Castellano is the name for the Spanish spoken in Argentina and Uruguay, where people say things like "vos tenés" instead of "tú tienes." I overheard these phrases constantly in conversational Spanish, so I put them on flashcards and made a deliberate point of trying to artificially insert them into conversations whenever I remembered. As a result, I probably sounded like a Valley Girl, but also got a lot of compliments on my Spanish.
Dale (tranquilo)
Go (right) ahead
Come on
Ya está (pronounced “yastá”)
That's it
All done
Ahí está
There it is
Exactly
That's it
Ahí va (pronounced "ay va")
Now you've got it
There you go
Exactly
Bueno
Okay!
Buenísimo
Awesome
SweetReally cool
Bárbaro
Great
Tá (Uruguay)
OK
Bien
Good!
Pah!
Woah!
Wow!
Geez!
En serio?
Seriously?
Viste?
Ya know?
You see?
See?
Ah, mirá/mirá vos
Oh, huh!
Huh, look at that
Oh, that's interesting
Tipo, ponele, o sea, digo
Like (tipo is slightly classier than ponele)
I mean (o sea, digo)
Este
Uh
Um
Raro
Weird
Rico
Good (describing the taste of food)
Delicious
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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