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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6979 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 19 01 November 2009 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Most likely somewhere between "friendly" and "friendly and endearing", not necessarily "flirty", but you'd need to rely on context, feeling and intuition from case to case to decide if there is any flirtyness involved or not.
It's quite safe for you to use it with other women too, once you have established some kind of friendship or acquaintance, but as ever with colloquial expressions and customs, if you feel the least bit uncertain about it, it is always better to err on the side of caution. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6096 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 4 of 19 01 November 2009 at 1:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish people always kiss to say hello or goodbye. Men kiss women, women kiss women... but men don't kiss men. If a friend introduces me to a Spanish woman I've never met before, I immediately kiss her, and I'm not being creepy!
So yeah, you can say "un beso" to anyone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7100 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 19 01 November 2009 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Remember that it's only once on each cheek. I think that it can be more in other countries where kissing for hello and goodbye is accepted. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rggg Heptaglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6410 days ago 373 posts - 426 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay Studies: Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, Swedish | Message 6 of 19 01 November 2009 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use that a lot with my friends, only women, never with guys, nooooooo way ....Like the others have said, it's not flirting, I use it with special friends, very close friends, in that case I could end my email or my phone call with: "un beso", "besos", "un besote", etc., it's like saying "good bye" with an implicit message that says: hey, you are my friend and I love you.
Women can certainly say or write "Besos" to other women, no problem. Edited by rggg on 01 November 2009 at 6:36pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6277 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 7 of 19 02 November 2009 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
Well, not exactly, I admit Spaniards kiss without many scruples, but we really don't like to be kissing each other all the time, usually you'll get a plain "hola" without further contact, unless you haven't seen your interlocutor in a while or when being introduced. And in those circumstances men also kiss men when they are close friends or related. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5984 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 8 of 19 02 November 2009 at 2:28am | IP Logged | ||
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It's really nothing special, just a friendly goodbye. And no, a man would neither say it to nor kiss goodbye another guy (unless of course they're family, gay or just eccentric). Edited by Juan M. on 02 November 2009 at 2:31am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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