How Much Time Do You Need In A Place Before You Can Say You "Lived" There?

is the variety of prepositions used in basic Spanish time expressions. As shown in Table 6.8, en ‘in’ is reserved for relatively long periods of time: weeks or longer. Shorter periods of time are marked by other prepositions or by no preposition at all. There is no logical connection between each time interval and its associated preposition (if any

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It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the hea... See more

When I arrived at the first of the many neighbourhoods that I would call “my barrio,” I was able to leverage proximity to quickly integrate into the local community with a level of Spanish that was enough to be able to make an effort. I took advantage of the low social barriers to entry. With a wealth of meeting places on my doorstep, I was able to... See more