Elementary - Too Salty

Espero que el señor Tabasco viene de ayudar esta pobrecita mujer.

¿Es qué la misma mujer que puso picante en la comida para del hombre?

Mira, arriba en el cielo!
 Es un pájaro,
  no es un avión,
   guácala,  ¡qué asco!
    no ... es un pájaro.

I hope that señor Tabasco comes to help this poor woman.

Is this the same woman that put spicy hot in the guys food?

Look up in the sky!
 It's a bird
  no, it's a plane . . .

hmmmm mi esposo dice soy muy bien en la cocina. Pobrecita!

vikia

I really think that you need a que before the word "soy"

 mi esposo dice que soy muy bien en la cocina

My husband says that I am very good in the kitchen. 

But in this dialog, I would have used que in the phrase "Espero te guste" and said "espero que te guste"  So if anyone disagrees with me,  I would appreciated the input

vikia

I really think that you need a que before the word "soy"

 mi esposo dice que soy muy bien en la cocina

My husband says that I am very good in the kitchen. 

But in this dialog, I would have used que in the phrase "Espero te guste" and said "espero que te guste"  So if anyone disagrees with me,  I would appreciated the input

Steve,

That certainly does remove ambiguity from the statement.

Gender bias left me with your interpretation when I read it, but it could just as easily have been mispunctuated.

Mi esposo dice, "Soy muy bien en la cocina."

o

Mi esposo dice, - Soy muy bien en la cocina.

or as said here in Minnesota, "There is no conceit in his family, he's got it all."

stevestrv: I agree but I think dropping the "que" in "Espero te guste." is just a more colloquial style of saying the same thing. I don't think it's a big deal.

(In fact, I found it harder to understand Liliana when she said "¡pérame, pérame!" in a recent del taco al tango show. Why would she talk about pears? ;)

cobre vikia

I think that I should said that vikia should have said:

"Soy muy buena en la cocina."

Bien is usually an adverb, the adjective is bueno/a.  You can say “cocino bien”.  Here, bien modifies the verb cocinar

En México, me enseñaron a llamar al tomate "jitomate", y que la palabra "tomate" se usa por el vegetal pequeño y verde lo que llamamos "tomatillo" en los EE UU.  ¿Hay otros países en América Latina donde se usa el termino "jitomate"?

In Mexico, I was taught to call tomatos "jitomates", and that the word "tomate" signifies the small, green vegetable that we call "tomatillo" in the U.S.  Are there other Latin American countries where the term 'jitomate' is used?

polaris,

Sí, mi madre llama los, "Ground Cherries"  Estos son una comida basica del Anishanabee ,  pero los que crecen aquí son pequenos.

Yes, my mother calls them "ground cherries" they were a staple food of the Anishanabee but those the grow here are small.

Gracias a todos, debo haber dicho:

Mi esposo dice, "Soy muy bien en la cocina."

vikia

I still think that you have to use buena with soy.

Soy muy buena (modifies a noun “yo”) en la cocina

Or

Hago muy bien (modifies verb “hacer”) en la cocina.

vikia

Stevester is right in the first one:

Soy muy buena en la cocina, but not hago muy bien  en la cocina.

Lili

Thank you.  Is it possible to say "I do very well in the kitchen"?

Vikia and everyone else.

I apologies for mistakenly say that you can say “hago bien en la cocina” I was translating “I do well in the kitchen”.  I talked to my girlfriend and found that you can not use hacer by itself that way.  You have to say something line “hago eso bien en la cocina” –“I do that well in the kitchen”  This shows the danger of thinking in English and speaking in Spanish.  

Okay SpanishPod team, I was doing the exercises and Exercise 3: Listen and Choose, number 2 does not make any sence.  What Leo is saying is not given as one of the responses.  Thought you might want to correct this.

Would it also be possible to say that "La sopa está demasiado salada."

Thanks for the wonderful dialogues.

To say "Soy mala en la cocina" suggests that ability to cook is an intrinsic feature, not a curable condition. So, why not "Estoy mala..."?

Also, "Estaba mala en la cocina." I used to be bad in the kitchen.

jeraldina

"Estoy mala", means "I am sick", or you have a bad condition. "Soy mala en la cocina" means " I am bad in the kitchen", you are describing yourself as BEING BAD by saying you are "bad" in the kitchen.

I might say, "Estoy enfermo." That would tell you that I am being sick, that I am sick at the moment. But it doesn't tell you what I am. Now if I were to say, "Soy enfermo," that would have a different meaning entirely. That would refer to who I am, to the nature of my being. We might translate that as "I am a sick person" or "I am sickly."

Hope this makes it clear.

Liliana:

Gracias por su ayuda. Ya no estoy confundida. Pero tal vez ella no debe decir "Soy mala en la cocina." Ella podría decir, "Cocina la sopa tu mismo."

Thank you for your help. I am no longer confused. But perhaps she ought not to say "I am bad in the kitchen." She could say "Cook the soup yourself."