My husband is still kind of salty, 20 years later, that his high school Spanish teacher kept marking people incorrect for using "carro" and insisting they use "coche", even though this all took place in a geographical area with a lot of Spanish speakers, where it was very very evident that absolutely no one in real life (in this region) said "coche". He reacts with visible vindication every time he sees someone say "carro" lol.
For some reason American high school Spanish teachers are one of two people, either someone who will only teach formal Spanish. Or someone who already spoke Spanish natively, and does not care about formalities at all.
I have no idea what type of Spanish I was taught in high school but a number of common words are nothing like Spanish as spoken in Spain or Mexico. I kind of get it because slang changes pretty quickly over time but it's still frustrating. But at the same time it's pretty hilarious to see how english is taught in other countries because they have similar weird grammar rules and lingo that no one uses in any english-speaking country.
Yeah, I hear it's very regional. The largest proportion of Spanish speakers in our area come from Mexico, where apparently carro is car and coche is used for baby strollers, while apparently in Spain it's the reverse. And then auto is more like... Argentina, iirc? Oh and I just checked your profile, I guess Chile too lol
It's actually the same in the reverse, loads of English teachers in Spain will forbid students from using Latin Origin Cognates and force germanic origin words, even though if you are just trying to communicate at a basic level, a native speaker will understand.
There is a lot of anglecismo in spanish but this aint one of them.
Both "car" and "carro" are a shortening of "carriage" and "carruaje" respectively, of which both descend from the latin "carrus" which itself comes from the gaelic "karros", a word for carts and/or wagons.
What do you call other articles of clothing made from the jeans material, like a jacket then? I don't speak spanish but you guys' conversation made me curious!
Yes, but in its journey its last stop before French was English.
Speaking of languages of India, a funnier trip is the orange, which is something like naranga in Sanskrit, naranja in Spanish, orange in English, which Malayalam borrowed for a full loop.
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u/Only_Fudge5299 5h ago
me learning spanish
like what do you mean steak is "beef steak" (bistec)