Your Best Spanglish - Page 2

Mark711 · 06-23-2012

Standing in the lobby bar at the Sandos I was chatting with the bartender.
I had earlier ask him to speak to me in spanish so I could practice mine.

Suddenly a women rushed out of the ladies room and heard us talking.
I guess she thought that we only spoke spanish.
She turned to the bartender and said in a very urgent tone

THE EL TOILET'O IN THE EL WOMENS BATHROOM'O IS EL RUNNINIG OVER'O

He smiled and in english said ok'o I will take care of it

u2girlie · 06-23-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by ninjacita

OK here's another one. So my brother-in-law was working for six months in Santiago, Chile, and the folks headed down to visit for a few weeks. Brother-in-law did part of his undergrad in Argentina, and is pretty fluent. They visit a farmer's market one weekend to stock up on groceries, and end up at a stall selling fresh chicken. The stall is a family affair - four generations manning the booth, with toothless, four-foot-tall great-grandma sitting on a stool at the back supervising things.

Brother-in-law says "Quiero pechas de pollo, por favor".

Long silence..... and then great-grandma loses it and starts laughing so hard she almost falls off the stool. He has just requested chicken tits.

This one wins.

LB4Playa · 06-23-2012

The bartender at one of the AIs I was at asked the ladies if they would like a Penis Colada.

VamosalaPlaya · 06-24-2012

I'm trying to study my old textbooks in preparation for our trip later this summer to Playa Del Carmen. I took a few Spanish and Italian classes when I was in college about twenty years ago. I remember more Spanish than Italian but Italian words seem to crop up when I'm trying to remember Spanish vocabulary. It seems that a lot of people overseas are able to speak more than one language so I hope that they can understand me. When we were in Cancun a taxi driver corrected me that if you ask some one to speak slower that you would use mas despacio not lentemente. Another correction that I got was to use senora not mujer to refer to a woman in the third person. I try to remember but I know I make a lot of mistakes. People have been very nice on vacation and have tried to speak Spanish with me when we went to Mexico in the past. I'm actually looking forward to using my (somewhat limited) language skills.

06-23-2012	#16 (permalink)
Mark711 way into it Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 214	Standing in the lobby bar at the Sandos I was chatting with the bartender. I had earlier ask him to speak to me in spanish so I could practice mine. Suddenly a women rushed out of the ladies room and heard us talking. I guess she thought that we only spoke spanish. She turned to the bartender and said in a very urgent tone THE EL TOILET'O IN THE EL WOMENS BATHROOM'O IS EL RUNNINIG OVER'O He smiled and in english said ok'o I will take care of it

06-23-2012	#18 (permalink)
LB4Playa beachaholic Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Kamloops, B.C. Posts: 363	The bartender at one of the AIs I was at asked the ladies if they would like a Penis Colada.

06-24-2012	#19 (permalink)
VamosalaPlaya sandflea Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: USA Posts: 8	I'm trying to study my old textbooks in preparation for our trip later this summer to Playa Del Carmen. I took a few Spanish and Italian classes when I was in college about twenty years ago. I remember more Spanish than Italian but Italian words seem to crop up when I'm trying to remember Spanish vocabulary. It seems that a lot of people overseas are able to speak more than one language so I hope that they can understand me. When we were in Cancun a taxi driver corrected me that if you ask some one to speak slower that you would use mas despacio not lentemente. Another correction that I got was to use senora not mujer to refer to a woman in the third person. I try to remember but I know I make a lot of mistakes. People have been very nice on vacation and have tried to speak Spanish with me when we went to Mexico in the past. I'm actually looking forward to using my (somewhat limited) language skills.

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