{"id":199,"date":"2011-01-18T12:11:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:14:51","slug":"can-you-avoid-false-friends-as-you-learn-spanish-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/can-you-avoid-false-friends-as-you-learn-spanish-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you Avoid False Friends as you Learn Spanish? Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hay \/ Aye.<\/strong> This is a really bizarre one which I am actually a bit embarrassed about writing. Not long after arriving in Bolivia I went to buy something from the local shop. Here they have little shops which are joined onto the owner\u2019s house and you order through a set of bars or over a railing. Anyway, this means that you are on the street as you ask for things and exposed to noisy traffic \u2013 you might have noticed that I am angling for excuses before even explaining what happened. I asked if they had what I wanted and the guy in the shop simply answered \u201chay \/ aye\u201d. For the benefit of non Scottish readers I should point out that where I am from \u201caye\u201d is often used informally instead of \u201cyes\u201d. What I didn\u2019t know was that in Spanish \u201chay\u201d means something like \u201cthere is\u201d. For a full four or seconds I do believe that I stood on the street looking at the shopkeeper with my mouth possibly hanging open, wondering why he was answering me in Scots dialect. It was only later as I checked my dictionary that I realised my mistake. Of course, in this instance the false friend actually had the same meaning but in most cases \u201chay \/ aye\u201d are completely different concepts. <\/p>\n

Sopa \/ Soap<\/strong>. Well honestly, if you are going to make two words in different languages so similar you are just asking for trouble. Before I really started to properly learn Spanish I once asked in a very cheap hotel \u2013 actually it may have been officially designated as a shed \u2013 if they could please give me a \u201csopa para lavarme\u201d. The look on the owner\u2019s face as he tried to understand why I would possibly want to wash myself with a starter told me that he had finally been given the evidence which confirmed that all gringos are daft after all. <\/p>\n

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Hay \/ Aye. This is a really bizarre one which I am actually a bit embarrassed about writing. Not long after arriving in Bolivia I went to buy something from the local shop. Here they have little shops which are joined onto the owner\u2019s house and you order through a set of bars or over(\u2026)<\/p>\n

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