For the love of… el béisbol

by gidget on June 15, 2009

in bilingualism, spanish

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

DSC_0114
I haven’t been blogging much in the Gidget world these last few weeks as my family is on a 3-week long road trip to experience baseball in the Midwest and on the East Coast (see here for details). But I did want to share this little tidbit with you as we approach summer.

Baseball may be America’s pastime, but it’s a pretty big deal in many Spanish-speaking countries, too, especially in Mexico, and Caribbean countries like Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, to just name a few.

A couple of years ago I came across this great glossary on mlb.com with baseball words in Spanish.  It’s not surprising that there are a lot of cognates here considering where the sport originated. When I was teaching it came in handy for the chapter on sports, but it’s also fun to just play around with during a game if you’re a fan of baseball who’s learning Spanish!

Download the vocab sheet here!

{ 0 comments… add one now }

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>