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Deep south texas spanish


dellgriff November 28, 2010 11:27 AM

Deep south texas spanish
 
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 November 28, 2010 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dellgriff (Post 100707)
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 November 28, 2010 07:13 PM

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 November 29, 2010 03:36 AM

clarification
 
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 November 29, 2010 06:09 AM

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 November 30, 2010 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dellgriff (Post 100740)
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.


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