{"id":473,"date":"2012-08-28T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:06:01","slug":"spanish-words-i-wish-i%e2%80%99d-never-learned-part-ii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/spanish-words-i-wish-i%e2%80%99d-never-learned-part-ii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Words I Wish I\u2019d Never Learned (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ritmo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ritmo is, quite simply, rhythm. It is an inoffensive word which might even seem happy and full of life if you are in a good mood. The problem isn\u2019t so much that I learned the word but rather when I did so. At the end of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish classes<\/a> the teachers threw a party and put on some extremely loud salsa music. A couple of them came over and asked me whether I liked to dance. I was so intoxicated with the atmosphere that I inexplicably said that \u201cs\u00ed, tengo ritmo\u201d. My excuse for saying that I have rhythm is that I didn\u2019t know how to say \u201cI have two left feet, I am tone deaf and the last time I was on a dance floor Rick Astley was probably number one\u201d. They dragged me in front of everyone and taught some salsa moves while I proved once and for all that gringos can\u2019t dance and shouldn\u2019t be allowed near dance floors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ba\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bathroom may be a traditionally unglamorous part of the house but it is a word that every language student has to learn at some point. The problem is that my notoriously dodgy stomach has a habit of forcing me to ask where the ba\u00f1o is in the most inconvenient places. Small towns in the middle of long bus journeys tend to be the worst and I still shiver when I remember the bathroom which turned out to be a hole in the ground with two concrete footrests in front of it.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_ci5bEXRL50Q\/TJd8rG-83wI\/AAAAAAAAAAU\/pZyEvLuts-8\/s1600\/Pareja_baila_salsa.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritmo Ritmo is, quite simply, rhythm. It is an inoffensive word which might even seem happy and full of life if you are in a good mood. The problem isn\u2019t so much that I learned the word but rather when I did so. 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