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So I'm currently on a food-related lesson. So far, at the point I am at, we have words for bread, apple, soup, sauce, juice, fruit, strawberry, cheese, rice, meat, chicken, fish. ...Also meal (comida) and lunch (almuerza) but I can't for the life of me remember those without looking them up.
So I start the new segment, and get dinner (which I've already forgotten) and sandwich (emparedado), and as usual I tried to come up with ways of remembering the latter. It's sort of like emperor but the vowels are different, so that won't work. And then I remember empanada, and go looking that up to see what that meant (meat pie, more or less), and then looked up emparedado just out of curiosity.
Turns out that it's also the word for confinement.
Neat.
ETA rofl. was prompted to translate the word for onion. Remembered that it started with a c ... and had a b that sounded sort of v-ish ... and had a ll ... caballo! Totally the same, sí? ... yeah, cebolla != caballo, just as onion != horse. facepalm.
So I'm currently on a food-related lesson. So far, at the point I am at, we have words for bread, apple, soup, sauce, juice, fruit, strawberry, cheese, rice, meat, chicken, fish. ...Also meal (comida) and lunch (almuerza) but I can't for the life of me remember those without looking them up.
So I start the new segment, and get dinner (which I've already forgotten) and sandwich (emparedado), and as usual I tried to come up with ways of remembering the latter. It's sort of like emperor but the vowels are different, so that won't work. And then I remember empanada, and go looking that up to see what that meant (meat pie, more or less), and then looked up emparedado just out of curiosity.
Turns out that it's also the word for confinement.
Neat.
ETA rofl. was prompted to translate the word for onion. Remembered that it started with a c ... and had a b that sounded sort of v-ish ... and had a ll ... caballo! Totally the same, sí? ... yeah, cebolla != caballo, just as onion != horse. facepalm.
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Date: 2013-09-01 01:37 am (UTC)If I learn nothing else from Duolingo, I will always remember that turtles eat strawberries.
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Date: 2013-09-01 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-03 02:43 am (UTC)only we're doing both German and Spanish, because we've had two years of Spanish in high school, and a couple more in college. but we'd be happy for friends over there.
also, dinner is cena. so you know. and sandwich is confinement. lol! to eat dinner is to cenar, which we always remembered as being a couple letters different from sonar. :P
-Marc
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Date: 2013-09-05 06:10 am (UTC)Cena cena cena, bah. Can't ever remember breakfast either ... Desayuno?
Eh, I'm sure I'll get it eventually.