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More About Gender

In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine, a quality known as gender. As you expand your Spanish vocabulary, you should learn gender along with nouns so you can match them with the right adjectives.

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¡Perfecta!

Thursday July 3, 2008
"La operación fue perfecta." With those words, which first-year students of Spanish should be able to understand easily, Íngrid Betancourt thanked the Colombian military yesterday for her rescue from rebels. Her story is something that Hollywood probably already has on its drawing board, and you can get plenty of the details, in both text and video, today from El Tiempo of Bogotá. Read more...

Diego and James: Are They the Same?

Wednesday July 2, 2008
It's obvious that Roberto is the Spanish equivalent of Robert, and that María is the equivalent of Mary. But it's less obvious how Diego and James could be related. Even so, there's a connection.

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