Breaking Español

This is a tough week! We’re losing our Nanny due to the schedule not working for her, so we’re looking into preschools. Fortunately, we have some good prospects on bilingual preschools in our area, so we’re hopeful to find one soon. Jennie also recently went to Tijuana for a six course (platos) dinner from local chefs in the Playas area. In her dinner, she realized, again, how hard it is to translate menus.

This episode is all about food. Specifically food from Santiago, Chile. Jennie’s recent trip to Chile gave her many opportunities to eat the local fare and enjoy the culture. In this episode she shares all about her cooking class, the markets, and challenges of a foreign language menu.

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Recipes from Uncorked cooking class in Santiago, Chile:

Mango Sour recipe

3 parts Isoc

Pour the Pisco, mango puree, lemon juice, simple syrup and egg white in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for 1 minute. A froth from the egg white should form. Add 4 ice cubes and shake again until it gets cold.

Serve on a champagne. Pour 2 drops of angostura bitters on the top.

Churrascos

A traditional Chilean stovetop bread, simple to prepare and delicious. Prepare and eat immediately as the bread gets hard once cold.

1 cup of flour

Perbre Chilean Salsa

1 tomato

Chop the tomatoes, onion, green chili. Mince the garlic and cut the coriander. Mix together, season the pebre with white wine, olive oil, spices and paste, white vinegar. Adjust the flavor to your liking with salt and pepper.

Uncorked cooking class – Amazing experience starting at the markets and then taking the ingredients to cook traditional Chilean dishes in Santiago, Chile.

Boca Nariz – Best empanadas and wine tasting. It’s like traveling through Chilean wine country and experiencing all the styles of wine. They have a ton of flights of wine to choose from and you can even out together your own. We recommend making a reservation!

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We continue to start off the show speaking in Spanish. Jennie’s back from Chile and ready to share about her time in Santiago and the coastline of Chile. She loved speaking in Spanish while there and has some fun experiences to share. We couldn’t fit it all in one episode so catch part 2 next week!

We also started a new community over on Patreon where you can support the show and continue our Spanish conversations. Ciao!

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Jennie sent us some clips from her trip to Chile so in this episode you get to hear what it’s really like speaking Spanish in another country. Also, Ben has a question for you. ¡Gracias por Escuchar!

Jennie is going to Chile! She’s super excited to visit a new country and take in the culture and language with her good friend. In this week we talk about her preparations for the trip and some of the things she is looking to do while in Chile. She’ll be back in a week and hopes to record while there so next week stay tuned for some potential clips of her trip.

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We’re introducing a new segment where we catch up with each other about the past week in Spanish. Thank you, everyone, for the great feedback about our previous conversations in Spanish for motivating us to do this. We think this will be a good way to share where we are at in our journey as well as help you learn a bit in the process. Enjoy!

Ben was in Santa Barbara last week for work so Jennie was on her own with Jack so we chat about how that went as well as how Ben did up at the LinkedIn Recording studios.

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Thanks to Lalo we recently discovered a fun new app called Hello Talk which has been a ton of fun so far. It’s sort of like having a pen pal from another country that is trying to learn your language, and you theirs. So you can chat back and forth as well as correct each others messages. It’s a whole new experience for us that we were excited to share.

It has also been a few weeks since we sat down in the studio so here we catch up on the past few weeks interviewing folks as well as some fun new vocabulary we learned. If you haven’t listened to them yet the past two weeks were interviews with Jennie’s friend Rachel Leake and our Spanish teacher Lalo Vega. We recap those and add our thoughts about what we’ve learned recently.

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We’re excited to have our Spanish teacher Lalo Vega back on the program. We start out this episode by speaking in Spanish for several minutes to give you guys an idea of where we’re at as well as what a typical class is like for us. After our Spanish convo we had some fun learning Jerga or Slang from Lalo. We even learned some lessons on how to slow down and speak more clearly in Spanish so we are able to improve our level.

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