Compound words can be divided into four groups based on the nature of their components. In this video, Carlos explains the first group: compounds consisting of two nouns in which the second one attributes some quality to the first.
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Caption 89 [es]: "Los discos pirata son de muy mala calidad". Caption 89 [en]: "Pirated CDs are of very poor quality."
While in Colombia, the second person plural pronoun, "ustedes," is typically used to address more than one person as "you," both formally and informally, in Spain, "vosotros" is much more commonly used on an informal basis. Carlos and Xavi provide us with several examples of how the same idea would be expressed using either "ustedes" or "vosotros."
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Caption 17 [es]: Tiene sus cosas buenas y alguna mala, Caption 17 [en]: It has its good things and some bad,
Carlos enlightens us about several words and expressions that come up in the series, "Confidential: The King of Cons," some of which are quite particular to Colombian Spanish.
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Caption 16 [es]: o a una persona de la cual tenemos una muy mala impresión. Caption 16 [en]: or to a person of whom we have a very bad impression.