How to speak Chilean
Item- issuer
- GLOBAL GRADUATE
- Language
- English
- Date Accepted
- 12/28/19
- Contributor
- Lidia Fanzo
- Title
- How to speak Chilean
- content
- Six months later, I found myself in Santiago airport trying to explain that I wanted to take a taxi to the city centre when I was suddenly aware of how wrong I had been. Why were they speaking so fast? I couldn’t understand a thing, was it the same language that I had studied for almost 7 years? I spent my first month in Chile begging my new friends to speak more slowly and at times, after a particularly long day, I still feel as though I’ll never be able to understand most native Chileans.