There's three of us in the office now. Alex just came from Spain Wednesday night. So Fridays have apparently been declared Spanish days in which within the office we speak 100% Spanish. We lasted a whole two minutes before Juan pronounced 'lluvia' as 'shoba' prompting an argument about how Spanish is properly pronounced. This argument existed primarily between 'Argentina' and 'Spain', because the one thing they could agree on was that 'Mexican' Spanish was the worst.
The Spanish language is a very emotional language. Emotion and feeling is so much easier to express in Spanish than English. So you can imagine how awkward someone would feel walking into a room to fax something and a Spanish argument is in progress. Even though it's just a friendly argument, to the English ear it sounds like they're about ready to resort to blows. They picked up on that eventually and would pause when someone would come in, only to resume once they had left again. Of course the argument was all in vain. In the end the Argentinian still says 'sho' and the Spaniard 'yo'. And me, well, I'm very happy to stay a Mexicana!!!!!
This reminds me of a really good video making fun of the differences between different Spanishes. :) "Que dificil es hablar el espanol" (How difficult it is to speak Spanish.)
Hasta!
2 comments:
The original Spanish is from Spain, aka Castellano. Is the "right" way to speak it, as it has been since XV th century!!
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Best wishes. Good Blog!
"Spaniard kid"
Yep!!! I completely agree with the "Spaniard GAY", but I would like to add that the first car, computer in between others are actually useless. Summarizing, if you want to speak as a XV century guy, use the "Castellano", if you decide to come into this century, visit Argentine, you'll be very welcomed!
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