Monday, March 29, 2010

Gringo Pinto!

If you're wondering what it's like to live and learn a foreign lanugage abroad, let me introduce you to my Gringo friend who's discovering the wonderful world of Spanish idioms!

Idiom (noun): a speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in 'keep tabs on.'

For example, in English "it's a piece of cake" is not literally "it's a piece of sweet dessert sitting on the table over there ready to be devoured." Just like "ir a pata" doesn't mean literally "to go over there traveling by duck", instead it means "to go/travel on foot, walking."

Is it as confusing in real life as it sounds on this video??? Yes!!! ;-)

Enjoy! Disfruta!

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