Deep south texas spanish

[dellgriff]

I'm sure it's been touched on before, but I'm having trouble with the spanish that is spoken in the rio grande valley of south texas. They don't speak mexican spanish.

I particularly need advise on how to pick up the slang from there for to converse with the population of uneducated latinos from there who incorporate a high number of words/phrases/slang that they seemed to invent on their own, separate from mexico, separate from american influence. Help!!

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por dellgriff

I'm sure it's been touched on before, but I'm having trouble with the spanish that is spoken in the rio grande valley of south texas. They don't speak mexican spanish.

I particularly need advise on how to pick up the slang from there for to converse with the population of uneducated latinos from there who incorporate a high number of words/phrases/slang that they seemed to invent on their own, separate from mexico, separate from american influence. Help!!

All I can think of is when in a situation like that all you have to do is ask what they mean. Or repeat what they said in another way, but you have to ask this in Spanish.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes there're infinity to Mexican words and more when it's spoken for a Mexican, then if you have the words where have doubts, then you should to place them here and we will can give you a few help.

[dellgriff]

In this post, I wanted to make clear that when I said "uneducated latinos", I was not referring to the local population, but merely a sub-group within that population. Forgive me if that sounded biased. Where I grew up, there would be guys who's english you couldn't understand unless you spent a day or two with them!

[hermit]

Under Tex-mex slang Wikipedia gives some background on Tex-Mex phraseology with a partial list of "coined" words.

Also, you can Google "Tex-Mex slang dictionary" for a fairly comprehensive
vocabulary reference source...

[CrOtALiTo]

Escrito originalmente por dellgriff

In this post, I wanted to make clear that when I said "uneducated latinos", I was not referring to the local population, but merely a sub-group within that population. Forgive me if that sounded biased. Where I grew up, there would be guys who's english you couldn't understand unless you spent a day or two with them!

It's really, it was being a lot of important in some places where the Latin Americans are the major population in the U.S.A, therefore they are people who speaking the language very appropriate in anywhere, in essence you can speak with them for more of three days or less and it can being enough for understand them clarify.