\n– \u00bfMami?
\n– Hola, hija. \u00bfC\u00f3mo est\u00e1s?
\n– Bien. O\u00edme, mami. Me ten\u00e9s que sacar de un apuro. No s\u00e9 qu\u00e9 darles de cena a mis invitados esta noche.
\n– Ay, hija. No te hagas ning\u00fan problema. Con un rico asado qued\u00e1s b\u00e1rbaro.
\n– Mam\u00e1, record\u00e1 que le prest\u00e9 la parrilla a Roxana. Tendr\u00eda que hacerlo al horno y un asado criollo debe hacerse al aire libre y con carb\u00f3n y le\u00f1a.
\n– Se me acaba de ocurrir\u2026 \u00bfqu\u00e9 tal unas empanadas?
\n– Vieja\u2026 vos sos una especialista en empanadas salte\u00f1as, cordobesas, santiague\u00f1as y mendocinas. Pero yo no s\u00e9 ni siquiera preparar el relleno.
\n– \u00bfY qu\u00e9 te parece un locro?<\/em>
\n– \u00bfLocro? \u00a1Ni loca! Es m\u00e1s complicado que las empanaadas.
\n– \u00bfQu\u00e9 te parece si llevo unas humitas? A pap\u00e1 no le gustaron y a m\u00ed me caen mal.
\n– Pero, \u00bfsab\u00e9s qui\u00e9n viene a cenar?
\n– \u00bfQui\u00e9nes son tus invitados?
\n– Ustedes, mami\u2026 ustedes\u2026
\n– Entonces compr\u00e1 carne al horno con papas en la rotiser\u00eda.<\/em><\/p>\n
The dialogue starts with a woman calling her mom, because she’s having some people over and doesn’t know what to serve. She says mami <\/em>but she could have also used mam\u00e1<\/em>, to refer to her mother. The same goes for padre<\/em>, you could say papi <\/em>or pap\u00e1<\/em>.<\/p>\n In this dialogue we see a lot of voseo <\/em>forms, the first one is o\u00edme <\/em>(listen to me). In neutral Spanish we’d use \u00f3igame <\/em>for the usted <\/em>form and \u00f3yeme <\/em>for the t\u00fa <\/em>form. You also hear escuch\u00e1 <\/em>used in this context, and Argentineans even drop the first part of the verb and you hear cuch\u00e1 <\/em>in everyday conversation.<\/p>\n Moving on, she explains that she needs her mom to get her out of a trouble: me ten\u00e9s que sacar de un apuro<\/em>. Sacar a alguien de un apuro<\/em> means to get someone out of trouble. Here she also uses the voseo <\/em>form sac\u00e1s<\/em>, because it’s used in an informal setting. She explains that she doesn’t know what to serve her guests, no sabe qu\u00e9 darles de cena a sus invitados. Darles de cena means<\/em>, literally, to give someone something for dinner.<\/p>\n What mom doesn’t remember is that she lent her barbecue set to Roxana, ella le prest\u00f3 la parrilla a Roxana<\/em>. So she’d have to make it in the oven, al horno<\/em> and an asado criollo<\/em>, a typical Argentinean barbecue, has to be made al aire libre<\/em>, outdoors, and with charcoal and wood, con carb\u00f3n y le\u00f1a<\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/asado.jpg\")
<\/a>Her mom calms her down and says: No te hagas ning\u00fan problema<\/em>. That means, don’t make yourself any problems or don’t worry about it. She suggests her to serve a delicious barbecue, which is very typical in Argentina, un rico asado<\/em>. Rico <\/em>means rich, someone who has a lot of money, but also delicious, yummy. She says that con un rico asado qued\u00e1s b\u00e1rbado<\/em>. B\u00e1rbaro <\/em>is widely used in Argentina to mean great, cool, outstanding… so with a delicious barbecue she would do great.<\/p>\n<\/a>All of a sudden, her mom remembers something and she says: Se me acaba de ocurrir<\/em>. Ocurrir <\/em>is to think of something and acabar de<\/em> expresses the idea of something that has just happened. She suggests her daughter to serve empanadas<\/em>, which is is a stuffed bread or pastry baked or fried in many countries in Latin America and the south of Europe. Her daughter calls her vieja<\/em>, old woman, which is used as a term of endearment, and says that her mom is a specialist in empanadas <\/em>from the province of Salta, salte\u00f1as<\/em>, C\u00f3rdoba, cordobesas<\/em>, Santiago del Estero, las santiague\u00f1as<\/em> and from Mendoza, las mendocinas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/a>However, she feels sorry that she doesn’t know how to make the stuffing, el relleno<\/em>. So her mom suggests she makes a locro<\/em>, which is a hearty thick corn stew with potato, meat, and seasoning. As making a locro <\/em>is no easy task she says: \u00bfLocro? \u00a1Ni loca!<\/em> She means that even if she were crazy she wouldn’t make a locro<\/em>. The expression \u00a1Ni loca!<\/em> can also be used in the masculine form: \u00a1Ni loco!<\/em> She says that because making locros <\/em>is even harder than making empanadas<\/em>.<\/p>\n