Che! Dame un cinco

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Welcome to the “Che! Dame los cinco” newsletter.

For the new folks joining us, I send these 4 things for you every Monday morning:

1. a new word

2. a new expression

3. a piece of content

4. an exercise for improving your Spanish

📖 Palabra - capricho

This is hard to translate to English, but I think giving the definition and an example will help you pick understand it.

capricho — Idea o propósito que uno se forma sin razón aparente

The key here is sin razón aparente. So now if we look at an example:

lo compré por capricho.

Reminds me of the things they stock near the checkout at a grocery store, also called “impulse buys” because you really don’t need them, but buy them anyway.

🗨️ Expresión - hacerle caso

Again, goal here is to stick to Spanish rather than translate so the definition for this is:

And you know how I found the definition? By pretending I was a native speaker and searching like they would.

1. Visit google.com.ar

2. Search using terms I think they would “que significa haceme caso”

3. Scroll down and see the “People always ask” suggestion

4. Update search to “¿Qué es hacerle caso a una persona?”

5. Find definition that makes sense

🔗 Contenido - Stop Procrastinating and Start Shadowing

I’ve been telling myself for months that I should start shadowing for multiple reasons:

• improve my pronunciation and intonation

• learn how to connect words better

• improve my rate of speech

And so far, this approach is working well! Give it a try and let me know how it goes!

💪🏼 Ejercicio - Shadow x5 with one clip

1. Pick a video on YouTube

2. Clip 15-30s (example)

3. Shadow the clip for 2mins

4. Repeat 1-3 ×5

I’m doing this myself for the first time and really enjoying it. It doesn’t take much time and I feel like I’m actually starting to get better. I even record myself and upload it to YouTube so I can see my progress. Here’s the playlist.

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Thanks for reading! Espero que disfrutes la semana 😄

Abrazo de tu amigo,
- Joe