• Quintessential Spanish - Spain
• Greetings and Salutations/ Saludos
• Chatting Up/Ligando
• In the Bar
• That's Cool
• Sayings / Refranes
• Explain Yourself / Explicate
• On The Street/ En la Calle

Iberian Spanish slang by Street Talk Savvy

Spanish- Iberian Spanish-Spain

Quintessential Spanish – Spain

Venga- Come on (also used a lot in phone conversations)
Vale- (OK, I understand)
Tio/Tia- Dude, Dudette
De puta Madre- f*?king good (it sounds bad when translated, and shouldn’t be used in Mexico at all, but it is an intensifier just like f*?k in English, and is a multi use word)
Rollo- just like the word above, it has many uses and can’t be translated into one single word. For example un buen rollo- is have a really good time, or tener un rollo to have a fling with someone

Vosotros- The English equivalent to this is thou and to Latin American speakers of Spanish it’s only heard in the bible.

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Greetings and Salutations/ Saludos

Buenas
Hi

Hola tio/tia!
Hey dude/dudette!

Que tal?
How’s things? (How is it?, very common greeting in Spain)

Que lo pases bomba!
I hope you have a blast of a time!

¿Cómo andamos?
How are you?
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Chatting Up/Ligando

Cuando echaste tu primer polvo- when did you first have sex
echar un polvo  (make dust-to have sex, Spain)

Ella tiene un muy buen tipo
She has a really good body

Ellas me hacen tilín pa’áca
I fancy tose girls over there

Es una tía buena
She’s a hot chick

Es un tío bueno
He’s a hot guy

Hola rubio/a
Hey blondie

Me gustan las chatis con 2 buenas peras
I like chicks with big tits

¡Que culo tienes! (Spain: culo is a little crude for the Latin Americans)
What a hot arse you have!

Tengo que casarme de penalti
I’m having a shotgun wedding

Tuvimos un rollo/rollito
We had a shag
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Formentor- on the northwest corner of the island of Mallorca

In the Bar

Donde esta la marcha?
Where’s the party?

¡Menuda marcha hay en Barcelona!
There’s some night life in Barcelona!

No me digas quien es el mejor cantante de Flamenco en el mundo!
Don’t tell me who the best flamenco singer in the world is! (You might hear some drunk Spaniards discussing this)

Vamos de chiringos.
Let’s go out drinking

Voy a beber como un casaco
I’m going to drink like a fish (cossack)
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That’s Cool

Que guey!
How cool!

Esta de puta madre!
It’s fucking good!
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Sayings / Refranes

Es un cuento chino
It’s a tall store

Tienes mala leche
You have a mean streak (to have bad milk)
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Explain Yourself / Explicate

Arranca de aqui, gilipollas
Get lost you idiot

Estas ido tio
You’re a crazy dude

Esta es la zona de garitos por aqui
This is the bar area around here.

Esto es un coñazo
That’s boring

Mucha palique
Too much chit chat

Ni a palos
Not on your life

Ni de coña
No way

Pija- Snob

Que porqueria hiciste?
What a pig sty you made?

Tienes mucho morro. (Andalucia)
You are cheeky
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On The Street/ En la Calle

Movil
Mobile phone or cellphone

No pasenada tio
No worries dude

¿Tienes pasta?
Do you have some cash?

Tengo un Bin Laden
I have a 500 euro note (Bin Laden because it was hardly ever seen)

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