Amidst the plethora of similarities between French and Spanish that we discover each day, we noticed a point of Spanish grammar that paralleled, interestingly enough, Japanese:
In English, we have only the words "this" and "that" to use when pointing to objects. In French, we mostly use "ca" as a pointing word.
In Spanish, there are three words!
1. For an object close to the speaker, one points and says "este/a".
2. For an object away from the speaker and close to the listener, the speaker points and says "ese/a".
3. Finally, for objects far away from both the speaker and listener, one says "aquel/a"
In Japanese, there is also this 3-way differentiation, using kore, sore and are.
Wow!
1 comments:
Kered said...
Ahah yes that's true!
Congratulations, I can't believe your mastered Spanish in two days! :p