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[ysobel]

(I probably should make a Spanishy sort of icon...)

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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[amadi]

Have you done the animal lesson yet? When they combine the animals and food it gets hilarious. Los gatos beben leche. Los perros comen pan. (Who feeds their dog bread?) But my favorite? Las tortugas comen fresas. I've a friend in Argentina who is going through a rough time and I keep making her laugh by randomly tweetings about the turtles eating strawberries. "Las tortugas! Las tortugas comen fresas! Todas las fresas! Quería un pastel. Qué triste. Maldita tortugas!"

If I learn nothing else from Duolingo, I will always remember that turtles eat strawberries.