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    10 Expressions You Don’t Learn in Textbooks

    Ternurita. Very sarcastic.

    Spanish is rich, playful, and full of expressions that even advanced students find mysterious. Many of them don’t mean what the words literally say — and some don’t even make sense if you translate them word by word. Here are ten expressions that many people in Mexico use all the time, with their literal meanings […] More

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    10 Expressions That Are Not Easy to Figure Out – Brincos Dieras

    A clown named Brincos Dieras

    Here are ten colloquial expressions that you’ll hear on the street, in songs, and even in movies. Be careful — some of them are pejorative or rude, so it’s important to learn them for understanding, not for repeating in formal situations.   Spanish Expression Literal Translation Meaning / English Equivalent Ser solo pantalla To be […] More

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    ¡Con ganas!

    Singer Ángela Aguilar saying con quien se me dé la regalada gana during an interview.

    Note: Gana in these examples is not the same as the verb ganar (to earn, to win, to gain) and its nouns ganancia, ganador, etc. When students first hear the word gana, they usually think it means desire or wish. But in reality, gana and its plural ganas appear in many different expressions, some very […] More