Foo - Your Spanish Lesson of the week: Libre vs Liebre

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RubenX
02-04-12, 10:04 PM
Hello dear gringo. "Libre" means "Free". "Liebre" means "Rabbit". If you ever asked for a drink (Cuba Libre) and ended up with a cuban-raised-rabbit stew, now you know why. :thumb:

Dannihilator
02-04-12, 10:10 PM
And in france you better spell and pronounce the french word for fish correctly, or else you may die from poison intake.

Fish in french is poisson.

Exit ramp in German is Ausfahrt
spry
02-05-12, 09:29 AM
And in france you better spell and pronounce the french word for fish correctly, or else you may die from poison intake.

Fish in french is poisson.

Exit ramp in German is Ausfahrt

Here ,let me try.
The Frog is eating "poisson" for lunch.

Tom Stormcrowe
02-05-12, 11:24 AM
spry, that would be la grenouille mange à déjeuner.
Tom Stormcrowe
02-05-12, 11:28 AM
Funny comparison, by the way, French v German. One of the classic of all times Steve McQueen movies was Pappilon. The title means "BUtterfly", for the Butterfly tat the McQueen character had on his chest, which played a central role in many sequences. If the character had gone to a tropical German version of Devil's Island, the title would have been Schmetterlink. Which one sounds more musical and life oriented, Pappilon or Schmetterlink? :p
wfin2004
02-05-12, 12:11 PM
spry, that would be la grenouille mange à déjeuner.


Cut n pastin' I see.
Artkansas
02-05-12, 12:41 PM
Hello dear gringo. "Libre" means "Free". "Liebre" means "Rabbit". If you ever asked for a drink (Cuba Libre) and ended up with a cuban-raised-rabbit stew, now you know why. :thumb:

You forgot to tell us how to pronounce them. Libre could be how you pronounce Libary (that place you can check out DVDs and use the computer for free) for all us murikns know.

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Pronounce the word libre (http://www.forvo.com/word/libre/)

Pronounce the word liebre (http://www.forvo.com/word/liebre/)
SonataInFSharp
02-06-12, 11:38 AM
The only one I remember from Spanish classes is do'lores vs. dolor'es, with one being "aches and pains" and the other meaning "dollars". But when I look them up now, they both seem incorrect, so maybe my teacher was lying to me 20-some years ago.
jsharr
02-06-12, 11:50 AM
I asked for british cigarette in a cantina in Nuevo Laredo once. I did not get a british cigarette.
AllenG
02-06-12, 11:59 AM
I asked for british cigarette in a cantina in Nuevo Laredo once. I did not get a british cigarette.

My roommate in college was from Oxford. Never seen a nicer guy have to flee from nearly every bar he entered.
Tom Stormcrowe
02-06-12, 04:07 PM
Cut n pastin' I see.

No, I speak and read French....sorry. I'm not the average monolingual American. I speak French, Spanish, German and some Russian, in addition to English. I also learned Latin in HS and can read Attic Greek.
spry
02-06-12, 04:38 PM
No, I speak and read French....sorry. I'm not the average monolingual American. I speak French, Spanish, German and some Russian, in addition to English. I also learned Latin in HS and can read Attic Greek.

Why do you hate "Mericans"?