World In a Nutshell // Spain
Day 602, 12:29
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by Kuhaa
World In a Nutshell is a series of articles published all over the world. In each part I will take one country or culture and write about the things I associate with it - positive or negative. The content varies depending on the subject, but no one is supposed to be offended. Basically it's just a "train of thoughts" kind of thing. Enjoy!
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In this first issue I'm going to talk about Spain.
¡Buenos dias, España!
First of all I want to say, I've really enjoyed staying in your eCountry. In the cold and dark land of Finland we don't get to see sun too often but here it shines all the time! So watch out, "I'm in ur beech, steeling ur sun!" I also like the fact your women are not hairy like ours in Finland.
I've come here to discuss about the things that come to my mind when someone mentions Spain. Here we go.
El Hombre!
Yes. That's the first thing that come to my mind whenever Spain is mentioned. El Hombre! I don't even know what it means. El Hombre! Though I recon you say "¡El Hombre!" but as a non-native speaker I say "El Hombre!" without the upside down exclamation mark.
El Hombre! El Hombre! El Hombre!
I could go on forever, it's hilarious. I don't say it out loud too often though, I don't want to annoy people around me because I would probably pronounce it wrong. Oh yes that leads us to our another subject: your language.
I like your language, it sounds so smooth. If Michael Jackson was a language, he would be Spanish. Believe me, he would. Or he would have been. And could somebody explain me why do you have these upside down exclamation and question mark¿ ¿Why is is so? Upside down one to the beginning and the "real" one(the real one for me of course) to the end. ¡That's funny!
If you've read this far I'll ask you a favor. I already asked somebody about this at IRC long time ago(if you're reading this, I thank you)but I already forgot. For you see, there's one Finnish band that has one song, Supermarket Jésus, that's the lyrics are Spanish.
Bienvenido a Jésus! ¿Necesita ayuda?
Bienvenido a Jésus! Quiero que me haga la cera
I have no idea what it means, but the song's great. Funny thing I just spotted, they missed the upside down exclamation mark there. ¡Haha fail! Ok let's continue.
Football
I've heard Spain is a country of hard core football fans. ¿Is that correct? At least I've come to this conclusion. It must be like ice hockey here in Finland. I don't like sports though, I'm more like an artistic kind of guy. Drinking red wine from the bottle all day shedding my soul to the canvas.
Which is more popular? Football or bullfights?
I understand why people want to go to the stadium to watch football. I know what the atmosphere's like; everybody excited, lot's of tension in the air. Almost frightening in a way, so much feeling condensed to one place. But I don't get why anybody would care to watch it from television. ¡Like, come on! Tiny screen where little men run after a leather ball. That's not interesting. ¿Or is it? Maybe if you had few friends watching with you. And some beer. Lots of beer.
Beer...
Oh yeah now I get it. ¡Thanks!
By the way I heard a bottle of beer costs like 50 cents there. ¡That's not fair! ¡I'm coming there, lock up your daughters! ¡El Hombre!
Final lightening
I don't know if this is proper Spanish but I'd like to share it with you. I believe it has some hidden profound meaning.
¡El hombre con sombrero dos envios!
¡El nos cuenta muchas historias asombrosas!
¡Sonomos tortugas esta noche!
¡Siiii!
¡Soy muy Feliz!
¿Saben bueno, como si?
¡Thank you! Kuhaa out.
If you found this article a good read, please vote and subscribe. If you found this article annoying waste of time, please still vote and subscribe to see if I get any better.
Stay tuned for the next issue that may or may not be about: Croatia!
Please give feedback, this is the second article I've ever written in English so no good grammar / interesting content guaranteed.
Please remember to vote and subscribe!
In this first issue I'm going to talk about Spain.
¡Buenos dias, España!
First of all I want to say, I've really enjoyed staying in your eCountry. In the cold and dark land of Finland we don't get to see sun too often but here it shines all the time! So watch out, "I'm in ur beech, steeling ur sun!" I also like the fact your women are not hairy like ours in Finland.
I've come here to discuss about the things that come to my mind when someone mentions Spain. Here we go.
El Hombre!
Yes. That's the first thing that come to my mind whenever Spain is mentioned. El Hombre! I don't even know what it means. El Hombre! Though I recon you say "¡El Hombre!" but as a non-native speaker I say "El Hombre!" without the upside down exclamation mark.
El Hombre! El Hombre! El Hombre!
I could go on forever, it's hilarious. I don't say it out loud too often though, I don't want to annoy people around me because I would probably pronounce it wrong. Oh yes that leads us to our another subject: your language.
I like your language, it sounds so smooth. If Michael Jackson was a language, he would be Spanish. Believe me, he would. Or he would have been. And could somebody explain me why do you have these upside down exclamation and question mark¿ ¿Why is is so? Upside down one to the beginning and the "real" one(the real one for me of course) to the end. ¡That's funny!
If you've read this far I'll ask you a favor. I already asked somebody about this at IRC long time ago(if you're reading this, I thank you)but I already forgot. For you see, there's one Finnish band that has one song, Supermarket Jésus, that's the lyrics are Spanish.
Bienvenido a Jésus! ¿Necesita ayuda?
Bienvenido a Jésus! Quiero que me haga la cera
I have no idea what it means, but the song's great. Funny thing I just spotted, they missed the upside down exclamation mark there. ¡Haha fail! Ok let's continue.
Football
I've heard Spain is a country of hard core football fans. ¿Is that correct? At least I've come to this conclusion. It must be like ice hockey here in Finland. I don't like sports though, I'm more like an artistic kind of guy. Drinking red wine from the bottle all day shedding my soul to the canvas.
Which is more popular? Football or bullfights?
I understand why people want to go to the stadium to watch football. I know what the atmosphere's like; everybody excited, lot's of tension in the air. Almost frightening in a way, so much feeling condensed to one place. But I don't get why anybody would care to watch it from television. ¡Like, come on! Tiny screen where little men run after a leather ball. That's not interesting. ¿Or is it? Maybe if you had few friends watching with you. And some beer. Lots of beer.
Beer...
Oh yeah now I get it. ¡Thanks!
By the way I heard a bottle of beer costs like 50 cents there. ¡That's not fair! ¡I'm coming there, lock up your daughters! ¡El Hombre!
Final lightening
I don't know if this is proper Spanish but I'd like to share it with you. I believe it has some hidden profound meaning.
¡El hombre con sombrero dos envios!
¡El nos cuenta muchas historias asombrosas!
¡Sonomos tortugas esta noche!
¡Siiii!
¡Soy muy Feliz!
¿Saben bueno, como si?
¡Thank you! Kuhaa out.
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Stay tuned for the next issue that may or may not be about: Croatia!
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Esta paranoia me ha gustado, es entretenido xd
xDDDD I like this guy
Welcome to Jesus! Do you need help?
Welcome to Jesus! I want he to shave me with wax
Gratz, it's a nice way to get suscriptors all around the world in a funny way... and btw, MOST of Spanish ppl hate bullfighting, generally, it's only supported by old ppl
Which is more popular? Football or bullfights?" "Bienvenido a Jésus! Quiero que me haga la cera" xD
You're so funny xD
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
El Hombre!
Those lyrics turned out to be even more bizarre than I had expected, thank you so much for the translation. 😃 What would be Spanish for "I want YOU to shave me with wax."? I might need that phrase if I ever come to Spain in real life. 🙂
I'm glad you like it, too bad I'm about to drop outside "Latest News". 🙁 I wonder if this will make it to the top rated?
"I also like the fact your women are not hairy like ours in Finland."
ROFL
gj Kuhaa 😃 voted
¡EL HOMBRE!
jajajaja
Genial
Article about Croatia is going to be interesting. I might publish it today, I'll post link here if I do.
I don't know if it turned out to be interesting at all but here's what I wrote about Croatia.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/world-in-a-nutshell-croatia-858856/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/worl[..]/1/20
U're crazy man!!! Very funny article Voted & subscribed
CRAZY NONSENSE!!!!! XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
You seem mad, boy, but the article is funny. Absurd, but funny.
Some news for you: "¡EL HOMBRE!" just means "THE MAN!". But, nobody use this as an expression, we use "hombre" as you can do with "man". We've got tons of coloristic expressions for everything but, sorry, "¡EL HOMBRE!" is not one of them 😁
Football is far more popular than bullfighting. When there is an important football game, Spain becomes paralized.
We use "upside down" exclamation and question marks cause of sentence construction. In english, to make everybody know that you're launching a question (for example), you put the verb first, inside the sentence, so the accentuation of the whole phrase changes. When you read a verb at the first position of the sentence, you know that you have to use the proper accentuation.
Spanish language is similar, but not equal. And, if we don't use both marks, the reader could not be sure about accentuation. When you read a sentence that start with a "¿", or a "¡", you're pretty sure the way you have to pronounce it. That's simple.
Finally, those sentences that you've written are nonsense, save the second (he tells us many amazing stories!) the fourth (yessssssss!), and the fifth (I'm very happy!).
Enjoy, hombre.
Yay, thank you for your comments. Actually, I didn't write those sentences. They're taken from the second episode of a YouTube-series Charlie the Unicorn(which by the way is hilarious).
I'm glad you've enjoyed reading this. I'll try to keep the quality high(or low if you prefer 😉) in the future.
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Thats cool!
Come to Spain!
😁
"I also like the fact your women are not hairy like ours in Finland"
LOL
"I want YOU to shave me with wax" => "Quiero que me hagas la cera"
(just a "s" different...)
voted!
¡El hombre ! ¿¿?? jajaja read faramir the castilla´s answer plz LOL jajaj
Insanelicious!