Language tips - Nicaragua Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Some language advice. So when you speak Spanish, everyone drops their S's a lot. So if you're going to say dos, which means two, everyone's going to say dos. If everyone's going to say doce, which is twelve, they're going to say dos. So practice dropping your S's a lot, and that's how you're going to be able to understand people, and also people speak in terms of bols. So bols is basically the same way as speaking in two, but they just speak in bols. Just get used to how they speak in bols. I highly recommend trying to learn bols as well. Really important because then they'll start to understand you better. It's more appropriate to speak it towards younger children or to people that you're very close to. It just shows that you have a stronger connection with them, and that the children will understand you better. In order to become pure Nica, you need to learn two important words. Those two words twanis and salvaje. Twanis means cool. Salvaje means awesome.
Video 2 Transcript
Nicaragua, they're at a very, it's a third world country, the education level isn't very high and so their Spanish is a lot different than other parts of the world. It's only going to come to you by speaking it, by being embraced in the culture. It was six months to the day that I was actually able to really communicate myself.
Video 3 Transcript
Speak Spanish as much as you can, especially with the locals, because everywhere you go that speaks Spanish, they have a different accent. And so in Nicaragua, they speak a lot differently. They don't say their S's a lot of the time, and when you start to do that, they appreciate that. They love that you will talk like them. When you're talking to them, I felt like they accepted you and listen to you a lot more if you talked how they talked, which is just normal for any culture.
Video 4 Transcript
So the people from Nicaragua, they kind of have like a different Spanish. They have some slang words and my tip would be to any word you don't recognize to write it down, ask them what they mean, what it means, the person who said it, and then just kind of practice it. And then that's how you'll learn more the language. And then just some people kind of they can say mumbled or slurred, you just kind of have to pick up on that pronunciation and then recognize that word.
Video 5 Transcript
In Nicaragua, they have a form of Spanish that's a little bit different. So, they use the vos form. So, vos is a little bit different from tú. It's a little bit older form of Spanish, but it's nonetheless there. And the other thing you need to realize is when they say vos, well, you'll hear it as bo. If you thought of ever using the S in your language, don't. The Nicaraguan alphabet soup, for some reason, forgot to include the letter S. So, if you ask, hey, what time is it? And you go, ¿qué hora es? They go, ¿qué hora es? Vamos a ocho. Things like that. You're going to miss a lot of S's in there. Very, very common.
