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I had a goal to try and learn Spanish, but I didn't have the resources to attend school and I wanted to try and learn on my own. Well for those that are interested in having a fair, thematically organized vocabulary studyguide in flashcard form, look no further!
- Contents
- Common Spanish Text Slang
- Why You Need to Learn Spanish Text Message Slang
- The Characteristics of Spanish Text Message Slang
Here’s a table of some of the most common Spanish text slang. If this looks a bit intimidating, don’t worry: we’ll go into the “rules” for writing text slang in Spanish later!
It’s not just to keep up with the cool kids. There are several practical reasons learning Spanish text slang is useful for anyone. Cutting down on characters will save you money on texts in the long run. Your friends will also be glad to no longer receive your four-message-long essays. If you’ve ever had several messages “beep” in quick succession ...
Omitting letters
Like in English, omitting vowels(vocales) is one of the easiest way to shrtn wrds. Genial becomes gnl, for example. Losing consonants works too. Ahora is often written as aora. But of course, it’s not always just a simple case of getting rid of the vocales. When a word begins with es, drop those first letters. So estoy becomes toy and esta becomes ta.
Switching letters
Another Spanish text slang characteristic is switching letters. For example, the letters q and c both change to k, so quiero becomes kiero, aquí becomes aki and quién becomes kn. Note that the word que on its own can either change to k or q. As you’ve seen,x is another letter that’s used a lot in Spanish text slang. X usually symbolizes por, so por favor (please) becomes xfa. Porque and ¿por qué? (because and why) become xq and xq?, respectively. As por and para are similar (though sadly not...
Abbreviations
In English, we have FYI, LOL, ROFL and various other abbreviations. In Spanish, there are plenty of phrases that work in a similar way. Te quiero mucho becomes tqm or tkm,for example. A basic chat message might start like this: In “normal Spanish,” this means: Hola (Hi) ¿Qué tal? (How are you?) Bien, gracias ¿y tú? (Good, thanks. And you?) Bien. (Good.) Have lots of jajajaja in the middle while you chat about silly things and have fun. To “laugh” in Spanish, you can use jajaja, jejeje or jiji...
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Our list of Spanish texting expressions will help you become familiar with the most common terms, and you can come back to it whenever you need to write a message or decipher one using Spanish text slang.
