day 54one language, many accents
unit 8 · other culturesone language, many accents
Talk about varieties of Spanish and identity, and guess from a picture where people are from. Second bite: describing a photo situation and hypothesising.
today’s words
- ruso · Russian
- británico · British
- denominar · to call, to name
- latino · Latin; Latino
- provenir · to come from
- derivar · to derive
- caracterizar · to characterise
- norteamericano · North American, American
- portugués · Portuguese
- la diversidad · diversity
- vasco · Basque
- la discriminación · discrimination
- la minoría · minority
- hispano · Hispanic; Spanish-speaking
- originario · native (of), originally from
- la migración · migration
- natal · native, of one’s birth
- boliviano · Bolivian
- holandés · Dutch
- madrileño · from Madrid
- meridional · southern
- marroquí · Moroccan
- discriminatorio · discriminatory
sentences
- Mi vecino es ruso y su mujer es holandesa. · My neighbour is Russian and his wife is Dutch.
- Un amigo británico habla muy bien español. · A British friend speaks Spanish very well.
- Muchos latinos viven en Estados Unidos. · Many Latinos live in the United States.
- Esta palabra proviene del árabe. · This word comes from Arabic.
- Esta palabra deriva de otra más antigua. · This word derives from an older one.