way back inthe day when i smoked the ganja, my roommate was studing spanish. he had me make up sentences to help him remember words. The sentence and word that stuck the most was "Hey man, is this the PLACE where you buy the LUGARES?" For years afterwards lugares was our codeword in phone conversations for if we had anything.
Originally posted by dedman: way back inthe day when i smoked the ganja, my roommate was studing spanish. he had me make up sentences to help him remember words. The sentence and word that stuck the most was "Hey man, is this the PLACE where you buy the LUGARES?" For years afterwards lugares was our codeword in phone conversations for if we had anything.
I don't think we're allowed to type in English on this thread.
This reminds me of a colleague who, when a patron spoke to her in Spanish, she replied "No hablo español". The patron started laughing. So did my colleague after we explained to her that she meant to say "No habla español" and she had indeed told the man not to speak Spanish.
Back when I worked in a bank, a customer came in with her adult daughter who was visiting from Peru (I think, definitely a Spanish speaking South American country) to open an account for the daughter. Neither spoke English. All I could remember from my high school Spanish was "Habla espanol muy muy muy poco." She laughed and said "My English very very little."
Luckily the bank had just posted a list of employees and the languages they spoke. I got an employee that spoke Spanish in another office on the phone to help me open the account. After that, whenever the mother came into the bank she had a big smile and a wave for me.
Yo habla un poquito español y un poquito frances tambien.
Moi aussi, mi tambien
es dificil para mi, l'orque en mis lenguajes (Ingles y Filipino), los conjugaciones son mas simples... muy muy simple
en filipino no es conjugacion por persona o gender
si yo decir "yo como", "tu comes", "ella come", "nosotros comemos", yo utiliso la misma palabra por "come"
Kumakain ako (I eat) Kumakain ka (you eat) Kumakain kami (we eat - but this excludes the person I talk to) Kumakain tayo (we eat - including the person I talk to) Kumakain siya (he / she eats - we use the same word for him and her, Filipino is a very gender neutral language)
lo cual me recuerda un otro dificulto en Español y en Français. The noun genders!!! Es dificil por recuerda, y porce que el coche es masculino? et en français, elle est féminine, c'est bizarre!
So there is an old Porky Pig/Daffy Duck cartoon where they are sharing a hotel room. As they go to bed Porky says "Bonsoir" and turns off the light. Daffy turns the light back on and asks "What does 'bon sewer' mean?" Porky replies "It is French for 'Buenas Noches'. " and turns the light back off. Daffy turns the light back on and asks "What does 'buenas nachos' mean?" Porky replies "It's Spanish for 'bonsoir'." and again turns out the light. Daffy turns the light back on, is about to ask a question, but thinks better of it.
Cuando mi familia vino a vivir en los Estados Unidos a comienzos de la decada de los 90, fue durante el mismo tiempo que el resto del mundo fuera de Latinoamerica aprendio sobre la costumbre de los anunciadores de futbol de gritar, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!" A mi nunca me han gustado los deportes, pero toda persona Hispana de una cierta edad ha oido "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOL" al menos una o dos veces. Lo que a mi me molesta es que los Norteamericanos se burlaban de esa costumbre. Y no es que nosotros lo tomamos completamente en serio, pero yo siempre he detectado un componiente racista en esa actitud. Ah, bueno, asi es la vida.
No me gusta tambien cuando los europeanos o los norteamericanos, o los otros asiaticos, hablan commigo y dime que piensan que los chicos asiaticos son lindos. Es un poquito racista tambien, no?
Me gustan los Juegos Olímpicos, pero no podemos verlos en los Estados Unidos. Incluso si uno paga, todo lo que uno ve y oye son los locutores. Hablar hablar hablar...
Si mi vida fuera un programa de television, esta cancion clasica seria el tema principal:
No se imaginen que yo estoy tan loca si es porque Hago mas de cuatro cosas y es que a la gente nada Le importa vivo mi vida como lo hare cualquier otra No se imaginen que yo estoy tan loca si soy de Aquel que puede estar con otra si vivo o muero Quiero que lo sepan que yo disfruto cuando dicen que estoy loca