It's nice talking to you too! We have so much in common! Guess what...
Gabriel García Márquez is actually my favorite author! His novels are just... awsome, no other way to describe them. Have you read
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad)? It's one of the best books I have ever read, it kept me away from reality and the characters in it where just amazing. Now I want to read
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica De Una Muerte Anunciada) and
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera), my mother is like his biggest fan so she's got the whole colection. ^^
As I told you,
García Lorca was killed for being Communist but there were those hidden reasons. It wasn't easy to be homosexual in those fascist times. The singer I mentioned is called
Ana Belén, she's a very well known artist over here. That's the sleeve of the album --->
It is a set-up picture, of course they never met.
I like Almodovar pretty much too. I have only seen a couple of his films:
All about My Mother and
Talk to Her, and they were both great. Maybe I should watch some more since -again- my mother loves him and has all of them, especially
Volver, I've been looking forward to watching it since it was on the cinema. Pedro's definetly got something for Penélope Cruz, ne?
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Originally Posted by laurel
By the way, I heard that in Spanish "vaca" means beef and "ajo" garlic; but in Japanese, both of them （馬鹿、阿呆）indicate "idiot".
Likewise, someone says that a Japanese word "kakka" (閣下："Your Excellency", "the Honourable") means "poo-poo" in Spanish ... if it is right, so funny
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That's right! I didn't know it, but is it said after or before the name? Kaka Nobu or Nobu-kaka? xDDDD
It's spelt
caca though. And yeah you're right,
baka in Japanese sounds the same as
vaca in Spanish, and it means cow ^^
And no, we don't pronounce the
H so for exampple, the word hospital is written the same way in English and Spanish but we pronounce it like "ospital".
Those sentences you said are useful when you travel to countries in which Spanish is spoken. Some greeting phrases might be useful too, such as:
¿Qué tal? / ¿Cómo estás? ---> 'How are you'. The first one is more informal but used just as much as the other one.
Me llamo Lauren, soy japonesa y me encanta la literatura ---> My name is Lauren, I'm Japanese and I love literature.
There're loads of things I could tell you about the Spanish culture, is there anything specific you would like to know? I really hate those who think Spain is all about bullfighting, very few people supports it and in fact most of us want it to be illegalized.
Back to the sangris subject, I drink it quite often too. It's easy to get it here in almost every restaurant. I wish someone would make it for me! xDDD
You should try to learn Spanish, I don't think it would be hard for you. I am working on a college project about the difference between Spanish and Japanese and some girls from the University of Kyoto are helping me (I interviewed them and such). They think it's easy to learn, much easier than Englsih, they say; it is because of the pronunciation, which is similar.
Well I think that's long enough already, I should quit typing now. xDDD
Pd- I don't really read yaoi manga and I had never heard the author's name before. That sire looked interesting but oi I can't read a word of Japanese... (not yet anyway) =P