Comments on: Culture: Visita personal – Part II

By: Kimberly Mussatti

Kimberly Mussatti — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:50:24 +0000

If you think peeing in the street is odd, that’s not the only majior culture difference I’ve noticed in Latin America. The women nurse when and wherever they are. I’ve seen women open thier shirts and start nursing while standing in a crowd and at a school graduation with many children and adults standing around, and no one seem’s to notice. Fortunately I was informed of this custom before I came down here and I was also told that if you look back to see if you saw what you saw they will never trust you as they feel you’re objecting to thier culture.

By: danwize

danwize — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:23:38 +0000

I can understand your confusion. To clarify, there are three words for this. Esto, este, and esta. Esto is used when you don’t know what “this” is. It could be masculine or feminine. Este is masculine and esta is feminine.

Esta parte is correct be cause parte is a feminine word. Not all words follow the simple rule of ‘o’ and ‘a’ endings. Esto representa is correct because we really don’t know what esto is refering to and therefore cannot be masculine or feminine. Hope this helps! @kaye

By: kaye

kaye — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:01:23 +0000

Hi Dave,

I love your newsletters…I’ve only been a client for a few weeks, love lessons level I, am waiting for my order of II and III to arrive.
Una pregunta about esto periodicos palabras:

Porque…esto representa – this represents
Y … esta parte – this part

It seems like ‘esta parte’ should be ‘esto’ and ‘esto representa’ should be ‘esta’

I’m having a hard time understanding this. With feminine and masculine it seems the ‘this’ would follow the f o m rule, no. ??

Thanks,

Kaye