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#12 - Why Is It "jajaja" and NOT "hahaha" in Spanish? 🤣 · Spanish for Beginners with Marco

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  Speaker 1: In a recent episode of Bill Bird's podcast, he said
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  Speaker 1: this about the way Spanish speakers write the sound of laughter.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like you ever see like when Latino people
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  Speaker 2: laugh at the video, they write j a j a
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  Speaker 2: j j What the fuck is jug jaja?
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  Speaker 1: Now it's ha jose old freckles. You're right, that's a
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  Speaker 1: common confusion by English speakers. And more on that on
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  Speaker 1: this episode of Speaking Spanish four Beginners. Gitalo Marco, you're
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  Speaker 1: Latino Spanish teacher from Latin Eli. In this episode, we'll
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  Speaker 1: explore how to write the son of laughter en espanel
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  Speaker 1: will look at three specific ways all you send day
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  Speaker 1: instead of eight, and we'll see what each of these
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  Speaker 1: forms represents. This is perfect for chatting with your amigos
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  Speaker 1: and having fun in your text messages. Spell in the
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  Speaker 1: way we laugh correctly in Espaniel. Are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 1: An English on social media or in text messages, when
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  Speaker 1: someone laughs they write ha ha ha with h and
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  Speaker 1: a ah ha. But in Spanish social media or text messages,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see your amigos writing it with day. And in
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  Speaker 1: case you don't know, it's called jutah in Spanish spelled
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  Speaker 1: day ota hotah, So day is hotah, and that name
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  Speaker 1: already gives you a clue as to why we write
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  Speaker 1: laughter with a day. Did you notice the way I
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  Speaker 1: pronounced the letter in Spanish? I said hotah with the
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  Speaker 1: sound ha houta, not jota. That's why in Spanish we
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  Speaker 1: write the son of laughter with d hutah because it's
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  Speaker 1: pronounced ha and not da. So if you're also wondering
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  Speaker 1: about this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like you ever see like when Latino people
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  Speaker 2: laugh at the video, they write j j A.
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  Speaker 1: J j, it's because we pronounce the combination da a
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  Speaker 1: as ha, never as da. You see easy pc And
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  Speaker 1: why is it not with age or as we say
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  Speaker 1: in Spanish at t. The reason is very simple. The
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  Speaker 1: agent Spanish is mostly silent. That means if you wrote
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  Speaker 1: the son of laughter with at t, it would be
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  Speaker 1: a ah and not ha ha ha. That's the same
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  Speaker 1: reason why Spanish speakers say hotel and not hotel like
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  Speaker 1: in English hotel not hotel. Or does we say i'll
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  Speaker 1: call and not alcohol We say i'll call, then i'll call,
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  Speaker 1: not alcohol, because we don't pronounce the age. So there
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  Speaker 1: you have it. The next time you write the son
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  Speaker 1: of laughter in Spanish is with day and not eight. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's look at different variations of how to write the
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  Speaker 1: son of Laughter in Spanish. But first let's take a
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  Speaker 1: Program check the link in the episode description. And now
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  Speaker 1: back to the show. Let's look at the combination hotah
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  Speaker 1: e day i. Sometimes you'll see he he he. This
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  Speaker 1: one is used when somebody makes a prank or wants
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  Speaker 1: to convey a noddy tone. He he he spelled hotai
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  Speaker 1: hotai hotai, So when somebody writes he he he, they
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  Speaker 1: are up to something, it represents a mischievous laugh he
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  Speaker 1: he he. And finally, ho ho ho spell hotel hotel hotel.
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  Speaker 1: This is the one associated with some tak lost in Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: I see it often to represent the Christmas spirit, as
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  Speaker 1: saying Ho Ho ho Avidad, or when somebody gives a
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  Speaker 1: present and wants to convey the idea that it was
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  Speaker 1: actually Santa the rite ho ho ho. So there you
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  Speaker 1: have it. Have fun with your amigos. You're seeing ha
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  Speaker 1: ha he he hei or ho ho ho with hotah,
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  Speaker 1: and not at an espanel and that mess, amigos. That's
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