January 6, 2019
Bilingual people who are interested in monetizing their skills by professionalizing them need to consider how they intend to achieve this career goal. The answer to […]
January 6, 2019
There are a number of verb pairs in Spanish that cause difficulty for English speaking learners of Spanish. Usually, the confusion is because there is only […]
April 13, 2019
It is no hyperbole to observe that Gregory Rabassa was a prolific translator. However, being a quantitative statement, it does not do justice either to Mr. […]
April 13, 2019
Many, if not most practicing or aspiring Analytic Linguists can be distinguished and described in terms of their linguistic background. They can be divided into two […]
May 12, 2019
Even after many English-speaking students of Spanish have learned the forms of and the grammatical functions of object pronouns, and understand the notions they convey, they […]
May 20, 2019
Among the forty extant sonnets by Garcilaso de la Vega (1501-1536) there is a very famous one that is often imitated. It begins with the line: […]
June 2, 2019
A text lying before an Analytic Linguist/Translator is an unforgiving, rugged linguistic terrain. It is a cluttered with booby traps and tiger traps. Translators are not […]
June 2, 2019
This Tip for the Week is for teachers who teach lower-level Spanish classes to native speakers of English, whether at the secondary or post-secondary level. This […]
June 8, 2019
There is a saying on Madison Avenue, that street in New York City, which is famous for its many big advertising agencies: “When times are good, […]