4/10/07

2.30pm (or in Español numbers = dos: triente tardes)

GREETINGS LESSON Number 1 (portion)

Refers to p.9 of mini- manual that we do not have!

Comments                                                     Appropriate Responses

Hola = hello                                                                     Hola = hello

Buenos días = good morning                                    Buenos días = good morning

Buenas tardes = good afternoon                             Buenas tardes = good afternoon

Buenas noches = good evening                                Buenas noches = good evening

¿Qué tal? = how are things?                                     Bien = fine

¿Cómo le va? = how are things going?                    Bien gracias = fine thanks

¿Cómo esta (usted) = how are you?                         Más o menos = more or less

Mal = very bad

¿Cómo se llana usted? = what is your name?           Me llamo ….. = my name is …..

Mucho gusto = nice to meet you                                El gusto es mió = the pleasure is mine

Igualmente = equally or likewise

¿Qué hay de nuevo? = what’s new?                            No mucho = not much

¿Qué pasa = What’s happening /wrong                      Nada = nothing

¿Y usted? = and what about you?

FAREWELLS

Adiós (good bye)                               Hasta Mafiana (until tomorrow)

Chao (chow)                                       Hasta luego (until later)

Nos vemos (we’ll see ya)                 Gracias (thank you)

Qué le vaya bien (may everything go well for you)

SURVIVAL LESSON Number 2 (portion)

Dónde está un baño? (where is the bathroom?)

Dónde está un teléfono? (where is the telephone?)

Tengo hambre (I’m hungry)

Tengo sed (I’m thirsty)

Quiero mas (I want more)

No lo quiero (I don’t want it)

Por favor (please)

Gracias (Thankyou)

De nada (You’re welcome)

Lo siento (I’m sorry)

Perdón (Excuse me)

Con permiso (used when you need to get by someone or leave a group of people)

GRAMMAR LESSON Number 3 (portion)

Very confusing talking about words being masculine and feminine and singular and plural; what the……

Word                 Masculine                 Feminine

a / an                             un                            una                     SINGULAR

some                             unos                        unas                     PLURAL

the                                 el                             la                         SINGULAR

the (-s)                         los                           las                        PLURAL

Spanish Adjectives:

The green house (English)                              La casa verde  (Spanish = the house green)

Refers to p.11 of the manual we don’t have!!!!

Important to remember that words must agree with each other both in gender and in number; go figure…… ’

Most words that end in o are masculine and most words ending in a are feminine. Like English plurals end in the letter s.

Un banco = a bank

Un correo = a post office

Una tienda = a store

Una oficina = an office

Un baño = a bathroom

Una piscina = a swimming pool

Una revista = a magazine

Un periódico = a newspaper

Una casa = a house

Un documento = a document

Reference:

U.S. Institute of Languages, 2007, Visual Links: Learn Spanish Today, viewed 4 October, 2007, <http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/free_vocabulary.htm?link=5>

Post from ABB says:

Vamanos!

Vivió in Madrid para dos anos!

• What does this mean? I am not entirely sure. However I do know that Vamanos! = let’s go! (thanks to ABB), that Madrid is the capital of Spain (I listened in school) and that dos = two (thanks to Visual Link™).

Reference:

U.S. Institute of Languages, 2007, Visual Links: Learn Spanish Today, viewed 4 October, 2007, <http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/free_vocabulary.htm?link=5>