| ¡Mate, por favor! Gracias. |
| Hola, me llamo Romina. Soy tu profesora de español. Hoy voy a enseñarte 5 palabras del lunfardo argentino. |
| Today, I’m gonna teach you 5 words from the lunfardo which is sort of like slang of Argentina, from my home country, Argentina. |
| Número uno |
| “Number one” |
| Che |
| Che es una expresión que utilizamos todo el tiempo en Argentina. |
| It’s an expression that we use all the time in Argentina. We’re well known for using che. Che is the Argentinian version of “Hey!” So, when someone is distracted and they’re not paying attention to you, you can use che to say, like, hey, I’m about to say something and I want you to pay attention to what I’m about to say, right? So, if someone is distracted, you can go like… |
| Che, disculpame… |
| So, “Hey, I’m sorry (blah, blah, blah, blah),” right? |
| So that’s how you can use che. |
| Also, you can use che in the middle of a conversation to sort of like introduce a new idea that you have, right? Like, let’s imagine that you’re talking and you all went with a friend and you just want to suggest that you wanna go to the park, right? So, you can go like… |
| Che, estaba pensando, ¿qué te parece si vamos a la plaza? |
| “Hey, I was just thinking, what about if we just go to the park?” |
| See? |
| Número dos |
| “Number two” |
| This one is the expression that we have in Argentina to say like “dude / guy,” okay? We use two words. The first one is chabón…, chabón. And the other one is tipo..., tipo. So these, as I said before, means like “dude / guy” and they’re very specific from Argentina, right? Also, just be mindful that these words are informal, okay? So if you’re in a formal setting, let’s say talking to a police officer or to an immigration agent or to your boss, I wouldn’t suggest you to say chabón or tipo. |
| Número tres |
| “Number three” |
| Chabón and tipo are for males, right? For guys. Now, I’m gonna teach you the female version, the one we use for ladies. So, the words that you can say is mina..., mina, or tipa..., tipa. |
| Número cuatro |
| “Number four” |
| So, I’m sure that when you start learning Spanish, one of the first things you learned are how to say “bus” in Spanish, and the word you probably learned was autobús, or the sort of Spanish pronunciation of the English word, bus, right? |
| In Argentina, we don’t say autobús ni bus. We don’t say either of these two options. The one we say is bondi..., bondi. So bondi is just that, it’s a bus. It’s the public transport that we use to go to work or to go to university. |
| Número cinco |
| “Number five” |
| So, the last one I want to teach you is about money. Money, money… money. |
| In standard Spanish, the words that you learn to say money in Spanish is dinero..., dinero. And you can use the word as well in Argentina. People will understand you of course if you’re talking about dinero. But dinero serves like a formal way of referring to money in Argentina. |
| If you want to use a slang or if you want to use lunfardo, then you have to say either guita…, guita or plata…, plata. Plata, actually, is translated as “silver,” okay? That’s the meaning of plata. |
| When it comes to money, if you ever visit Argentina, you’re gonna notice that we actually have heaps of words, slang words, to refer to money, but definitely, guita and plata are the most common ones. |
| Again, these are informal words. If you are trying to be polite and you want to be formal, please do not say any of these words. Che is okay, but if you’re talking to an elderly person, I would say that even che is not very appropriate, okay? So just be mindful of that, okay? |
| Just use these ones when you are with friends and with family and with any person that you feel really comfortable with and you know that they’re not gonna get offended by using all these words, okay? They’re not bad words, it’s just that they’re really informal. |
| Muy bien. I really hope that you enjoyed this lesson. I hope that you take a moment to go back into this video and to memorize these five lunfardo words. And if you’re planning to visit Argentina, I strongly recommend you to use these words. I’m sure you’re gonna get like people reacting impressed at your Spanish. |
| Ah-huh! Oh my god! How did you know that? Or how come you know that word? |
| Right? |
| Yeah, Bien, muchísimas gracias, y nos vemos en la próxima clase. Ciao! |
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