Aprender con imagenes...a challenge :)

[Planet hopper]

Right, maybe we can use these pics, I often did with my english lessons, and they should work here, too. Let's see.

Fairly simple: say (in Spanish) whatever comes to your mind as you look at the pics. Maybe just a word, enough

There you go

[Planet hopper]

If you're learning English, do that in English.
Good exercise to improve performance.

[geeper]

Verdad, cómico, cuidado, qué, ironía

[Tomisimo]

The words that came to mind for me: mentira - asalto - cuidado - jugar - choque. Not ver original I guess.

[geeper]

It's funny we said opposites for the first one. My thinking was "yea, it's the truth that they say one thing and you get another."

[Planet hopper]

Opposites are close in our mind. Funny that verdad-mentira pair. It's like the glass, half-full or half empty

Asalto and comico for the second, coool
Better than asalto, atraco, leaves the irony out
Un asalto is something bigger, maybe military. Comico is fine, also jocoso.

Both agree on the bear, right? We say cuidado half a second before the bear slips

Que and jugar....I don't get it...I would just say ¡Tonto!

Ironia y choque...Un choque de trenes, los coches tienen golpes.

Good...next stage. Imagine you are describing the pic to a person who can't see it. Try to do that in no more than 3 sentences...Choose your favourite pic, don't need to do them all

[Rusty]

¡Qué diversión!

1. la verdad sí que duele
2. discusión acalorada
3. se me resbaló de la mente lo que iba a decir
4. ni se me pasó por la cabeza lo de un cazatalentos
5. encuentro accidental

[Planet hopper]

Originally Posted by Rusty

¡Qué diversión!

1. la verdad sí que duele
2. discusión acalorada
3. se me resbaló de la mente lo que iba a decir
4. ni se me pasó por la cabeza lo de un cazatalentos
5. encuentro accidental

1.- A bit too strong for the context, but possible.
2.- Good! You got the irony
3.- Spanglish. The expression is 'Se me paso de la mente...' Good try
4.- lol. Un cazacabezas en spanish is an indian, one of those who would shrink heads (jíbaros)
5.-Is cool

[Rusty]

Yep, I knew 3 was Spanglish. I was mixing the English 'slipped my mind' with the Spanish saying so that I could play on the word slipped!

[Planet hopper]

It would work only if your partner speaks fluent english...

[Rusty]

She does!

Fun diversion.

[Planet hopper]

Cool then, spanglish allowed...

Vacunemos la carpeta...

[Planet hopper]

One more...Primary question here:

¿Crees que el perro es un perro policia?

¿Why?

[poli]

Some of the joke don't work well in Spanish.. like stick-up for the snowmen is lost in Spanish. I think the translater's job is the hardest to
get right unless you believe in annotation.

[poli]

Originally Posted by Planet hopper

One more...Primary question here:

¿Crees que el perro es un perro policia?

¿Why?

No, es un perro ladrón

[Elaina]

Originally Posted by poli

No, es un perro ladrón

DITTO!

[Planet hopper]

Si fuera un perro ladrón estaria corriendo con algo en la boca

Un amigo policia dijo al ver la foto:

'Vaya con America, allí ponen contra la pared hasta al perro'

[Elaina]

Digo que es un perro ladrón porque ya sabe la rutina.........

"against the wall and spread them"

[Planet hopper]

One more before going to sleep

Look at the pic first for a while

Then the question is:

¿Por que tienen las vacas faltas de ortografia?

After hearing some guesses (in spanish)...

Have you ever seen a cow in a language class?

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by Planet hopper

Cool then, spanglish allowed...

Vacunemos la carpeta...

I have actually heard the following two sentences from native Spanish speakers who have been living for a long time in the US:

El rufo está liqueando.
La loca está rota.