¡Ay madre! What your mother never taught you about Spanish!

One of the most versatile words in many languages is "mother", but there is probably no language in which it is more versatile than in Spanish. To a person who is learning Spanish but doesn't know slang, one could easy walk away from a conversation wondering why people talk about their mothers so much. However a long-time speaker of Spanish could hear the same conversation and realize that they never mentioned a mother the whole time.

How is that possible? It's possible because the fluent speaker... continue reading at Fluent Every Year