Spanish in Cabo

  English version / See the Spanish    Apapachos Hello friends? Good morning, good afternoon or good night! In the 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week we are going to talk about the words that originated in Mexico and were spread around the world. They belong to the Nahuatl language, a very important language, spoken by many people, still spoken, written and it is the first language of many Mexicans.   When the Spanish arrived, America was populated by between 5 and 9 million people or more, according to the writings of Spanish priests. Nahuatl with all its variants was spoken in the area since the 5th century and we must remember that the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayas and then Mexicas were among the first civilizations in the world.   And with the conquest, many vegetable, animal and mineral products unknown to Europe until that moment were incorporated into daily life. And the words of the Native American languages, now we are speaking of Nahuat...

Escucha aquí Hey, Hi. Thank you very much for listening to the 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week. Let's talk about cooking vocabulary, it's not very intellectual, but actually cooking and eating is something we do every day, at least one of the two actions. When do we eat? Uh, actually, all day, we shouldn't eat so much. In the morning we have breakfast. How do you form the word breakfast? The prefix "des" means denial, not fasting. We break the healthy fast we have during the night, about 10 hours. It's the same in English: breakfast, break fast. How is breakfast in the Latin world? In Mexico, breakfast is abundant, just like in the rest of North America. In other Latin American countries breakfast is coffee with milk, toast or bread and a fruit juice, it is the same as in Spain. And at noon? It is the main meal of the day; it is called lunch in Mexico. In South America and in Spain, lunch. Lunch is...

1 English version  Hi, how are you? We met again in the 5 minutes of Spanish in the middle of the week. If you are an English speaker and you are learning Spanish, there are a lot of words you already know. This means that you have a great advantage in your learning, compared to a person born in Japan or China, for example. There are words that are the same in both languages, they are cognates, they have the same origin: Latin. traffic        tráfico per cent     por ciento executive   ejecutivo                debate      debate popular       popular client          cliente fantastic     fantástico But... there's always a but. Sometimes, we have false cognates or false friends. That is to say words that are similar in form but their...