Megasprachen

Spanish for your holiday · Chapter 1: Greetings and first words

Please

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The seventh word: por favor – please. There is a rolled R at the end, and that is exactly what the story contains.

You have lost your way in Mexico and see a monastery far out in the desert with an enormous gate, which you drive towards (por). Somebody opens up, and you notice: he is wearing a woollen hat that reaches down to his ear and is rolled up there – that is the rolled R (favor). So you ask him for water, because you are dying of thirst.

That gate comes back again and again in this course: as soon as a portal appears in a story, it stands for por favor.