If you are a student of the Spanish language and you want to improve your Latin American Spanish conversation, you should always try to learn new Spanish words. In this online Spanish lesson you will learn at least 3 new Spanish words.

1. Desabrido - Que no tiene sabor - Without flavor

Although "desabrido" can be used to describe food, in Colombia I have only heard this word used figuratively to describe a person. "Desabrido" reminds me of how I used to hear Latinos in the States use the word "sabroso" to describe a person even though "sabroso" literally means "delicious."

Esa muchacha es desabrida.
That young lady does not have any flavor (figuratively speaking).

2. Derrumbe - Hecho de hundir o derribar una construcción. Landslide.

El terremoto provocó un derrumbe.
The earthquake caused a landslide.

By the way, I never heard the word "derrumbe" before when I lived in the coastal Colombian city Barranquilla. But after moving to the interior part of the country or Medellín, "derrumbe" became a word that I am now well accustomed to hearing.

Instead of "derrumbe" in some Spanish speaking countries you may hear them use the word "derrumbamiento."

3. Caricatura - Dibujo animado o dibujo cómico. Cartoons.

Me gusta ver las caricaturas de la televisión porque son muy divertidas.
(I like to watch the television cartoons because they are very fun.)

"Caricatura" can refer to either a comic strip such as a drawing or it can refer to animated cartoons.

In Nueva York, the word that I heard the Mexican Learning Spanish Like Crazy instructors and voice over talent use was "dibujos animados" -- literally animated drawings.

Although I learned the word "caricatura"in Colombia, I quickly learned that hardly no one here actually says the word "caricatura." Nearly everyone in Colombia, especially the children, but including the adults, use the word "amiguitos," literally, "little friends."

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