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"Her scream of joy was only stopped by the sudden realization that her good old friend gravity had shown up, and she ended up straight in the flats. When the whitewash behind her hit, Miri prepared for the lavadora..." Surfers are a special breed of people. Not only do they centre their lives around chasing waves, they even have their own language. ¡Hola, Ola! is an innovative and creative dictionary, taking you behind the scenes of common surfer words and phrases, both in the English and Spanish language. Full of hilarious illustrations and funny stories surf sisters Angie Ringleb and Mirjam Loosli let you tag along on a special kind of surf trip. 30 essential words and phrases plus a lot of useful surfing knowledge transfer you into the real world of surfing situations, surf equipment, surfing social skills and the mystical surfer lifestyle. Without having to study the old school way but with easy to remember explanations this book makes you confident to cruise through a Spanish speaking line-up. Hostia, qué guapo!
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
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Angie
Miri
Welcome to ¡Hola, Ola!
Your illustrated guide to the Spanish surf lingo.
Maybe you are about to go on the surf trip of your lifetime to
the Spanish Northwest coast, or you are running away from
the European winter to hit the Canary Islands. Whatever your
surf destination, some basic Spanish surf lingo will make it
much easier for you.
But learning a new language can be a challenge and let’s
be honest, the older we get, the harder it is to feed our brain
with new stuff. During high school days, everything seemed
pretty painless and learning a new language came kind of
natural to us, but who really wants to go back to conjugating
irregular verbs just to be able to communicate in the water?
We figured there had to be an easier way to get some
Spanish into our heads. And here we go: ¡Hola, ola! Through
illustrations and little anecdotes, we make it easy for you to
remember all those essential words to survive in a Spanish
surf environment. The German language has a great word for
this kind of learning; an Eselsbrücke (aka donkey bridge), or
mnemonic in English.
Funny fact: the little stories told in this book did actually
happen. They are memories of the surf trips we have shared
and surf stories we have experienced. We? That’s us:
Angie & Miri, and a whole group of passionate surfers and
ocean lovers: the Epic Waves Family.
We hope you enjoy tagging along on our surf trip journeys
and dedicate a wave to us when you confidently cruise
through a Spanish speaking line-up.
Buenas olas,
Angie & Miri
Table of Contents
A surfear | gone surfing
La ola | wave
La lavadora | washing machine
La corriente | current
El viento | wind
La salida | exit
La maniobra | trick / maneuver
Voy! | I go!
Dale, dale! | You go!
El pato | duckdive
Izquierda / derecha | left / right
Equipo de surf | surf equipment
La tabla (de surf) | surfboard
El traje (de neopreno) | wetsuit
La licra | lycra shirt
La crema solar | sunscreen
La parafina | surfboard wax
La quilla | surfboard fin
Competencias sociales | social skills
Hola, qué tal? | Hi, how are you?
El saludo | greeting
La ayuda | help
La cerveza | beer
Hostia, qué guapo | so pretty / cool
No entiendo | I don‘t understand
Mundo surfero | surfers world
Las reglas del surf | surfing etiquette
Las tonterias | nonsense
Marea alta / marea baja | high tide / low tide
La reserva mundial de surf | world surf reserve
La vida surfera | surfer life
La escuela de surf | surf school
La luna | moon
El medio ambiente | environment
La caída | wipe out
El océano | ocean
A surfear
- gone surfing -
Olas, basically means energy and moving
water. And while some prefer the moving
water to be tube shaped, others might prefer
a more mellow type of energy. However,
beggars can’t be choosers and sometimes
you take what you get.
So here they were in Tenerife. Their local
surf guide Emilio Slater had taken them
to an uncrowded town beach. A small bay
beautifully nestled between rocks, palm
trees and houses, but looking at the ocean
Angie felt confused. There was massive swell
hitting the bay, it was January after all, but
the breaking olas were sort of mellow and
reforming before hitting the beach. To be
honest, she didn’t really think how this could
be fun to surf, but knowing Emilio, she trusted
him to have a plan. And he certainly did.
Emilio explained that the local government
had thrown massive rocks into the bay, to
protect the sand to be washed away by the
big winter swells. The rocks made the olas
break before hitting the sandbank. The
whitewash then passed the rocks and rolled
into the bay, making it a perfect take-off zone
for learning surfers. They then finished with a
pretty fun shore break section.
But Angie didn’t know all of this yet, when she
was staring at the wave and saying to herself:
hola ola, nice to meet you.
La ola(noun, feminine)
oh - lah (IPA: o-la)
wave
The object of our desire. Hollow, mushy, fat it doesn‘t matter. We simply love olas, in any shape and form.
Let’s face it. As cool as it looks, surfing is not
all sunshine. Realistically we are playing in
a massive body of water and being moved
around by sheer energy. The smooth rides we
see in the videos are only a small part of what
is going on out there.
So here she was, paddling for what seemed to
be the biggest wave of the day. Her surf coach
next to her was excitedly screaming: go for it,
remember, commitment! Miri didn’t want to
disappoint her coach, so took a couple of deep
strokes, felt the wave lifting her board and
popped up. What followed was a hell of a ride
down the wave´s face. Pure adrenaline.
Her scream of joy was only stopped by the
sudden realization that her good old friend
gravity had shown up, and she ended up
straight in the flats. When the whitewash
behind her hit, Miri prepared for the lavadora.
Getting tossed around underwater, she curled
up and let the ocean unload its energy. Few
times in her life had she felt more alive than in
this moment.
Exhausted but happy, Miri resurfaced, took a
big breath and smiled. Smooth rides are great
but still, surfing would only be half the fun
without a proper lavadora.
La lavadora (noun, feminine)
lah-vah-doh-ra (IPA: la-βa-ðo-a)
washing machine
