A pico de botella – to dring a beer right from the bottle without a glass.
Añejo – aged
Bebida embriagante – booze
Blanco – white as in ‘white wine”
Cerveza clara – light beer
Cerveza de barril – draft beer. In Costa Rica we say “cerveza cruda.”
Cerveza negra – dark beer
Coñac
Category Archives: Tips For Learning Spanish
American Football Vocabulary Revisited
El día de la madre (Mother’s Day)
A toda madre – fantastic (used in México)
Dar en la madre or romper la madre – to hurt someone or get injured seriously
Futura madre – mother to be
Importarle madre or valerle madre – to not care about. For example, me vale madre means I don’t give a damn.
Good Spanish Dictionary
Here is a good Spanish dictionary with pronunciation. See www.spanishdict.com. Hopefully this will help a lot of beginners.
For advanced students I was just given a copy of the manual “Nueva gramática de la lengua española.” It is published by the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española) and the official book for the language
There’s plenty to learn from those Latin soap operas
A telenovela or novela is a Spanish language soap opera. Telenovelas seem to be the opiate of the masses in Latin America. The first telenovelas were produced in Brazil, Cuba and Mexico in the 1950s. The most popular ones last about an hour and appear Monday through Friday evenings (7 to 10 PM) on most Spanish
