Okay guys, I had an entirely different lesson planned for today, but then I saw this.  I was blown away: this Vine is the perfect mix of funny, ridiculous, useful, and memorable.

Today’s Vine is by SrDePera, from Panama, who was also featured in a lesson in September (“¿cómo te fue?“).

He matches a Mexican acoustic-pop song with footage of a cheese-rolling festival in Gloucester, England.  The cheese-rolling festival is apparently an annual tradition where a cheese is tossed down a grassy hill, and a bunch of adults race each other downhill to catch the cheese.  No, really.  Read more on Wikipedia.

The song is called ¡Corre! (“Run!”) and it’s by a Mexican duo called Jesse & Joy.

The Vine

Transcript & Explanation

The lyrics that play in this video are the chorus of the song:

Así que corre, corre, corre, corazon. = So, run, run, run, my dear.

Useful phrases

• corazón = heart.  But it’s also used as a term of endearment.
  • e.g. “Hola, corazon.“

• así que = so. (as in, “therefore”)
  • The beginning of the word gets cut off in this Vine so it sounds like “sí que” but it’s actually “así que“
  • This is a VERY COMMON way of saying “so”/”therefore” and can also be used as a filler phrase.
  • Similar meaning to entonces in Spanish

• corre = run. 
  • the verb is correr = to run
  • this is the informal (tú) command form.
  • for more about commands, check out this lesson.

Vocabulary

It’s a short list this time.  Make sure you’ve got all of these down pat and then take a listen to the song! (“¡Corre!” by Jesse & Joy)

• así que
• correr
• ¡corre!
• yo corro
• tú corres
• el corazón
• así

Want to watch the Vine again?  Here you go.