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  • Forged in Fire, part 2

    Forged in Fire, part 2

    Certain things about Spanish initially seemed weird to me. It expresses some ideas differently. In English we say, “He is twenty-five years old.” Spanish, on the other hand, expresses that as “Él tiene veintecinco años.” That translates literally as: “He has twenty-five years.” English treats age as a personal characteristic, something you are. Spanish, in…