It's funny how different the Chilean Spanish is to the Spanish Spanish. I almost forgot how funny and unpronounced they speak here. Some of the language changes I can understand, Chileans has a lot of indian (mapuche) words mixed in their Spanish, for example "Palta" for avocado which is Avacata in Spain. But there are things I never really got my head around... in Chile they never ever use "Vale", an expression for Okey in Spain and they look very funny at you when you say it. They do use "listo" instead (even though they can't pronounce it so it becomes "litto"), which brings us to the way the brutally remove 's' from words...
Anyway... I am still enjoying the fact that I am back in Santiago. Went downtown around lunch today and had some lunch at that place I "always" had lunch when I worked right next to it. Took a stroll around Plaza de Armas and used the metro, it all feels so familiar. Also, I miss the ensalada chilena in Spain, why don't people do it proper but here?
I am thinking about next weekend, maybe I should take a trip up to the andes or go out dancing at the disco place? Dunno yet...
2 comments:
I say you go up to the Andes, it'll be nicer. Dancing you can do in Madrid too... :)
Have fun,
P :)
It doesn't have to be mutual exclusive :-) I think I will go on a wine-tour because I don't feel like spend the whole day hiking.
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