So there are a couple of words that I'd already picked up that I want to capture. Babas means drool. I had already understood escupa to mean spit and escupir to mean to spit. Caricatura means cartoon or caricature. Not sure why it came to mind, but looked up the word historieta, which I had seen before. So apparently this also means cartoon, or more closely storiette.
From En El Minuto again:
Entretenimiento means entertainment. That's what I guessed first, but then thought it might mean something different.
Tres oficiales resultaron heridos en una confrontación con un sospechoso en Atascocita
Three officers were injured in a confrontation with a suspect in Atascocita
Guessed that with no issues.
La Corte Suprema bloquea ley que hace más fácil la deportación de indocumentados que han cometido ciertos delitos.
The Supreme Court blocks a law that makes it easier to deport undocumented immigrants who have committed certain crimes.
I struggled a bit with the last couple of words, but then I got the next to last two and guessed the last one through context. I guessed offenses, which Google Translate offered as a possible translation, along with ofensa, crimen, transgresión, pecado, falta and malhecho.
And I thought I heard entretenimiento in the broadcast, but after listening a dozen times, and knowing it didn't fit the context, I finally realized the reporter was saying enfrentamiento, which means confrontation, conflict or clash.
Oh, and alcalde means mayor.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Spanish phrases of the day
From Univision Houston:
Resumen noticioso de los hechos más relevantes en el ámbito local, estatal y nacional.
News summary of the most relevant facts at the local, state and national level.
I thought resumen was resume, which of course didn't fit. And I thought hechos were deeds. And they are. Hechos are acts, so los hechos can be translated as the acts or the facts. Huh. And I didn't know the word ámbito. Google translate translated it as ambit, which I was also unfamiliar with. Merriam-Webster says that word means bounds, limit, or scope. So I learned an English word today too. And I guessed estatal meant state from estado, but I had never seen that exact word before.
En Un Minuto Houston: Una persona murió en la escena de un choque entre un autobús y un auto
In A Minute Houston: A person died at the scene of a crash between a bus and a car
I was able to guess this one. The only words I didn't know were escena which sounds a lot like scene, and choque which from the context I guessed wreck. I did look up choque (shock) which was interesting. Synonyms include: sacudida (shake), tumbo (tumble), jarra (jar), enfrentamiento (confrontation), estrépito (loud crash), colisión (duh), hit (really?), pugna (conflict), rotura (break), and toque (touch).
The actual video had a headline that said Dos Heridos de Bala. I didn't know the word bala, but I correctly guessed bullet. I was thinking something like two gunshot wounds. Google translated it as two wounded by bullet, which makes it seem like two people were wounded, but from what I could tell from the broadcast, that wasn't the case. The last video headline was amenaza de ataque, which translates to attack threat.
Resumen noticioso de los hechos más relevantes en el ámbito local, estatal y nacional.
News summary of the most relevant facts at the local, state and national level.
I thought resumen was resume, which of course didn't fit. And I thought hechos were deeds. And they are. Hechos are acts, so los hechos can be translated as the acts or the facts. Huh. And I didn't know the word ámbito. Google translate translated it as ambit, which I was also unfamiliar with. Merriam-Webster says that word means bounds, limit, or scope. So I learned an English word today too. And I guessed estatal meant state from estado, but I had never seen that exact word before.
En Un Minuto Houston: Una persona murió en la escena de un choque entre un autobús y un auto
In A Minute Houston: A person died at the scene of a crash between a bus and a car
I was able to guess this one. The only words I didn't know were escena which sounds a lot like scene, and choque which from the context I guessed wreck. I did look up choque (shock) which was interesting. Synonyms include: sacudida (shake), tumbo (tumble), jarra (jar), enfrentamiento (confrontation), estrépito (loud crash), colisión (duh), hit (really?), pugna (conflict), rotura (break), and toque (touch).
The actual video had a headline that said Dos Heridos de Bala. I didn't know the word bala, but I correctly guessed bullet. I was thinking something like two gunshot wounds. Google translated it as two wounded by bullet, which makes it seem like two people were wounded, but from what I could tell from the broadcast, that wasn't the case. The last video headline was amenaza de ataque, which translates to attack threat.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Monday, February 19, 2018
Spanish word of the day
Oler - to smell. It is irregular in the present tense: yo huela, tú huelas, usted huela, nosotros olamos, ustedes huelan.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Spanish words of the day
Enrutador - router
Interruptor - switch
Inalámbrico - wireless
Dispositivo - device
From this page: Interruptores y enrutadores de Internet
Interruptor - switch
Inalámbrico - wireless
Dispositivo - device
From this page: Interruptores y enrutadores de Internet
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