The post by Juan Arellano was originally published on the blog Globalizado. Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, has had nearly 500 years of contact with Spanish, so it makes sense that each ...

Spain's delicious cuisine and the intriguing world of tapas have enchanted food lovers across the globe. The delightful ...

According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), Spanish has more than 88,000 words, making it one of the richest languages in the world. In fact, their linguistic diversity is such ...

DEAR GABACHO: On one hand, I can point to Latin—show that esposas is the feminine plural of esposo, which comes from the Latin sponsus (same root word for “spouse”), which comes from the Latin ...

In Miami, Spanglish is just life. Sometimes you can’t help throwing in a Spanish word or two because it just feels right. But the truth is that Spanish has so many great words that English doesn’t ...

The discovery came at daycare, where one teacher spoke mostly Portuguese and another almost entirely Spanish. “Then she moved ...

When I was young, I used to try to come up with the most ridiculous, untranslatable words in English and ask my mom what they would mean in Spanish. She would give her best guess, and I’d say, “No, ...