jergas de habla hispana

Question

For those of us who are fascinated by Spanish, I have stumbled on another wonderful website. Maybe it is common knowledge, but it was an exciting discovery for me... Spanish slang.

Speaking from a personal perspective, I read a lot of books in Spanish, and many times there is regional vocabulary that is new to me. Spanishdict has been a wonderful resource, and I usually come here first. But occasionally Spanishdict does not have what I am looking for, and I have found that "jergas" sometimes does.

Are there other sites that you have found?

Muchas gracias, de antemano...

That looks like a great find. - Goyo, Jan 15, 2010

Supplied the hyperlink for you. - samdie, Jan 15, 2010

Muchisimas gracias, Samdie! - mountaingirl123, Jan 15, 2010

Answer 1

Hi Mountaingirl,

I am familiar with the one that you have listed and here are a few other sites that I have found more or less useful from time to time:

General

• Spanish idioms

• Jerga

By country

• Peruvian Slang

• Jergas Peruanas

• Lunfardo/Porteno/Buenos Aires Slang

• Caliche/El Salvador

• Jergas y Modismos Chilenos

• Chilenismos - Spanish/Spanish

• Chilenismos - Spanish/English

• modismos Chilenos

• Chapines/Guatemalan

• Terminos Mexicanos

• Diccionario de Mexicanismos

• Léxico de la selvas colombiana y venezolana

• Uruguay - This site (tuBabel.com) also has links for jerga of other countries as well and is very useful.

A few countries/regions have specific words to name the particular slang/jerga spoken in that country/region. Here are a few terms that I have seen which might help your search if you are looking for slang from these specific places:

Chapines - Guatemala

Lunfardo or Porteño - Argentinian (more specifically, Buenos Aires)

Caliche - El Salvador

gracias! - mountaingirl123, Jan 15, 2010

Wow, thank you for all the great resources! - kattya, Jan 15, 2010

Answer 2

Don't know any other sites of that nature--just wanted to thank you for sharing this one. It's great!