Mexican

Mexican Spanish has three main ways to say “you”: tú for friends, family and people your age, usted for respect, and ustedes for more than one person in…

A warm way to say have a nice day in Mexico is Que tengas un lindo día. Lindo means nice or pretty and is very common in Mexican speech.

In Mexico a hunter is a cazador, and a woman who hunts is a cazadora. The verb is cazar, “to hunt”.

Mexicans say duraznos for peaches. Melocotones is the word used in Spain and is understood in Mexico, but it sounds foreign there.

The everyday word for stuff is cosas. In Mexico chácharas is a casual word for odds and ends or junk.

For a “show” in Mexico people often say show itself, and also espectáculo. A single performance of a play or film is a función.

Christian is cristiano for a man and cristiana for a woman. In Mexico, where most Christians are Catholic, you also hear católico and católica.

Giraffe is jirafa in Mexican Spanish. It is the same word used across the Spanish speaking world.

The Mexican word for woman is mujer. Politely you address an adult woman as señora. Informally Mexicans call a young woman chava, and a young man chavo.

In Mexican slang “OK” is often va, as in Va, nos vemos. Friends also say sale or órale to agree or close a plan. Va means “deal” or “sounds good”.