I thought calling cards died out decades ago. :rolleyes:
There are so many free apps now. Skype, Viber, Line.......
I use Skype all the time to call phones overseas. There is a small subscription for that.
Emilio Escudero, board member, hospitalero trainer and general angel, has put together an entire manual of the history, culture and vocabulary of the Camino for the American Pilgrims on the Camino. It is called Basic Spanish for the Camino and...
Back at this thread's post #30 I wrote that I had just recently learned about the two different sounds for b and v (not different sounds between the letters but instead where the letters are in words determines whether they get a hard sound or...
Great resource and very well organized! I love that you've included words that would never be found in any basic vocab list but that do come up on the Camino, like hórreo and cigüeña.
I put together this spreadsheet a few years ago at the request of some friends who were going to do the camino and didn't know a lot of Spanish. I've been teaching myself Spanish (mostly Latin American) for several years via books and the...
I'll be covering both these routes in this post, because I walked them both recently (except for the last stage of the Torres). There are a number of similarities between the two, but there are differences. You can certainly walk either one...
Lots of misinformation there.
Castellano and español are 2 different names for the same language: Spanish. In Spain, people tend to refer to the language as "castellano" (mostly for political, rather than linguistic reasons). In Latin America...
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