Spanish Language

Brenda Jimenez

SPAN 3023

Dr. Taylor

Research Project 2

One jargon or slang that I think that I’m fluent at is the Spanish slang. I think that this jargon is particularly used by native Spanish speakers. Hispanics have the tendency to use some Spanish words that don’t exist in the Spanish language. This non existing Spanish words might confuse those who are learning the language.

Growing up I had no idea that some of the Spanish words that I used didn’t exist. It was until I took Spanish classes that I found out that these were made up words. One of the main reason why some of these words come to be is the usage of English. People that speak Spanish and lived in the United States tend to use English words when speaking Spanish. This results in people speaking Spanglish.

The word chequear, this word is supposed to mean "to check'' in English. The correct word that it should be used depending of what you want to say is "verificar'' or "comprobar". The second and third word that is the most popular is yarda and parquear. These two words are a great example of using the English word and using them as they are in Spanish. In the word yarda we just added an "a" for it to mean yard or lawn. The actual word for yarda is "patio", which for a Spanish speaker it doesn’t make sense. The word "parquear" is mostly used among the people who had lived in the United States for a while. We just change the word park and added a -quear for it to mean to