Daily Spanish Word

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🇬🇧 to clean
🇪🇸 limpiar

How I ✨ clean my room? I just stick a rag to my leg and «limp» around.

ℹ️ Pictured: a graffiti by Banksy (Chalk Farm, London)

💬 “Have you finished cleaning your room yet?”
💬 “¿Ya has terminado de limpiar tu habitación?”

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🇬🇧 juice
🇪🇸 el zumo

Imagine a 🇯🇵 «sumo» wrestler drinking a barrel of 🍹 juice.

ℹ️ Only in Spain! In South America they say ‘el jugo’.

💬 “An orange juice, please.”
💬 “Un zumo de naranja, por favor.”

#Spanish #juice #zumo #jugo #sumo #Spain #vocabulary #vocab #español #hint

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🇬🇧 to live
🇪🇸 vivir

Remember: «vivacious» or 🎨 «vivid» : lively | 👯 «vivacity» : liveliness

ℹ️ In the picture: “¡Apaga la tele, vive tu vida!”:“Turn off the TV, live your life!”, a street art in Valparaíso, Chile, that’s becoming world famous. (Do a Google Image search.)

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🇬🇧 to teach, show
🇪🇸 enseñar

Imagine «el señor» teacher 🔥 «incinerating» the papers and 📚 books on his desk; he’s acting 😜 «insane».

💬 “I am teaching English.”
💬 “Estoy enseñando inglés.”

#Spanish #teach #toteach #show #toshow #enseñar #señor #incinerate #insane

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🇬🇧 four
🇪🇸 cuatro

1️⃣ Think of four bottles of «Cointreau». 4 because those square bottles fit so nicely 2 by 2.
2️⃣ Think of four 🐈🐈🐈🐈 «cats».
3️⃣ Remember: «quarter»

💬 “We want a room for four nights.”
💬 “Queremos un cuarto para cuatro noches.”

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🇬🇧 to run
🇪🇸 correr

1️⃣ Your mail 📯 «carrier» or «courier» delivering the 📬 mail running because his 🚲 bike (🚐 van, motorcycle...) broke down.
2️⃣ «Corridors» are perfect for indoor running. (Because you can’t run in the rooms, can you?)

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🇬🇧 to travel
🇪🇸 viajar

It must be 👛 cost-effective to ✈️ 🚃 🚌 travel «via jar»: You buy an enormous jar, make some holes in the lid so you can breath, get in, and let a 🚚 courier service pick you up.

💬 “My grandparents are traveling.”
💬 “Mis abuelos están viajando.”

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🇬🇧 roof, ceiling
🇪🇸 el techo

1️⃣ A rooftop 🍻🍹🍷 bar on the roof of your 🏠 house with «techno» 🎶 music, so 🔊 loud that it makes you 😡 «tetchy».
2️⃣ Can you jump high enough to 👆 «touch» the ceiling?

ℹ️ ’Waldo’ on a rooftop? It’s a project by Canadian artist Melanie Coles.

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🇬🇧 to greet, say hello
🇪🇸 saludar

Remember: a (military) «salute», or 👋 «salutation».

💬 “He greeted me with a smile.”
💬 “Me saludó con una sonrisa.”

#Spanish #wordoftheday #greet #hello #togreet #sayhello #saludar #salute #salutation #vocabulary #español #hint #mnemonic

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🇬🇧 to know, be acquainted with
🇪🇸 conocer

Remember: «connoisseur», an 👓 expert who knows all there is to know in a 🍷 certain field.

ℹ️ simply ’to know’ = ’saber’

💬 “Do you know this wine?”
💬 “¿Conoces este vino?”

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🇬🇧 river
🇪🇸 el río

1️⃣ Remember: «Rio» Grande = ‘Big river’
2️⃣ Think of «Rio» de Janeiro, the city on the ‘January River’ (in Portuguese).

ℹ️ Rio de Janeiro is not on a river: it’s a bay (Guanabara Bay), the Portuguese who named the ‘river‘ at the time just didn’t realize it.

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🇬🇧 cheese
🇪🇸 el queso

«case» (briefcase) : A 👔 businessman walking down the street on a hot day. Smelly blue cheese oozes out of his 💼 briefcase. He’s probably a cheese salesman.

💬 “There were nine pieces of cheese on the table.”
“Habían nueve trozos de queso sobre la mesa.”

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🇬🇧 bracelet
🇪🇸 la pulsera

1️⃣ It goes around your wrist, where you take your «pulse».
2️⃣ Think about how those fitness bracelets (that track your activity) have «pulsating» 🚥 lights.

💬 “He gave her a wooden bracelet.”
💬 “Le regaló una pulsera de madera.”

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🇬🇧 to test, try, taste
🇪🇸 probar

1️⃣ «to probe»: Imagine 🌌 NASA sending out a very space 🚀 «probe» to examine the exact 👅 taste of the 🌝 Moon (must be cheese), Mars (🍓 strawberries?) and Venus (mango + 🌴 coconut).

2️⃣ Imagine trying out a second hand 🚘 Ford «Probe».

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🇬🇧 plate, dish
🇪🇸 el plato

1️⃣ The final «O» is shaped like a dish.
2️⃣ Philosopher 👴 «Plato» (never seen a plate) finding one and staring at it ❓ thinking: “But what is its purpose?”

💬 “Can you recommend any vegetarian dishes?”
💬 “¿Puede recomendar algún plato vegetariano?”

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🇬🇧 father
🇪🇸 el padre

Imagine your father as a pious 👴 «padre» preaching to his ⛪️ congregation.

💬 “Luke, I am your father.”
💬 “Lucas, yo soy tu padre.”

#Spanish #WOTD #wordoftheday #father #padre #vocabulary #vocab #español #hint #mnemonic

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🇬🇧 eye
🇪🇸 el ojo

Imagine the two O’s being 👀 eyes, and J is the 👃 nose between them.

💬 “What beautiful green eyes!”
💬 “¡Qué hermosos ojos verdes!”

#Spanish #WOTD #wordoftheday #eye #eyes #ojo #ojos #vocabulary #vocab #español #hint #mnemonic

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🇬🇧 grandson, granddaughter
🇪🇸 el nieto, la nieta

• “Do you have 👦👧 grandchildren?”
- “No.”
• “Are you sure? Not even in 🇷🇺 Russia?”
- “Huh? Er.. «Nyet». Or.. «not yet».”

💬 “She’s my son’s daughter. She’s my granddaughter.”
💬 “Ella es la hija de mi hijo. Es mi nieta.”

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🇬🇧 woman
🇪🇸 la mujer

1️⃣ Women have 💇 «more hair» (or longer hair) than men.
2️⃣ Picture a 👩 woman wearing a «mohair» sweater.

💬 “She is a charming woman.”
💬 “Ella es una mujer encantadora.”

#Spanish #woman #mujer #mohair #hair #vocabulary #español #hint #mnemonic

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🇬🇧 mountain
🇪🇸 la montaña

The name of the 🇺🇸 U.S. state of «Montana» is derived from the Spanish for 🗻 mountain.

💬 “We reached the top of the mountain.”
💬 “Hemos alcanzado la cima de la montaña.”

#Spanish #mountain #montaña #Montana #vocabulary #español #hint #mnemonic