over several pages or are not clear.   This is why I wanted to create a one page summary of Spanish pronunciation for the normal person but some expert in Spanish […]

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Language Mexico

Mexican auto insurnace

I am not an expert on life, but I worked in the insurance industry before I unplugged from the matrix of corporate America. Therefore, you combined my traveling to about 30 different countries (I have to count) and living a good part of my life, I think I have some advice about Mexican auto insurance. […]

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How many Americans live in Mexico

The purpose of this post is to answer the question how many Americans are living in Mexico? There are 111 million people in Mexico.  There are about 130,000 legal US residents  in Mexico who permanently live there. However, there are about 1/2 million more who just live there without a legal status. Visas take a […]

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Spanish family words

When learning Spanish family vocabulary, words like bother and sister are pretty easy.  However, to get you to the next level, you need to learn words for extended siblings and even some verbs and vocabulary. Spanish family words are reality high frequency words.  In many initial conversations people ask about where your family is or […]

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Learn Spanish to make money

Learn Spanish and make money If you learn Spanish you will be helping your business career and yourself in making money. This is another radical statement, but it is true. There are many studies that confirm that Spanish will help your career. Spanish will help you in business if you are an entrepreneur or if […]

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Why Spanish flashcards work

Spanish flashcards work because memory is a most often a retrieval problem not a formation problem. You need to drill and practice pulling out Spanish words from the deep recesses of you brain in a flash. This is why are Spanish flash cards effective Spanish flash cards are effective because memory is usually an issue […]

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Learning Spanish makes you thin and attractive

Why is learning Spanish is better than going to the gym and will make you thin and attractive? My argument is that you will get in better shape learning Spanish than joining a gym. Let me explain. Learning Spanish makes you thin and attractive I know you think my thesis that learning Spanish makes you […]