Does anyone on my flist speak Spanish? Well, I mean? I have two years of college classes to fall back on but I'm really crap, and anyway, I'm trying to write colloquial speech.
The dialects make my head hurt sometimes. Like, I can understand Puerto Ricans 100% of the time but I only understand Spain Spanish about 70%. It's frustrating.
If this is Jay's POV then, as he doesn't speak the language, his ear wouldn't be trained to understand the individual words anyway. It would all run together into nonsense for him. If your story is third person omniscient, then you could pull it off but if you've got Jay as your imperfect narrator, then you're boned anyway.
I think a few quick, well known phrases would be fine. If you need any help with translations I might be able to help a bit. However, once again, the slang I know is Puerto Rican slang. I have a friend who knows the Mexican stuff. She would be THRILLED to make me speak with her in Spanish. D:
Well, this Jay knows SOME Spanish. And my characters haven't had their nationality stated, but kirax2 and I had pretty much decided the mother is Puerto Rican.
I've thought about how funny Tim's Spanish Spanish would be to these characters, but I'm not confident enough in the language to actually write that scene.
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Date: 2009-12-20 02:32 am (UTC)If this is Jay's POV then, as he doesn't speak the language, his ear wouldn't be trained to understand the individual words anyway. It would all run together into nonsense for him. If your story is third person omniscient, then you could pull it off but if you've got Jay as your imperfect narrator, then you're boned anyway.
I think a few quick, well known phrases would be fine. If you need any help with translations I might be able to help a bit. However, once again, the slang I know is Puerto Rican slang. I have a friend who knows the Mexican stuff. She would be THRILLED to make me speak with her in Spanish. D:
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Date: 2009-12-20 02:41 am (UTC)I've thought about how funny Tim's Spanish Spanish would be to these characters, but I'm not confident enough in the language to actually write that scene.
Why doesn't more fanfic call for Latin? *pouts*
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Date: 2009-12-29 02:25 am (UTC)