A review of Language Transfer Track #44 gave us a few random tips regarding the gender of nouns. Mihalis mentions that although most words ending in 'a' are feminine many of the words ending in 'ma' come from the Greek language. In Greek the words are neuter but look masculine and so kept their masculinity when they came into the Spanish language. Words like problema, sistema, idioma.
He also mentioned that the word for hand is 'mano' and the only true word that ends in 'o' that is feminine. Since foto comes from fotografia and moto from motocicleta.
The last tidbit was words starting with 's' plus a consonant don't exist in Spanish. Mihalis explains you need to add an 'e' in front of it. So words like españa, español, eschema and espagueti. Which brings me to my random addition to my blogpost today.
How to make spaghetti with meatballs, Mexican style. I found this video to be extremely comprehensible input. She was very easy to understand and the pictures helped with most of the words I didn't already know.
On a side note, I also discovered this morning that the spaghetti song I remember from childhood was NOT the original. It turns out it was a folk song about a mountain. Go figure!?
Have you ever re-discovered any of your childhood memories?
Ting reminded me of my childhood when she sang supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
ReplyDeleteI loved that story. I had a read and listen version of the book and loved the Julie Andrew's movie version.
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