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A daily word card for Mexican Spanish slang. Every morning a new word lands — with a comic-style card, the etymology, real examples, and a mini dialogue showing how it actually sounds. Think of it as the slang and dichos that Duolingo politely pretends don't exist.

Once a day, every morning before CDMX wakes up. The new card goes live on the homepage, and the newsletter lands in your inbox at the same time. If you blink, you can still catch it — the archive sticks around.

The everyday stuff — the metro, the taquería, the WhatsApp group at 1am. Greetings, interjections, dichos, expressions, the occasional albur. Less textbook vocab, more the words that take years to pick up if you're just winging it in Mexico City.

Mostly Mexico City and central Mexico — the chilango register. That's where most of these expressions live and where they hit hardest. Some words are nationwide, some travel as far as Tijuana or Cancún. When something's properly regional, the page says so.

Most of them, yes. Some sit on the spicier end of casual speech — we flag the ones that can read as rude depending on tone, register, or who's in the room. Quick rule: read the examples first, try it on a friend, and maybe don't lead with "no mames" in a job interview.

Yes — no Spanish is required to start. Everything is explained in English, with phonetic pronunciation and real usage context. Heritage speakers tend to like it too, since a lot of this vocabulary was passed down verbally and never made it into a classroom.

Half and half, honestly. AI helps draft and research faster — but every word is fact-checked, edited, and pressure-tested by hand. Examples are pulled from how people actually talk in Mexico City, not how a model thinks they should. If a definition feels off or a phrase reads stiff, it gets rewritten or pulled. Pure-AI slang content sounds like a 2007 textbook, and that's the opposite of what we're going for here.

Andrey the Nomad — a digital nomad who kept meaning to leave Mexico and kept not doing it. ConSalsa.App is a side project: one person, one word a day, no team, no investors. More at andreythenomad.com or on the about page.

Yes, please do. Email it in from the contact page, reply to any newsletter, or drop it in the comments on Instagram or TikTok. Especially keen on regional gems and the weird stuff that hasn't made it into the mainstream yet — the more specific, the better.

Yes. One Mexican Spanish slang word, every morning, sent via Resend. No spam, no fresa energy, no upsell. Just the word, its story, and a reason to actually drop it into a conversation today.

The glossary is the A–Z dictionary of every word published so far. If you'd rather browse than wait for the daily card, that's the page. It grows as new words go live.

Yes — the blog has the deeper stuff. Themed roundups (Mexican greetings, work and money slang, swear words), comparison pieces like "no manches vs no mames" or "fresa vs naco", and explainer guides for travelers and learners. Each post links back to the word cards it touches on.

Not yet. The site is mobile-first and works well from your phone's browser — add it to your home screen and it's pretty close to an app. A real app might come later. Right now the focus is the words themselves.