Here’s a short post about an interesting ceremony that takes place every year on Ash Wednesday in certain parts of Spain: the Burial of the Sardine. As Carnival comes to an end and Lent is about to begin,

This week we are publishing something a little more advanced. Here is a 13th century “cantar”, an oral poem that Castilian troubadours would recite in towns’ main squares and the like. It features El Cid,

Here’s another “employees must wash hands” sign: What’s the problem here? Well, we would never phrase it like that in Spanish, and in this case this is purely idiomatic. The way it’s written, we would

This week’s newsletter is about a very simple concept: in Spanish, when we are talking about nouns with an “in general” meaning, we must always use the definite article (el, la, los, las). Nouns with an