by Andrew | May 20, 2018 | Learn Colombian Spanish
This one isn’t as common as the others, but it’s still used in certain areas and is featured here mainly because I think it’s funny and interesting. “Su merced” literally means “your mercy”, sort of the Spanish equivalent of...
by Andrew | May 16, 2018 | Learn Colombian Spanish
It literally means “at the order” but translates to something more like “at your service”, it’s what servers in restaurants or people selling things on the street say to let you know they’re ready to receive your order. I suspect...
by Andrew | May 15, 2018 | Learn Colombian Spanish
Instead it’s a very polite way of saying “I’m sorry”, frequently heard from service workers like waiters when something goes wrong for the customer. I’ve had a waiter say it when I dropped my own money and he picked it up for me, just...
by Andrew | May 13, 2018 | Learn Colombian Spanish
Soft “j”, that’s how. Colombians pronounce the double-L and y as a soft j sound, like the j in “jay”, e.g. “llegar” = “jay-gar”, “yo” = “joe”, etc. This is in contrast with the traditional...
