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Hi everyone just checking out this site. I wish I knew spanish better. Nice to see some of you from my other site. Travellingfella sassyone says hi she's my best bud. AZ bear & malamute nice to see you here as well. Nice to see familiar names and hope to get to know the rest of you.
This slang is very popular around Central America in general, I think as you get closer to the US its usage decreases, Chale is something I rarely hear in the US but in Mexico City it is seems to be said quite frequently.
I rarely hear this form of "Wey" usually when I hear it, it is prefixed with a "p**che" and is very disrespectful..but funny.
I was talking on phone to sassyone she says hello to you & misses seeing your posts.
I have been married to a spanish speaking man for 17 years. I taught him English but I did not get the spanish lessons. I have told him this is a conspiracy so I won't always know what he is talking about. hehe. I can listen and usually pick up the idea they are talking about. Other than moving to mexico for 3 months what is the best way to learn the language other than the bad words which of course I know?
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I have been married to a spanish speaking man for 17 years. I taught him English but I did not get the spanish lessons. I have told him this is a conspiracy so I won't always know what he is talking about. hehe. I can listen and usually pick up the idea they are talking about. Other than moving to mexico for 3 months what is the best way to learn the language other than the bad words which of course I know?
This I will say: if Spanish is spoken slowly and clearly; oftentimes I understand quite a bit of what is said.
I have been married to a spanish speaking man for 17 years. I taught him English but I did not get the spanish lessons. I have told him this is a conspiracy so I won't always know what he is talking about. hehe. I can listen and usually pick up the idea they are talking about. Other than moving to mexico for 3 months what is the best way to learn the language other than the bad words which of course I know?
I think if you can't go to Mexico, you should rent/buy some Mexican movies and watch them over and over until you understand every word they're saying. Ones with plots you want to understand of course, but that way you see facial expressions and the context in which something is said. Or music that you like that you can play over and over until you understand everything. That imitates more the way we acquired our first language, and you hear the different accents/tones/inflections and so on.
It's best to just go live and travel in a country whose language you're learning though because then you do it the sink or swim method which I think is the quickest.
This I will say: if Spanish is spoken slowly and clearly; oftentimes I understand quite a bit of what is said.
Thats me too Bear. But I swear they talk at the speed of light around me. When we have BQ with our spanish friends I just tend to have a glazed look. Thank God I am the hostess or I might die of boredome or brain melt from trying to understand,
I think if you can't go to Mexico, you should rent/buy some Mexican movies and watch them over and over until you understand every word they're saying. Ones with plots you want to understand of course, but that way you see facial expressions and the context in which something is said. Or music that you like that you can play over and over until you understand everything. That imitates more the way we acquired our first language, and you hear the different accents/tones/inflections and so on.
It's best to just go live and travel in a country whose language you're learning though because then you do it the sink or swim method which I think is the quickest.
I agree with all of those suggestions and I do get to be lucky and watch SABADO HIGANTE. LOL It actually drives me a bit crazy and of course my husband loves their costumes or lack there of. He also sometimes if he is is the mood will explain things. Today we have been married 16 years together 17. I learn more spanish from talking to the other wives.They are trying to better their english so we go back and forth explaining.
Just today, it occurred to me thzt the typical American teenager probably goes through his/her entire summer vacation within the confines of about a 200 word vocabulary, (with each word separated by a "like") It wouild be interesting if somebody could make a lexicon of the common words used in almost every conversation by Mexican teenagers.
"Oh . . my . . . god, So, she's like 'go a-way!' and I'm like 'du-uh'!"
The word antojito is actually correct Spanish.
I thought maguey was also a native word but I could be wrong.
Aguacate comes from the word ahuacatl which comes from the nahuatl language of the Aztecs.
I have heard some of these from other states too.
I like using desmadre from time to time.
I like how we use "chiquito" or "chiquita" as a term of endearment to mean "baby" instead of "small".
Pintate-get out of my sight
hechale ojo-look at that or be alert
voy a pistear-I'm going out to drink
voy a planchar oreja-I'm going to sleep
Here's one for you...
Voy a hechar la masa!
My dad's friend would say this when he would have to go take a dump.
My dad's friend would say this when he would have to go take a dump.
ewww! lol...very funny.
My grandfather used to say, "voy a hablar por telefono" or "voy a mi oficina" (For those non spanish speaking, it means, "I am going to talk on the phone" or "I am going to my office".
Back in the day, it was a luxery to hear of anyone have an office or a telephone. We had neither...lol. but we knew where he was going...hechar la masa.
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