Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Despacito y con buena letra.»
Word for word
Slowly and with good handwriting.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: Slowly and carefully.
Advises doing things calmly and carefully to avoid mistakes. Common when someone is rushing through a task.
Hear it in a sentence
Hazlo despacito y con buena letra, que no hay prisa.
Do it slowly and with good handwriting, there's no rush.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your exact level.