For the past two evenings I have been watching TV with my Costa Rican host family, which has been very interesting. Not only can I try to pick up some new words that way, but it's been fun to see how TV is different in this country. Here are a few funny things that I've seen:
1. Within minutes of beginning to watch TV on Sunday, I saw a news special about someone who saw the face of Jesus in their dish towel. Yes, the face of Jesus.
2. There was a news story about how some sharks were spotted during some giant swimming competition. This isn't something that I find funny, in general, but I was cracking up during this news segment because while they showed the footage of the sharks they were playing a techno song. It's like, "woo party with the tiburons!" When I realized what the song was it made a little more sense, but still.
3. In the US, if you saw a commercial for sunscreen, you would probably expect to see people lounging on the beach and splashing in the ocean or in a pool. And the sunscreen commercial here showed some of that, but it also showed a guy building something using cinder blocks. Sunscreen isn't just for fun and games, it's for work too.
4. I saw a commercial for tortillas which I thought was interesting since I haven't seen many tortillas down here. But this commercial definitely sold me on the idea of eating tortillas. It showed a couple eating dinner by the fire, having breakfast in bed, etc. Basically all these romantic settings, in which they are eating tortillas. Do you and your boyfriend have a fairytale romance? No? Buy some tortillas!!
There are also a couple just, well, ghetto things that I saw.
1. In one news story, they wanted to indicate where something took place, so they filmed a close up of a map, with someone using a pencil to point to the location. Hey, why bust your budget on high-tech graphics? A map with a pencil gets the point across.
2. Sometimes a little box will pop up in the corner of the screen, with some breaking news or what-not. When this happens, there is the most ridiculous sound effect. It was probably created in 1982. I feel like I've heard this sound somewhere.... I think it's on Jeopardy when they fill in the new categories.
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Stranger things have happened. I credit a lot of my early Russian learning to Brazilian soap operas dubbed in Russian. The slow pace and constant repetition really helped me get more vocabulary.
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