Span 1, Lesson 2

Span 1, Lesson 2

Greetings, Farewells, Self-Introduction, genders, numbers 0 to 10

Lesson Objectives

• Greetings

• Self-Introduction

• Farewells

• Numbers 0 to 10

Greetings in Spanish are always plural. It likes if you were saying in a funny English: "GoodS morningS, GoodS afternoonS, GoodS EveningS/nightS"

• buenos días (good morning)

• buenas tardes (good afternoon)

• buenas noches (good evening/night)

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Multiple Choice

Good morning en español

• Bueanas noches

• Buenos días

Multiple Choice

Good afternoon en español

• buenas noches

• buenas tardes

Multiple Choice

Good evening o good night en español

• buenas noches

• buenos días

Self-Introduction

In Spanish "we call ourselves" because our IDENTITY belongs to us. It's a cultural perspective ! This is the reason why, translations do not work properly. Therefore, do not use GOOGLE TRANSLATE!

¿ Cómo te llamas?

• Me llamo (add your 1st name)

• Me llamo María

• Me llamo Guillermo.

If you really want to ask "What is your name in Spanish, it would be ¿Cuál es tu nombre?

And the answer would be "mi nombre es ...." which means "My name is .....".

Be aware, that's not really Spanish because this is the way to think in English not in Spanish. Again it's a cultural perspective !

Multiple Choice

In Spanish the AUTHENTIC CULTURAL WAY to ask a name to someone would be...

• ¿ Cómo te llamas?

• ¿ Cuál es tu nombre?

Multiple Choice

When you are saying your name in Spanish, you would say "I call myself...."

• Me llamo

• Me llamo es

In Spanish, all the words have a gender

• masculine

• feminine

In order to remember the genders, we need to think BOY versus GIRL

• un chicO, the O ending tells you it's masculine

• una chicA, the A ending tells you it's feminine

• at 99% this rules is working !!!!

• I said at 99% because there is 1% of the words that follows their own rule when it comes to determine whether or not a word is feminine or masculine.

For people in English, we do have a gender

• a girl, a woman, it's feminine

• a boy, a man, it's masculine

• About PEOPLE, in English and in Spanish it's the same rule, the biological gender determines the gender.

• For words which are objects, their ending in O or A will help you to determine the gender of the objects: O for chico (masculine), A for chica feminine. (Remember chico: boy, chica: girl).

Multiple Choice

una chica

• feminine

• masculine

Multiple Choice

un chico

• feminine

• masculine

This is the reason why when someone is introducing to you, you must answer DELIGHTED based on your gender because DELIGHTED is a description of your feelings

• encantadO (un chico says it)

• encatadA (un chica says it)

Multiple Choice

Felipe (a boy) is introducing himself to Carmen (a girl). Read the dialogue and choose the correct ENCATAD@ FORM.

"Buenos días, me llamo Felipe." Carmen, is going to say ...

• Encantado

• Encantada

Multiple Choice

Read the dialogue, and choose the correct answer between Felipe y Pablo (2 chicos).

_Buenas tardes, me llamo Felipe. ¿ Y tú ?

_Me llamo Pablo. Encantad@

• Encantado Felipe.

• Encantada Felipe.

How are you today ?

¿ Cómo estás hoy ?

In Spanish, we have formal and informal you

• Formal are for adults you don't know like a manager, a lady at church, a teacher ....

• INFORMAL are for your family and your friends, for teenagers and kids you don't know well.

• Again it's a cultural perspective ! In English you are only using YOU. It does not matter who you are talking to.... SORRY impossible in Spanish !!!!!!

As a result,

• ¿ Cómo te llamas?

• versus

• ¿ Cómo se llama usted?

• On the top, it's informal. On the bottom, it's the formal way for asking the name of a lady that you are seeing at church every Sunday !

Same thing with the question "How are you today?"

• ¿ Cómo estás hoy?

• versus

• ¿ Cómo está usted hoy?

Multiple Choice

Why do you use formal you in Spanish?

• to talk to adults I don't know very well

• to talk to my friends.

Multiple Choice

Take a look of 2 informal sentences we have learned so far:

¿Cómo te llamas?

¿Cómo estás?

What is the last letter you see?

• S

• A

Multiple Choice

Take a look of the 2 formal questions we have learned so far:

¿ Cómo se llama?

¿Cómo está?

(I can add USTED which means DEAR YOU). What letter do you see at the end?

• A

• S

Let's compare and contrast

• Informal: ¿Cómo te llamas? and ¿Cómo estás?

• Formal: ¿Cómo se llama? and ¿Cómo está?

Los números

• 0 cero

• 1 uno

• 2 dos

• 3 tres

• 4 cuatro

• 5 cinco

• 6 seis

• 7 siete

• 8 ocho

• 9 nueve

• 10 diez

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