San Juan: Daring friend to jump over the bonfire with you

🇪🇸 A constant in Spain: it's used to urge someone on, to agree ("OK, fine"), or to wrap up a chat before leaving (venga, hasta luego).

💬 Literally "it gives me fear": the thing frightening you is what does the giving. Swap it around: me da vergüenza "it embarrasses me", me da pena "it makes me sad".

💬 "Don't be" uses seas, not the usual eres. Telling someone not to do something always changes the verb this way: no hables "don't talk".

💬 dar "to give" covers a lot of "bring" or "cause" ideas in Spanish. Da mala suerte is "it brings bad luck".

💬 ¿Y si...? plus a plain present verb is the easy way to voice a worry or a suggestion. Swap in others: ¿Y si llueve? "What if it rains?"

💬 For body parts, Spanish says "the feet" and puts me before the verb to show whose they are. English says "my feet". Same with me lavo las manos "I wash my hands".

💬 Describing words usually come after the noun and match it: parte is feminine, so baja ends in -a. Compare el fuego alto "the high fire".

💬 por here means "through" or "across" a spot, not "for". Same use: pasamos por el centro "we go through the centre".

💬 Literally "I give you the hand": dar la mano means to hold someone's hand or to shake hands. The present doy works as "I'll" here.

🇪🇸 vale is the everyday Spanish "OK", heard constantly in Spain. In Latin America people tend to say ok or está bien instead.

💬 vez means "time" in the sense of how many times. Its plural is veces, since the z turns to c: dos veces "twice".

🇪🇸 This is how Spaniards count down before doing something together, building to ¡y a la de tres!. It's playful and very common with friends and kids.

💬 a la de is short for something like "at the count of". You only swap in the number.

💬 Don't read it as "already is": ¡Ya está! means "done!" or "that's it!" when something is finished.

💬 In Spain, hemos hecho "have done" is the normal way to talk about something just finished today. Much of Latin America would say ¡Lo hicimos!.

💬 In Spain the c in gracias is said like English th: (GRAH-thyahs).

💬 "With me" fuses into one word, conmigo, and "with you" works the same way: contigo.

💬 After gracias por, use the basic verb form, where English uses -ing. Swap it: gracias por venir "thanks for coming".

🇪🇸 guay is Spain-only slang for "cool". It's casual and friendly, and Latin Americans would recognise it as distinctly Spanish.

💬 me voy from irse means "I'm leaving", while plain voy just means "I go". The me adds the sense of heading off.

🇪🇸 In Spain hasta luego is a standard goodbye even if you won't see the person again soon. It works fine with shop staff and strangers.