I am fascinated by the differences in what I've been taught, and how language actually works here.
One of the things that I loooove is their use of -ito/-ita. I was taught that it's to make things smaller, or cuter. For example, grandmother is abuela, but Granny is abuelita. Or a house is casa, but it's my cute house, casita. I have found that EVERYTHING here uses the ito/ita ending.
Even words that are not nouns!
In yoga, Cristina tells us to keep our legs or arms or whichever body part derechito, straight. I have never heard the ito on the end of an adjective. Another teaching (or learning) moment.
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