{"id":445,"date":"2012-06-15T19:03:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:23:27","slug":"the-street-is-the-place-to-learn-spanish-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/the-street-is-the-place-to-learn-spanish-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Street is the Place to Learn Spanish (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read the Graffiti<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have seen some brilliant graffiti here, which is something I never thought I would ever be able to say. Generally speaking I hate graffiti but in South America there is a lot of religious and political stuff which really gets me interested and lets me learn Spanish phrases I wouldn\u2019t otherwise see. The first piece of graffiti I read here was when I was on the bus in Ecuador. The person writing it probably won\u2019t mind me repeating it here. It was \u201cJes\u00fas es verbo no sustantivo\u201d. It took me just a few minutes to work out what it meant and I later discovered that there is also a song of the same name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look in the Rubbish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to come across like a weirdo here but I am fascinated by pieces of litter I see on the ground. Sometimes I will see an ice cream wrapper with words like \u201cCanela\u201d or \u201cSabroso\u201d on it and I can therefore expand my vocabulary a little bit more. The problem with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learning Spanish<\/a> from the rubbish is that it is easy to make a mistake. If the wrapper is dirty or scrunched up you can easily get a letter wrong and completely misunderstand it. Actually, when I think about it the simplest and cleanest solution is to go to the supermarket and read the product labels there. The people will probably still think that I am a nutter as I scan the bags of rice for exciting verbs but at least I won\u2019t be at risk of standing on dog poo if I get really distracted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/voxpopuli.com.ar\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/gondola-supermercado.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the Graffiti I have seen some brilliant graffiti here, which is something I never thought I would ever be able to say. 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