Advanced essay #2
For example one very complicated word is “chucho”: in some place like Guatemala chucho means little dog, but in Honduras it’s miserly. Also is cold in Argentina, you move to Chile and chucho means jail and in Mexico is when someone is very good in something.
Much latins come to Spain, and they speak their spanish, in a way that can make confusions. Like once, in my old school there was a new student from Bolivia,
Well, the thing is that we made a bet, in Bolivia a bet is call “polla” , but in spain that’s means “dick”, so he was telling all people if they want to participate in the “polla”, and all of the people thought he was weird so they disliked him.
Other boy from Argentina,Alejandro,he spoke spanish, but a spanish dialect we don’t understand, and he used verbs, that in south america are normal, but there isn’t, like prender.( take), He also didn’t understand us. Or the boy from Peru, trying to speak with Alejandro, but they don’t understand each other.
Farther that this, that sometimes is very funny speak with a latin, how they speak is the accent,the same happened with english, for example british english you have to speak very perfect, because they don’t understand you.
The accent of one person you can know where is from,if they speak with “vos” ( is another form to say you),or pronoun the sound”y” like a “sh” is from Argentina. The most funny accent for me is in Andalucia, south of Spain, they pronounce the the sound ‘s’ like a ‘z’, and the use of “illo”as pet word, that don’t have any sense.
Other feature in south america is the use of anglicism, they use a lot of them, especially in the last year they are comun.
This make problems like the chicanas, that don’t speak english neither spanish,, but like say Anzaludua, they feel latins, the indian blood in her veins, and they are proud of her legacy, because is that the difference between one country and others, in south america.
But the fact, is all spanish’ speakers, outside of their counties, make the sensation, of one, we have more things for stay together that be separate between us.
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