overheard.....
Dec 11th 2010, 5:02 pm
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overheard.....
"I think my Spanish has improved a lot because I understood most of what the doctor was saying. I think he said that he had broken three legs".
Dec 12th 2010, 11:20 am
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Re: overheard.....
Maybe your Spanish has improved, but it was not the Doctors it was the vet!
Dec 12th 2010, 3:25 pm
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Re: overheard.....
Overheard in our local Post Office, the speaker a rather overbearing lady of a certain age holding forth to her companion -
"Of course, I speak better Spanish than most Spaniards, you know, because I don't bastardise the language" !!!!
I cringed and hoped that none of the other customers understood English.
"Of course, I speak better Spanish than most Spaniards, you know, because I don't bastardise the language" !!!!
I cringed and hoped that none of the other customers understood English.
Dec 12th 2010, 3:27 pm
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Re: overheard.....
Overheard in our local Post Office, the speaker a rather overbearing lady of a certain age holding forth to her companion -
"Of course, I speak better Spanish than most Spaniards, you know, because I don't bastardise the language" !!!!
I cringed and hoped that none of the other customers understood English.
"Of course, I speak better Spanish than most Spaniards, you know, because I don't bastardise the language" !!!!
I cringed and hoped that none of the other customers understood English.
Dec 12th 2010, 3:29 pm
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In a supermarket,
the Spanish assistant was showing a woman where the packs of bacon were.
"no, I dont mean that type of thin bacon, I mean bacon that comes from a pig,"
the Spanish assistant was showing a woman where the packs of bacon were.
"no, I dont mean that type of thin bacon, I mean bacon that comes from a pig,"
Dec 12th 2010, 7:38 pm
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I was waiting in a local clinic recently where a well known, elderly English lady was playing up a bit. An elderly Spanish gent pointed out the sign on the wall which implied silence.
The English lady raised her voice further, pleased to have found someone to talk to, and talked to the hapless Spaniard in poor English with the odd Spanish word thrown in to make it totally incomprehensible.
The Spaniard started to flap and suggested that she should return to her home country, but the lady didn’t understand a word of it and kept prattling on, moving her seat to sit next to the friendly Spaniard.
The waiting room was packed with a mixture of Spanish and English people, and the odd Russian.
The Spaniard knew some English and tried hard to explain what going home meant, and got quite nasty about it, although he had trouble with the F word.
The English lady turned to one of the ever-present interpreters and asked her to explain to the Spaniard that she would be pleased to accept his offer to drive her home, and that she lived in the next street, crossing her spindly legs in a seductive manner.
The interpreter couldn’t help, she couldn’t speak for laughing, and nor could I, I couldn’t think of the Spanish for fruitcake, nor whether it was tonto or tonta.
The English lady raised her voice further, pleased to have found someone to talk to, and talked to the hapless Spaniard in poor English with the odd Spanish word thrown in to make it totally incomprehensible.
The Spaniard started to flap and suggested that she should return to her home country, but the lady didn’t understand a word of it and kept prattling on, moving her seat to sit next to the friendly Spaniard.
The waiting room was packed with a mixture of Spanish and English people, and the odd Russian.
The Spaniard knew some English and tried hard to explain what going home meant, and got quite nasty about it, although he had trouble with the F word.
The English lady turned to one of the ever-present interpreters and asked her to explain to the Spaniard that she would be pleased to accept his offer to drive her home, and that she lived in the next street, crossing her spindly legs in a seductive manner.
The interpreter couldn’t help, she couldn’t speak for laughing, and nor could I, I couldn’t think of the Spanish for fruitcake, nor whether it was tonto or tonta.
Dec 12th 2010, 7:47 pm
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Re: overheard.....
I was waiting in a local clinic recently where a well known, elderly English lady was playing up a bit. An elderly Spanish gent pointed out the sign on the wall which implied silence.
The English lady raised her voice further, pleased to have found someone to talk to, and talked to the hapless Spaniard in poor English with the odd Spanish word thrown in to make it totally incomprehensible.
The Spaniard started to flap and suggested that she should return to her home country, but the lady didn’t understand a word of it and kept prattling on, moving her seat to sit next to the friendly Spaniard.
The waiting room was packed with a mixture of Spanish and English people, and the odd Russian.
The Spaniard knew some English and tried hard to explain what going home meant, and got quite nasty about it, although he had trouble with the F word.
The English lady turned to one of the ever-present interpreters and asked her to explain to the Spaniard that she would be pleased to accept his offer to drive her home, and that she lived in the next street, crossing her spindly legs in a seductive manner.
The interpreter couldn’t help, she couldn’t speak for laughing, and nor could I, I couldn’t think of the Spanish for fruitcake, nor whether it was tonto or tonta.
The English lady raised her voice further, pleased to have found someone to talk to, and talked to the hapless Spaniard in poor English with the odd Spanish word thrown in to make it totally incomprehensible.
The Spaniard started to flap and suggested that she should return to her home country, but the lady didn’t understand a word of it and kept prattling on, moving her seat to sit next to the friendly Spaniard.
The waiting room was packed with a mixture of Spanish and English people, and the odd Russian.
The Spaniard knew some English and tried hard to explain what going home meant, and got quite nasty about it, although he had trouble with the F word.
The English lady turned to one of the ever-present interpreters and asked her to explain to the Spaniard that she would be pleased to accept his offer to drive her home, and that she lived in the next street, crossing her spindly legs in a seductive manner.
The interpreter couldn’t help, she couldn’t speak for laughing, and nor could I, I couldn’t think of the Spanish for fruitcake, nor whether it was tonto or tonta.
Dec 12th 2010, 11:24 pm
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Re: overheard.....
At the supermarket check out.
Two English couples. One couple obviously residents, (he long grey hair in ponytail, her dressed like a teenager) and the other couple friends or family out on a visit.
On reading a large notice on the wall the none- resident lady asks "Why are they are closed on November the 1st?" To which the resident lady answered without any hesitation.
"Oh it's halloween. They have it for two days here"
Two English couples. One couple obviously residents, (he long grey hair in ponytail, her dressed like a teenager) and the other couple friends or family out on a visit.
On reading a large notice on the wall the none- resident lady asks "Why are they are closed on November the 1st?" To which the resident lady answered without any hesitation.
"Oh it's halloween. They have it for two days here"
Dec 13th 2010, 8:12 am
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Re: overheard.....
"Calle Andalucia, yes you can't miss it, it's just down there and left just after the house called 'Se Vende'"
Dec 13th 2010, 10:50 am
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Re: overheard.....
I heard this one years ago, but it is still good.
"So that actor Robert de Nero, would be called Bob Money in English, but I always thought he was Italian not Spanish.
"So that actor Robert de Nero, would be called Bob Money in English, but I always thought he was Italian not Spanish.
Dec 13th 2010, 10:59 am
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This is another oldie from 2 cockneys in a bar in Malaga a few years ago.
"Spanish is not all that difficult but you have to remember that the Z is pronouced like TH.
As in FANK YOU VERY MUCH"
"Spanish is not all that difficult but you have to remember that the Z is pronouced like TH.
As in FANK YOU VERY MUCH"
