Comments on: Spanish Primer for World Cup Viewing

By: Jeff Timpanaro

Jeff Timpanaro — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:16:03 +0000

ah! and thanks @jen for the enterprising info!

By: Jeff Timpanaro

Jeff Timpanaro — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:12:30 +0000

@marielvi – de acuerdo!

@kc – got it! helpful analogy and I feel your pain, bro!!! GNR is awful. So is WNBA . . . speaking of which, I’d like to see some stats on how many audience members at those games are NOT family members.
JT

By: kc

kc — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:09:25 +0000

vevuzela and ear plugs made by the same company? Sheer genius. Sort of like the gov’t creating a problem that the gov’t then has to solve, with more money. If I watch ANY world cup soccer, the volume is either muted or way low because vevuzelas SUCK. Jeff, think of Guns and Roses piped into your car for 2 hours straight; or that crappy spanish christmas song you hate. That’s what a vevuzela sounds like to me. As for the soccer, the goals are cool but if you put a highlight real together, you’d get like 3 minutes of awesomeness out of about 1.2 million hours of total boredom. But if I HAD to choose, it would be better than watching womens basketball. Talk about boredom; womens basketball is at the very top of the snoozefest charts.

By: Marielvi

Marielvi — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:23:57 +0000

You are so right. The best way to watch soccer is in Spanish.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:17:05 +0000

A few terms I left out:

remate (re-MAH-tay) – a shot on goal
cabezazo (cah-beh-ZAH-zo) – a header
la seleccion – “the team” (e.g. “la seleccion de Ghana” = “the selection from Ghana”)
tiro libre – free kick

There are still a jillion more!