With all of the rain and the havoc it has caused I think now is a good time for the vocabulary below.
Alud – a landslide
Aislado or incomunicado – isolated or cut off
Avalancha – an avalanche
Baldazo – a rain storm or a lot of rain
Barrial – a lot of mud or mud
In Spanish there are two words that are frequently used for ears la oreja and el oído. The former is the external part of the ear. Oído is the inner part of the ear or sense of hearing.
Parts of the ear:
El estribo – stirrup
El lóbulo – ear lobe
El martillo – hammer
El oído
A friend just emailed me this and I thought my readers would enjoy a good dose of tico humor.
Enjoy!
Memorandum
To: Costa Rican Employees
From: Human Resources Department
Subject: New Policy using the Spanish language during working hours.
1. Words like “picha“, “ijueputa” and other such expressions will not be
used
Cuatro ojos ven más que dos or dos cabezas piensan mejor que una – four eyes see more than two eyes or two heads are better than one.
De la mano a la boca se pierde la sopa or del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho – Easier said than done
El mandar no quiere par – Authority doesn’t want
Most often when you want to say that you are undecided the verb estar is used + indeciso/indecisa. For example, José está indeciso.. Joe is undecided or can’t decide.
However, there are a few Spanish idioms which express the same idea. Since the language is very idiomatic it is best to learn these forms in case you hear them used by a native
