WORDS AND PHRASE FROM THE MOVIE
"A CHRISTMAS STORY"
When you first opened the page you
heard this line from the movie: "They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears." or as translated in the movie: Now you probably won't be able to ever use that phrase. However, you could easily figure out that langostas means lobsters and los óidos means ears. This sentence does point out one thing that you have to be careful about. Sometimes a sentence is not translated exactly from English to Spanish. This sentence more or less says "They looked at me as if I had lobsters in my ears". You should remember this when you learn a complete sentence. |
¡Es increíble! I don't believe it! What is actually being said here is "It is incredible". Increíble you may notice is very close to the word "incredible". Incredible means "not to be believe". Note that in Spanish at the beginning of the sentence you use an upside-down exclamation point "¡" (called a principio de exclamación). |
¿Qué es eso? What is that? Note that in Spanish at the beginning of a question they use an upside-down question mark "¿" (called a principio de interrogación). Qué means "what". Eso means "that". |
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bien | = | nice |
broma | = | joke |
eso | = | that |
espera | = | you wait |
las langostas | = | lobsters |
increíble | = | incredible |
los oídos | = | ears |
qué | = | what |
vamos | = | let's go or we go |