Hispanic Heritage Month and Your Spanish - a podcast by WNYC

For Hispanic Heritage Month, listeners call in to share their favorite Spanish regional phrases and terms.

@BrianLehrer I’m a Dominican who just learned the origin of a word my family and I use regularly…pariguayo. I love this show.

— Annette???? (@AMDomGal) September 30, 2021

worked with Poblano‘s for decades on golf courses in New Jersey. Guey is fine with your buddy. It does Translee roughly to bro/ pal, but do not say “que onda guey” to someone you do not know from Pueblo it will be offensive-speaking from experience

— John Petrovsky, MS, CGCS (@GolfFourSeasons) September 30, 2021

Oooohfff the Peruian word for friend just made me cringe. I am Colombian and THAT word for us, has a WHOLE other meaning (female body part). The power of language!

— M. Barraza (@grinica) September 30, 2021

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