If you speak Spanish or you’re learning the language, you’ll know that the B and the V are pronounced exactly the same, making it really hard to know which one to use when writing. Here are some tips.
Do the Spanish have certain habits you just can't work out? Here Spanish author Alberto Letona lists a number of typical national traits or customs that leave his foreign friends bemused...or if queuing is involved, even enraged.
Ever wondered where the words 'mosquito' or 'cannibal' came from? That's right: they're Spanish. The Local looks at ten fantastic words the English language 'borrowed' from Spanish — and won't be giving back.
Hundreds of people in Spain and Germany took part in anniversary vigils on Wednesday to mark the loss of the Germanwings airliner which a suicidal pilot crashed into an alpine mountain, killing all 150 on board.
Spain’s King Felipe VI announced this week that at long last a globally recognized Spanish language certificate had been developed to test the proficiency across all Spanish speaking countries.
Over 1,000 people are expected to attend a memorial service to the victims of Germanwings flight 9525 in Barcelona’s iconic cathedral on Monday evening, just over a month after the disaster.
The Germanwings co-pilot who crashed his Airbus into the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard, hid a serious illness from the airline, prosecutors said Friday amid reports he was severely depressed.
A "magnificent" father of three with a baby on the way, two renowned opera singers and a mother on her way back to Manchester with her baby are just some of the victims of Tuesday's Germanwings crash.
The Spanish government has pledged over €10 million to protect the country’s coastline from climate change, the first of such measures Spain has taken to reduce environmental damage in the country.
The invented life of a Spanish actress has been revealed after Spanish media discovered she had not actually attended the Oscars, but used Photoshop to place herself on the red carpet.
Spanish factories boosted production in the year to June for the eighth month in a row, official data showed Monday, as a hesitant economic recovery gathered strength.
A fascinating language map lets readers compare words across 30 different European languages at the same time. See if you can find out what words are unique to Spain.
Spanish socialist party PSOE is calling for the remains of Spain’s fascist dictator Francisco Franco to be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen claiming that "the perpetrator of a totalitarian regime" should not be kept in a basilica.
Crown Prince Felipe presided for the first time over Spain's national day celebrations on Saturday, while King Juan Carlos recovers from a hip operation.
David Ríos has become the first Spaniard to win the Diageo Reserve World Class Barman Competition, considered to be the 'Oscar of cocktails' and the biggest prize in mixology.
In our latest picture gallery, The Local looks at how people in Spain are taking English words, changing their meanings, and using them in a way that would have Shakespeare turning in his grave.
