Che! Dame los cinco #12

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Welcome to the 12th issue of the “Che! Dame los cinco” newsletter.

For the new folks joining us, I send these 5 things for you every Monday morning:

1. a new word

2. a piece about Argentinian culture

3. a new expression

4. a piece of content I recommend

5. an exercise for improving your Spanish

📖 Palabra - yendo

I don't know why, but this word looks funny, doesn't it? I saw it on Twitter and thought, "wait that's like going, right?" Kinda.

It's like "on the way" in that it means you'll arrive somewhere soon.

Estoy yendo a la cancha.
Twitter example

🧉 Cultura - Bariloche

I have never been there myself but it's on my lists of places to visit the next time I go to Argentina. Why? It's very outdoorsy. There's skiing in the winter, a big beautiful lake, hiking and mountaineering and it's looks like a charming town.

Here's a YouTube short with the best things to do there.

🗨️ Expresión - me viene de lujo

I was talking to a friend on Discord who said this and I didn't know what it meant. So I asked my friend Tony.

"it's kinda like convenient"

Here's the full sentence my friend used it in:

quiero pasar a avanzado iba a meterme en un curso en Cambly con nativos para pasar a c1. si eres profesor en cambly me viene de lujo.

🔗 Contenido - Disney dubs in Rioplatense

Apparently once upon a time, Disney explored doing "Argentinian" dubs for some of their movies in the past— Chicken Little, Ratatouille, The Incredibles and Cars to name a few.

So if you have Disney+, you can watch these and you'll hear a bit of a Rioplatense accent.

Source: Reddit

💪🏼 Ejercicio - Chorusing

In the past, I shared shadowing as a technique to improve your accent. However, it's super difficult, right? Good news. Chrousing is similar but much easier.

Here's an 11-min video explaining what it is.

After you watch that, try using it on a video like this one.

Thanks for reading! Espero que disfrutes la semana 😄

Abrazo de tu amigo,
- Joe