Colloquial Speech

Shortened words

1. how you can say "bike" instead of "bicycle" in Spanish, and how you can shorten "compañero de piso"

Money problems

1. how to say that you're always "skint" and don't have any "dosh" on you

Exclamations

1. how you can throw in "cool" or "wicked" in a conversation in Spanish

Love

1. how to say in Spanish that you "snogged someone" or that you're "having a fling"

Party

1. how to say in Spanish that you "have a hangover" after "living it up" the night before

Drinking

1. how to say you "got pissed" after drinking some "little beers", then went to bed "in the wee hours"

Moods

1. what it means when someone in Spain says that they "are done dust" or "have bad milk"

Pleased/Displeased 1

1. how a Spaniard would say that the "dodgy" cinema round the corner shows really "lame" films

Pleased/Displeased 2

1. how you say in Spanish that something is just "so-so" or that someone is "really hot"

Parts of the Body

1. what a Spaniard means if someone doesn't have "any noses" but has "a lot of snout"

The beach

1. what a Spaniard means by tourists who "are like a shrimp" after "toasting themselves" on the beach

People

1. how Spaniards say that their "folks" think the new girlfriend is a "snob"