Herman Jerome

In Mexico “ready” is listo for a man and lista for a woman, used with the verb estar: estoy listo or estoy lista.

A week is a semana in Mexico.

In Mexico there is no single word for barbecue.

Spanish has no single word for “warm”.

Tomorrow is mañana in Mexico. The same word also means “morning”, and context tells you which is meant. The day after tomorrow is pasado mañana.

In Mexico a prescription is a receta or, more fully, a receta médica. The same word receta also means a cooking recipe.

In Mexico a thin steak is a bistec, a fillet cut is a filete and the well-known skirt steak is arrachera.

Spanish splits “time” in three. In Mexico you say hora for clock time, tiempo for duration or free time, and vez for an occasion, as in una vez.

In Mexico dinner is cena, the light evening meal. The big main meal of the day is la comida, eaten in the afternoon, so comida does not mean dinner.

In Mexico an eagle is an águila. The word is feminine but takes el in the singular, so you say el águila and las águilas.