A New Site

I have been using a word of the day site, which has been fun. It not only gives you a new word five days of the week, but it has jokes and sayings, all in Spanish. This is a fun way to learn new vocabulary. You can sign up to have words e-mailed to you, but what's even better is to go to the site. In the site they have wonderful pictures of places in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries, as well lists of words they don't mail you. If you are interested check it out at spanish word of the day.com

Things I have learned

I just bought a new book titled "Breaking out of Beginner Spanish". It is a fun book to read and while I knew quite a few of the things they talked about, I still found a great deal of information that I didn't know about, or I found out why things were the way they were. For example, I knew that when I visited Spain I had to dress much nicer than when I was at home. Women really are expected to where skirts, rather than slacks and certainly not shorts when visiting cities. However, I also learned this is true in most Spanish speaking countries, where "Skin is Sin" is the guideline for dress, even in the tropics.

This book made me want to go back to Spain, but also visit the Spanish speaking countries in this part of the world. There is such a rich history surrounding us.