Thread: El Gordo Lottery - children singing numbers

Ok then! Everything clear now ;-)

In this example you give us the girl is singing out the number whereas the boy (the one you mean) signs the quantity of the prize (mil Euros), I am afraid there are just two words :-)

The video quality is quite poor, but the first one to talk is the girl, who says the number and then the boy sings out the number. Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by vicente

My mistake. I thought you were asking what English words they were using I've listened to it over and over. Right at 26:43 the boy slows it down but it is still unintelligible to me.

Ok - Thanks very much for trying - maybe someone else knows?
It's the most popular lottery in Spain so, surely someone knows what the 1st child says, it's just 3 words!

Thanks very much. That does make sense.

To my ears, there are 3 distinct sounds being made, Mi Lem Dos - which could indeed mean Mil Euros, but how the children say this is different to how Google translate says it.

https://translate.google.com/#es/en/mil%20euros

So, would this be a dialect thing? Or perhaps just a language nuance for ease of repetition (singing) purposes?

Let me put the question this way, if I went to Spain and had a 1000 Euro note (I know) would I say it like the Children (without the singing) or like Google translate?

Thanks for looking at this - I think the mystery has now been solved...

Ok - call me crazy - I rang the Spanish lottery and a kind man there was able to speak English and did confirm that the 1st child is saying: ""a thousand Euros"

So, thanks very much - I just wanted to double confirm due to the confusion here. Glad that's all sorted out now! :>)

Just to bear out what Matias says, you can hear the Argentine Gordo Lottery at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zTYxRIhCI0
Kids always use a distinctive sing to shout the numbers regardless of the country they are from. I've checked the Uruguayan lottery as well and it is all the same too