Chilean Spanish Podcast

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“Cachai” is one of the most used words in Chilean Spanish.
 
Today, I’ll show you what it really means and how Chileans actually use it with chispeza.
 
Special thanks to the Español Casi Perfecto Patreon members who made it possible to release this private episode publicly.




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You spend way too much time worrying about sounding “proper,” and you don’t even realize you’re screwing it up.
 
Today I’m showing you 3 very polite English phrases that hide a painful trap:
 
When you translate them, you’re doing it right. But they sound awful — and make you come across as arrogant, pedantic, and straight-up unpleasant in Chilito.

 
Make yourself some tea or a piscola, and hit play.




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What are the Mapuche actually fighting for?

In this second part of my conversation with Simón Loncopán, a Mapuche leader from southern Chile, we move into the political and territorial dimensions of the conflict between the Mapuche people and the Chilean State.

Simón explains the main demands of many Mapuche communities today: land restitution, territorial autonomy, environmental protection, and the right to make decisions about their own land.

We also talk about poverty, representation, extractive industries, and why this conflict is not just about the past, but about the future.



 
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What does it mean to be Mapuche today in Chile?
 
In this first part of the conversation, I talk with Simón Loncopán, a Mapuche leader from southern Chile, about identity, community, territory, and the relationship between people and land.
 
This episode focuses on the more philosophical side of the conversation: how the Mapuche worldview understands belonging, reciprocity, and collective life, and why individualism has become one of the biggest challenges today.
 
This is Part 1 of the interview. In Part 2, the conversation moves into politics and current conflicts.
 
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This is an episode where every screw-up is worse than the last one.
That’s why I tell it as a six-stop descent into hell.
 
If you thought all Latinos were the same, ask George Harris—a Venezuelan comedian—what happened to him in Chile for thinking that.



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Have you ever tried to do something nice… and completely messed it up?
 
Like offering your seat to a woman you thought was pregnant
…and she wasn’t.
 
This episode is about doing something with good intentions and still getting it wrong, because you don’t know the cultural code.
 
I tell the real story of Enrique Iglesias in Chile, when a “nice gesture” turned into one of the most famous cultural embarrassments in the country.
 
Same language.
Same words.
Different code. 



Because when you come to Chile, grammar won’t save you.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.



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Series: Chilean Social Codes

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You spend way too much time trying to speak properly and not enough time realizing that if you want to live in Chile, you also need to understand the cultural codes.

If not, just ask the Brazilian artist Xuxa —she was basically the Lady Di of South America,
and Chile didn’t forgive her.

(And she didn’t forgive us either.)




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2025 is gone, and everyone is already doing their year-end reviews, rituals, and repeating little phrases they swear will help them become the best version of themselves.

Or… will they?

Listen to my very unhumble and completely unsolicited opinion on the matter—while you learn Chilean Spanish...

...and complain the way God intended.

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Christmas… that magical season when your coworkers become your judges.

In this final episode of the trilogy, I close the loop on Scrooge’s Three Ghosts at Work by tackling the worst one of all: The Amigo Secreto.

That “not mandatory” game where you’re publicly exposed and measured by how well you perform gratitude for a low-budget gift you didn’t ask for.

No bonuses.

No speeches.

In the original A Christmas Carol, the last ghost shows Scrooge his future.

Here, the ghost shows yours.

Hit play and face it.

• Background music: “Let It Snow” by MFCC – free track from Pixabay.

 


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