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Joselo > Sobriedad
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Joselo's song titled Sobriedad ("sobriety") is dripping
with references to booze. We counted seven kinds of alcoholic beverages
in the lyrics: pisco sour, champaña,
vino blanco, whiskey, vodka, gin and tonic, and vino tinto. Most
of these drinks need no translation to English speakers, but we have a
few tips for reading bar menus.
- Pisco sour is claimed to be the national
drink of both Chile and Peru. Both South American countries produce pisco -- a type
of brandy or liquor distilled from grapes,
usually Quebranta or Muscat varieties.
- Vino,
as almost everyone knows, is "wine."
This song mentions both white and
red wine -- or, vino
blanco y tinto. Tinto?, you may ask. Not rojo ("red")? Yes, you read that
correctly. A common rookie error in Spanish is to assume "red wine" is vino rojo. But that order is more
likely to get you some sort of rosé or vino rosado. Remember to use the
word tinto
to get your classic
red wine.
- Champaña sounds
familiar, no? As you guessed, it's "Champagne"
in English and the original French. It's also known as champán in
the Spanish-speaking world.
Ok. Now whiskey,
vodka and gin and tonic are just what you
think they are. Incidentally, "whiskey"
(pronounced 'wee-skee') is
often what you say when someone takes your photo, in order to smile as
wide in Spanish as you do in English when you say "cheese."
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The verb prestar (which
means "to lend') has some
different uses in Spanish than the verb "lend" does in English. For an
example, let's turn to Chober, chatting on the beach in Venezuela in
this week's new interview.
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Y bueno, el destino
final es prestar un servicio
donde la gente pueda degustar gastronomía
local
And, well, the
final objective is to provide a service where people
can taste local gastronomy
caption 24, Playa Adícora > Chober
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If you translated the above
quotation and decided 'prestar un servicio'
was "to lend a service," you'd
still get the gist of the sentence. But your English might sound a
little stilted. Same holds true of this common phrase in Spanish:
Prestar atención
To lend attention? Well, in modern English
we'd say "to pay attention."
For more Spanish phrases containing prestar, see:
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