Exchange Spanish/English vocabulary

[nuria2012]

Hello dear parents!

As I have said in another post, I think that in this forum we could create a section where non-native parents share their vocabulary, especially that vocabulary about babies, please. In this forum there are a large number of people who are teaching Spanish or English, and read this forum every day.  I cannot be here every day, but I think that any another native person with Spanish as mother tongue can solve your doubts.

I am from Spain. I could help people with doubts in Spanish language. Could anyone help me when my poor head cannot find a suitable translation of a Spanish sentence, please? It could be done with every language. I don´t find any part of this forum where there is a section about vocabulary, if this section exists, please say to me, and I´ll eliminate this absurd post.

I am going to share a book that I bought when I began with the first steps speaking to my LO. It is very, very simple, but it is divided into sections such as bathtime, bedtime and so on, and it is very practical, when I am unsure. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/rIU3b48B-5E&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/rIU3b48B-5E&rel=1</a>. I bought in a languages library, but you can find it in imaginarium easily.

[nuria2012]

I want to copy here some useful phrases that I have extracted from Kiddy English. Using these phrases as much as possible is a good way to create a routine in my baby´s day. Perhaps someone who is nonnative think that they are useful

 There now, there now, there now....

It is nothing to cry over.
Mummy´ll tcuk you in five minutes
It´s nothing to cry over
Night-night sweet dreams
Off to bed. You look sleepy
Let´s put your pyjamas on
There you go. You are as snug as a bug in a rug... Very funny ...
Shall we put some buble bath in?
Let´s scrub your hands; they´re filfthy
Let´s scrub you nice and clean
Hold on to Mummy because it is slippery
Out you get. Hold onto Daddy.
I don´t want you to catch a cold. Get dry quickly
Clear out your ears
Don´t move or I´ll hurt your
What on earth are you doing in...? I am going to use this sentence very often so that my Nuria has begun to walk ....      

Can anybody add more useful phrases here?

[nuria2012]

 Hi dear parents,  I don´t know if my computer is wrong or I have done something wrong that I cannot understand, is the truth. I have just seen that 1232 have read this post since I wrote because I wanted to find native speakers who could help me when doubts about vocabulary appear over here. I have no idea. On the other hand, I wonder if so many people read it, it is because it can be interesting for some people, ...

Well, I am going to share some Spanish sentences that can be interesting for those parents who use Spanish language being non-native. I also write in non native parents by mario,nnsparents,  another member of this fantastic forum. I thought that here I could find,perhaps , a quicker answer to my future questions in the English language.

Anyway, here I am going to copy something that will be useful for some of you,

Spanish sentences

Es hora de irse a la cama
Mami te va a contar un cuento
Dale un beso muy fuerte a papi
Echamos espuma en la bañera para que se bañe nuestro patito de goma
Se puede saber que estás haciendo ahí?
Mami te meterá en la cama y te arropará en cinco minutos
No te preocupes,solo era una pesadilla. Ya ha pasado. Vuélvete a dormir.Mamá se quedará contigo.
Si no dejas de salpicar, te sacaré del agua.
No te muevas o te puedo hacer daño.
Vamos a frotarte lasmanosestán muy sucias.
Te voy a desenredar el pelo con el peine
Dentro de nada, vas a poder andar.
Pronto empezarás a gatear
Quieres la chupa?/el chupete
Eres un solecito.
No te metas eso en la boca!
Ya casi te mantienes de pie, tú solito
.
Well, if any answer, see you, have a nice day

Everybody reading and nobody answer, better a post with no reading.   Well, perhaps it is helpful for one person, then it is ok.

I only pretended an exchange of vocabulary, if somebody interested, send me a private message

 

[mom2bee]

Hola nuria! Como estas? No dije gracias por esto pagina de los forums, pero "gracias!". Esta pagina va a ser utilizmo a todos que quieren hablar mejor espano!

I hope that I got that (mostly) right.. I'm trying to say:
Hi Nuria! How are you? I didn't say thanks for this thread (pagina de los forums) but "THANKS" This page is going to be very useful to everyone that wants to speak better Spanish.

I am still trying to read and understand that Spanish sentences that you gave, I almost have them all. (I think.) I will PM you with my understanding of them when I am done.

I wanted to ask you: Que es la diferencia entre 'gemelos' y 'mellizos'?

Also, I'm going to figure out how to type Spanish characters before my next post....

[cokers4life]

Thank you for the post Nuria2012.  I needed  those helpful phrases.  I am going to try and work in two of those phrases in everyday this week.   

[NPLight]

Hi mom2bee, "gemelos" are identical twins (monozygotic), while "mellizos" are fraternal twins (dizygotic, no more alike than other brothers and sisters).
Hope that helps!

[nuria2012]

Hi dear parents!

I thought that it had been a mistake the fact of writing this post,but I can see, finally, that other people are interested in this exchange of vocabularies.

Mon2bee,

I´m fine thank you. I suppose that I want me to translate the sentences Hello...  ¡Hola Nuria! ¿Cómo estás? ¿Qué tal/qué tal estás?   Please, if you don´t understand any sentence or word, say to me. Perhaps, I cannot answer immediately after, but I will try to do it. Anyway, there are more mothers who speak my native language. I will like to find here or in another website http://www.nnsparents.com/ a specific place for non-native parents can  solve doubts about vocabulary, and so on. In nnsparents, you will  find me as well. It is a very new forum that a member of brillkids has created five months ago, perhaps. Well, althoug my knowledge of English language is good, I have not spoken to other people in the English language, except via skype, since three years. And it is not very good, especially if you want your LO to be a bilingual person in the future. For instance, yesterday afternoon I had to go to the doctor because my LO had to be VACUNADA. Therefore, she had to PONERSE UNA INYECCIÓN. I find the matter of vocabulary sometimes a little difficult. I know that I can have a look at my bilingual to find the suitable translations, but sometimes it is not possible a total literal translation. I know that in this forum there are bilingual people who master both languages, English and Spanish, perfectly, perhaps there is someone who can help Spanish people and viceversa.

I can see that another member of this fantastic forum has solved your doubt about the difference between gemelos and mellizos.  

Another topic that I have to study is the vocabulary of the car. I am not sure how to say `asientos delanteros, traseros.... back seats, volante,....

That is the reason of this post.

Hi cokers,  I am happy that my phrases can help you. What I do is copying some useful sentences and put them , for instance, on the fridge to make use of them for a week or a pair of weeks. When I have all the sentences in my memory, I will try to copy more. I have done this only three times. I could have been more consistent.

Nplight, thank you very much.

Creo que sólo he dejado el link de el huevo de chocolate en http://www.nnsparents.com/  (Mario´s forum). Aquí les dejo este interesante link también para aquellos interesados en una inmersión linguística del español. Sorry I have written in Spanish, because it is good for those who are teaching Spanish. http://www.elhuevodechocolate.com/

I would be very grateful if someone could send me a link with something similar in English for my LO. It would be wonderful!!!!

Una expresión que se usa en España, cuando un niño se cae en el suelo y se hace daño es: "Sana, sana, culito de rana, si no se te cura hoy, se te curará mañana" My mother used to say to me this, when I fell down.   Did you use similar expressions in your English language? Could you help us?

[Mandabplus3]

Don't know any Spanish. But...
When my kids fall I say " oopsy daisy, up you get" then " do you need a cuddle?"

In the car useful phrases
" I will open the door"
" in your car seat you go"
"Lets put on your seat belt....lift you arm...click"
"Lets go for a drive"
"Where are we going today? " " we are going to the...(supermarket/shops/library)"
"We are here!"
"Time to get out now"

[nuria2012]

Hi Mandabplus, thank you very much for your useful sentences that I will have to take into account.

I love the first one "oopsy daisy, up you get", but a question OOPSY DAISY means... 

I would like to find more funny rhymes like this. It will be my first one to repeat over and over again!!! I suppose you will have said it hundreds of times so that you have three kids!! Yesterday I have bought a homeophatic product that people state  it is very good when my toddler falls down. She began to walk almost a month ago. She began to walk on 14th July, a great day in America and in Nuria´s house.

Here I will write more useful sentences in Spanish. Topic Dressed and ready

Buenos días,mi amor!
Cómo ha dormido mi niño/a?
¿Te has hecho caca?
Voy a limpiarte el culito      bottom
Voy a ponerte un poco de crema en el culete bottom   porque está un  poco rojo
Estás divino!
Eres un angelito!
Estás babeando mucho                       dribbling
Pronto te saldrán los dientecitos
Quieres tu mordedor?     teethingring.                         A Nuria, mi hija,  no le gustan los mordedores....
Espera un momento, te voy a poner la cadena al chupete para que no se te caiga
Quieres un poco de agua?
Vamos a abrigarte que hoy hace mucho frío
Te voy a poner un poquito de colonia para que huelas a gloria.

I hope these sentences help people who are speaking to their children in the English language.

[mom2bee]

Nuria:
Oopsy Daisy doesn't mean anything really. Oopsy comes from "Oops" which is the sound you make when something drops, some one falls, any minor accident happens. It doesn't mean anything. Daisy is a flower and sometimes its used as a name for a girl, but as far as I know, the "Daisy" referred to in the common phrase "oopsy daisy" doesn't mean anything. Just a sound/word in the phrase.

[mybabyian]

Thanks for the thread.  dH who is a native Spanish speaker is absolutely useless for translations.  God bless him.  The problem is when I look things up he and his family then make fun of me because that's not how they say it intheir country.  I don't care though we don't live in their country.  Most Spanish speaking people around here are from Mexico and central america anyway.  So it is fine if my guy learns other ways of saying things.  I just dont want them to make fun of my son because I am afraid he will get discouraged.  They are not mean about it.  they just tease. 

For car seats there is the front seat, back seat, driver's seat, passenger's seat, driver's side and passenger's side.  The maletera is the trunk.  The kid's seat s simply a car seat, for older kids they use a booster seat.  The car's lights are called head lights.  what are they in Spanish?

I can't think of anything else to add.

[nuria2012]

Ok, mon2bee,      I´ll try to use it, although it is a little difficult, I will copy it in a piece of paper and I will put it on the fridge. If a child can learn the Periodic Table, will be able to do it, won´t I???


mybabyian, it is very often that literal translation from a language into another create meaningless sentences... for this reason, it is good that we will able to help us.    In America and in Spain there are many differences, and it is good  and more interesting, different cultures have different structures, words, expresions....
Thank you for the vocabulary. Now it s my turn.
 
For car seats there is the front seat, back seat, driver's seat, passenger's seat, driver's side and passenger's side.  The maletera is the trunk.  The kid's seat s simply a car seat, for older kids they use a booster seat.  The car's lights are called head lights.  what are they in Spanish?
car seats           asientos/sillones del coche
front seat          asiento delantero
back seat          asiento trasero
driver´s seat      asiento del conductor
passenger´s   seat   asiento del pasajero
trunk                maletero  o portabultos
head lights              faros del coche

More doubts
gaveta   in English?           the place where you keep things, it is in front of the passenger´s seat

Do you want me to open the window to refresh you?   right?
Tocar la pita?              to press the horn?
To go for a ramble by car?  is possible   Dar una vuelta en coche
subir/bajar los cristales            go up/go down the windows?
Volante?

Words that you can see your LO: cariño, mi amorcito, mi angelito,
If the baby is a little unquiet: No seas tan travieso/majadero/inquieto

In a house:
correr las persianas           move the blinds?


For car seats there is the front seat, back seat, driver's seat, passenger's seat, driver's side and passenger's side.  The maletera is the trunk.  The kid's seat s simply a car seat, for older kids they use a booster seat.  The car's lights are called head lights.  what are they in Spanish?

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[mom2bee]

gaveta   in English?          the place where you keep things, it is in front of the passenger´s seat

Sounds like a "glove box" or "glove compartment"
Google image link of a "glove box" or "glove compartment".

Is that what you're talking about?

[nuria2012]

Yes, yes, thank youuuuuuuuuuu

[mybabyian]

Hi nuria2012!

I hope this helps:
subir/bajar las ventanas del auto: roll up/roll down the window
tocar la pita (el claxon): honk the horn
dar una vuelta: go for a drive
Do you want (would you like) me to open the window so you can have some fresh air?

another note...we don't really say unquiet...maybe you can say active/fussy/being a trouble maker ( travieso).  Maybe someone else has a better word.

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