{"id":486,"date":"2012-09-13T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:59:24","slug":"i-thought-i-knew-what-it-meant-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/i-thought-i-knew-what-it-meant-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought I Knew What It Meant (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most exciting things about starting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> is that it gave me a chance to confuse people and say silly things in another language. I got off to a great start in this respect and haven\u2019t really let up since then. The worst situations were probably when I was convinced that I had the right expression but no one seemed to be able to understand me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Maple Syrup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first rule of learning a new language should be that you don\u2019t tell long winded jokes or complicated stories. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish lessons<\/a> had left me fairly well equipped to order food and ask for directions but trying to tell an amusing story about the time my family lived on maple syrup for a whole month was a bridge too far. It was only once I had started wading into the details that I realised that I didn\u2019t even know what maple syrup was called in Spanish. I had a quick look at my dictionary while everyone waited with bated breath and I translated it as jarabe de arce. I got to the punch line and got greeted by blank faces all round. It was only about a year later when watching a cartoon on the telly that I realised that they seem to call it miel de maple here for some reason, although I am not sure why they don\u2019t translate maple to the Spanish equivalent and why they call it honey instead of syrup.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pgnZcMxx49I\/TWeMXSXrfDI\/AAAAAAAABbE\/fCPOCrLG1EQ\/s1600\/Andersons-Pure-Maple-Syrup.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most exciting things about starting to learn Spanish is that it gave me a chance to confuse people and say silly things in another language. I got off to a great start in this respect and haven\u2019t really let up since then. 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