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- I live in the Costa Blanca with my wife, Janet who is head of the primary section of a local International school. I've been a language teacher for over 17 years, and am currently teaching Spanish to English students and vice versa privately and in a local language school.
I am joint owner of the spanishlanguagesite where I provide video lessons to teach online Spanish from beginners level to advanced.
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Idiom of the Week
'El que no llora, no mama'.
Literally this means 'the one who doesn't cry, doesn't suckle', so the English equivalent idiom would be 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease'
Matthew
Literally this means 'the one who doesn't cry, doesn't suckle', so the English equivalent idiom would be 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease'
Matthew
Posted on March 12, 2008 at 7:30am —
Idiom of the week
No necesitar abuela = to blow your own trumpet.
For example: Pedro no necesita abuela = Peter blows his own trumpet
This is an interesting idiom, because it is based on the principle that it is your grandmother who gives you a lift and praises you, even when you don´t deserve it, so if you don´t need your grandmother, it´s probably because you are doing all the necessary praising of yourself, you are blowing your own trumpet.
Has anyone got any other favourite Spanish idioms?
For example: Pedro no necesita abuela = Peter blows his own trumpet
This is an interesting idiom, because it is based on the principle that it is your grandmother who gives you a lift and praises you, even when you don´t deserve it, so if you don´t need your grandmother, it´s probably because you are doing all the necessary praising of yourself, you are blowing your own trumpet.
Has anyone got any other favourite Spanish idioms?
Posted on March 5, 2008 at 11:55pm —
Comment Wall (28 comments)
- At 4:19pm on September 30, 2009,
Maria Camacho said… - Como estas?
- At 4:18pm on September 30, 2009,
Maria Camacho said…
- Hi
- At 7:35pm on May 15, 2009,
roberto said… - hola suelo estudio en cervantes , pero falta clases en esto momento por que fui a cuba ,tambien estoy miembro de clubes de intercambio y tengo amigos hipanolhablientes y si tope
bob
- At 12:13pm on March 3, 2009,
Paul Baarn said… - Gracias, Matthew. Voy a estudiar cada dia. Espero...;-)
- At 5:00pm on February 5, 2009,
Tapan Chakravarty said… - I am really interested Mathew - - and i hope if i subscribe for an year - flip library will be available to me for ever - Tapan , Calcutta, India
- At 9:33pm on February 4, 2009,
Joseph said… - hello Matthew.
I have a small problem,..
since I have a Mac book pro, I can´t download those exe. files
is there anoter way to download those files???
thanks in advance
- At 5:24pm on February 3, 2009,
Tapan Chakravarty said…
- Can you arrange one year subscription for me - I want to cover Intermediate to Advanaced course - Will that be possible?- what will be the charges then? _ Tapan , Calcutta, India, Asia
- At 5:22pm on February 3, 2009,
Tapan Chakravarty said…
- Can you arrange for a one year subscription for me - I want to cover one year from the day of my subscription - what will be the cost? - Tapan , Calcutta, India, Asia
- At 4:03pm on January 23, 2009,
Nina said… - hola Matthew que tal? En unas horas vuelo a Espana, y correre el domingo en Benidorm. Espero que todo vayas bien contigo. Saludos Nina
- At 10:29pm on January 5, 2009,
janet selwood said…
- hi matthew ive not had any spanish lessons yet and would welcome any ideas . thanks
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