¡Hola! I was born and raised in Guatemala. My love for human diversity, along with the gifts that life has prepared for me, have allowed me to learn several languages and to appreciate the cultures they represent. This has given me a view of language as follows: More than just a means for communication, language is the unique expression of unique cultures projecting their experience in life through the development of the human psyche in various places, at varoius times. Thus, Spanish is more than just "Sí = yes". “Living Spanish”, and all languages for that matter, can be illustrated as follows:

Las candelas hay que apretarlas al llegue. => Only a Guatemalan can tell you what this means.

¡Patita! ¡Qué gusto verte! => You're definitely in Perú

¡Cónchale! => You're watching some old Venezuelan soap