Spent a lovely day on Wednesday 23rd April wandering around the Argentinian side of Iguacu Falls with a charming Columbian called Norma
The only exclusively neck-up photo she took all day.
who was kind enough to teach me and let me practice a few words of Spanish. I’ve subsequently been informed that her “jho” becomes “yo” in the motherland… it’s a South America / Europe thing apparently… but I remembered a good portion of my list and have remembered the translations too. Here we go:
- Hello . . . . . . Ola
- Goodbye . . . . . . Ciao
- Please . . . . . . Por favor
- Thank you . . . . . . gratias
- Yes . . . . . . si
- No . . . . . . no
- Good . . . . . . bueno
- Bad . . . . . . ????
- Excuse me . . . . . . desculpa me
- I’m sorry . . . . . . desculpa
- I don’t understand . . . . . . jho no intendo ??
- I don’t speak [name of language] . . . . . . jho no ablo espangnol
- Do you speak English? . . . . . . do ablo inglays?
- Pleased to meet you . . . . . . ????
- Where is [this]? . . . . . . donday es?
- How much is [this]? . . . . . . ?????
- I would like…?????
- Help . . . . . . ?????
- Hospital . . . . . . ???
- Police . . . . . . polizia??
- Plane / airport . . . . . . avion / ???
- Train / train station . . . . . . traine
- Bus / bus station . . . . . . bus (estacion)
- Ticket
- Hostel
- Minute
- Hour
- Days of the week
- Toilet . . . . . . bayno
- Water . . . . . . agwa
- fruit
- bread
- ham
- cheese . . . . . . kayshoy
- beer
- meat . . . . . . carnay
- chicken
- fish
- salad
- wine
- 1 uno
- 2 dos
- 3 tres
- 4 quattro
- 5 cinqo
- 6 says
- 7 seite
- 8 ocho
- 9 nuove
- 10 dee-es
- 20 benta
- 30 trenta
- 40 quarenta
- 50 cinqenta
- 60 saysenta
- 70 setenta
- 80 ochenta
- 90 noventa
- 100 cien
A few more to add, but I’m increasingly pleased with the list itself and hopefully my time here in Arraial willl give me space to learn a little more Spanish and maybe get one other ticked off as well.
JoeliusCaesar 