Saturday, October 31, 2009
We are going to teach you how to ask what the weather is like and how to say what the weathers like in Spanish.
Seasons:
Winter (el invierno)
Spring (la primavera)
Summer (el verano)
Fall (el otono)
Weather:
To ask the temperature (¿Que tiempo hace hoy?)
It’s cold (hace frio)
It’s hot (hace calor)
It’s windy (hace viento)
It’s sunny (hace sol)
It’s cloudy (esta nublando)
It’s humid (esta humedo)
It’s raining (esta lloviendo)
It’s snowing (esta nevando)
Friday, October 30, 2009
Telling Time in Spanish
These are some ways to ask the
To ask what time it is (¿Que hora son?)
To say time (Son las(una, dos, tres, cautro…))
To say a quarter of the time ( y cuarto)
To say half past the time (y media)
To say number of minutes before the hour ( …..menos)
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Learning Basic Phrases in spanish
We are going to show you how to have a basic conversation in Spanish. This will help you communicate better with people who speak Spanish. In addition we will teach different ways to say these things.
Some Basic Phrases are:
Buenos días!
Hello! / Good morning!
¡Buenas tardes!
Good afternoon!
¡Buenas noches!
Good evening! / Good night!
¡Hola! / ¡Chao!
Hi! / Bye! Adiós.
Good bye.
Por favor.
Please.
Hasta luego.
See you / See you later.
Hasta pronto.
See you soon.
Hasta mañana.
See you tomorrow.
(Muchas) Gracias.
Thank you (very much).
¿Cómo está usted?
How are you? (formal)
¿Cómo estás?
How are you? (informal)
¿Qué tal?
How's it going?
Bien / Muy bien
Good / Very good
Mal / Muy mal / Más o menos
Bad / Very bad / OK Sí / No
¿Cómo se llama usted?
What is your name? (formal)
¿Cómo te llamas?
What is your name? (informal)
Me llamo...
My name is...
These are some basic key phrases that you can use in conversations when you encounter a Spanish-speaking friend or stranger. Why is this important because it helps you at school and work it helps you make Spanish speaking friends.
Learn the alphabet in Spanish and teach other people how to say and pronounce the alphabet.
If you want to learn the alphabet and learn how to teach someone the alphabet in Spanish. we will be teaching you how to correctly pronounce the letters. Here’s a list of all the letters, the name of the letters and how to pronounce.
| Letters | Name | How to pronounce the letters |
| a | a | sounds like when your at the dentist ahhhhh |
| b | be | sounds like the Bay |
| c | ce | pronounced like the word say |
| d | de | pronounced like the word day |
| e | e | sounds like the english letter a |
| f | efe | sounds like f-a |
| h | hache | sounds like ahh-chay |
| g | ge | sounds like hey |
| i | i | sounds like eee |
| j | jota | sounds like hoh-tah |
| k | ka | shounds like kah |
| l | ele | sounds like el-lay |
| m | eme | sounds like ay-may |
| n | ene | sounds like n-nay |
| ñ | eñe | sounds like n-yay |
| o | o | sounds like oh |
| p | pe | pronounced like the word pay |
| q | cu | sounds like koo |
| r | erre | sounds like air-ay |
| s | ese | pronounced like the word essay |
| t | te | sounds like tay |
| u | u | sounds like ooo |
| v | uve | sounds like bay |
| w | doble uve | sounds like doubla-bay |
| x | equis | sounds like ah kee |
| y | y griega | sounds like ee-gree-ay-gah |
| z | seta | sounds like ssay-tah |
You can use this chart to memorize and learn the Spanish alphabet, you can also refer to this sheet when you need help on pronunciations. Once you get good at saying the letters you can teach other people how to say the letters also. This is one of the most important lesson because you cant say words without the alphabet.
Learning the Numbers in Spanish.
We are going to be teaching you how to count in Spanish. This will help you understand a lot of things like time and weather.
This is a chart of numbers from 1-20
| 1 (uno) | 2(dos) | 3 (tres) | 4 (cuatro) | 5 (cinco) |
| 6 (sies) | 7 (siete) | 8 (ocho) | 9 (nueve) | 10 (diez) |
| 11 (once) | 12 (doce) | 13 (trece) | 14 (catorce) | 15 (quince) |
| 16 (diecisies) | 17 (diecisiete) | 18 (dieciocho) | 19 (diecinueve) | 20 (veinte) |
These are the numbers going up by ten
| 10 (diez) | 20 ( veinte) | 30 (treinta) | 40 (cuarenta) | 50 (cincuenta) |
| 60 (sesenta) | 70 (setenta) | 80 (ochenta) | 90 (noventa) | 100 (cien) |
