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Names of things in nature / Nombres de cosas en naturaleza.
                   Trees / árboles
  • Almendro - Almond trees. These trees can get quite large and produce a single fruit inside of a flour type bud.
  • Almacigo - Mastic tree
  • Avellano - Hazel
  • Caimito - Star apple
  • Cajuil - Cashew
  • Guasábara - Species of cactus that grows in the barren zones of the Dominican Republic
  • Arce - Maple
  • Cedro - Cedar
  • Flamboyan/ Framboyan - Flame Tree or Royal Poinciana. This tree flowers in late spring/ early summer and is very beautiful with it's bright red umbrella of flowers.(picture- new window)
  • Higuera - Fig tree
  • Cerezo - cherry tree
  • Caoba - mahogany tree. The flower of this tree is the National Flower (information and picture of the caoba)
                Animals / animales
  • Ardilla - Squirrel
  • Cabron - a large male goat
  • Cacata - tarantula-type spider (picture and information about the cacata)
  • Chinchilín - blackbird
  • Chivo - goat
  • Cocuyo or Cucuyo - firefly, lightning bug
  • Gallina - chicken
  • Huron - ferret
  • Mono - monkey
  • Pavo - turkey
  • Peje, Pecao - fish
  • Viralata - used to describe a mixed bread dog usually brown, and the way they search for food
  • Zorrillo - skunk
 
Here you will find the names of trees, flowers and animals in Spanish. Some things in Dominican Republic have names that are different than other Spanish speaking countries.

A very important Dominicanism to remember is the word vaina. If you do not know what something is just point at it and say la vaina / the thing. This can cover up for many unknown words! 


 

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  • Bee - English = bzzzz   
            Las abejas hacen en español (the bees say in Spanish) = bzzz
  • Bird - English = tweet tweet
            Los pájaros trinan hacen en español de españa (Spain) = pío pío, Argentina Spanish = pi pi
  • Cat - English = meow
            El Gato ladra hace español = miau
  • Chick - USA English = peep peep British English=cheep cheep
            español = pío pío
  • Cow - English = moo
            Las vacas mugen hacen en español = muuu
  • Crow - English = caw
            español = cruaaac, cruaaac
  • Dog - English = bow wow, arf, woof, ruff ruff 
            El perro ladra hace español = guau guau
  • Donkey - English = hee-haw
            Costa Rica Spanish = iii-aah, iii-aah
  • Dove, pigeon - English = coo
            La paloma hace en español = cu-curru-cu-cú
  • Duck - English = quack quack
             Los Patos hacen en español de españa (Spain) = cuá cuá, Argentina Spanish=cuac cuac
  • Frog - English=ribbit
            La rana croa; hace en español de españa = cruá-cruá, Argentina Spanish = berp, Peru Spanish = croac, croac
  • Goat - English = baaah
            El chivo hace en español = bee bee
  • Hen - English = cackle and cluck
            español = coc co co coc
  • Horse - English = neigh or whinny
            El caballo relincha; hace ; Colombia Spanish = iiiiou,  Paraguay Spanish = ioohoho, Peru Spanish = iiiiii,
            Spain Spanish = híiiiiiiiii
  • Owl - English = hoo 
            El búho hace en español = uu uu
  • Pig - English = oink oink
            El cerdo hace en español = oink-oink
  • Rooster - English = cock-a-doodle-doo 
            El gallo canta; hace;  Spain Spanish = kikirikí, Argentina Spanish = ki-kiri-ki
  • Sheep - English = baaah
            Las ovejas balan; hacen,  Spain Spanish = bee, Argentina Spanish = meeee
  • Tiger - English = grrrrrr
            El tigre hace en español de españa = grgrgrgr, Venezuela Spanish = gggrrrrrrr 
       
           How Animals Talk / Cómo los animales hablan
Remember the song Old McDonald Had a Farm (The Spanish version is called El viejo Juancho tenía una granja is on the bottom of this page)?. Well, in Spanish the animals make different sounds. Yes, animals living in Spanish speaking countries also speak Spanish. Even though when hearing a Spanish speaking animal make their given noise the sound is the same in my ear, when it hits a Spanish speaking persons ear, I guess, the sound is different. The person who's eardrums are intercepting the sound interprets the animal talk into their own language.

One really never thinks of an animal speaking a different language until you are confronted with it. Try calling a cat or dog the way you usually call them in Dominican Republic. They will ignore you completely. They are probably laughing at you inside their little animal heads! Remember, the little lip popping, kissy sound one makes to call a dog in one country can (and does) mean attack! in Dominican Republic. A cat will ignore you completely if you call it like you would in English but as soon as you say misu, misu it (may) then pay you attention. I wonder what Doctor Doolittle would do.....




 
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El viejo Juancho tenía una granja (Old McDonald Had a Farm), the song

 
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El viejo Juancho tenía una granja (Old McDonald Had a Farm) translated by Paola Ferate-Soto

El viejo Juancho tenía una granja, iai, iai, oo.
Y en su granja tenía un marrano, iai, iai, oo.
Con su oink, oink aquí, con su oink, oink allí,
Aquí oink, allí oink, en todos lados oink, oink.
El viejo Juancho tenía una granja, iai, iai, oo.

the rest of the verses continue:
Vaca: mu, mu
Pollito: pío, pío
Caballo: neigh, neigh
Oveja: bee, bee
Perro: guau, guau
Gato: miau, miau
Pato: cuac, cuac
 
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