Guess who i just met !!!

Which one is Mr. Milan? [] [] []

Smooth, Rebecca.
 
Congrats, spencer.
 

Is this from a signing or did you get to a seminar?  This must have been a nice moment for you to meet Cesar!

It was from his seminar, most of the stuff he talked about he say them on the TV show, he is really down to earth and we spoke in spanish, he laughed after i used a little bit of slang hehe, he plans to open a center like the one he has in every state in the US

He must be under a ton of stress, look at how grey he has gotten.[]

Wow, very cool Espencer.  I love to watch Ceasar's show.

Aw, looks like you had a great time! []
 
I went to one of his seminars about a year and a half ago down in Paso Robles. Lots of fun!

Nice espencer!  My girlfriend and I want to send him a video of my dogs reaction to her four cats to try to get him to come over to our house and film a show!  What spanish slang did you lay on him?  

Well it was like:
 
Me: Cesar, give me a hug man
Cesar: How are you?
Me: I'm great thanks
Cesar: Are you from Mexico?
Me: Of course (this in spanish was slang which you dont hear a lot in USA so he laughed)
Cesar: What part?
Me: Mexico City
Cesar: What do you do for living?
Me: Sales
 
At that moment the lady controlling the line said to us "Not because i said no questions that means you can ask him in spanish (she was afraid that everyone was going to come with a problem about their own dogs) but i said "That is not a question, i'm telling him how good he is", so i continued:
 
Me: If you open a Center here in St Louis i will work there even for free!!
Cesar: Really?
Me: Of course (again slang so he laughed)
 
He finished signing my book, toke some pics and then i said "Thank you very much, take care man ok?" shoke his hand again and then i had to let the next person to come to him
 
Now that i think about it that lady stole 5 or 7  seconds of my time talking with Cesar because her complain and i want them back!! []

Si mon. Verdad. Milan, del Hombre de Pero.

Yo hablo Espanol en la Trabajo. Muy importante con Maestros. Mucho cajas de electrico in blockes. Mucho Maestros este Mexicano. Espanol fasci para Mi, Englis no fasci para otro hombres.

I'm taking my first spanish class right now Ron so amuse me and tell me how much of this I got right haha.
 
I know verdad means "truth", like saying "Right?"
& I know you said I speak spanish at the job, It's very important with "Maestros"..is that customers?  I don't know the next sentence...
Many customers are mexican..Spanish is "easy" or "facinating" (I'm not sure..probably neither one of those...) for me, english is not "easy"/"facinating" for them..
I'm suddenly nervous about finals coming up, haha.

Hey, Ron, while you may speak spanish in your work as an electrician, you better be careful cause someone may throw something at you that you can't interpret, []
 
It's been SOOOO long since I've had to speak AND read spanish, []

I should clarify that, even though my first wife was teaching me Castillian Spanish many years ago, what I have learned at work is what is called Tex-Mex that is adapted for the job.

Instead of cajar it is caja, box.
Fasci, from fascile, meaning easy.
Maestro is a mason, though it usually means master.
Verdad, certainly true.
Si mon, sure, I agree.

Mucho cajas de electrico in blockes, a lot of boxes in cmu masonry. CMU masonry was most people call cinder block. CMU stands for continuous masonry unit. Brick is never structure so it is refered to as a veneer or exterior finish. Block, however, can be structure if reinforced with rebar and pea-gravel concrete.

At first, all I knew were curse words. Just enough to get in trouble.

Now I can make jokes about it.

If you go into a Cantina, "Tu esta mi Pera" may get you in a fight but "Yo quiero cerveza" will get you a beer. "Tu esta mi Pera" may not get you a fight. It is an english curse translated into spanish and usually doesn't register as a curse because the idea itself is not a curse in spanish. The same could be said of german. You could call someone a Hundin and it doesn't really register as a curse to them but Schweinhund ("pig-dog") was an actual german curse that sounds comical in english.

I get the best reaction using the word for brother in law. They will do a double take. Most gringos don't know that one. Different mason crews will use different slang. Some will use mexican slang for the expansion slot on a block and it is slang normally referring to a female body part. Others will simply use the word linea, which is slightly more accurate but still slang.