Animales
"Gato negro" in English.
What is a black cat?
The Spanish word for a female teacher.
What is a profesora or maestra
The Spanish word for a male doctor, since he prescribes "medicinas" for patients.
What is a "medico" (doctor)?
The English word for the major meal that isn't desayuno or cena.
What is lunch (almuerzo)?
The country where the Spanish language first developed.
What is Espana, or Spain?
The Spanish word for what we drink from "vacas."
What is leche?
Since "estudiar" means to study, this Spanish word is someone who studies.
What is estudiante?
The Spanish word for a female nurse, since she helps patients recover from "enfermedades."
What is an enfermera?
This is always in a quesadilla, given its first two syllables.
What is cheese, or queso?
The most common country that Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States are from.
What is Mexico?
The Spanish word for a flying mammal that has the same English name as a stick used in baseball.
What is a murcielago (a bat)?
The English word for a place at school that gets its (English) name from the Spanish word for "book."
What is a library? [From "libro" -- even though the Spanish word for a library is "biblioteca"]
The husband of the "reina."
Who is the rey, or king?
Because you can "cocinar" there, a kitchen is called this in Spanish.
What is a cocina?
Spanish and Quechua are both spoken in this South American country where Tashya lived.
What is Peru?
The Spanish name for a girl that means "butterfly."
What is Mariposa?
When you add the sound "-ero" to the end of the Spanish word for pencil, you get this.
What is a lapicero, or pen (“lapiz” = pencil, and “lapiz” + “-ero” = lapicero)
"Abogados" act as advocates (which is a word that comes from "abogado"). We also call them this L-word in English.
What are lawyers?
In English, a "pan" is something you cook food in, but in Spanish you do this with "pan"
What is eat it? [because "pan" in Spanish means "bread" in English]
This Spanish-speaking country's name means Rich Coast.
What is Costa Rica?
The Spanish word for what soldiers ride on in the cavalry, since "cavalry" derives its name from this animal.
What is a caballo (or horse)?
The letter near the end of the Spanish alphabet that is called a Greek "i".
What is Y ("i-griega")?
This job that Spanish-speakers call an “agricultor" is often called this F-word in English.
What is a farmer?
If you catch a "pez" with your fishing rod, this is the Spanish word for the food you’ll eat.
What is pescado? [a "pez" once it's cooked]
El Salvador, a country in Central America, means this in English.
What is The Savior?