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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 209 of 319 11 February 2014 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
BAnna wrote:
I can hardly believe what just happened to us today: a funny example of the danger of false cognates. My husband and I were out shopping this afternoon buying some candy for his family for Valentine's Day. The very nice woman waiting on us was speaking Spanish (or Spanglish?) to us and mentioned that the chocolates were very delicious, "y además son hechos sin preservativos". We glanced at each other, but did not start laughing out loud until we left the store, after we asked each other, did she really say that? Of course, "conservantes" is the Spanish word for preservatives, and "preservativos" are ... condoms... |
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haha, I did not know that one. That's funny. :)
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4620 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish
| Message 210 of 319 12 February 2014 at 2:32am | IP Logged |
I'm not sure if we are supposed to post the songs here or in our individual logs?
Here's one to start off, sort of the Spanish YMCA (you act out the parts).
I have danced this at *hundreds* of parties:
La bala, a bailar la bala y la tienes que bailar
porque si tú no la bailas
te la pueden disparar
La bala, a bailar la bala y la tienes que bailar
porque si tú no la bailas
te la pueden disparar.
////Mano a la barriga////
////Una sobadita////
////Hagan un cola////
////Muevan la cintura////
////Agacharse todos////
////Hagan un relajo////
////Paren el relajo////
////¿Ya estan cansaditos? (no)////
////¡Que siga la fiesta!////
(Puente musical)
////¡Un, dos, tres, y brinca!
¡Un, dos, tres, la bala!////
La bala, a bailar la bala y la tienes que bailar
porque si tú no la bailas
te la pueden disparar
La bala, a bailar la bala y la tienes que bailar
porque si tú no la bailas
te la pueden disparar
////Abrazarse todos////
////Desen un besito////
////Despegarse todos////
////No pegarse mucho////
////Ahí están los suegros////
////Un, dos, tres y brinca
Un, dos, tres la bala////
This version has a brief introduction followed by the song so you can watch the actions and sing and dance along
:)
La Bala-Los Hermanos Flores
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| PointsDotsLines Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4004 days ago 76 posts - 110 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 211 of 319 12 February 2014 at 6:07am | IP Logged |
He estado escuchando la estación local de radio hispana (La Qué Buena 94.1 FM) y he coleccionado algunas canciones que me gustan mucho:)
Así Fue, por Playa Limbo
Mi Razón de Ser, por Banda Sinaloense MS de Serio Lizárraga
400 Mil Veinte Años, por Tierra Cali
Si No Te Hubieras ido, por Marco Antonio Solis
Tres Semanas, por Marco Antonio Solis
Un Hombre Normal Letra, por Espinoza Paz
Sentimientos Encontrados, por el Trono de Mexico
Almas Gemelas, por el Trono de Mexico
Está Llorando Mi Corazón, por Beto y Sus Canarios
Quiero Dormir Cansado, por Emmanuel
Un Día Normal, por Juanes
La Camisa Negra, por Juanes
Edited by PointsDotsLines on 12 February 2014 at 6:08am
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 212 of 319 12 February 2014 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
Creo que, por lo general, en castellano sólo se pone en mayúsculas la primera palabra del título, así tendrías: Así fue, Mi razón de ser, etc. Y creo que sobra la "letra" en "Un hombre normal (con) letra" :)
@BAnna: ¡Nunca había escuchado esa canción en mi vida! Aunque tengo que admitir que el número de fiestas a las que he asistido es bastante pequeño, ¡no creo que alcance cinquenta, ni mucho menos "cientos"! De tanto bailar, estarás en buena forma :P
Edited by Crush on 12 February 2014 at 7:08am
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4620 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish
| Message 213 of 319 14 February 2014 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
@AmyinBrooklyn: Gracias por recomendarnos la película Valentín. Nos encantó.
@Crush: No estoy en tan buena forma. Es solo que soy mayor. En 50 y pico años, se puede asistir a una gran
cantidad de fiestas. :)
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 214 of 319 15 February 2014 at 4:28pm | IP Logged |
Wow, I don't think I'll have attended cincuenta fiestas by the day I die -- but to me what I would call "a party" and "some celebration I'd like to go to" are different things, with very little if any overlapping :P
Crush wrote:
Creo que, por lo general, en castellano sólo se pone en mayúsculas la primera palabra del título, así tendrías: Así fue, Mi razón de ser, etc. Y creo que sobra la "letra" en "Un hombre normal (con) letra" :) |
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Spot on, as usual. In titles, the usual pattern is having only the first letter in upper case, but that can often get out of hand. For example, there's the stupid rule that periodic publications like newspapers and such should have also all the nouns and adjectives within them capitalized. But how can you be sure if a title you hear cited is a book (first letter only in upper case) or a magazine (at least two), unless you know it beforehand? Short answer: you can't.
For all-out fun concerning upper and lower case check this reference, or these exercises (same website).
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Now it's not my place to tell you what a challenge is, and I concur a video is maybe too demanding for the earlier stages, but I feel simply sharing something you liked is too little ;) How about sharing something *and commenting* as the challenge? For example, like BAnna's story about preservatives and preservativos? I.e. you could go out and find anything that you think other learners might overlook, that somehow made a difference for you and made you learn this or that tiny bit of the language. If it's also a funny story, then all the better! Of course, that's just a proposal.
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dbag wrote:
Mr Warper, I forgot to thank you for the corrections you made to my writing. Thanks, I really appreciate it! |
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Thank you! As a rule of thumb, I'd like to ask you all to use the links to tag stuff as 'useful' if I say something that's actually useful for you. I know it's not a 1:1 thing but I use that as a general indicator to keep myself in check :)
Edited by mrwarper on 15 February 2014 at 4:28pm
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 215 of 319 16 February 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
¡Música!
I love learning through music. I generally choose a song, find it on youtube "con letra" and sing along multiple
times, working on pronunciation and rhythm. I also puzzle my way through any new sentence structures or turns
of phrases. Some songs I also translate into English.
Since I started learning Spanish, I've translated and posted 8 songs to my blog (although I'm sure my translations
are full of errors):
Spanish songs
My favourites so far are probably:
A Dios le pido
Ojalá
Qué Hiciste
edited to add: and the song that I'm listening to right now is:
Andar conmigo
Edited by Stelle on 16 February 2014 at 7:59pm
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5863 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 216 of 319 16 February 2014 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
Stelle, it sounds like you would really enjoy lyricstraining.com. Have you played around with it any?
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