So there’s many ways to woo, but our favorite is through the art of piropos (pick-up lines).  Here, we provide you with yet another piropo to woo the crowds:

Si la felicidad es agua y el amor es fuego, ¡Como me gustaría ser tu bombero!

Alright, so the literal translation for this one is If happiness is water, and love is fire, how I would love to be your fireman! Are you weak in the knees yet?

The form of the verb gustaría might be in a form that you are not familiar with.  This form is called the condicional (conditional), or sometimes referred to as the futuro hipotético (hypothetical future).  It is primarily used in two different situations:

First, the condicional tense is used when asking a formal request.  For example, ¿Me prestarías una lapicera? (Would you lend me a pen?).  You also use the condicional for simple things like ordering a coffee in a café– a safe way to be sure you are not being rude when asking anyone outside your circle of friends for a favor.

Second, the futuro hipotético is used when referring to a ‘would be’ situation.  For example, ¡Como me gustaría ser tu bombero! (Again, how I would love to be your fireman!)  In this situation, you are referring to something in the future that you could or could not happen– it’s all hypothetical.

So there you have it– go out and find your next victi–erm, potential soulmate.

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Here’s an Argentine Internet company commercial to… well, not help you in your language learning endeavors, but it’s still worth a watch.

All you really need to know is ‘Que bolu,’ which is what they sing over and over again in the song. Bolu is short for boludo, which is Argentine slang for something like an idiot. So, the song is essentially saying ‘What an idiot, what an idiot,’ but with much more of a ring to it.

But don’t worry, if someone refers to you as a boludo, as in “Che, boludo!” no need to be offended. Boludo can also mean ‘man,’ as in “Hey, man!”

And believe us when we say this song will be stuck in your head for the next few hours. Catchiest. Tune. Ever.

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We all love piropos (pick-up lines), and, like insults, you can never have too many at your disposal, which is why we are posting yet another one to woo the crowds.

Here’s one for the romantics: La única flor que le falta a mi jardín es tu flor de poronga. Now practice saying it a few times. It sounds charming, doesn’t it?

Well, turns out that this pick-up line about flowers and a garden is pretty deceiving. The direction translation is:

The only flower missing from my garden is the flower of your penis.

Ahem. We don’t know if this line has ever worked for anyone, but it’s probably not worth trying. Nonetheless, it is well worth a Spanish lesson, so let’s get on with it!

This phrase is interesting for a couple reasons:

1) Did you read the translation? That’s interesting enough.

2) The noun flor (flower) looks as though it should be masculine (doesn’t end in ‘a’), but in fact, it is actually feminine. And,

3) The term le falta might have thrown you off. Don’t worry, it isn’t an easy concept. In order to break down the meaning of le falta, we need to look at the phrase:

“la única flor que le falta a mi jardín.”

Faltar means to be lacking something—in this case, the garden is lacking the flower of your penis. Instead of saying ‘the only flower that my garden lacks,’ the word order changes a bit, and the word for ‘lacks’ comes before ‘garden’.

The ‘a’ in falta a mi jardín is what connects the two parts of the phrase—first the action, and then who (or what) receives the action.

Lastly, the ‘le‘ in le falta refers to the garden—the garden is lacking something. It is an indirect pronoun that can mean him/her/it (or in this case, the garden). The ‘a mi jardín’ is only there to specify, as there is no prior context to the phrase, but if there had been context, a simple ‘le falta‘ would’ve been just fine.

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The translation for the Spanish slang word pedo is fart. As hideous of a word as that is (seriously, just typing it makes me cringe), in Spanish there are a bazillion different uses for it. Which ultimately means that there is no way in hell to avoid the word pedo. Ugh.

While pedo alone means fart, when the word is paired with virtually any preposition and put into any other context, it means something different. Keep in mind that some of these are country-specific, while others can be used in almost any Spanish-speaking country.

Pedo #1: Que pedo. In Mexico this will normally be asked as a question, meaning ‘What’s up?’. In other places it would be said as an exclamation for laziness, as in ‘Wow, how lazy..’

Pedo #2: Al pedo. This is another form dealing with laziness. To be al pedo is to not have anything to do.

Pedo #3: En pedo. To be en pedo is to be totally smashed. Drunk. Plastered. It is most often paired with the verb ponerse. Example: yo me puse en pedo (I got drunk).

Pedo #4: A los pedos. Tengo que ir a los pedos means that you have to rush—you’re in a hurry.

Pedo #5: Hasta los pedos. When you are hasta los pedos, you are super-busy. You could say estoy hasta los pedos.

Pedo #6: Es todo un pedo. It’s all messed up. Similar to es un quilombo, which is another slangy way of saying that it’s a big mess.

Pedo #7: Tener un pedo con alguien. Translation: to have a pedo with someone. In this form, pedo means some sort of an issue. Have a problem with your boss? Tenés un pedo con tu jefe.

Alright, that’s enough pedos for now. But remember that there are loads more ways of using this word, and the usage will vary from country to country, so your best bet is to ask a local if it makes any sense. Part of language learning is asking the questions that make us uncomfortable, right?

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Let’s check this out:

A few things:

1) The term ‘habrá sido‘ is in the future perfect tense, meaning it hasn’t happened - the jackass who’s hitting on you is referring to the pirate who will lose this treasure. He hasn’t lot anything yet.
2) El pirata: although it has a feminine word ending [piratA] (which means they’re generally supposed to have the feminine article ‘la‘) but instead, it is paired with ‘el‘ when talking about a male pirate. If there were a female pirate, we’d put ‘la pirata‘. The adjective that follows this particular nouns pairs with the gender of the article (el/la) and not the feminine word ending.
3) The word ‘perdió‘ is in the preterite tense, which means it is in the past - a done deal.
4) We’ll have a blog post soon on the difference between ‘esta‘ ‘este‘ and ‘ese‘ in the future. For now, ‘este‘ means ‘this’ and that is all you need to know.

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David & Jimena, our “protagonistas” if you will, are discussing their daily tasks when David asks Jimena what time she has sex. Jimena says at 9:30 AM, 3:20 PM, and 9:30 PM.

Then David, ever so inappropriately, asks her when she masturbates.

The verb masturbarse is actually a great way to explain the reflexive verbs because a verb is reflexive when the subject and the object are the same. You initiate and receive the action. We’d go into more details, but you probably get the picture.

Masturbarse=Masturbate

Me masturbo = I masturbate
Te masturbas = You masturbate
Se maturba = He/she/(it?) masturbates
Nos masturbamos = We masturbate
Se masturban = You all/They masturbate

Bueno, entonces… (Okay, so…) we hope that every time you pleasure yourself, you think about reflexive verbs. Or at least Jimena. Both are Spanish-related. And, if you want to learn some more reflexive verbs (we know this one is helpful, but it won’t get you that far) check Bueno, entonces…learn Spanish. There are clips of our Spanish classes on Youtube, and become a fan on Facebook and learn useful Spanish phrases everyday!

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So, a valiant effort was made when trying to translate the above piropo on the Facebook Page, but damn, buena and dulce de leche just don’t sound right in English. A lot of the pickup lines in Spanish do NOT make sense in English whatsoever–we try to avoid these for the most part, but this one was borderline.

Take the word buena, for example. The word literally translated, means ‘good’.

“¿Cómo estuvo la pelicula? Estuvo buena, no excelente, pero buena.” (How was the movie? It was good, not great, but good.)

It can also mean ‘delicious’. For example, “La comida está buena.” (The food is delicious).

*Use an -ísima and you’re re Argentino. ‘La comida está buenísima.” (The food is really delicious.)

It can also mean ‘hot’ or ‘gorgeous’ and can be used in piropos like the one above.

You probably also know what dulce de leche is, considering even Starbucks has dulce de leche-flavored products. It’s like the peanut butter of Latin/South America. If you haven’t heard of it, Googlearlo.

Here’s the translation:

Estás=You are–>Estar=verb ‘to be’
más=more
buena=good/hot/yummy, etc. (all things good)
que=than (que can mean various things depending on the context)
comer=to eat
dulce de leche=milk-based sauce
con=with
el dedo=a/the finger.

“You are more good (better) than eating milk-based sauce with a finger”?

Yeah, better left in Spanish.

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Seriously, out with the sweetness. It’s disgusting.