Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast
Results 1 to 30 of 88

Thread: How's Your Spanish?

  1. #1
    Member Member BalkanTourist's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    South Carolina
    Posts
    264

    Default How's Your Spanish?

    Hi guys, if there are any Spanish speaking members of this forum, I'd appreciate their help. I am a soccer referee in South Carolina, and I've been doing a lot of games lately - youth, high school, women, coed, men. I got an offer to referee in the Hispanic League and I went yesterday to watch a game from it. The quality level is much better, but it is also a lot more intense. People grabbing each other by the throat, elbowing people, pushing and shoving, even throwing punches. Tensions rise up after any foul play. The referee is constantly in the middle of it. The problem is those people speak very very little or no English at all. So I thought if Mohammed can't go to the mountain, the mountain could go to Mohammed. I need to expand my Spanish vocabulary. Could you translate all these phrases/words (you could also ad some):

    goalkeeper
    offside
    foul
    indirect free kick
    step/move back
    play on/advantage
    no more talking
    are you ok?/do you need a substitution?
    heads/tails
    which side would you like to defend?
    do you have a good game ball?
    hand ball
    obstruction
    get your hands down/don't push him
    don't do that again

    That's it for now. I thank you kindly for your help.
    Alea Iacta Est

  2. #2
    Ultimate Member tibilicus's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2005
    Location
    England
    Posts
    2,663

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Wow dont think we have any Native Spanish people here do we?


    "A lamb goes to the slaughter but a man, he knows when to walk away."

  3. #3
    Senior Member Senior Member English assassin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    London, innit
    Posts
    3,734

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    There were some Argentinian guys but I am afraid I can't remember their names, maybe a mod could help?
    "The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag

  4. #4
    Viceroy of the Indian Empire Member Duke Malcolm's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    Dùn Dèagh, the People's Republic of Scotland, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    Posts
    2,783

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    You could just shout the English loudly and slowly at them and hope that they understand.
    It was not theirs to reason why,
    It was not theirs to make reply,
    It was theirs but to do or die.
    -The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    "Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
    -Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny

    "For God, For King and country, For loved ones home and Empire, For the sacred cause of justice, and The freedom of the world, They buried him among the kings because he, Had done good toward God and toward his house."
    -Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

  5. #5
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    goalkeeper - portero (spain) / arquero(S.America) / guardameta
    offside - fuera de juego
    foul - falta
    indirect free kick - tiro de falta indirecto
    step/move back - muevase/muevete mas atras (the difference in the verb depends in the treatment, 1st is more formal and respectful, 2nd more colloquial)
    play on/advantage - sigan jugando (literally: continue playing)
    no more talking - silencio (literally: silence), emphasize this one
    are you ok?/do you need a substitution? - estas bien? necesitas cambiarte? (cambiarte can also mean change your clothes, so take that into account )
    heads/tails - cara/cruz
    which side would you like to defend? - donde prefieren defender?/en que lado prefieren defender?
    do you have a good game ball? - tienen un balon/pelota decente?
    hand ball - mano
    obstruction - obstruccion
    get your hands down/don't push him - deja de empujar (literally: stop pushing)
    don't do that again - no vuelvas a hacer eso

    Hope I didnt miss anything. I hope this helps. Happy referee-ing
    Last edited by SwordsMaster; 04-18-2005 at 19:05.
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  6. #6
    |LGA.3rd|General Clausewitz Member Kaiser of Arabia's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Munich...I wish...
    Posts
    4,788

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Yo hablo no espanole, si?

    Why do you hate Freedom?
    The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.

  7. #7
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
    Yo hablo no espanole, si?
    Capo, may I suggest you to improve first and then post. Cos that is just spam...
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  8. #8
    Member Member BalkanTourist's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    South Carolina
    Posts
    264

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Thanks, SwordMaster. I don't know how happy it'd be. It is a strange feeling, these games are dangerous (literally) but yet attract me more than the regular games. Americans are so much more relaxed when they play. Their team could be loosing 5:0, and they are like: "Ok guys, it's nothing. Let's play, great stuff!" Occasionally you'd get someone with a bad temper but it's nothing like the Hispanics. They despute every call, scream at the referees, calling them names (thankfully I know most of the bad stuff). Last year during a game between an American and a Hispanic (Mexican mostly) team a fight broke out, a guy fell down on the ground and some macho kicked him in the head while he was already unconscious. He's had 12 surgeries so far and the guy is facing 10 years in prison for assult with attempt to kill. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Got to love the thril!
    Alea Iacta Est

  9. #9
    |LGA.3rd|General Clausewitz Member Kaiser of Arabia's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Munich...I wish...
    Posts
    4,788

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster
    Capo, may I suggest you to improve first and then post. Cos that is just spam...
    We're in the frontroom and I haven't had spanish since I was forced to take it last year.
    Ich habe Deutsch Zwei.

    Why do you hate Freedom?
    The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.

  10. #10
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by BalkanTourist
    Thanks, SwordMaster. I don't know how happy it'd be. It is a strange feeling, these games are dangerous (literally) but yet attract me more than the regular games. Americans are so much more relaxed when they play. Their team could be loosing 5:0, and they are like: "Ok guys, it's nothing. Let's play, great stuff!" Occasionally you'd get someone with a bad temper but it's nothing like the Hispanics. They despute every call, scream at the referees, calling them names (thankfully I know most of the bad stuff). Last year during a game between an American and a Hispanic (Mexican mostly) team a fight broke out, a guy fell down on the ground and some macho kicked him in the head while he was already unconscious. He's had 12 surgeries so far and the guy is facing 10 years in prison for assult with attempt to kill. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Got to love the thril!

    Yep, I know. I do follow the spanish and the argentinian leagues occasionally, and after disputed matches the referees have to leave the stadiums with police protection... That is apart from the fans being arrested by the dozens for fighting and breaking everything they find on their way...

    Ah, well... Enjoy
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  11. #11
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
    We're in the frontroom and I haven't had spanish since I was forced to take it last year.
    Ich habe Deutsch Zwei.

    Sprechen Sie es so schlecht wie das Spanisch?
    Jokng here m8.
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  12. #12
    |LGA.3rd|General Clausewitz Member Kaiser of Arabia's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Munich...I wish...
    Posts
    4,788

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Jawhol, naturalich. Mein deutsch ist nicht gut. Ich habe ein ein und neunzig in Deutsch.
    Du sprechst Deutsch? Ach ja, deutsch is toll und sehr einfach.

    Why do you hate Freedom?
    The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.

  13. #13
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Wenn Sie so sagen...
    Ich habe nicht Deutsches in einer langen Zeit studiert.
    God, that looks bad...
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  14. #14
    Pining for the glory days... Member lancelot's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    Land of Hope & Glory
    Posts
    1,198

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    How is my spanish....?

    Qui, cest bon.
    "England expects that every man will do his duty" Lord Nelson

    "Extinction to all traitors" Megatron

    "Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such." Homer Simpson

  15. #15
    Urwendur Ûrîbêl Senior Member Mouzafphaerre's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2003
    Location
    Mikligarðr
    Posts
    6,899

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    -
    Hey gidi günler! On sene geçmiş üstünden ama Almanca yazdıklarınızın hepsini anladım. İspanyolca'yla hiç işim olmadı ama geçen sene TVE'deki bir filme öyle aval aval bakarken ne dediklerini anlayıverdim, ben de şaşırdım!



    [No worries mates, nothing profane up there. ]
    -
    Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony

    Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
    .

  16. #16
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Nope, we dont spam at all here in the Frontroom....
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  17. #17
    Urwendur Ûrîbêl Senior Member Mouzafphaerre's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2003
    Location
    Mikligarðr
    Posts
    6,899

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    -
    Lo! Never we do!
    -
    Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony

    Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
    .

  18. #18
    Chief Sniffer Senior Member ichi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2003
    Posts
    3,132

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Please don't get me wrong, 'cause I learned a few new phrases from SwordsMaster and his excellent reply, but I would use

    cayete (Ky yet a) which is basically quiet to tell someone from Mexico to be quiet. Say it as a command.

    or the ever so rude

    cayete su boca (Ky yet a sue bow kah) which is shut your mouth

    instead of silencio

    ichi
    Stay Calm, Be Alert, Think Clearly, Act Decisively

    CoH

  19. #19
    Mediæval Auctoriso Member Member TheSilverKnight's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    Madrid, España (University)
    Posts
    2,608

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    My girlfriend is from Spain (born in Seville, lives in England, etc.)...does that count?
    "I'm like the Vikings -- I come here, I steal your women, your booze, your dough, and then I go back home." ~ Wiz
    "Play RTW and wait till 1,000 people die and look at them from above. Then tell me it was worth the oil." - Byzantine Prince

  20. #20
    Member Member BalkanTourist's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    South Carolina
    Posts
    264

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by ichi
    Please don't get me wrong, 'cause I learned a few new phrases from SwordsMaster and his excellent reply, but I would use

    cayete (Ky yet a) which is basically quiet to tell someone from Mexico to be quiet. Say it as a command.

    or the ever so rude

    cayete su boca (Ky yet a sue bow kah) which is shut your mouth

    instead of silencio

    ichi
    Yeah, Ichi, I'd do that if I don't want to live anymore.

    Mouza, cok selam from South Carolina, komshu
    Alea Iacta Est

  21. #21
    Jillian & Allison's Daddy Senior Member Don Corleone's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Athens, GA
    Posts
    7,588

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Me gustaria si pudemos empezar una lina (como se dice thread?) de discusion donde pudemos practicar nuestro espanol. Aprendi espanol en secondaria (?) y a la universidad, pero no lo he usado bastante a quedar congnizo (?). He tratado a mirar las estaciones hispanicas de la television, pero nunca puedo entender mas que uno verbo en tres, si eso. Visite' Espana este Octubre para mi trabajo y cuando creo que los personas que encontraba me entiendian, mas o menos, creo que ellos fueron buen educado y tratando muy mucho a entenderme.

    Que dices?
    "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
    Don Vito Corleone: The Godfather, Part 1.

    "Then wait for them and swear to God in heaven that if they spew that bull to you or your family again you will cave there heads in with a sledgehammer"
    Strike for the South

  22. #22
    Urwendur Ûrîbêl Senior Member Mouzafphaerre's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2003
    Location
    Mikligarðr
    Posts
    6,899

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by BalkanTourist
    Yeah, Ichi, I'd do that if I don't want to live anymore.

    Mouza, cok selam from South Carolina, komshu
    -
    Sana da komşu, yarım dünyâ öteden!
    -
    Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony

    Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
    .

  23. #23
    Chief Sniffer Senior Member ichi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2003
    Posts
    3,132

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Si, como no.

    Mi Espanol es muy pobre, ayudame!

    Se necesite escribir en Espanol y Englais para ichi tener seguridad yo entendo.

    ichi
    Stay Calm, Be Alert, Think Clearly, Act Decisively

    CoH

  24. #24

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    ¿Usted va a arbitrar un juego lleno de gente que no dice su lengua? ¡He visto nunca tal amor del fútbol!

  25. #25
    Member Member Productivity's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Ulsan, South Korea
    Posts
    1,185

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by BalkanTourist
    Thanks, SwordMaster. I don't know how happy it'd be. It is a strange feeling, these games are dangerous (literally) but yet attract me more than the regular games. Americans are so much more relaxed when they play. Their team could be loosing 5:0, and they are like: "Ok guys, it's nothing. Let's play, great stuff!" Occasionally you'd get someone with a bad temper but it's nothing like the Hispanics. They despute every call, scream at the referees, calling them names (thankfully I know most of the bad stuff). Last year during a game between an American and a Hispanic (Mexican mostly) team a fight broke out, a guy fell down on the ground and some macho kicked him in the head while he was already unconscious. He's had 12 surgeries so far and the guy is facing 10 years in prison for assult with attempt to kill. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Got to love the thril!
    We have an American tema here in our 5 a side league, and they are a bit crazy. They are pretty pathetic (in four games now my team has scored 52 goals to their none), but every time they lose they cheer the winner off the pitch, and are pretty good about it.

    On the other hand there are a couple of crazy teams, our team watched im bemusement one time as a (mostly serbian) team, got into a fight with each other (Bowyer/Dyer style, but the whole team).

  26. #26
    Member Member BalkanTourist's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    South Carolina
    Posts
    264

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    LOL, that'd be fun to watch. I'd just stand on the side taking numbers. The supplemental report would be quite long, but it's worth the show. I had a mostly Brasilian team this past Sunday. They laugh like little kids at just about anything. Someone from the other team missed the ball, they'd laugh, someone from their team missed a clear goal-scoring opportunity, they'd laugh. I raised my flag for offside a couple of times, they laughed again. Even when they conceive a goal, they laugh at their own keeper. They won 8:3, but don't let the result fool you, it was a cat vs mouse game. It is just so great to referee. We've got a Bosch team with mostly German players. Then we have the Brittish team with English, Scottish and some Irish players (some of them had played professionally in England) called The Old Peculiars. There are also Latinos, people from the Caribean, French, Italian, African. It's like a mini World Cup. Tonight we had an international referee team me, a guy from Ecuador and another one from Serbia & Montenegro.
    Last edited by BalkanTourist; 04-19-2005 at 08:09.
    Alea Iacta Est

  27. #27
    One of the Undutchables Member The Stranger's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Nowhere...
    Posts
    11,757

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    you're all crazy

    We do not sow.

  28. #28

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Quote Originally Posted by lancelot
    How is my spanish....?

    Qui, cest bon.
    Je ne croix pas, mais ta francais est trés bien.
    Common Unreflected Drinking Only Smartens

  29. #29
    Nec Pluribus Impar Member SwordsMaster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    3,519
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Si, bueno, una conversacion en espan'ol estaria bien. Pero al parecer en US os ensen'an espan'ol mejicano y no espan'ol de Espan'a.

    Habra algun argentino por aqui? Me encanta ese acento porten'o...

    LOL, that'd be fun to watch. I'd just stand on the side taking numbers. The supplemental report would be quite long, but it's worth the show.
    Yep, and you would probably have to suspend the game because you would be left with no players....

    I've been coaching a 5a side junior team 3 years ago, and well, it ws pretty bad because we had a few players that couldnt control their temper and wouldnt even finish half of the games... But then we had an excellent goalkeeper

    Je ne croix pas, mais ta francais est trés bien.
    Nous pourrions avoir un thread français aussi que un espagnol.

    Now the question, which is rustier, my french or my german...?


    PS: Sorry, Mouza, cant understand what you said (thats turkish, right?) ....yet...
    Last edited by SwordsMaster; 04-19-2005 at 11:43.
    Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune

    Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut

  30. #30
    Von Uber Member Butcher's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Manning the barricades
    Posts
    159

    Default Re: How's Your Spanish?

    Min spanska är jättebra, tack.
    - I'm sorry, but giving everyone an equal part when they're not clearly equal is what again, class?

    - Communism!

    - That's right. And I didn't tap all those Morse code messages to the Allies 'til my shoes filled with blood to just roll out the welcome mat for the Reds.

Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO