{"id":8976,"date":"2015-09-23T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:05:37","slug":"mexican-spanish-in-11-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/mexican-spanish-in-11-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Spanish in 11 Phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people immediately associate Spanish with its namesake country in Europe, but actually Mexico is by far the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world. Its more than hundred million inhabitants have taken this global language and in many ways made it their own: in Mexico, se habla mexicano<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I recently spent about 8 months traveling across the giant country and living in its capital, where I had the pleasure and frustration of learning some of its voluminous and vibrant body\u00a0of slang. One thing I learned was that, as always, the language gives you some special insights into the culture of its speakers.<\/p>\n

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“Well what do you think? Your opinion is worthless to me.” Me vale madres<\/i> is just one of many slang uses that equate madre<\/i> to a lack of worth or even identity.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many people would assert that Mexican Spanish is among the most colorful of the world Spanish dialects. CNN M\u00e9xico calls Mexican Spanish “sexista, machista y festivo<\/a>.” And indeed, there are plenty of entries in the Diccionario de Mexicanismos<\/a><\/i> to support this idea.<\/p>\n

That same article coloring\u00a0Mexican Spanish as a particularly dirty and sexist subset of World Spanish also admits that it is “festivo, \u00edntimo, y cari\u00f1oso<\/i>“, another side of the language that I know and love. From being called mijo<\/i> to being told by others “me caes bien<\/i>“, I\u00a0got to experience the many everyday petnames and other expressions people use affectionately with friends and strangers alike.<\/p>\n

You\u00a0should make up your own mind on what you think of the particular variant Spanish spoken in Mexico. The Diccionario de Mexicanismos<\/i> lists 16,000 entries (\u00a1qu\u00e9 absurdo!<\/i>), but here I’ll limit it to a super arbitrary 11 of my favorites:<\/p>\n