{"id":31,"date":"2017-01-02T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myspanishamiga.wordpress.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-01-02T01:31:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:31:16","slug":"word-of-the-week-abrazo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/word-of-the-week-abrazo\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Abrazo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><b>(el) abrazo\u00a0<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:large;\"><br \/>\n<b>abrazo = hug <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">(noun, masculine)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Say\u00a0it out loud!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Syllabic breakdown: a-bra-zo<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Sounds like:\u00a0<\/span>ah-BADAH-so<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Use in a sentence!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Dame un <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">abrazo<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, mi amor!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Give me a <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">hug<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, my love!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Cuando le vi, le di un <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">abrazo <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">fuerte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">When I saw him, I gave him a big <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">hug<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Cultural tips:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Spanish speakers may use the words \u201cun abrazo\u201d as a friendly close at the end of a phone call or message as a way to express affection or love.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Remember it:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">\u201ca-BRA-zo\u201d sounds a little like \u201cem-BRACE\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">\u201ca-BRA-zo&#8221; \/ &#8220;a bear hug\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.memrise.com\/uploads\/mems\/output\/5013135-131125181725.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.memrise.com\/uploads\/mems\/output\/5013135-131125181725.png\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">http:\/\/static.memrise.com\/uploads\/mems\/output\/5013135-131125181725.png<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(el) abrazo\u00a0 abrazo = hug (noun, masculine) Say\u00a0it out loud! Syllabic breakdown: a-bra-zo Sounds like:\u00a0ah-BADAH-so Use in a sentence! Dame un abrazo, mi amor! Give me a hug, my love! Cuando le vi, le di un abrazo fuerte. When I saw him, I gave him a big hug. Cultural tips: Spanish speakers may use the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/word-of-the-week-abrazo\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Word of the Week: Abrazo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,15,21,29,43,44,49,50,51,53,54],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abrazo","tag-amiga","tag-hug","tag-learning-spanish","tag-spanish","tag-spanish-amiga","tag-spanish-tutor","tag-spanish-vocabulary","tag-spanish-words","tag-tutor","tag-word-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spanishamiga.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}