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Now a days, kids in school take a spanish course in the US.
What most of them don't know is that they learn formal spanish.
Formal spanish is rarely used now.
Especially if you're a teen and you go to a latin country.
These are ways to communicate with the youth.
I created this forum to help you learn street spanish

For example in Nicarauga we don't only say "Hola"
and "Como estas"
See, different spanish countries have different ways to say "hello".
Cubans usually say "Que bola?" meaning "Whats up?"
Nicaraguans love to express more thoroughly.
we say "Hoye chavolo/a! Como estas hombre!"

Of course, the things you learn (or probably learn) in school is for use when you're adults.
But sometimes Amaerican's with no tounge for spanish get confused when a latin-speaking person comes for help.
for example, heres a scenerio.

Juan came to a doctor's office with his sick daughter and all he knows is spanish. Dr. Grandy learned spanish in school but never really understod a few concepts so it was an uneven knowledge of spanish.
Juan comes into the office and asks for help. "Me ayudas doctor? Mi nina esta con una fiebre. esta caliente como el sol." (this would be directly translated saying "Can you help me doctor? Mi little girl has a fever. She's as hot as the sun!") but the doctor didn't catch the last part so he thinks that the girl has body failures because of a fever. When really he was using a similie.

Juan doesn't know the doctor thought his daughter was dying so when the doctor takes her into check room and tells the nurse to get a lot of ice packs and check her body for anything that might be infected Juan thinks its a normal way of checking.

Believe it or not, this scenerio did happen once.

So if you have any furuther questions please post it here or send me a PM.

Kitty Angel

Well, that's kind of true.
In México, we rarely say ¿Cómo estás?
we use ¿Cómo has estado? (how have you been?)
¿Cómo andas? (How is it going?) ¿Qué hay? ¿Qué ondas? ¿Qué hubo?(what's up?)

¿Cómo estás? is most commonly used between adults, and when talking to older people we say ¿Cómo está usted? because it is more formal.

well, to reply to what "Chilled Escapism" asked.
It depends really because the words we know are "********, s**t, and b***h"
even thought b***h is a scientific refrence for PREGNANT female dogs.
those words are actully very hard to translate since it uses various ways to be mentioned in spanish but "s**t" is said as "mierda"
"hijo de tu madre" is "son of a b***h"
but notice it doesn't use "perra" to express "b***h"
directly translated it would be "son of your mother"

wll, "que pasa" also means "whats wrong?" or "whats happening?"
it depends on the situation really.

¿Que pasó? means What's up?
¿Qué pasa? as Kitty said means What's wrong? or What's happening?
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ai que pena. me olbide de eso! >w<

Y nosotros los puertorriqueños tenemos mas formas de decir hola, como estas razz

buen yo si hablo street language como decir un monton de grocerias buen las malas palabras en enspanoly tambien porque vivo en santa ana