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#1
September 12, 2008, 03:21 AM
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Alberca
This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word for September 12, 2008
alberca - feminine noun (la) - swimming pool. Look up alberca in the dictionary Mucha gente nada en las albercas pero yo creo que el agua no está muy limpia. A lot of people swim in swimming pools but I don't think the water is very clean.
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#2
September 12, 2008, 04:50 AM
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Alberca is apparently only used in Mexico. I know this as la piscina.
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September 12, 2008, 05:08 AM
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In Spain, swimming pool is piscina.
Alberca is more like a water reservoir, for farming uses. Like a little artificial lake Saludos 
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September 13, 2008, 09:44 AM
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En Mexico se entiende tres palabras: alberca, balneario y piscina. La más usada es alberca, seguida por balneario y después piscina
 . ¿Usan balneario en españa?También en Mexico wading pool is chapoteadero. How do you say that in other areas?
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#5
September 13, 2008, 11:00 AM
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Creo que se dice piscina para niños.
Some wading pools are not for kids (like the ones around a statue in the village square). Those are called estanques or fuentes. Reflecting pond = estanque espejo Reflecting pool = piscina espejo or espejo de agua
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September 13, 2008, 04:25 PM
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September 13, 2008, 04:57 PM
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Aquí se dice kiddie pool, también.
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September 13, 2008, 04:59 PM
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"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." from Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
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#9
September 13, 2008, 09:39 PM
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Jajajaja, all you commentaries about of the swimming pool are very fun, and about the other meaning called kiddie pool is more pretty and very cute.
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September 14, 2008, 03:07 AM
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In spain
piscina: swimming pool alberca: water reservoir balneario: health resort (in the beach or in the mountains, with water) piscina para niños/piscina infantil: kiddie pool/paddling pool Saludos
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September 14, 2008, 11:41 AM
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"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." from Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
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October 19, 2008, 09:54 AM
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Wouldn't it be nice to own a piscina.
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#13
October 20, 2008, 02:21 AM
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Can I throw in one more?:
It's becoming more than common here in Spain to have a yacuzi (jacuzzi) at home, the word has not been accepted academically, but it entered the language via soap TV operas and sitcoms...
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October 20, 2008, 05:23 AM
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oh yes most swimming pools that's outside it not clean at all. Full of dead bugs and leaves
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