Chilean Spanish Your Dictionary Is Missing

Table of Contents Chile: Top to Bottom, With A Barn For Good Measure Grammatical Oddities Action Verbs & Insane Imagery Animals & The Absurd Chile: Top to Bottom, With A Barn For Good Measure Chile is a study in geographical extremes: dry northern desert, southern glaciers, and a long central valley in between. For U.S. folks, think Washington state to southern California, but reversed. Visitors arriving in the country quickly notice three things about local speech: Chileans talk fast. Really fast. Local grammar breaks textbook rules without hesitation. Letters are swallowed, omitted, or added randomly. Everyday expressions lean heavily on animal references. The [YOUR LANGUAGE] to Spanish dictionary you packed away forgot to mention these elegant contributions to the Spanish language. If Spanish is what you can call the sounds that Chileans emit from their mouth. Here is a list of common animal-based idioms used across Chile, along with their closest English equivalents. Grammatical…