A few more of my favourite words:
pesadilla (peh-sah-dee-shaa)
Nightmare. Really?! What a beautiful word for nightmare.
llover (show-vehr)
This is the verb for rain. Rain is a verb!
yo lluevo. I rain.
vos lloves. You rain.
el llueve. It rains.
nosotros llovemos. We rain.
ellos lloven. They rain.
cuchillo (cooch-eee-shoh)
Knife. This is very similar to the tagalog (Filipino) version which is cuchillio (cooch-eee-lee-yoh) but the Castellano version is much more fun to say.
And some of my favourite sentences (taken from my grade 1 level workbook):
Los loros repite todo lo que oyen.
Translation: The parrots repeat all they hear.
Oyen here is pronounced oh-shen. Ohshen ohshen ohshen! Fun fun fun!
A la mañana yo siempre caliento el agua para hacer maté y despues me ducho rapidamente.
Translation: In the morning I always heat water for maté and then I shower quickly.
Do you know how amazing it feels to read that sentence and know what it means?! I comprehend! I comprehend! Yo entiendo!
And other fun things!
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are also verbs! I breakfast, you breakfast, he breakfasts, we breakfast!
Que bueno!
