Jardín

Jardín
 

This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for June 29, 2008

jardín -masculine noun (el), garden, yard. Look up jardín in the dictionary

Me gusta caminar en el jardín al amanecer y mirar mientras sale el sol.
I like walking in the garden at dawn and watching the sun come up.

Some of my favourite books:

• Jardín de flores raras, the last book written by the Spanish anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja.
• Jardín de flores raras y curiosas. It's a compilation of poetry, science, philosophy, philology, etc., published in the 1570's, by Antonio de Torquemada.
• Las semanas del jadín, by one of my favourites Spanish writers: Juan Goytisolo.

I love The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.:star::star::star::star:

I can only think of one expression with jardín, which by the way is very similar in English: jardín de infancia.

Our English word, kindergarten, is actually a loan word from German (children's garden).

Most of my students say kindergarden. It's one of the things I'm always correcting.

In Mexico they use jardín de niños o kínder.

I learned this, it's one of our additional vocab for Ch. 8 for paso a paso a.