Hello everyone and welcome. Today I am going to speak in Spanish because I am going to do an interview
with one of the teachers at our school, Mercedes. She is going to teach us some of the
most common colloquial expressions in Mexico. This lesson is going to be a bit more advanced so
if you can't understand us, you can use the subtitles. I will put subtitles below
in English and Spanish. You can activate the subtitles with the cc button and choose a
language with the settings button. Well, with that said, let's get started. Let's go!
Ok we are already recording, ok perfect. Mercedes, what is the first expression that is used
a lot in Mexico? Well the first expression is ¡Qué padre! I use it all the time
and I think all my friends and family use it a lot. Very good and
this phrase is only used in Mexico, right? That I understand yes. What it means this sentence? Well,
we use that phrase to express an emotion in the face of a positive event that
someone shares with us, yes, for example? For example when my son received his diplomas
I was so happy and so excited that I told him ¡Qué padre! son you already have your diplomas
¡Qué padre! ¡Qué padre! Yes yes yes And what is a synonym? like, that's good, that's good, or something like that
Yes, we can say that good good that good that good you already have your diplomas you finished your
degree that's good. I love it, I love it. Well what is the second? The second, I come dragging
the blanket and we use this to express excessive tiredness at the end of the day or if we did
some activity that we got tired of, then the other person can tell you how you are
and you say I come dragging the blanket. Very good. My husband tells me many times today was a
day with many meetings I come dragging the blanket I'm going to bed. I'm going to bed. Very good. And
what is a synonym? That I am very tired. Yeah I'm just really tired. Many times when
I return from my exercise, my husband asks me how it went and I answer very well, I come
dragging the blanket because the class was very hard. Very good, very good, I love it. The next?
The next one, the saint went to heaven and I really like this one. Me too. because it is also
very common in Mexico and it is expressed or used to express something that we have forgotten, for example,
many times if my mother asks me for something and my mother lives in Mexico, I live in the US when I go to
visit her, she makes me errands that I bought her, I don't know, some makeup cream or something, and if I
forgot when she arrived with my mother, I tell her, mother, God went to heaven, I didn't buy your cream
or I didn't buy your tennis shoes, I forgot that would be a synonym, something I know forget us. All right, well,
what's next? Well, the next expression is I brought Jesus in his mouth and we use it
to express a very great concern. For example, if someone tells us, well, now with
the whole situation of COVID, my mother caught COVID, my mother in Mexico and I am here in the United States and I carried
Jesus in my mouth every day because I was too worried about her. It is an expression
that can be used when you have a concern. If you don't know the result of a
school exam, you say this I brought the Jesus in my mouth all week until I received the results of
my exam I'm already calm just the same when my mother got better I said oh and I brought the Jesus in my mouth all
this time but now I'm calm because it's fine. And what is what is a
synonym that I am very concerned about? Yes, I am very worried, yes yes yes yes. Ok very good, what else?
And the last one, the last one very well, what's up! What's up! it is if this expression is very popular and I say
popular because it is used by people with little school education, just like with people who have a little more
school education who went to university and it is also very common among young people,
among young people yes, and among young people and I think it is more common to hear it among
young people than with people who are a little more mature, let's say, but instead of saying hello
how are you our way of greeting the other person or also among young people I mean
, what's up! What's up! what's up what's up how are you or what's up what's new what's up we already
have breakfast if you meet friends in a restaurant what's up it's nice to see you
how you've been it's like the opening of the greeting. Do you recommend that a student use this phrase?
For example if if if for example there is a student from the US and he is in Mexico
and has just, I don't know, met a Mexican, can it be used with this person or not? No,
I don't like it very much. No? No, I'm still very I was and I'm educated and a little more formal, yes,
when you just met a person and you don't have much confidence with that person, I wouldn't
use it. I use it, for example, every time I go to Mexico and see my classmates
from high school among men, it is very common that it is what's up what's up how are you
what's up I'm glad to see you among men is much more common among men of saying
a little less among women let's say but among men or is it that my high school classmates
are a little crazy that they still feel a bit like 'teenagers' let's say a little,
I understand very well, teenagers don't tell us when they see each other they say! What's up! How are you? So,
if it is a good friend or it is an exchange to practice conversation between a
student from the US or England or whatever and a person from Mexico in a very
informal relationship, very friendly, it can be used, yes and if it's been a while, hello how are you? What's up? Yes yes yes yes
very good very good. Well, and there is one more expression right? Drowning in a glass of water and
I like that one a lot too and we use that one and well the expressions are used to give a
more subtle nuance to a conversation and that is drowning in a glass of water is if a person expresses
a problem that person has a very serious problem and he comes and tells you all about his problem, he tells you
his problem and in the end he solves it very quickly and you can tell him, you see, you drowned in a glass
of water. It was not for so many to the problem and it was very easy to solve it did not have major consequences.
Don't worry so much, right? Yes. You know I think I have that problem from time to time, you know?
Yes, you drown in a glass of water, I think everything I am also very worried. Yes. Very good very good
so we can finish here. Thank you very much Mercedes for teaching us these expressions. yes it
would be very good very good, it's a pleasure Andrew. Yes. I also have a lot of fun/. Well, did you
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