Sharpen the Saw: Improve Your Spanish / Afila la sierra: mejora tu español / 5 minutos de español + Podcast (English version)
Sharpen the Saw: Improve Your Spanish Hello! How are you? Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are or the time you're listening to us. Welcome to this podcast for students of Spanish as a second language, and thank you very much for being here. Let's get to the point: what is today's topic? Today, in the 202nd edition of the 5 minutes of Spanish, we are going to talk about the verb "afilar," a regular verb that means to sharpen a weapon or a bladed weapon or a knife. Afilar el cuchillo, eso es más claro. Sharpening the knife, that's clearer. Afilar - to sharpen Arma - weapon Arma blanca - bladed weapon " En la cocina solemos decir el cuchillo no tiene filo, vamos a afilarl o "The knife is not sharp, let's sharpen it." And what is the edge? - The edge is the border Filo - edge And sharp or sharpened? - It's something that has an edge But "sharp" has many more uses in English. Yes, l...