Medellin Reports

[QUOTE=Ricardo01;2655196]I am 30. I was honest with them about my language skills but told them half-truths of what I was looking for. Something I recommend for guys going this route is understand your assets and use them. I am never going to as interesting to them as a native speaker. But what I do have is money and a different attitude towards things which I think really helped my game. I was never really afraid to show that I had money because let's be honest there really isn't too much else a gringo can offer and a lot of them were OK with that.[/QUOTE]Great report man, but what type of attitude is this to have? If you are searching for one night stands and chicks to have sex with for money then of course you are right on target to use your assets. Afterall, that is what hookers are after.

But if you think that you will not be as interesting to a chick as a native speaker would be then you are wrong. I was 33 when I first started learning Spanish. I remember like yesterday my first trip to the Dominican Republic in 2005 and a chick on the street in Boca Chica asked me when I arrived. I had to ask my friend how to say yesterday in Spanish.

17 years later, I speak the language well and hardly take hookers because there are enough normal chicks that do find me interesting. If you believe in yourself and put in the effort then chicks that are not hookers will see you as having something to offer besides money.

[QUOTE=Ricardo01;2655196] Medellin is a place that can make any man happy, you just have to know what you like[/QUOTE]Cool. Very cool. I read every word.

Lucky Nuts Your mailbox is Full.

[QUOTE=Huacho;2655208]Actually I googled in English 'el Mar. Vs la Mar.'

Now I hope no one takes this as a complaint about the autocorrecting software, which is truly awesome, but periods and commas go inside quotation marks. Semi-colons and colons go outside quotation marks. I write correctly.[/QUOTE]Ah, I got that. I skipped the Spanish result.

[QUOTE=PunkedLife;2654934]Yes, your rating system might be different and include all that extra stuff but none of that matters to the rest of us because your not going to share her contact info unless you really know a monger on here, which I agree with seeing as what happened recently with Maria as an example. But the regular rating system based on strictly her looks is what matters to the rest of us. This board is literally full of guys bragging (I am not complaining keep the pics coming) or debating over various topics for the most part. So yah we all have to implore our own rating system when looking for chicas online through various sources because your system won't apply.

Just want to add this as I just randomly ran into it and it definitely explains all the rate changes and GPS attitude. Not that it matters as there is so much available but one should know when using seeking this is what you will encounter. Hopefully, she gets even more attention. In other words, seeking is not worth the price of admission for Colombia. If you already have it for other countries then it is a great extra source but Facebook is sufficient.[/QUOTE]I use a simple rating system which works spectacularly. First a point I think you were making. The 1-10 scale is almost exclusively used here for bragging. Beyond that use it serves almost no purpose.

My rating system is a nested boolean system. It starts with.

1. Do I want to fuck her? If the answer is yes:

2. Is she available for me to fuck? If yes:

3. Can we agree on a price?

That's it. I don't need to worry whether other people want to fuck her, or how much they would pay. It doesn't matter if someone would rate her a 9 and someone else would mark her as a 6. There's no crap about how well she'll perform, because I'll figure that out afterwards.

Occasionally, I'll modify that. I'll ask myself if something I know might want to fuck her. If I think the answer is yes, I'll send them her info.

[QUOTE=MrEnternational;2655288]But if you think that you will not be as interesting to a chick as a native speaker would be then you are wrong.[/QUOTE]Yeah, it's not the difference between a native speaker and a non-native speaker they care about; they're just obviously not to into the whole translator thing. And the way to get to where you can speak good Spanish is to speak bad Spanish, any kind of Spanish. You don't need to be a 'native speaker.' But once you can hold a real conversation, doors and pussies will start to open up even if you don't have a lot of money to throw around.

[QUOTE=Huacho;2655400]Yeah, it's not the difference between a native speaker and a non-native speaker they care about; they're just obviously not to into the whole translator thing. And the way to get to where you can speak good Spanish is to speak bad Spanish, any kind of Spanish. You don't need to be a 'native speaker.' But once you can hold a real conversation, doors and pussies will start to open up even if you don't have a lot of money to throw around.[/QUOTE]Very true what you and Mr. Entertainment brought up. Learning Spanish has become a top priority for me.

I was in Veracruz / Botero area last month. There were a few Israeli, Spaniard, French and American guys hanging around together. They were drinking with Venezuelan working girls in the middle of promenade with no shirts on for hours every day. They were disrespectful and argumentative to locals and cops, and some of them were arrested and thrown into jail a few times. Locals hated them a lot, and some bars and hotels prohibited the Spaniard and Israeli guys from entering their places. I saw that other gringos stayed away from them.

[QUOTE=Huacho;2655400]Yeah, it's not the difference between a native speaker and a non-native speaker they care about; they're just obviously not to into the whole translator thing. And the way to get to where you can speak good Spanish is to speak bad Spanish, any kind of Spanish. You don't need to be a 'native speaker.' But once you can hold a real conversation, doors and pussies will start to open up even if you don't have a lot of money to throw around.[/QUOTE]Money versus Spanish fluency for Medellin pussy access advantage.

My gut reaction was Spanish fluency wins by a margin.

Then my brain kicked in and said, "No, money. "

I don't know.

What I do know is that having both would be the ideal, jeje.

Ernest Hemingway wrote in English. Back to the subject at hand, what do all of you linguists talk about with girls, the latest reggaeton hits, the cost of their daily room rents in San Diego, how much you are willing to pay for a rato at that moment?

[QUOTE=MojoBandit;2655169]I cannot say for sure that the restaurants are playing on this or not but you might want to blame Ernest Hemingway (he had a second home in Cuba) for the restaurants calling themselves that, here is a quote from "The Old Man and the Sea" which was written in Cayo Blanco Cuba.

"he always thought of the sea as 'la Mar.' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el Mar' which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought. "[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2655340]I use a simple rating system which works spectacularly. First a point I think you were making. The 1-10 scale is almost exclusively used here for bragging. Beyond that use it serves almost no purpose.

My rating system is a nested boolean system. It starts with.

1. Do I want to fuck her? If the answer is yes:

2. Is she available for me to fuck? If yes:

3. Can we agree on a price?

That's it. I don't need to worry whether other people want to fuck her, or how much they would pay. It doesn't matter if someone would rate her a 9 and someone else would mark her as a 6. There's no crap about how well she'll perform, because I'll figure that out afterwards.

Occasionally, I'll modify that. I'll ask myself if something I know might want to fuck her. If I think the answer is yes, I'll send them her info.[/QUOTE]That is spot on G. That is the real rating system don't give a damn what the next man think. My 8 is my 8 and nobody else's.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2655340]The 1-10 scale is almost exclusively used here for bragging.[/QUOTE]I don't think the default is automatically "bragging" but some need for self validation, without necessarily tacking on Super Ego. It's deep. It is part of the projection and self validation that is rampant on this Web site. Otherwise, pointless from where I sit, but hey, I don't think anyone else is getting harmed by it, so be it. Even when you find like-minded mongers, in theory you are creating more competition for yourself by using a rating system. Jajaja. Mongering is a group effort while being every man for himself at the same time. Yin and Yang.

[QUOTE=Taylor707;2655183]She wouldn't be asking for $5 taxi fare if she meant $250 usd.[/QUOTE]Valid point sir thanks.

[QUOTE=Huacho;2655177]And it gets down to 20 degrees at night so be sure to bring a big down jacket. But seriously, any country that uses pesos makes it more complicated for the newbie gringo, because the $ sign is also used for pesos and in fact originated that way. Gringos don't face that issue with euro, yen, sterling, etc. Because the symbols are different. Then there is the height and weight thing. If a chica says she is 1,70 and 60 that doesn't mean she is 5 feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. That would be kinda fat to say the least. She means is 1,7 meters tall (between 5'6" and 5'7") and weighs 60 kilograms or 132 pounds. So get a bit familiar with the money, the temperature system, the measurement schemes, and so forth before you go.[/QUOTE]I appreciate that and will take all of that into account.

[QUOTE=Huacho;2655400]Yeah, it's not the difference between a native speaker and a non-native speaker they care about; they're just obviously not to into the whole translator thing. And the way to get to where you can speak good Spanish is to speak bad Spanish, any kind of Spanish. You don't need to be a 'native speaker.' But once you can hold a real conversation, doors and pussies will start to open up even if you don't have a lot of money to throw around.[/QUOTE]So true, and whenever someone on this board say's they can function just fine using a translator, they are clueless.

Besides being able to converse with women which takes everything to a totally different level as you have stated, those who can speak some Spanish, can also avoid and diffuse awkward situations which a lot of guys find themselves in when relying on a translator.

I consider myself an intermediate Spanish speaker, I get all the tenses wrong, have problems pronouncing words, and am screwed up on masculine / feminine usage, yet understand probably at least four times more than I can say. As an example, I know the meaning of lots of words, and cannot at times pronounce them correctly, or even remember them, yet when I hear the word being used, I know the meaning of it.

I studied formally at EAFIT for a while, and then had a private tutor for a few months everyday, and it was an eye opener to the language.

Spanish in my opinion is a much harder language than English to learn, in Spanish you can have like four different words for the same thing versus one word in English.

And then you have the "subjunctive tense" which doesn't exist in English as far as I know.

So many rules / regulations on using Spanish as well.

I'm sure you can further elaborate on all this.

Just my two cents on this topic.