With the recession in full flow and many businesses struggling to find clients and customers, the internet if used in your favour can work for you with good results.

When people talk of promoting a business online, they automatically assume it means having their own web site and all the expenses, head aches and pains involved with anything new that they have no idea about and dont understand. There are an abundance of places you can advertise for free and you dont need a website to...

Just recovering from my nightmare from hell week.

If you visit a friend, dont try and upset the local bars. When you live in a small village with only four English bars, being known as a pair of Richard heads ( think about the short term for Richard ), because one lives in a fantasy world is not good.

If a barmaid has asked you to settle your bill, drink up and then starts turning the lights out, puts her bag over her shoulder, it means she wants you go and not sit there...

Welcome to The Spain Blogs

Share your experiences of Spain. Write a weblog and describe your life in Spain - your holiday experiences, your new life, the way you overcome and address daily problems, the way your daily changes to your life, places you visit, your favorite days out, food, culture, education, work.... Blogging is a great way of sharing experiences and opinions with other people, and it's also a good way of letting your friends and family at home know how you are enjoying...

A dialect is defined in linguistic terms as a language variety which is spoken in a specific territory. In the Spanish peninsula, for example, there are different dialects of Spanish. One should not, however, mix up the different dialects in Spain with the different languages spoken in the Peninsula: Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician.

The existence of dialects is a natural consequence of the dynamism of languages. For example, throughout its evolution, Spanish has adopted unique...

The Spanish language arrived in America first through Cristóbal Colón’s exploratory travels, and then with the rest of colonizers, at the end of the fifteenth century. At this point the Spanish language was already firmly consolidated in the Iberian peninsula. In the “new world”, however, Spanish had yet to be established, and this was done through a process labelled by historians as “hispanización”.

During this period, the southern part of the American continent was a conglomerate...