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- Russian is Difficult! Всем привет! Это мой первый раз пишу на русском языке. Мне 23 лет, и я хочу_ изучать другие языки, но я думаю русский язык намного сложнее, чем в большинстве языков. Это трудно для меня. произносится и запомнить все правила грамматики. Мне нравится смотреть на российских сериалов, чтобы узнать больше слов. Мои фавориты кухня и Универ.November 23, 2015322
Sports in Venezuela
What I like the most about sports is the way they can help improve our health.
Another interesting thing about sports is the exporting of words and expression from one language to another.
For example, I used to practice Baseball (Beisbol) a lot in my country (Venezuela) and it's funny but many words used in sports (And I mean in Spanish) come from English words and I will show several examples in this post:
1.- Centerfil, Is an expression that comes from the English form "Center field" And even though we have a Spanish way to say it (Jardín central) the most common term is "centerfil"
2.- We normally say "¡Estás out!" Instead of saying "Estás fuera" and everybody knows the meaning of "out" in Beisbol but probably many of those people will not know that OUT means fuera wherever you use it.
3.- Another funny expression is the word "Estraik" Coming from the English word "Strike" This one has no translation into Spanish in "Beisbol" jargon. We don't say "Tres golpecitos y estás fuera" We say: "Tres estraiks y estás fuera" Isn't that funny?
4.- Finally, and the base of this... The word "Beisbol". The translation into Spanish of Baseball is "Bola y base" ( A horrific expression that nobody uses, I could say that it doesn't exist in Venezuela) Beisbol is like the spanish way to write the Pronunciation of "Baseball"
and is the only name we call this sport.
With the many examples I could state here, I actually think we could create a big compendium about this.0 votedNovember 23, 20153
