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Thats the line these days. How do you say that? How do you say this? I took Spanish classes in middle and high school and I've worked my share of jobs with Hispanics, but nothing beats one-on-one instruction with a language teacher, especially at the rate of only $150/week. That includes meals and lodging by the way.
Sherrill told me when you start to dream in Spanish that you are becoming more fluent. I don't remember my dreams. So I'm going to base my knowledge on the amount of English I am forgetting. On Fridays we play Scrabble. Usually in Spanish until the end of the game when we have no letter left and need to score a few extra points like "to" and "it" and "be". Our maetros (teachers) always win of course, but I've managed to at least beat Jason everytime. Today, we played a second game in English. Who won? We'll as a team, Jason and I, barely. I'll take that as confirmation that I'm learning something.
Of course, learning a new language wouldn't be complete without throwing in a few palabrotas (bad words). For those inclined to study from these blogs, here is a short list:
- hijo de puta - hjio is son, de is of, puta is (you fill in the blank)
- aposa - simple "suck"
- chupa - the conguation of chupar which means "to swallow"
- este caca - este or esto or eso = that; caca = something bad; all together "thats shit"
- es de mierda - similar but more literally translatable as "it is shit"
- maldito - no one ever says this, its only found in subtitle translations for all of the following: damn, fck, sht, etc.
- callate - shut up or shut the beep up depending on your inflection, tone of voice
- chimado de su cabeza - this is what we call "Tom" now a.k.a. f-bombed in the head. Tom esta muy muy muy loco, but I will save that for another blog.
We'll that's all I have for now. We decided knowing swear words and winning at Scrabble in English are not enough to survive in South America so we're going to stick around for two more weeks, do a little sightseeing, do a little working, and do a little more studying. Adios...
Guatemala, language, Xela
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Brendon
Monday, November 17, 2008 4:28 PM
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