Learning Spanish

2POSTS

15 years ago

Hi, does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations for learning Spanish. What I麓m looking for is small formal or informal classes(get togethers) evenings or Saturdays as I work Mon-Fri.

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RK6 Member

2POSTS

15 years ago

Where do you live?

Armand ViP

24785POSTS

15 years ago

Hi Jnine

I can suggest you to post and advert in Valparaiso classifieds under Classes> Language classes

Hope it will help
Armand

ricardopadro Contributor

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14 years ago

Hello Janine! , i from Santiago but i live near from Valparaiso ... a small town call ConCon, try going to Universities like Valparaiso or Catolica de Valparaiso.. there a lot of exchange students that can you help , i can help sometimes by facebook, do you have one?, add me

Regards!

Ricardo

FRAORTES New member

4POSTS

14 years ago

Hi Janine ,
聽 mi name is Claudio and i am from Santiago, I suggest to you inlet to chat rooms and search for chilean slangs in internet such as:
natalislang.com/english/slang.html
for complicated chilean jargons to undesrtanding better.
Good luck.

don _osito Guest

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14 years ago

wow!! so good to read in this post some Chileans..sending my regards from Saudi Arabia..miss my people:)
Maria Isabel

FRAORTES New member

4POSTS

14 years ago

Hi Jnine.
Other suggestion for you.

saludos/regards
Claudio.

jen_patagonia Member

12POSTS

14 years ago

Hi Jnine,
My two cents worth is that it's not Spanish you need to learn, it's Chilean Spanish - which is an entirely different language than you probably studied in school.听 There is a lot of slang, which includes shortening/changing words.听 For example, you'll hear people saying "Como estai?" in place of "como estas?", and will become quite familiar with the terms "po" and "cachai."聽 My advice is to try to spend as much time as possible chatting with Chileans, and eventually you'll understand most of what they're saying, most of the time.

One of my favorite list of chilenismos is , and I try to capture useful slang and phrases as I hear it on my blog as well at .听

However, it's always a good idea to have an understanding of basic Spanish vocabulary as well, as nurses get confused when you ask them about beef for newborns (my lesson for the week was that "vacuna" and "vacuno" are two very different things!)

Sanders83 Active member

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14 years ago

Hi there!
Miss patagonia, Chilean Castellano is a mix between the castillian tongue and "paugundun", the natives language, that is not so good if you travel across latin america, and ever worse if u happen to be in spain, where there are many different languages: Galego, Catalano, Euzkadis, Andaluz...so better learn a neutro castellano, like that one from Peru, cause the argentinians way is castellano from Castilla(Spain), with the second person "vos", like portuguese "voce".

Ive been in Brazil and several times in argentina, and there you can find "intercambio" groups, to share english and spanish, that's a nice option, don't know if there's something available like this in Vi帽a o Vlpo隆驴?.

Saludos cordiales!!! have a nice findesemana a todos!!!