Medellin Reports

[Lefeu]

Out of respect for Surfer's respectful request I started a User Blog called "Learning Spanish" -

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Thanks a lot buddy. I very much enjoyed the discussion about Spanish grammar, especially coming from folks who know what they are talking about, but it seems to have taken over this thread. Thanks for taking this initiative.

[Lefeu]

...So where should I stay what part of city or preferably recommend hotels.
...What are the places like this in Med or should I stick to Facebook girls
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I always stay in Poblado and I like it. Other folks prefer the Laureles area. Yet others like Envigado or Sabaneta. Poblado is probably the most expensive but also offers the most. There are many nice hotels In Poblado, just check the prices and you will know. I had a wingman this past December and he stayed at the Marriott in Poblado. Nice hotel but quite expensive. I stay in an apartment, and I can bring in chicks any time I want. Very convenient.

Keep in mind that unlike Brazil, most hotels in Medellin are not girl friendly, I. E. They don't let you have female visitors. My buddy who stayed in Marriott did not have a problem with bringing girls. Therefore, the rule varies from hotel to hotel. If you rtff, you will get a list of hotels that are girl friendly.

You cannot find anything like Scandallo or Sharks in Medellin. There are 2 clubs that are a poor version of Scandallo, Fase Dos and La Isla. Practically, any taxi driver knows where they are. They get going late so don't go there before 10 pm.

Parque Lleras in Poblado is a poor version of Sharks. You will find girls roaming around at night. Once you find one you like, either take her to your place or ask her to take you to an ST hotel, within walking distance. The cost of the ST hotel is about 100 K cops, and the girls typically ask around 200 k to 300 k for a session. Most of them would go for 200 k.

Finally, parque Lleras has another club called Gusto, another poor version of Scandallo. Most of the girls there are hard core and ask for too much money. I never liked it.

BTW, Fase Dos and La Isla are strip clubs, but have rooms in the club where you can enjoy some time with a girl from the club. Gusto is a regular club and you can take the girl either to your place or to an ST hotel.

All of the above are in addition to FB girls, my favorites.

[Steve 9696]

Yes I RTTF. In fact I do daily. The Medellin thread is super active and as many of you may know I contribute regularly in other major threads where I have knowledge. Here's the rub. I hve no knowledge of Med. I like to read about it but it all just washes over me. Like some warm pussy juice.

So now here I am most likely coming to Med end of March and have questions as I start planning. So I would trul appreciate it if we could skip the RTTF comments and some generous members provide concise answers. (I am glad to provide any in return on US, Brazil, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China and Taiwan.

Often questions get asked with no context which is lame. So here is the context:

I prefer to stay at nice hotels in a part of the city that has a lot to do. Cafes. Restaurants and Bars. I am amazed to see a ton of hotels at $35 a night or something. I'm happy to pay to have a nice fit and finish. Maybe balcony and jacuzzi. I am always envious when you guys are showing all that. The buck goes far in Med. So where should I stay what part of city or preferably recommend hotels.

I have a huge list of Facebook girls and maybe I will just do the party in the room thing. But honestly I love the real world club pickup. For reference Scandallo is a fave. I also like Sharks in Germany where obviously it's a lot more commercial but a nice place to relax and chat up your fave girl. It needn't be super luxe like Scandallo but not dicey either. What are the places like this in Med or should I stick to Facebook girls.

Although I've been a ton of places as a Medellin virgin I might enjoy a wingman with similar tastes so feel free to HMU by message. Happy to generally cover drinks or other for my wing. Spanish speakers particularly welcome tho not necessary.

I'm sure I have other questions so def contact me if you are open to helping guide my virgin ass or wing with me.

[Knowledge]

Thank you, this is much appreciated.

Out of respect for Surfer's respectful request I started a User Blog called "Learning Spanish" - to find it you back out to the "Colombia Forum" and scroll down past the "Reports" threads and down to the "User Blogs" section. If anyone is interested: As of right now it is on top but of course the order of the threads change according to when the last post was made in each thread. So this may be a conversation that runs its course in a short while but in the mean time I copied and pasted some of the recent posts here (which means the content is not my post but it will say it was posted by me).

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...nish&p=2656361#post2656361.

[Mojo Bandit]

I / you / he / she / they / it / we will be


Not only does English have conjugations, but the rules aren't consistent. Except for the irregular verbs, conjugation in Spanish is consistent.

The correct word is not "concu nos". Is concu nados (with and enie).

"I think with Spanish there is some frustration with for example having to learn all the conjugations because it is just counterintuitive for an English speaker to find out they have to learn so many different forms of what is one word in English."
To me, the problem is that because the US educational system sucks, native speakers of English don't know what a perfect tense is, for example, and when confronted with "conjugating verbs," they don't realize they have been doing it in English since they were three years old.

All due respect, and perhaps I started this rampage of Spanish posts, but enough is enough, and I don't mean this in a dis-respectful way, in fact I'm envious of you and others on this board who are totally fluent in Spanish, but this board as of lately has been somewhat devoid of some meaty, nasty posts of what's going on in Medellin, and yes, there are a few members physically here besides me, but seems to be a lot less than prior to the Holidays. Again, no dis-respect.

Out of respect for Surfer's respectful request I started a User Blog called "Learning Spanish" - to find it you back out to the "Colombia Forum" and scroll down past the "Reports" threads and down to the "User Blogs" section. If anyone is interested: As of right now it is on top but of course the order of the threads change according to when the last post was made in each thread. So this may be a conversation that runs its course in a short while but in the mean time I copied and pasted some of the recent posts here (which means the content is not my post but it will say it was posted by me).

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...nish&p=2656361#post2656361.

[ChuchoLoco]

I am; you / we / they are; he / she / it is.

I / he / she / it was; you / they / we were.

I / you / he / she / they / it / we will be.

Etcetera.

Not only does English have conjugations, but the rules aren't consistent. Except for the irregular verbs, conjugation in Spanish is consistent.

For, four, fore.

Here, hear.

There, their, they're.

Hair, hare.

Etc.

All languages are difficult to learn. The hardest one is the one that you are trying to learn. When you speak your own language you don't stop to think what tense etc you just know what to say and you should do the same for Spanish. Just learn dialogue and how to say something in a particular situation. If you are over 45 or so, it will be difficult so make up cheat sheets of what you want to say and keep it simple. A good canslator can help but better to look up phrases.

[Huacho]

" If I think of my past fucking as being over and done with, 'Cog con muchas putas. ' Pretrito because over and done with. But if I view my current situation as being more open ended and it's possible I might screw more hookers, I might go with 'Cog a con muchas putas,' meaning I fuck a lot of working girls in general, no real time frame.

So the autocorrect defeated my lesson by erasing the 'a' in my example of the imperfect, making it look exactly like the preterite, and making the post useless while making Huacho look stupid. It's really fabulous software, though.

Coger in the first person preterite is see oh gee eye with an apostrophe.

Coger in the first person imperfect is see oh gee eye with an apostrophe and then a 'A' which the autocorrect software erases if you put in accent marks.

[Surfer500]

Recent gratuitous fotos.

Seems like your expanding your horizons, besides the backdoor, your into the pregnant ones. LOL.

There's a whole crew of guys here into them, and I think Tallman spotted like nine pregnant ones out working in Centro a while back he posted about, or maybe it was only a half-dozen.

And on occasion, I have seen three to four out working in Centro.

About a decade ago, I did one that was close to popping, but it just isn't my cup of tea.

Perhaps a three-some of two very pregnant women is in the cards for you, but it might be a bit awkward.

But if anyone can pull this off, I'm sure it's you! LOL.

[JjBee62]

"I think with Spanish there is some frustration with for example having to learn all the conjugations because it is just counterintuitive for an English speaker to find out they have to learn so many different forms of what is one word in English."

All verbs in English must also be conjugated. To me, the problem is that because the US educational system sucks, native speakers of English don't know what a perfect tense is, for example, and when confronted with "conjugating verbs," they don't realize they have been doing it in English since they were three years old. Example verb, to fuck. Obviously I fuck, you fuck, we fuck, they fuck. Simple indicative. English grammar is no longer being taught in Yew Ess schools because it's been so long since they taught it, the teachers don't know it. I have fucked a hooker. Past perfect. I fucked a hooker. Simple past tense. I fucked one or more hookers a lot over some period of time. Imperfect. Or in general if I say I fucked a lot of but hookers. How I feel about that and where I am going with that will determine preterite vs imperfecto. If I think of my past fucking as being over and done with, 'Cog con muchas putas. ' Pretrito because over and done with. But if I view my current situation as being more open ended and it's possible I might screw more hookers, I might go with 'Cog a con muchas putas,' meaning I fuck a lot of working girls in general, no real time frame.

I am; you / we / they are; he / she / it is.

I / he / she / it was; you / they / we were.

I / you / he / she / they / it / we will be.

Etcetera.

Not only does English have conjugations, but the rules aren't consistent. Except for the irregular verbs, conjugation in Spanish is consistent.

[Surfer500]

"I think with Spanish there is some frustration with for example having to learn all the conjugations because it is just counterintuitive for an English speaker to find out they have to learn so many different forms of what is one word in English."

All verbs in English must also be conjugated. To me, the problem is that because the US educational system sucks, native speakers of English don't know what a perfect tense is, for example, and when confronted with "conjugating verbs," they don't realize they have been doing it in English since they were three years old. Example verb, to fuck. Obviously I fuck, you fuck, we fuck, they fuck. Simple indicative. English grammar is no longer being taught in Yew Ess schools because it's been so long since they taught it, the teachers don't know it. I have fucked a hooker. Past perfect. I fucked a hooker. Simple past tense. I fucked one or more hookers a lot over some period of time. Imperfect. Or in general if I say I fucked a lot of but hookers. How I feel about that and where I am going with that will determine preterite vs imperfecto. If I think of my past fucking as being over and done with, 'Cog con muchas putas. ' Pretrito because over and done with. But if I view my current situation as being more open ended and it's possible I might screw more hookers, I might go with 'Cog a con muchas putas,' meaning I fuck a lot of working girls in general, no real time frame.

All due respect, and perhaps I started this rampage of Spanish posts, but enough is enough, and I don't mean this in a dis-respectful way, in fact I'm envious of you and others on this board who are totally fluent in Spanish, but this board as of lately has been somewhat devoid of some meaty, nasty posts of what's going on in Medellin, and yes, there are a few members physically here besides me, but seems to be a lot less than prior to the Holidays. Again, no dis-respect.

[Osteoknot]

When you guys start talking grammar I get left back at the bus station. I am a product of a weird Florida public education system that at that time, English instruction was called "Humanities" and I never got any sentence structuring or diagraming or whatever it's called after elementary school. Subject, predicate, noun, verb. That's pretty much it for me. I don't know where I heard it, but somewhere I read for humanoids in my situation, who are older, transplanting to a new country that speaks a foreign language, was to not concentrate on getting everything purrfekt but focus on how to communicate, how to understand and be understood, there won't be any tests, and learn by immersion and osmosis. Half the battle is culture and not specific sounds. That resonated with me because it sounded like less work, jaajjajjaa. Give me another year, I will be functionally fluent in Spanish.

Recent gratuitous fotos.

[ParamySpam]

Speaking good Spanish was probably the greatest single contributor to my success on my recent trip to Medellin. I'd consider myself fluent due to being married to a Central American and working in Central America. I speak Spanish almost every day as my Spanish is stronger than my wife's English. Actually, one of the funniest backhanded compliments I got this trip was from one of the facebook girls, Sara, who told me "no hablas como un gringo. Tienes un accento como un campesino". Or you don't speak like a gringo. You've got a peasant accent. I'd notch that as a win for me and my Central American Spanish. That's not to say I don't make mistakes. I still get noun genders mixed up for some words and my grasp of the subjunctive is less than perfect. But being able to flirt with them and ask them about their lives and families pays dividends in terms of how they treat you.

I don't think Spanish is that hard if you're motivated and in the right environment. It probably took me 2 or 3 years to get close to where I am now. Just like lifting weights, it's about getting something done every day / week. In terms of environment, you can either travel and immerse yourself, or if you are in the States make friends with your Hispanic contractor, yard worker house cleaner, etc. That's also a great way to get discounts and contacts for other jobs. I find that most Spanish-speaking Latinos both abroad and in the US are usually really happy to speak with you, no matter how bad your Spanish, and really glad to teach you about their culture and language..

The correct word is not "concu nos". Is concu nados (with and enie).

[Huacho]

"I think with Spanish there is some frustration with for example having to learn all the conjugations because it is just counterintuitive for an English speaker to find out they have to learn so many different forms of what is one word in English."

All verbs in English must also be conjugated. To me, the problem is that because the US educational system sucks, native speakers of English don't know what a perfect tense is, for example, and when confronted with "conjugating verbs," they don't realize they have been doing it in English since they were three years old. Example verb, to fuck. Obviously I fuck, you fuck, we fuck, they fuck. Simple indicative. English grammar is no longer being taught in Yew Ess schools because it's been so long since they taught it, the teachers don't know it. I have fucked a hooker. Past perfect. I fucked a hooker. Simple past tense. I fucked one or more hookers a lot over some period of time. Imperfect. Or in general if I say I fucked a lot of but hookers. How I feel about that and where I am going with that will determine preterite vs imperfecto. If I think of my past fucking as being over and done with, 'Cogí con muchas putas. ' Pretérito because over and done with. But if I view my current situation as being more open ended and it's possible I might screw more hookers, I might go with 'Cogí a con muchas putas,' meaning I fuck a lot of working girls in general, no real time frame.

[Huacho]

I don't think they count conjugated verb variations in the numbers.

I am not sure either but it would definitely make a difference.

Scottish can be very tough. Scouse too. But for me the country accents of Ireland are the worst.

Probably equally challenging but I've spent time in England and Ireland but not in Scotland. So less of an ear for the Scots. I spent half my time in England so I can speak Scouse but it's tough, oi?

If someone wants to start a thread for talking about the Spanish language so it doesn't clutter up all the pussy, feel free. I just met a gringo in a bar and we were chatting and he said, 'It is a shame there aren't any hookers here. ' I said, 'Who told you there weren't any hookers here?' 'Um well I haven't seen any. ' So I showed him on Google maps where the *****houses were, and he did not want to go there because he 'could not speak Spanish. ' That gives one more data point on whether it does or does not matter if you speak Spanish. Now in this particular gringo's case, whether it was a language problem or a huevos problem, I am not sure. Some of both so why not eliminate the former problem?

[Recondite]

Speaking good Spanish was probably the greatest single contributor to my success on my recent trip to Medellin. I'd consider myself fluent due to being married to a Central American and working in Central America. I speak Spanish almost every day as my Spanish is stronger than my wife's English. Actually, one of the funniest backhanded compliments I got this trip was from one of the facebook girls, Sara, who told me "no hablas como un gringo. Tienes un accento como un campesino". Or you don't speak like a gringo. You've got a peasant accent. I'd notch that as a win for me and my Central American Spanish. That's not to say I don't make mistakes. I still get noun genders mixed up for some words and my grasp of the subjunctive is less than perfect. But being able to flirt with them and ask them about their lives and families pays dividends in terms of how they treat you.

I don't think Spanish is that hard if you're motivated and in the right environment. It probably took me 2 or 3 years to get close to where I am now. Just like lifting weights, it's about getting something done every day / week. In terms of environment, you can either travel and immerse yourself, or if you are in the States make friends with your Hispanic contractor, yard worker house cleaner, etc. That's also a great way to get discounts and contacts for other jobs. I find that most Spanish-speaking Latinos both abroad and in the US are usually really happy to speak with you, no matter how bad your Spanish, and really glad to teach you about their culture and language.

Also, don't be shy. Use what you know and you will get better / learn more. I've found at least that some of my biggest language mistakes from when I was learning Spanish ended up making good stories later. For example, I used to work with my wife's brother-in-law in Honduras. We don't have a concise term for this familial relationship but in Spanish, he and I are "concuños". Now my big Spanish mistake happened after someone asked us how we knew each other and I proudly stated "somos con cuernos" wanting to say concuños. The literal translation is we are with horns. But the expression "con cuernos" refers to someone whose been cheated on by their spouse. It's something he and I still laugh about.