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Alegría, Alegría The adjective alegre provides you with a galaxy of starry-eyed words like glad, bright, cheerful, light-hearted a...

There is no rhyming slang in Spanish, although older Spaniards remain fond of rhyming phrases.   So you’ll still hear outdated stuff ...

If I see someone I know in the street and neither of us feels like stopping to talk, we nod pleasantly, murmur adiós in unison and ...

Instead of exclaiming it’s a small world ! to express surprise at unexpected encounters in a huge world, the Spanish call it a handkerchief...

A Spanish face is una cara but in popular speech this is also a person who is cheeky or has a lot of nerve – and not of the type that acc...