Chilean Spanish & Chileanisms
Item- issuer
- Contact Chile
- Language
- English
- Date Accepted
- 12/14/19
- Title
- Chilean Spanish & Chileanisms
- content
- Pronunciation & Grammar- The Chileans are among the fast-talkers of the Hispanic world. This wouldn't be too bad if they didn't also swallow parts of words that actually enhance comprehension - such as the final 's', which will leave you guessing as to singular or plural most of the time. So you might at first have a problem with dialogs such as, "¿Cómo estas? - Maomeno noma." (= 'mas o menos, no mas'; in English, 'so-so'). Other suffixes are shortened, too. Often, '-ado' will become '-ao' (volao), '-ada' a stressed '-á' (gallá), and 'para' a short 'pa' or 'para el' simply 'pal'.