Something could happen to you.

• Algo te puede suceder = Something could happen to you
• achiote = a seasoning
• moriviví = a small shrub
• culantro = cilantro, a Caribbean herb
• coquí = a small, marsh creature

 I don't care what American girls do.

• casi señorita = almost a young woman
• pocavergüenzas = shamless acts
• mi amor = my love
• putas = whores (the ultimate insult)
• pendeja = fool
• Carron la fábrica = The factory is closed
• bodega = corner store
• tutumá = a special remedy
• ñames = yams
• yautías = vegetables called taniers in the US
• jíbaros = hicks, bumpkins
• pastelillos = tarts
• sofrito = a spicy sauce
• merengue a type of music and dance
• algo = something (later used to mean anything bad)
• títeres = used colloquially to mean twerp or twit
• chachachá = a type of music and dance

 Are You Going to be Famous?

• boleros = a type of Latin music
• artista = performer

 But They're Still Illegitimate…

• ¡Ay, que bueno! Oh, how nice!
• corridos ballads
• marketa = grocery
• blanquitos = white people
• pocaverg¥enzas = sass; back talk
• Y tu abuela, ¿donde está? = And your grandmother—where is she?
• jíbara = a person from the inland mountains of Puerto Rico

 What's a Cleopatra Dress?

• Ay, mi Dios = Oh, my god!
• recao = an herb used in Caribbean cooking. In other places, it is known as culantro or long coriander.
• queso del país = Puerto Rican white cheese made from milk
• yautías = taro roots
• pernil = roast pork shoulder
• monerías = foolishness, silliness

 Don't you want to sound Puerto Rican?

• casi mujer = almost a woman

 I don't care if the whole world is going.

• rancheras = a type of popular Mexican music
• asopaos = hearty soups are one-pot meals that combine rice, assorted seafood, tropical tubers and vegetables, seasoned with beer, broad leaf culantro, capers and olives
• sancocho = a type of stew
• guayabera = lightweight jacket loose shirt with large pockets; the type of shirt almost always worn by Caribbean men
• alcapurrías = capers
• pastelillos = a kind of tart
• desordenados = messy people
• casi un hombre = almost a man

 She's not exactly Method.

• estrámbolico = outlandish
• caballero = knight
• Tacaño = cheapskate, tightwad

 Stop thinking and dance.

• sinverg¥enza = scoundrel, someone without shame

 It must be a sin to be so disrespectful to the Virgin.

• desgraciado = disgraceful person
• Santa Maria, madre de Dios = Holy Mary, Mother of God

 Who do you think you are?

• quenepas = a type of fruit
• solar = plot
• no tiene corazón = she has no heart
• pobrecita = a phrase of pity that's equivalent to poor little thing
• coquito = coconut eggnog, a national tradition in Puerto Rico; the quintessential holiday drink
• por favor = please

 The music inside her…

• los nervios = nervousness
• décimas = satirical narrative poems; the root of Puerto Rican country music
• Pero llevava la música por dentro = She carried the music inside her
• manganzón = lazy man

 What size bra do you wear?

• bolita= a Latino version of the lottery
• compatriotas = compatriot, fellow countryman/-woman

 For that slave-girl look…