SPANISH & SALSA

Are you traveling to Colombia?
Don’t forget to always take your laptop with you. You can learn more Spanish if you take notes every day and save them on your desktop. Then you can easily look at it again in the evenings and review the words and phrases. 

1)  Colombian Slang: abrirse

     English: (to split up) to leave

2) Spanish Slang: aporrear

    English: to accidentally fall

3)  Colombian Slang: sardino-sardina

     English: young girl-guy

4) Spanish Slang: arrecho

    English: Horny

5)  Spanish Slang: bacán, bacano, bacana

     English: Someone or something cool, kind, friendly

6) Spanish Slang: barra 

    English: One thousand Colombian pesos

7)  Spanish Slang: berraco, berraca

     English: this is the Colombian slang par excellence, it is embraced by all regardless of social status and interestingly understood and used in every region of the country) Es un/a berraco/a (Someone hardcore,awesome, worthy of admiration, the “man”) “eres una berraca”

 Spanish Slang:caliente

    English: dangerous

9)  Spanish Slang: camello

     English: job

10) Spanish Slang: caspa/calilla

    English: a badly-behaved person

11)  Spanish Slang:  un catorce- un dos 

     English: a favor

12) Spanish Slang: cojo

    English: Something weak or lack of sense

13) Colombian Slang: corroncho

    English: Something really tacky or ordinary, derogatory of people from the Caribbean area of Colombia.

-Cachaco: people from Bogotá

-Paisa. people from Coffee Area or Medellin

14)  Spanish Slang: chévere

     English: cool

15) Spanish Slang: chicharrón

    English: A problem, something to deal with

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