http://spanish.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Spanish Language GuideSite. http://z.about.com/f/lg/s10.gif http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-05-06T01:04:24Z hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/05/08/following-ser-with-de.htm Even many very simple sentences can't be translated word for word into English.If someone were to tell you, "Soy de Guatemala" and you knew that that soy is a form... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/05/08/following-ser-with-de.htm 2008-05-08T15:27:19Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/05/06/mccain-launches-spanish-language-campaign-website.htm John McCain, the expected Republican presidential nominee, has become the last of the major U.S. presidential candidates to launch a Spanish campaign website."Estamos Unidos con McCain," reads the dominant headline... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/05/06/mccain-launches-spanish-language-campaign-website.htm 2008-05-06T01:04:24Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/05/05/feliz-cinco-de-mayo.htm Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican fiesta that's celebrated on May 5 is an oddity: Although it's clearly of Mexican origin, it is probably celebrated more in the United States than... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/05/05/feliz-cinco-de-mayo.htm 2008-05-05T01:01:16Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/29/putting-probar-to-the-test.htm As those familiar with the plays of Shakespeare or the King James Version of the Bible know, the English verb "prove" at one time often meant "to test," not just... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/29/putting-probar-to-the-test.htm 2008-04-29T13:48:50Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/28/coming-soon-to-argentina-accents-and-ees-in-domain-names.htm Argentina is about to join the ranks of countries that allow the full Spanish alphabet character set — including the ñ, accented vowels and the ü — in its Internet... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/28/coming-soon-to-argentina-accents-and-ees-in-domain-names.htm 2008-04-28T13:07:22Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/25/fistro-tops-list-of-most-common-written-slang-terms-in-spain.htm One of the problems with trying to understand slang in a foreign language is that you may not be able to use a dictionary to find out what it means.... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/25/fistro-tops-list-of-most-common-written-slang-terms-in-spain.htm 2008-04-25T16:03:13Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/22/repeating-yourself-with-a-purpose.htm Every once in a while as you study Spanish you'll come across a sentence construction that doesn't make a lot of sense — and that may be difficult to figure... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/22/repeating-yourself-with-a-purpose.htm 2008-04-22T15:04:58Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/19/eat-your-vegetables-cmete-las-verduras.htm If you need help deciphering a menu while traveling where Spanish is spoken, our new list of vegetable names is here to help. You'll find the names of all the... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/19/eat-your-vegetables-cmete-las-verduras.htm 2008-04-19T12:53:43Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/18/use-etymology-as-a-learning-tool.htm Learning Spanish vocabulary can be a tedious task, and many people benefit from using mnemonic devices — little tricks that aid the memory. One person who wrote to me recently,... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/18/use-etymology-as-a-learning-tool.htm 2008-04-18T12:55:21Z http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/17/pope-shows-adeptness-with-spanish.htm For those of us living in the United States, it isn't all that common to hear someone speaking Spanish with a German accent. But Pope Benedict XVI's Spanish pronunciation is,... http://spanish.about.com/b/2008/04/17/pope-shows-adeptness-with-spanish.htm 2008-04-17T11:28:20Z