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What does "be red like a shrimp" or "move the skeleton" mean in Spanish? How can you shorten the words "weekend" or "flatmate" in everyday Spanish? Learn colloquial expressions for love, partying, the beach, people and much more.

 
  • Shortened words Shortened words

    Shortened words

    Here you'll learn: how you can say bike instead of bicycle in Spanish, and how you can shorten compañero de piso.

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  • Money problems Money problems

    Money problems

    Here you'll learn: how to say that you're always skint and don't have any dosh on you

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  • Exclamations Exclamations

    Exclamations

    Here you'll learn: how you can throw in cool or wicked in a conversation in Spanish

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  • Love Love

    Love

    Here you'll learn: how to say in Spanish that you snogged someone or that somebody bats for the other team

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  • Party Party

    Party

    Here you'll learn: how to say in Spanish that you have a hangover after living it up the night before

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  • Drinking Drinking

    Drinking

    Here you'll learn: how to say you got pissed after drinking some little beers, then went to bed in the wee hours

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  • Moods Moods

    Moods

    Here you'll learn: what it means when someone in Spain says that they are done dust or have bad milk.

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  • Pleased/Displeased 1 Pleased/Displeased 1

    Pleased/Displeased 1

    Here you'll learn: how a Spaniard would say that the dodgy cinema round the corner shows really lame films.

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  • Pleased/Displeased 2 Pleased/Displeased 2

    Pleased/Displeased 2

    Here you'll learn: how you say in Spanish that something is just so-so or that someone is really hot.

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  • Parts of the Body Parts of the Body

    Parts of the Body

    Here you'll learn: what a Spaniard means if someone doesn't have any noses but has a lot of snout

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  • The beach The beach

    The beach

    Here you'll learn: what a Spaniard means by tourists who are like a shrimp after toasting themselves on the beach

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  • People People

    People

    Here you'll learn: how Spaniards say that their folks think the new girlfriend is a snob.

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