If you're a Spanish speaker struggling with English , you came to the right place . Hi everyone , and welcome back to my channel . Today I have a special guest , my friend Walter , who's a dancer and a drummer and a member of a famous dance music company named Humana . And guess what ? He's from Argentina . Hey Walter , hey mate , hi Sharon , hey , how's it going ?
Everything cool . How are you ?
I'm fine , so great to have you here with me . So thank you for joining us , walter . We thought , when we met a week ago , to talk about the challenge of Spanish speakers with English , the struggles they have with English speaking , and also we said that we're going to discuss the clash of British slang and Argentinian slang .
Right , so we're going to get to it later . But first , because of who you are and because I adore my Humana I'm your fan , your biggest fan I want you to tell us a little bit about this company , dance company .
Okay , my Humana is in a theater company . My Humana the name is coming from my Humanut , nisra and Ibru war . That means abilities and for a big part of the company you need to have a lot of abilities , like drumming , dancing , acting , acrobat a lot of things together .
This is the magic of my Humana that you can do everything together and with a lot of energy and coordinate .
Exactly so . You're using all kinds of stuff and you do those percussions right and using all kinds of things . What kinds of things are you actually using ?
We use buckets , burials , flippers , tubes , and the body is the first instrument that we have in the I can't hear you .
Can you do it again ? Can you do it again faster ? Why can't you ? Oh cool , oh , this is cool . Like , how do you say it , castanetos ?
And I continue to work with this . I do classes , workshops , a lot of activities with corporate activities , team building , and I share all my what I learned in my Humana with a lot of people .
Right . So you mentioned the workshops that you do . What kinds of people do you work with ? How do you think that the abilities that you mentioned before can contribute to people , let's say , that have block in the communication , because when I teach drama in English , for instance , I help people that have this kind of block in speaking English .
So can you share with us what can you contribute with dancing and percussions and everything that you teach in your workshops ?
Okay , I'm going to try . First of all , it's a good communication . When we start to play , one of the first things you need to have is listening , and this is something that we need in all the things in the life and in the company . It's very important how to listen , learn to listen .
And in the music is one of the first things that we need to do , and we do a lot of exercise . I ask something with the rhythm and you need to answer the same phrase , and this is a lot of exercise , that we need to learn how to listen and how the body can express itself , to say what I feel or what I express .
Can you give me an example of something that you do in your workshop ? Let's say I'm a little bit shy now . I'm scared to do something like this , but can you show me something like a first ?
class . I'm going to answer this exercise . In a round Everybody walks at the same time , like in the same pools . It's good also to feel each other . This is a good exercise to feel each other , and everybody knows to walk .
We do walk in the same place and I start to ask you I do , for example , pa pa , pa , pa pa , and you answer Pa , pa , pa , pa , pa Okay . I do something different . Okay , if you are in the same place , I can hear the set . I can hear you more . But , it's okay , it's an exercise to what I'm here , I can express with my body .
This is one of the exercises .
Wow , this is wonderful . I think it can be really , really helpful . Also , in drama lesson we have something similar to it , because we do lots of things with our body and , you know , let's dive right into the thing that we said that we're going to talk about , and it's the challenge for Spanish speakers with English .
So do you have any kind of example , maybe from your experience with , you know , with difficulties with English , do you have difficulties in English that you want to share ?
I think the harder things in Spanish speaker face when learning English is a pronunciation . We discuss so many different sounds that don't exist in Spanish , like the three sounds the . Yeah Right , we don't have in Spanish .
So what do you have instead of the ?
No , we have another . I don't know right now , but we have the , the or the , the Tomato , the or the , but it's different , it's it's . It's hard to meet the same . It's a , but it's , it's okay . We need to practice and to feel comfortable with the pronunciation .
Absolutely , absolutely . And what else do you think people will find difficult when they speak Spanish and they try to speak in English ?
Other difficult ladies . The Spanish and English have different words , others birds , things and even different . So the general general for nuns no .
Nouns yeah .
Nouns Try to apply in Spanish government rules to English can lead to minimum different difficult world like Mino's Bers and you remember I don't know if you saw this show .
It was like back in the 70s on the BBC 40 Towers with John Cleese from Monty Python . Yeah , there was a guy there . He was a waiter , emmanuel , do you ?
remember .
And , wow , I remember this episode . It was really really so funny . It was hilarious when 40 is telling Emmanuel to take the butter to the dining room and he said and 40 always was bragging as if he speaks no Spanish , but instead he wasn't really a Spanish speaker , okay , he was British .
He couldn't really say it properly and Emmanuel obviously didn't know English . So once 40 came out with yeah , take the butter to the dining room . And Emmanuel was burro , burro , burro , burro and he said burro , I'm mucho burro , ali . Something was stupid , you know , until his wife came and everything started to come in place . But it was really funny .
You know , emmanuel , yeah , yeah . It's so different .
Also in Spanish . It's not the same from us to Mexican , argentinian , I don't know , costa Rica . We have a different accent , different words to say the same thing . We say different , like you , in English , but the same .
Excuse me , hold on . I mean , the grammar that you use for Spanish , for Latin Spanish , is the same grammar that you use for Spanish . In Spanish it's the same .
Yes , but we use what ? When you talk , you talk in different way . In Spain it's not the same , like in Chile , like we understand . The accent is different , maybe the words are different . In Spain the avocado they say avocado , and in Chile they say palta the same thing and in Argentina .
In Argentina is avocado Palta .
Como For example in Mexico , is avocado Okay , and what did you ?
say what did you say ? Come again , palta , palta , it's avocado in . Argentina . Wow , I didn't know that . Yeah that's so .
There are a lot of things like Pina in Mexico , I think they say Pina , or in Colombia and we say Anana , anana .
Ananas , ananas , americans say Ananas and Pineapple . Okay , so now let's move on to something else . We promised to discuss a little bit about British slang and Argentinian slang . So , walter , can you teach me something Argentinian slang ? Let's say I don't know how do you say in Argentina when someone is cool .
Okay , in Argentina , when something is cool , we say someone is cool , we say grosso Like grosso .
We say grosso yes .
Okay . We say super cool . Additionally , we have we use a lot of re regrosso sometimes .
Wow , yeah , like Italians . Yeah , let me try . Super cool , you say , it's what come again . Regrosso or re lindo when something is cute , re lindo , okay . What else ? We say it's brilliant or mint . Can you repeat after me ?
Is that again Brilliant ?
It's brilliant yeah , it's brilliant . Or you can say mint , mint , yeah , mint , uh-huh . And if they find , let's say , if you find , something that it's really really funny , right , and you might say , oh , it's hilarious , yeah . Or you can say , uh , cracking up , it's cracking up Cracking up . Yeah , it's all about the quirky expressions .
If we quirky expressions , I am very expressive with my face , right .
Absolutely . Here in Argentina , when something is funny , we say it's a cago de risa .
Como .
It's cago de risa .
Hold on , hold on . Me cago de risa , me cago de risa . Yes , did I say it okay .
Yes , perfect Okay .
Which later ?
I translate to I am louthing my butt off .
So , yeah , it's a bit more colorful , right ? Yeah , Definitely . So in speaking of colorful , did you know that the British have a slang word for someone who is annoying ? Yeah , you know they . You might say that um , here's um plonker . It's quite amusing , isn't it ? A plonker ?
Plonker .
Yeah , plonker is a plonker . Do you know any plonkers ? Do you have plonkers in your life Water ? I have plenty of plonkers .
It's a shame , but yes , we have here in Argentina . You know , we have one word , it's boludo .
Boludo yeah , I know this word , yeah , so what ?
does it mean it's like an idiot ?
Yes , I know many boludos , lots of boludos .
But we say also in a friendly way , like boludo . When you call someone like I'm a brother , we say in the good way also .
Yeah , like mate , like mate . But you say boludo , although mate is , you know , is a friend , right ? Yeah , yeah , so boludo can be a friendly way to talk to someone that you really know well .
Also when we play soccer . We say boludo . We can use like a good way or a bad way .
Wow . So it's really fascinating how languages can be so different yet so similar right In expressing emotions and connecting with others . This is wonderful . Thank you for sharing your insight , walter .
Thank you , charlotte , my pleasure . This was very , very , very funny and thank you .
Yeah , thank you so much and I hope people will like this video . Thanks , walter , that was really really fun . Thank you guys for watching this video . I hope you enjoyed it and I recommend that you watch this video .
That is all about British slang as well and don't forget to subscribe , if you haven't done so , and leave us a like and comment , and I'll see you next time . Bye-bye .