May I have Males to the Vapor ?
You don’t need to travel far outside your language zone to find well-meaning but often funny and even unfortunate translations. Signs, tourism information, and especially restaurant menus are often a great source of entertainment (as the Asian-oriented fun-with-language-gaffes site Engrish proves over and over again) , and Chile is no exception. Get your red-hot menu blunders here! Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Translation Fun, Chile, English language, Engrish, Espanglich, food, Language, menus, PostaWeek2011, Restaurant, Spanglish, translation
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I’m coming up on 20 years in Chile, and I speak Spanish all day, every day. Sure, I still have an accent, but it rarely gets in the way—except when a diphthong is involved!
The dastardly diphthong is the sound produced when two vowels buddy up in the same syllable and get so tight they morph into a whole new vowel sound (sounds almost biological, doesn’t it?). Continue reading
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Tagged accents, Chile, English language, Language, language learning, linguistics, PostaWeek2011, pronunciation, Spanish language, Speaking Spanish, Vowel
Cachando Chile: Reflections on Chilean Culture 