Palabras para las vacaciones.
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There may be no more pleasant place to practice your Spanish than with friends and relatives. So if you're living in the United States, prepare to do just that at your next Thanksgiving dinner with this selection of Spanish vocabulary for the holiday.
Keep in mind, though, that names of foods don't necessarily translate well, or might not be understood in Spanish-speaking countries, due to cultural differences. For example, the various words that can be translated as "pie" include pastel, tarta, empanada, and even pay. All of those words except the last also refer to other types of desserts, and it might take an explanation or picture to make the meaning clear to someone not familiar with the food being talked about. The flip side of that, as an example, is that while the word relleno would normally be used to refer to turkey stuffing, the same word can be used for just about any type of food filling. Someone unfamiliar with U.S. holiday cuisine may not know specifically what the word refers to without an explanation.
-agradecido (por) — thankful (for)
el arándano rojo — cranberry
el budín, el pudín — pudding
la cazuela — casserole
la cena — dinner
comer — to eat
la cucurbitácea o la calabaza — squash (the same Spanish terms also are used for other related plants) el Día de Acción de Gracias — Thanksgiving
la familia — family
el fútbol americano — football (not soccer)
la festividad de la cosecha — harvest festival
gluglú gluglú — gobble gobble (turkey sound)
las gracias — thanks
-el indio, la india, el/la indígena americano/a — American Indian, native American
el maíz — corn
la mazorca de maíz — corn on the cob
el noviembre — November
el ñame — yam
el otoño — autumn, fall
el pavo — turkey
el panecillo — dinner roll
los parientes — relatives
el pastel (o la tarta) de calabaza — pumpkin pie
el peregrino — pilgrim
el puré de patatas — mashed potatoes
el relleno — stuffing, turkey dressing
la salsa de carne — gravy
las sobras, los restos — leftovers
las verduras — vegetables
Vocabulary notes:
el pavo, la pava: In Spanish, it is sometimes possible to distinguish between the male and female animal by using the masculine and feminine forms of the word. Thus a female turkey is una pava. Some other animal names follow a similar pattern: Una mona is a female monkey, una polla is a young hen (and also an off-color word with a different meaning), and una puerca is a sow. But don't assume that any feminine animal name refers to the feminine of the species. For example, una jirafa is a giraffe regardless of its sex.
Ñame: The word for "yam" is one of the few in Spanish to start with the ñ. Among the more common ones are ñoño (insipid or dull) and words derived from it, ñora (red pepper), and ñu (gnu).
Enjoy it all you lucky people and think of me sitting down dressed in shorts and
having to eat cold Prawns salad , mangoes , passionfruit berries with cream and
then being forced to keep cool by drinking vast amounts of tinted liquid.
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Believe me I would die for being next to you, sharing one of those "tinted liquid" 
Thank you for sharing such a nice information.
being forced to keep cool by drinking vast amounts of tinted liquid.
That would be me and my crowd...we are very fortunate (and grateful) to be in a beautiful, tropical country having Thanksgiving dinner.
Cold prawns and a cold tinny, sitting next to Ray, attempting to speak in Spanish? Mate, that is a dream vacation for me.
Sorry! Double post.
