The Finnish Spanish Student

A Fin named Jaakko spent a couple of years studying Spanish before making a trip to Cali. He thought he was pretty fluent but getting into a cab at Alfonso Bonilla he saw a copy of El Caleño with the headlines: CHIRIPASO DE IGUARAN EN EL CAMPIN. Sh*t! he said in Finnish I haven´t learned a thing! So he went back to Finland and studied harder. Thinking now he should be able to talk to those caleños he returned. Again there was a copy of El Caleño in the taxi and the headlines ran: ENCANAN A PININA, TAYSON Y LA KIKA. No way! With all his Spanish skills why couldn´t he read the front page of a simple newspaper?! Back to Finland for another year of intensive Spanish study. The third trip to Cali would be a charm. Jaakko knew he was fully bilingual now and there wasn´t a phraze they could throw at him that would catch him up…then he saw the copy of El Caleño: EMBURUNGANDADO BOLEA CHUMBIMBA A TOMBO.

By Atrevido on Feb 7, 2008, 17:20 in Friendly Talkzone.

gabolicious says on Feb 7, 2008, 17:41:

jajajaja atrevido something of the sort happened to an american friend of mine when he visited Argentina!! LOL now he laughs at his spanish skills....

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Monpirri says on Feb 7, 2008, 18:49:

Atrevido, your story is kind of funny but you and I know that the headlines that supposedly made it to "El Caleño" is NOT Spanish but rather slang!

Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008

PALEOLITICO says on Feb 7, 2008, 19:59:

ahhh no, es que ni yo que he vivido toda mi vida en Colombia entiendo toda la terminología de las diferentes regiones del pais. En cada región hay cientos de palabras que no aparecen en el diccionario de la lengua española, pero la mayoria de la gente las utiliza. Y a todas ellas hay que sumarles las que los jóvenes se inventan todos los dias!! . Es que ni en toda la vida estudiando español termina uno de conocerlas...

"Amar a la gente y usar las cosas y NO amar a las cosas y usar la gente" www.paleolitico.net

Monpirri says on Feb 7, 2008, 20:20:

La verdad es que yo tampoco entiendo ni papa! Me supongo si queremos educar al extranjero con ese vaina de languaje entonces permitamen continuar con el ritmo de este post.
LA PAPA COLOMBIANA...

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Desideria (Moderator) says on Feb 8, 2008, 10:34:

Poor Jaakko! What did he say then? I s'ppose it was PERKELE!

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jack_jason says on Feb 8, 2008, 10:48:

La verdad compadres, yo pienso que el mejor español de Colombia se habla en Manizales.

This is just spanglish, please do not correct me

tannedincali says on Feb 8, 2008, 15:17:

jajaja LOL I hope he didn't buy it , the articles in those papers I think are written by people who don't even graduated from school, it's crap. I think I feel the same as Jaakko when I try to understand rap lyrics.

MaFe says on Feb 8, 2008, 20:48:

Paleoletico...terminologias! Esa es la palabra que I was searching for on another post!! Ah!! Gracias!

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