Aguardiente

Spanish isn’t just grammar and vocab lists — it’s pisco sours in Lima, mate gourds passed hand to hand in Buenos Aires, and the click of ice in a caipirinha glass in Rio. Food and drink vocabulary is some of the most useful (and most fun) Spanish you’ll ever learn, because it comes up on every trip, in every market, at every table. Here are seven drinks from across South America that double as a mini Spanish lesson in disguise.