{"id":5745,"date":"2012-10-03T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:58:53","slug":"speak-english-in-three-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/speak-english-in-three-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak English in three words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Un tipo que no sabe nada de ingl\u00e9s est\u00e1 preocupado porque pronto viaja a Nueva York y no sabe ni c\u00f3mo pedir algo para comer. Le cuenta el problema a un compa\u00f1ero de trabajo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8211; No se preocupe uste&#8217;&#8230; Lo \u00fanico que uste&#8217; tiene que hacer es decir bien rapidingo, &#8220;Usted, \u00bfqui\u00e9n es?&#8221;, y el gringo le va a entender steak and eggs, y eso es carne con nuevos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8211; Pero si eso es facilingo, dice el hombre contento.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Estando ya en &#8220;Gringolandia&#8221;, decide poner en pr\u00e1ctica sus conocimientos del idioma y entra en un restaurante. El camarero se le acerca y le pregunta, &#8220;How can I help you?&#8221; Y el tipo contesta r\u00e1pidamente:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8211; Y vos, \u00bfqui\u00e9n sos?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>tipo<\/strong> &#8211; guy, fellow<\/li>\n<li><strong>pronto<\/strong> &#8211; soon<\/li>\n<li><strong>compa\u00f1ero de trabajo<\/strong> &#8211; co-worker<\/li>\n<li><strong>rapidingo<\/strong> &#8211; very fast<\/li>\n<li><strong>facilingo<\/strong> &#8211; very easy<\/li>\n<li><strong>se le acerca<\/strong> &#8211; comes up to him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did you get the joke?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The punchline here is that the guy who goes to New York uses the form <em>vos<\/em>, instead of <em>usted<\/em>, and it doesn&#8217;t produce the desired pun. <em>Vos<\/em> is used instead of <em>t\u00fa<\/em> by all social classes in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, most of Central America. In the present tense the endings are <em>-\u00e1s, -\u00e9s<\/em> and <em>\u00eds<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fa hablas<br \/>\nVos habl<strong>\u00e1s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T\u00fa bebes<br \/>\nVos beb<strong>\u00e9s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T\u00fa partes<br \/>\nVos part<strong>\u00eds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are the imperative forms:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Habl<strong>\u00e1<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Beb<strong>\u00e9<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Part<strong>\u00ed<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Nos vemos prontito.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Want more free resources to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a>? Check out the other goodies we offer to help make your language learning efforts a daily habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"272\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/guys-talking-272x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/guys-talking-272x350.jpg 272w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/10\/guys-talking.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><p>Un tipo que no sabe nada de ingl\u00e9s est\u00e1 preocupado porque pronto viaja a Nueva York y no sabe ni c\u00f3mo pedir algo para comer. Le cuenta el problema a un compa\u00f1ero de trabajo. &#8211; No se preocupe uste&#8217;&#8230; Lo \u00fanico que uste&#8217; tiene que hacer es decir bien rapidingo, &#8220;Usted, \u00bfqui\u00e9n es?&#8221;, y el&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/speak-english-in-three-words\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[81,358362],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-humor","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/8121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}