We read 13 official passenger pages from Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Chile. Your ticket has four different names.

We checked ten everyday rule breaks against the RAE and measured them in 20 years of Spanish books. One beats the textbook. Two are now accepted.

12 everyday words, 169 dictionary senses, 71 tied to a place. A bus in Cuba is a baby in Chile. Here is where each meaning lives.

We read 25 Medellín websites, 156,422 words. Vos commands: 0. What you will read on the Metro, and what paisas say out loud.

We read 51 Latin American company sites, 176,787 words. Formal usted commands: 9. Here is what the border really changes.

Textbooks teach 20 object pronoun pairs. We counted 1,057 pairs in 10 Spanish books. Three pairs make up 61% of them. Start there.

The app finds you a partner and leaves you to invent the method. Of 12 guides ranking for language exchange tips, only 3 give a full session plan. Here is ours.

Seven living traditions kept their indigenous names. Five of those words are missing from the 50,000 commonest Spanish word forms.

We counted the nine pages ranking for Hispanic Heritage Month phrases. They used a pan-ethnic label 430 times and a country word four times.

How long Spanish really takes, level by level. FSI lists it at 750 class hours, and Instituto Cervantes counts 360 to 540 hours to B2.

Eight things you only learn after a year in Spain. The clock is 109 minutes off, and a 1940 decree promised to fix it.

Ten Spanish Instagram accounts, every handle verified against its owner's own site, and the vocabulary arithmetic behind them.