Anyone speak "Spanglish" at home? Thread poster: RafaLee
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RafaLee
Australia
Local time: 16:50
Spanish to English
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Anyone speak "Spanglish" at home?
Hands Up!:)
I used to laugh at Spanglish, but I always ended up speaking Spanglish with my OZ fellows in Barcelona last year. Arrgghh
RafaLee
| | | | Paul Roige (X)
Spain
Local time: 08:50
English to Spanish
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Elena, under 3, dixit:
"Papa, get my chupete"
"I'm running, píllame, píllame"
"I am guapa!"
"Good nite, buena' noche' "
"Osito Lala's sick now"
"This is a caterpillar and this is a mariposa"
"I love you... tal como ere' "
"A la cama, sleep now"
"Papa, besito kiss"
"Uno, do', tre', cuatro, sinco, six, seven, otxo, nueve y dessss, yay!"
Etc.
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"Papa, get my chupete"
"I'm running, píllame, píllame"
"I am guapa!"
"Good nite, buena' noche' "
"Osito Lala's sick now"
"This is a caterpillar and this is a mariposa"
"I love you... tal como ere' "
"A la cama, sleep now"
"Papa, besito kiss"
"Uno, do', tre', cuatro, sinco, six, seven, otxo, nueve y dessss, yay!"
Etc.
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| | | | Nina Snoj
Slovenia
Spanish to Slovenian
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| Spanglish and Spanglishvenian | Aug 13, 2004 |
Yes, we speak Spanglish all the time but lately we started to invent a brand new language which is Spanglishvenian:
Spanish + English + Slovenian.
We don't really mix all three languages in one sentence (although it HAS happened) but we constantly switch back and forth from one to another, even in the same conversation, which we call "changing the chip".
Nina
| | | | Rosa Maria Duenas Rios (X) 
Local time: 02:50
| But only at home... | Aug 13, 2004 |
We have a "sanguich de cheeso" a "creekito desbordado", we are always "lleguing tarde", and many other that I do not recall right now (but that always come to our lips when needed)...
It is like if these words constructed themselves little by little, without us really realizing it, until friends visit, listen to us talking to each other (in general, we only use these terms among ourselves), and their faces betray their surprise (or is it horror, I wonder)... only then we realize al... See more We have a "sanguich de cheeso" a "creekito desbordado", we are always "lleguing tarde", and many other that I do not recall right now (but that always come to our lips when needed)...
It is like if these words constructed themselves little by little, without us really realizing it, until friends visit, listen to us talking to each other (in general, we only use these terms among ourselves), and their faces betray their surprise (or is it horror, I wonder)... only then we realize all the "neologisms" we have invented and burst out laughing...
After all, what would you expect from a Puerto Rican and a Mexican living in the US? ▲ Collapse
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| Not me, but one of my friend | Aug 16, 2004 |
is trying to learn Spanish (he's half English, half Jordanian) with his Spanish girlfriend. And he loves so much the suffix '-ito' that he puts it on each noun addressed to her. Example:
Can I have a coffeetito?
Does it hurt your footito?
DO you want a kissito....
Which might be quite disturbing sometimes...:o)
| | | | Cecilia Paris
Argentina
Local time: 03:50
English to Spanish
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| It is lazy , really | Aug 16, 2004 |
"Would you like to come for asadito on Sunday?"
"Ma! Where are my zapatillas? In the lavadero" (stinking dirty...)
Bueno that's enough.
Want a biscuit? Bueno.
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What a useful word Bueno is. Expect when I was in England... my English friend kept on asking "what did you say?" each time I said "Bueno", which seemed to be there all the time!
But speaking seriously, using Spanglish is really being lazy... you kind of can't be bothered to think... See more "Would you like to come for asadito on Sunday?"
"Ma! Where are my zapatillas? In the lavadero" (stinking dirty...)
Bueno that's enough.
Want a biscuit? Bueno.
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What a useful word Bueno is. Expect when I was in England... my English friend kept on asking "what did you say?" each time I said "Bueno", which seemed to be there all the time!
But speaking seriously, using Spanglish is really being lazy... you kind of can't be bothered to think of the correct word. My father always used to tick us off, "speak either in English or in Spanish, but not both..."
Y bueno, as Ramon (Ramon Writes, from the Buenos Aires Herald) used to say,
"I send you a salute and an embrace"
Chau
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| | | | luka
Spain
Local time: 08:50
English to Spanish
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| Glad to see is not only us!! | Aug 17, 2004 |
I am Spanish and my husband is English, as the language we met each other was English, we always talk to each other in English, but there are certain words we tend to say in Spanish: I'm going down to the "sotano" (cellar), Is the "papilla" (baby cereals) ready? Sometimes I catch my husband talking to his family in England saying phrases like: Today she didn't want to finish her "potito" (bay food in a jar), and I can't stop myself laughing thinking about his dad wondering what the hell is a pot... See more I am Spanish and my husband is English, as the language we met each other was English, we always talk to each other in English, but there are certain words we tend to say in Spanish: I'm going down to the "sotano" (cellar), Is the "papilla" (baby cereals) ready? Sometimes I catch my husband talking to his family in England saying phrases like: Today she didn't want to finish her "potito" (bay food in a jar), and I can't stop myself laughing thinking about his dad wondering what the hell is a potito. We have found that happens to us more when we talk about children's issues, as we had our children in Spain and one could say we acquired this vocabulary in Soanish.
On the other hand our children always eat fish fingers and not varitas de merluza or they fill their bath with bubbles. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Dis you say Spanglish? | Aug 20, 2004 |
I was born in Tangier and I lived there untill I was 17. The "street" language there was Spanish, but, besides, all families generally included parents of different nationalities and languages, as "weird" as Polish-Venezuelian or Czech-Spanish. Therefore, all kids would automatically speak three languages without even having to learn them (their parents' and Spanish).
Besides, you would go to school depending on its location (i.e. that you could be Spanish and go to the French Lycée just ... See more I was born in Tangier and I lived there untill I was 17. The "street" language there was Spanish, but, besides, all families generally included parents of different nationalities and languages, as "weird" as Polish-Venezuelian or Czech-Spanish. Therefore, all kids would automatically speak three languages without even having to learn them (their parents' and Spanish).
Besides, you would go to school depending on its location (i.e. that you could be Spanish and go to the French Lycée just because it was nearer to your home, or be Indian and go to the Istituto Italiano just for the same reason.) And that meant that you had one fourth language, the one you would learn at school.
As far as I am concerned, my mother being British (from Gibraltar) and my grand-mother Brazilian, and many of my friends being Italian, you can imagine...
Which means that when I moved to France, I couldn't speak French properly for a few weeks, or at least it got rather difficult for me, as, in Tangier, we would usually speak in 3 or 4 different languages at the same time, replacing a word with another one in a different language instead of searching it.
We could, for instance, say : "Donde esta el journal?" "A lo mejor está en el dining-room".
All this disappeared when Tangier lost its international status and became another Moroccan town.
But this is still happening in a tiny town, just opposite Tangier, at the point of Europe, by the name of Gibraltar, where Gibraltarians have been speaking English and Spanish (Andalusian) for 300 years. There, you can still hear sentences and words like : "Yonny, donde esta el tipá?" (tea-pot). "Creo que está encima del sink". "Dame un cuarteron de liquirba" (cuarterón = a quarter of a pound, liquirba = liquorice bar). A very good exercice for all bilinguals...
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Javier Herrera (X)
Spanish
"Hoy hace un día e'coti'."
| | | | | Mum's the word... | Sep 23, 2004 |
Situation: bilingual children, Italian wife with a penchant for word-play. Italian is the family language but I speak English to the children. The secret of success in getting the kids to be bilingual has been (apart from their ability with language) the consistency of my only speaking English with them. Our Spanglish reaches incredible heights when we use words they got wrong as small children, and insert them in the 'other' language. For example: "Guarda, a helicokter"! My wife uses new Italia... See more Situation: bilingual children, Italian wife with a penchant for word-play. Italian is the family language but I speak English to the children. The secret of success in getting the kids to be bilingual has been (apart from their ability with language) the consistency of my only speaking English with them. Our Spanglish reaches incredible heights when we use words they got wrong as small children, and insert them in the 'other' language. For example: "Guarda, a helicokter"! My wife uses new Italian verbs such as (infinitive) 'sortitoutare'. We find it a really rich experience to have this bilingual environment, and to see it develop. ▲ Collapse
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