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Spanish diplomats were concerned that Chávez would replace his socialism and attacks on "American Imperialism" with attacks on what he called "Spanish imperialism". [10] Speaking about Venezuela's indigenous peoples, Chávez said of the Spanish, "They slit our people's throats and chopped them into little bits and left them on the outskirts of ...
Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.
dura. Normally means “hard”, but in Puerto Rican slang means that someone is really good at what they do. [ 3] embustería. series of lies, something that is completely false, a "pack of lies" [ 15] ¡Fo! literally translates to "eww!" or "yuck!" it is often used as an exclamation in reaction to a bad smell.
Shut up. " Shut up " is a direct command with a meaning very similar to " be quiet ", but which is commonly perceived as a more forceful command to stop making noise or otherwise communicating, such as talking. The phrase is probably a shortened form of " shut up your mouth " or " shut your mouth up ". Its use is generally considered rude and ...
De facto [ 26] Saharan Spanish. Notes: ^ In Spain, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level, while Basque, Catalan / Valencian, Aranese, and Galician are co-official alongside Spanish in certain regions. ^ In Ecuador, Spanish is the sole official language at the national level while the Kichwa (Northern Quechua) and Shuar ...
Judaeo-Spanish is the language spoken by Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. It is a language derived from Spanish and spoken by 150,000 people in communities in Israel, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Morocco, Majorca, the Americas, among many other places.
Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
The language known today as Spanish is derived from spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC. Today it is the world's 4th most widely spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi. [ 1]