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Medio ambiente

Stephanie — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:28:03 +0000

Your medio ambiente is your environment. This refers to your cultural, social or natural environment.

Desincrustante

Stephanie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:27:19 +0000

I saw desincrustante in the store the other day on a bottle of facial cleanser. I thought it was pretty gross sounding, de-cruster. It is actually not that bad, desincrustante just means an exfoliant.

Toalla

Stephanie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:21:46 +0000

A toalla is a towel, what you would use to dry off. Pronounced twai-ya, to me is it hard to recognize at first when I see it written.

Desechable

Stephanie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:13:26 +0000

Desechables are disposables. Items you would use once then discard, such as paper or plastic plates, cups and bowls or syringes or diapers.

Playa

Stephanie — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:05:19 +0000

Today we went to the playa, the beach, where there was arena. On the beach we wore our playeras, short sleeve shirts or t-shirts.

Fuga de agua

Stephanie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:38:37 +0000

We had a pipe break in the street in front of our house recently. While trying to figure out who to callÂ we found the phrase fuga de agua. Literally it means a flight of water but is used to refer to water escaping accidently.

Harina, Arena

Stephanie — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:44:47 +0000

These two words, harina and arena, give me fits. Although they look very different, their pronunciation is very close, the difference of an i and an e.

Harina is flour and arena is sand. I don’t know how many times, no matter how hard I try, I have ordered sand tortillas.

Tocar

Stephanie — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:39:52 +0000

Tocar means to touch.

One would say tocar la puerta to indicate knock on the door.

Also when you play an instrument you tocar el instrumento.

Morar

Stephanie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:47:00 +0000

Morar is not a commonly used word but it is found often in the Spanish Bible. Morar is to live or reside in a place.

Alberca, piscina

Stephanie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:03:41 +0000

Alberca and piscina both mean a swimming pool, an artificial body of water.

Another word I heard the other day is charco. This is also a pool, but a naturally occurring one.