The nuances of Spanish exist well beyond any dictionary. As if the language weren't hard enough to learn, our daily speech is full of words that have been completely redefined as slang. And to make ...

On this episode of "Slang School," Antonio Banderas teaches you Spanish slang words. Antonio stars in "Genius: Picasso" which premieres April 24 at 9/8c on National Geographic. This is very ...

I still remember my introduction to Spanish as spoken in rural Costa Rica. I had a good, but inflexible vocabulary, with one word in Spanish for most nouns and verbs. Cerdo was the word for pig, until ...

You can’t call yourself fluent in Costa Rican Spanish unless you understand its slang. Over the past several weeks, we have introduced you, dear reader, to tiquismos and costarriqueñismos as part of ...