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An array of books for sale in the tianguis, a traveling Mexican market. © Daniel Wheeler, 2009

How do you say someone is going blind in Spanish?

colibri1, Mar 12, 2015, How do you say someone is going blind in Spanish? + + + + + + + + + + esperanza, Mar 13, 2015, The phrase is ‘quedarse ciego’. + + + + + + + + + + Maesonna, Mar 13, 2015 I would have interpreted “quedarse ciego” as “to […]

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An array of books for sale in the tianguis, a traveling Mexican market. © Daniel Wheeler, 2009

Albures, or Dirty Spanish 101

sergiogomez / Moderator / Jan 7, 2009 Puns are the staple of Mexican humor. People use them on a daily basis, and these puns, or albures, are almost always sexual jokes or disguised insults. Sometimes they consist of words with two (or more) meanings. Sometimes they are phrases whose meaning changes depending on where you […]

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Visit to Patzcuaro

Posted by Lee Harrison on Abril 10, 2000 I’d like to share a few thoughts having just returned from a brief visit to Pátzcuaro, made for the purpose of sizing it up as a possible retirement venue. Let me start by saying that Pátzcuaro is unquestionably one of the greatest places to visit that exist […]

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