Spanish Language Course || Beginner Spanish A1 || Spanish 101 & Basic Sentences

1. Introduction: All my name is Ana and welcome to Tapo. Thank you so much for purchasing our Spanish one course. Well, we cover the basics of Spanish. In this first class, you will start by learning the alphabet and the phone system. Spanish is indeed much easier than English, but there are still some characters that you still need to know, especially if you will be reading. This will make your entire journey so easier. Then we will move on to basic sentences where you will learn different ways of greeting people. Things like asking about personal information, like what's your name, how old are you, et cetera. And how to show good manners by saying please and thank you and much more. This will be the perfect way to start your journey to learning Spanish. I'm very excited to share this journey with you and I can't wait for you to succeed. Please don't forget to leave a review as it really helps our people to find our course and check our social media. You will find us at Tapeospanish in Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. See you very soon during our course. Alias. 2. Alphabet in Spanish: Welcome to the very first video of Basic Spanish one. In this video, we're going to start with the alphabet. And now I know, I know what you're going to say. Isn't that too basic? You might think so, but in my experience, there's always going to be that one thing that you didn't know. There's going to be that detail that you might have known, but you didn't know why. It's that way, you didn't know how exactly it sounded. Because we're also going to do, after the alphabet, we're going to do phonics like I do in my primary school, but we're going to do it in Spanish. You understand the sound and the different letters in Spanish and how it works role in the R, so many things, so I really want to start with the very basic while. Yeah, some of you might just know all of these and you'll be happy to just listen to it in the background. But I do recommend staying and watching the whole thing. Because hopefully there will be one thing that you will learn from each video, even if you knew most of it. It's always good to have a refresh on because this is Spanish basic one. We have to start with the very basic, don't we? Let's go for it. We start with the Spanish alphabet. Spanish we call it Abo because the first three letters of the Spanish alphabet. It makes a I hope you didn't know that because I was waging told when I learned about this. Okay. So let's get started. As you can see, this is the Spanish alphabet. You will notice that there's one letter that doesn't exist in the English alphabet. That's a letter or I'll say the whole alphabet in one go and then we'll talk about the and everything else. It's a f, the ta, L u i griega theta. Now the main differences I would say are the vowels that you say. You give them a name for our hours. We give them the sound for what I say, A, what's, it's, what's, it's my sounds confusing. I know, but I'll do it one more time. Follow along. It might maybe if you have to ask someone to spell something, the name of the street. Can you spell it for me? That would be really helpful if you knew how we say the alphabet. Let's say one more time, the notice the T u aka theta. Now I said, we'll talk more about the letter. There's going to be a full video dedicated almost just to that letter because it needs proper attention of how to pronounce the, how to do everything related to the. There's also going to be an explanation on how to roll the R's and how they work, why? Sometimes they are rolled and sometimes they're not. It's a whole thing, but trust me, it's not as bad. It seems this was a very easy way to start. I hope, and I'll see in the next video as. 3. Special Characters: All, I welcome to your second video of Basic Spanish. This video, we're going to talk about something that doesn't exist in English. It comes as a shock. And I know that, especially you start seeing it as soon as we start seeing full words. And it always catches people's attention, but you don't know how it works, so it's just a bit confusing. I want to get out of the way. You don't need to worry about this too much because I teach Spanish from exception to six. I know it's not very high level, but I also do tutoring and I teach many levels. As far as I know, a levels for Spanish, they learn about so many things, it's absolutely ridiculous. The stuff that they learn, they learn about music, history of Spanish music, and they learn about all these language, very specific things they don't learn about S, which is what we're going to talk about. Don't worry about, don't dwell on it too much. But if you know how it works from the beginning, it's going to make a difference again, in the long run, which is why we're doing it now. We're not going to focus on it. But I might, for example, in the future, tell you this word and then you prounc it because the tal, the focus on the deal there. Or remember, notice the tal there. Basically tales are those straight lines that come out of vowels only they tell you what syllable of the word or what vowel of the word has to be stressed. Now, look at these three words. I'm doing a bit over dramatic. Now, obviously you would not be dramatic when we're doing this in a normal conversation, but I want you to notice it. You can see that it happens in three different places. The first one is on the last syllable. Now, I'm not going to go over the rules over why the accent is on the last one. Sometimes if you see a stress on a vowel, know that that's going to be the one that is going to be stressed. If there's nothing gets a bit quite complicated, to be honest. But for now I want you to see and know how it works. The first one on the last, on the second one lap, my students start saying lapse. Obviously we're going to talk about the phonics of the letter zet, how it's sound, although it can also be coming. Last one is no on the third last syllable. When it's on the third last, it's always going to have the til, sometimes it won't have it if it's on the second last or the last one. But again, I'm not going to explain the rules just to know that when the stress is marked by a ti, okay, let me say the three words again. You can notice that stress, that telephone, if you went with English, it's deleo. Again, if you see the stressed, you just have to try to pronounce them as close as the Spanish as you can. What you want is to, oh, I know this. I know. Aina has told me that when there's a line over the syllable, over the vowel, that means that it's stressed. I know how this works. I'm confident I can read this. It will happen, especially when we start reading, when we do comprehensions, things like that, that you will have to notice these little things. Hope it made sense. I know it's speak chaotic and it's a lot of information. For the second video, I thought we were doing basic. It's still basic. Trust me again, don't dwell on this too much but it's very good that now you know this. I see you in the next video, ads. 4. Phonics - Part 1: All, I'm welcome to your first phonics lesson. We can't start it any other way, but talk about the that really road that is so hard for many English stickers. First of all, let's talk about how to make the road. The first thing you do is you put your tongue at the behind your teeth. On my tongue is there. You start by making it vibrant. Push it forward until slowly practicing. You will make that sound happen. I have to say it's not vital for Us native Spanish speakers that you roll Rs. We expect a certain level of happening. It's fine. The fact that you are making such an effort, the fact that you are learning our language, it's more important to ours than the fact that you can roll your s to perfection. Don't stress on it. I feel like I say, don't stress. Don't dwell on things far, too much in these videos. But it's true you are doing the first step. You are learning Spanish. It will not be perfect at the beginning. It might not even be perfect at the end. I've been doing English basically all my life. I know it's not perfect. I've got my accent, it's how it is. I know that people understand me fairly well. I've got a good level, I'm confident. Doesn't need to be perfect. I don't need to have a London accent or an American accent for that matter. I just need to be speaking well using the correct verb tenses. I need to make the sounds, I know that, and this will be the opposite for you. In English, you speak far slower than we speak in Spanish. So don't be surprised if you go to Spain and they are speaking insanely fast. We do. I notice very well now that I didn't notice until I moved, that when I was speaking in English, I was speaking at a Spanish speed. I sounded a bit insane. But yeah, if you go to Spain don't be surprised by this. Okay, let's move on. The R, you can have one or two R depending on the position of the letter. Depending on what's around the letter. If you've got one or two, it will sound or it will sound like like a soft. For example, I'm going to show you three words. Ta. Ta sounds like a rolled R, strong one. Because it's at the start of the letter or set of the word rata. Again, if you said rata, I would what you mean, Anyone in Spain would know what they mean. Unless they're trying to not collaborate with you in any way. But you wouldn't know. The second word is. You can see that in this case we've got two R, that's between vowels. You can put two R and that makes the sound like if you've got two vowels repeating, put two R to make it sound stronger. Because on the third word, you can see pro. If you don't have those two R's, it will sound like pro. If you were saying this without the rolled arm. Trying to think. You would say pero. That's very English accent, English Pero. Pero. You would try to make that a bit harder with Pero when you mean a dog. When you mean pero, just know that when you want the R to sound strong, to sound road between two vowels, you put double at the start of the sentence. You always put just one because it will always sound strong. It will always sound road. If it's between a vowel and a consonant, it will always sound soft. Hope that makes sense because we're moving on to the next letter. That it's quite important and that my students after years and years of me saying this, still sometimes get wrong and get a very dirty look from me until they realize the mistake. It's the letter H, which in Spanish doesn't have a sound. We call it Ace on the alphabet, but then it's got no sound. It's a remnant from all languages when it might have had a sound. We'll start with the first word, which everyone knows, which is Ola. You don't say, do you? Everyone knows this word. Everyone knows how to say Ola. We say, we don't say. This makes it hard for you to spell stuff correctly because doesn't have a sound. You just know it's there because it makes no sense. We've got many words to start with, bowl and don't have the age in front of it. You just have to know, but it's fine. Again, you are doing a Spanish, basic Spanish course. You're learning these words. You're seeing them for the first time. You're just trying to notice how it works. The first word, the second word is a. Then the third one that I want to show you, because it in between the word, it's oda, which means now it's aura. It just sounds like lots of vowels put together. Aura. Notice the art. Because it's between two vowels had double R. It would be a, which is a completely different thing. Get, notice the H. It's not just remember, if you see an H, it will not have a sound. That's it. It will have a sound if you mix it with the C, which makes Chip which is like the English language, so you don't have to worry about this. Okay, I hope that this makes sense. And I'll see you for second, for next sense because yes, there's going to be plenty of them as 5. Phonics - Part 2: Welcome to video number two of your phonics lessons. We're going to talk about four different letters. And so these are, don't get stressed. We'll slow it down, the first letter. Sound. The sound is easy because you've cat in English you see which means in, which means cater you. In English which is J, the sound for almost as if you were going to try to clear your throat if you got a bit of flea. It could also be a very strong H for you, but it's a, if you made it like a very strange, again, like I said with the, with the R's fine. Remember that you are making that first step in learning the language from letter J. That will always be the sound with letter J because we'll see that there's makes that sound sometimes the next letter. And sound is the, the easiest way for you to know how to make this sound because you already know how to make that sound. The sound in Lasagna. In English that G, N in your lasagna. It's my lasagna. It's basically the same sound. You can refine it more when you start speaking more fluently. But for now, just remember that the sound is basically the sound in your English. Lasagna. Lasagna. For example, we say the main word that we have in with that, it's Espana, which is Spain. In English. Yeah. Who knew it was going to be that easy, right? The last letter Sound whatever you want to call it is now, not all places make you can make it sound like it's made by two else put together. It's not in the alphabet, but we put them together to make the sound. We say four example we could say, we can say a, a year. Or some people in some countries would say jam like a. You've got many options if you want to say. I think the easiest way for English speakers is normally to say it as a year, Yamada jam or with the same letter. Easy enough. Wasn't it much easier than rolling the S. I know that. I'll see you in the next video where you're going to have a few, maybe not as easy sounds and letters. A 6. Phonics - Part 3: I'm ready for some fun because this one is a bit tricky, but it's not too bad once you know it. Just a bit complicated. But that's Spanish for you, isn't it? It's a letter. We call it thin and it can make the or it can make the So let me tell you. It's followed by, it will make the sound. You will see that in the words una doesn't matter where it goes in the world. As long as C is followed by A, O, U, it will make the sound cue. Casa barco, Una, when we make with it, will make the sound. The words would be, for example, or them. Now, if the sound, it's a bit hard to make for you. Try to think of English words might have that sound. It's not the same, it's like the H. You can always say S, some countries and some parts of Spain. Instead of making the sound make S, you could say instead of, you could say, you could say there's always a way around and always a trick. Do not worry. Now, if we want to get that sound with E and I, we have to put K and K would look like this. Key words where we could use this would be cheese 15. I'll put all the words back on the screen now and I'll read them slowly. Barco, una with the sound, finds that sound. That's it Takes a bit of time to get used to it when you're reading, but don't worry. We will have a test of some sort at the end of the section so you can test your knowledge. There you read, there you see. The more you get used to these sounds and how it works, the more sense it will make. You just need to get used to it. So you're on the next one. And. 7. Phonics - Part 4: Let's get started with the fourth video of phonics lessons. This one's going to be easy because the rules are more or less the same as with the C. But this time it's with the letter. In our, normally the G is meant to sound like it only in certain cases. It sounds like when we have it with the same way that it sounded like when it was with, in this case with the go, the worst that I'm using as an example in this case will be goto gotta gusano. So far so good. Then with the and I, it will sound like Joe. That's why I told you that the Joe is going to be a bit more complicated in the future. Here we are when we have and I, it sounds like Joe. The words I'm going to use to show you are Eno and his. If for example you want to say no, his, like I said, you can do it like very strong aspirated H from English instead of going and ira donoho. If we want to have a sound with I, it will be the same as almost the same bit easier as with the C will do the this. The words I'm going to use are going to be Guerra, Guerra. Also notice the double because it between two vowels. Guerra and guitaraera. Guitar Gera Guitar. Got the U. Now if you like for the U in Gage to have a sound, this is the only part that's different from the S. You can do that. If you put a do on two dots on top of the U, it will look like this, G. The two words I'm going to use to, you see this is inogen, which is a stork. Have to think about that for a second. Poena. That's if you want for the U to have a sound. When you have gay again, you will find this very regularly. But if you do now, you know how it works. I hope it makes sense. Let me read all those words one after the other so you can notice the difference. We've got to start with, we've got got got gusano, he hid sound again, we've got Guerra, Guitar last having with the sound inogen. We only have one more session of phon before we get onto the testing. I'll see you later. 8. Phonics - Part 5: All right, let's get on to the last phonics, lesson number five. We will start with something that's not easy for Spanish people, so you can get in on the joke. It's a letter, B and B for me, because my first language is Catalan. It sounds different. I can say B and B quite easily, but if you move around Spain and the different countries that speak Spanish, some people and some different dialects and some different accents might not know how to do those letters different. They will always, by deferred, make sound. You can see it in these three words. I can say Barco, Barco, Vacca. You see that? I make a Vaca and I can make Vacca. The two words. You won't find these mistakes something very confusing, because Vaca means cow and back means the thing that goes on top of your car when you want to put like skis or something big on top of your car. Those two things that go on top, that's a back hard to confuse those two. But you can see that I myself can make that differentiation. You're lucky because I can make Vaca and you know which one I'm saying. However, very often you'll find that Spanish people won't be able to make that sound. Say Barca back, which one did I say first? You'll never know how to know which letter to use. You don't, you just get used to it. You have to learn, they just unfortunately sound identical to many Spanish people. It's quite unfortunate, but you will get used to it. You will. In the test, I'll try to show you how to make it my way and some people in Spain way, you can get the experience. Normally, when I make my videos and when you are learning, I will do it my way because what comes naturally to me. But I do want you to know that this is a thing and this happens. The good thing about having a Spanish Spanish teacher is that you get these tip bits that you might not know. If you're not a experienced experience, call it just being Spanish next. So it's much easier. It's a double scam. It sounds like it will sound much easier once you see the words a fion ion. I've told you before that thirst sound can be substituted for axion completely fine. I would say a ion not too bad is the very last sound that I'm going to torture you with, is a letter. In English sounds sounds vibrating in Spain. You won't find it in that many words. A lot of words that you will see in will be coming from English or from other languages. The word I'm going to use to show you thought, it sounds like th. It doesn't sound like if you say to someone, they will understand If you say so, which is the Spanish the way that some Spanish people would say though because they can't make the first sound as well. They would make. So if you say different letters, different ways, it doesn't matter. Not correct, but we will understand and the way some people make it. Right now, you've had all your lessons on phonics and I'll see you on the next video for two different videos or two different tests. I hope it works out because these will be when you actually put what you've been learning to test and you see if you understood or not. If you need to re, watch these videos and I would suggest that you do perhaps before you do the test, that will be quite helpful. Probably. I always recommend watching these videos several times because it helps the more you hear it, the more you see it. It makes more sense after you've seen all the videos to re, watch them. As a reminder to make it sink in whatever you want to call it. It just helps see for the tests as. 9. Alphabet - Test 1: Are you ready for the test? Because I surely am. I'm quite excited about this test not going to lie. I think it's a good idea. If I may say for myself the way this is going to work is in a minute I'm going to disappear. And you're going to get a big screen, a big list of words. They're not going to be in the same order as I've explained to you before in those phonics videos. That is on purpose because I want you to be thinking for yourselves, not in the order. If you've been taking notes, I'm going to give you the big screen with all the words and you're going to have to try to read them out loud. You can say them if your head, if you're in public transport. If you, if you don't feel like repeating words out loud in your house, although I do recommend saying it out loud. Because if you make a mistake out, it really helps because when you notice your mistake, that will really help. Okay, Ready? 2 minutes. Read the words. I recommend doing it out loud or that you can do it in your head and then I'll tell you how to actually read them and I'll explain a bit. Okay, see you in a minute. How did it go? I hope you made some mistakes because at this point, that's what we want. I know I'm confusing. Why am I telling you words that you don't know yet and I'm not telling you what they are? It is confusing, but you don't need to know what they are. You need to just know how it sounds. At this stage of your learning, you are getting used to that Spanish sound. I'll try to tell you what it means. I might forget some of them. I apologize if I do, but it's not my priority at this point. My priority for you now is that you know how to say these words. You will see as we move along that sometimes you won't know what the word means, but if you know how to read it, you've won, basically, right? I'm going to read them once really fast. I'm going to put them here on site with my editing magic. Then I'm going to go slowly, one by one, telling you I'm going to try to put myself in your shoes and see what mistakes you could have made and what was the tree key part of each word. Let's fast car. Pina Gordo here on Aguila Apagar, quadra pin, charcoare, Brag, Guapo. There's a lot going on. Let's do it slowly so you can have some peace of mind. First one to steal the tricky bit was to know that the first one was hard on the last 1 second. So at the start with the and at the end. Kid, Pineapple sound Gordo. Quite easy. You got the go and you got. But because it's between a vowel and consonant, it's soft gordo. Fact it was that sound to choose. You had the double between the two vowels and the soft one at the end to run all those different ways saying street in Spanish with double L. That's similar to English reaction. You had the accent at the end. Don't worry if you didn't do the accent correctly. That's again my addition to your learning. The difficulty was a eagle with the accent and a turn off. It was easy, it was just the quad square. This one might have been a bit tricky because you got the C and the U and the makes cool. That was the only thing you had to notice. The Coppin, it was at the end. That sounds charcoal. Charcoal at the start and at the end, number five. And it also had the the same letter to different sounds, garden the accent at the end. And it also had the J always sounds org, fire, pit, fire, big fire. Had the difficulty of the at the start. It also had that sounds had the difficulty of the R, that soft sits between a vowel and consonant means to burn. I said there's a theme in this couple of words to burn. It was, this was the two dots on the U that make it so that may give the U a sound even though it's in the next one it's very different thing, I forgot the last one not saw. Translate to English gaps handsome could have been tricky that you reclast and you had the quo. I hope that went well. I hope it makes sense. I think it might help for you to try to read them again without me. Go back to that screen and see if now that makes sense. All the videos that you can re watch, it will help tests as well. Do them a few times. Maybe give it to rest. Come back to this in a few days. Even if you've continued with your Spanish course, come back to the test. If you can read, you are the winner. I'll see you in the next video for a second tests. 10. Alphabet - Test 2: All ready for the second test because, okay, these tests going to be the opposite. First, I'm going to read words to you and you have to write them down. It's like a spelling test, basically, pause me go and get pen and paper. Do it on your phone, do it on a laptop. Do anything easier for you, the better. Although if you do it on your keyboard or a phone, you'll be missing letter in and you won't be able to put any accents. But that's fine if you remember that that was supposed to be in. Should be fine. Don't worry about the tiers or the accents because that's really tricky. And I know that again, I've told you Spanish people struggle with this. Sometimes it takes our kids ages to learn this. Do not worry, I'll do this three times. One time just fast. One time slowing down on each word, and one more time fast. But telling you the translation, fraud words. After this, I'm going to magically disappear for a bit. And you're going to get that big screen with all the words that you will mark yourself or change them, or notice your mistakes. If you did it on your phone, then I'll come back and I'll talk about some things that might have been a bit more tricky. Okay, let's get to it. Okay. First time I'll do it fairly fast. Just so you get an idea of how many words there will be and how this will work path. Mahia, Ana part er, Amborgesa maker, kal kita gola gamba Boise said Na collection. Now, careful with these two alba gizmo. That's it. Okay. Now I'm going to do it. Slow down. I'm going to repeat them a few times so you can spell them. Papa Ropa. A. Mahia. Mahia, Gay guy, Guyana. Anatta. A. A. Borges. Hema. Think about the sound. Think about the letter that comes after the sound. A. K, K N Guitar Key. K, T, Go, go. It's not going to be the same spelling as your goal. Robaba. Gamba bull bull, nene pon, pon, pon thao, aionionioniono tricky ones. Aba or if I was not being very nice, I could say last one, gizmo, Gizmo. Just remember how it works. Um, now, third time I'm going to do it faster, but I'm going to tell you what the words mean. Don't need to write the meaning down. Don't worry. It's just nice to know a closed maia magic to fall a spider part like a plaster that you put when the wheels of your car have a hole, when you put a part on them to wound Borg. Can you guess burger, a gem to eat. To be quiet, shut up. Which in Spain, by the way, it is not rude to say, tell someone to shut up. A, to take off or to remove again. Can you guess it's not a goal as something you achieve. It's a goal just for football from your emails. Gaba shrimp, boreen swan, Japan, Thai Sapphire N to be born. Collection, again these ones are easy. Collection up body, Aca chap, a small Kaya king. Now I'm going to disappear. And you can going to see all these words on your screen for about 1 minute. But you can pose it if you need to have it for longer. And then I'll come back. So you can see and I can tell you which parts of the word were supposed to be tricky. See you in 1 minute. In the first word, the tricky bit was the R shouldn't have been too tricky. That might have been the back one, because you don't know that, which means one has a H at the start. Maia been fairly easy, not that we know that. And I make the sound, which at this point, hopefully, would have been fine, it was the fact that you have to write with Q's had two things at the start. Although if it's a work like this that it sounds similar and it's going to look similar as well, if that makes sense, that H will be there as well. And the goal, it was strictly because it was similar but not really. Gaba was just one R then the J and the accent, which you don't need to worry about. So was at the start, that sounds like name collection up. Should have been easy. That was a whole mess. I know I put them next to each other. On purpose was the V and the V and the both. Jassi, with you making the sound, go back if you need to. I hope it makes sense. I hope it helped to reaffirm the reading skills that you were acquiring back now. I can't wait to see you on the next section for some proper Spanish, not these basic anymore. 11. Greetings: Welcome to the second section of the Spanish course. These are going to be basic sentences. We'll start with greetings and we'll move on to things that you will need when you first start speaking to anyone in Spanish. The first video is going to be about greetings. We'll start with the basic one. The most versatile one, the one that everyone knows means hello. It can be used anytime of the day. It can be used in any situation. Informal, anything. Oll is always the way to go. O repeat with me when I say these words. It's good that you practice out loud. Next we've got three ways of saying hello. It's depending on the time of the day. The same as in English would be the equivalent to good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Let's get to it. The first one is Buenos Dias, which is good morning. This one, I would say, can be used from the time you wake up until 12:00 P.M. This is the same in English. Buenos. Good morning, Buenos S Buenas. The second one we have is bent. When I start, I would say come from 12:00 P.M. up until it's dark. This will change during winter and summer because I would say in Spain, maybe if there was a time to start saying changing from good afternoon to good evening. It would be about 08:00 P.M. That's night. Otherwise, just cut yourself if it's dark or not. Star means good afternoon when I start as buses. The last one is Buenas noches. Buenas notches can be used for two things. Want to say hello, I wanted to say goodnight. We don't have that differentiation. Buenas notch can be used either from when it's dark or from 08:00 P.M. Roughly, you arrive somewhere and you say bus notches, meaning good evening Busch. However, we use it more often to say good night as I'm going to sleep. I'm saying good night to my family. Good night, bye to me. Bach is more farewell than hello. Good night. Now if you don't want to make mistakes six with the basics, Ola, and to say goodbye as as goodbye means as as as the two more basic words that I can't finish the first video without saying which. Probably no, Yes and no. It means yes, C. Notice that the no is different because you make like a no in English and Spanish is just no much easier in Spanish. Because as you've learned from the previous section, what you read are the letters that you see, complicated stuff. So let's go through all those words one more time. O, Hello? Buenos. Buenos dias. Good morning. When I start, when I start, Good afternoon, when has not chess. Has not chess. Good evening or good night. Adios. Adios. Goodbye. See? Yes, No, no. And that would be, you'll see you on the next video. Aos. 12. Manners: In this video, we are going to talk about being polite because that's one of the first thing that you want to know after saying hello, you want to come across as someone nice, someone who's got really good manners, someone who's interested. You already do because you're already learning a new language, which is the best way to start. Let's get into it. The first thing we need to know is obviously when you are speaking in Spanish, you would not be making that, you would be just saying it's two words, but we say it as one for the next one is thank you. Which is Grapias. Grapias. If you can't make that sound, you can say Gracias and it's equally valid graphias. The next one, and I really want you to pay attention to this one, is com notice that at the start of the sentence there's a question upside down that will happen to all questions in Spanish. When you see them written down, they will always have an upside down question mark that is historically, because Spanish people talk so much, we write I'm a translator. The first thing that we were taught is that for one paragraph in English, there's going to be a two in Spanish, or it's going to be a double because we use more words. Our sentences are also longer than the ones in English. It could be that I'm asking a question that's going to be almost a paragraph long. When they were figuring out how the language was going to work, they decided to put this upside down question mark at the start. When you would be reading something. You would know that in your head to make the sing song of a question. Because you read differently if it's a question or normal sentence. That's why it is there. Again, one of my many fun facts that I hope you enjoy. Yeah, that's just so that you know that it exists. You know why it is there. Very good trivia question, I guess it's going to always be there. Don't get obsessed with it, but it will go. Estas means how are you. Got Again, when it's not many words, we normally merge them into one because we want to say so many words. We speak a lot in case you haven't noticed, gotas, gotas, how are you? Then the answers can be, let's say three tiers. N. I'm good, I'm doing well. N N The next one will be C, we're going, that means it's like, so you can also say regular, which is not regular. It means normal, average as and regular. All of these three mean. So then if you want to be very catastrophe and you want to say that you're doing really badly, you would just say mal, mal, mal. Since we're talking about being polite. Once someone asks you how are you, and you have told them that mal, you have to ask, how are you doing? Much easier in Spanish for ones. Let's go through all these words again. Favor por favor, please. Gratias. Gratias. Thank you. Costas como estas Costas, how are you, bien bien. This means good. Now the three that are coming now means a aand, then you go mad mal mal. Then what about you? Hope you enjoy that and learn something interesting. See you on the next video ads. 13. Personal Information: In this video, we're going to talk about personal information, how to ask for it, and how to give it. We're going to start with the question and then we'll practice the answer. Some of it you might not be ready to make the full sentence, but you will build up on it. The first one is Jamas Jamas. Sound That's a bit tricky, but you can do it. You can also say, Jamas Jamas. That's what's your name. And then to answer that, you say Amaya Am. The next question could be toss. How old are you in Spanish? We don't say we are years old. We say we have X years old. This means how many years do you have? If you translate it literally from Spanish Quants, Quants years old to I'm 30 years old. To number to. Another common question when you're asking personal information would be, where are you from? If you break it down, then you answer there, So the Macaca. And then you could ask the further question, de vez, where do you live? De vez. De vez vis you would say Vivo. And that place where you live. Vivo. Vivo. Londres. Now, I'm saying Londres in Spanish because I know how to, you will eventually learn because it's part of the curriculum. But if you are starting, this is the basic conversation that you can have with someone. You won't have that conversation. Do it say London, say vivo in London. And people will know where you live. So don't worry about seem silly or not knowing it. Try to talk. The best way to practice Spanish is talking. If you have the opportunity to say practice those three sentences that you do it because it's going to be beneficial for you even when we move on. If you're trying to speak to someone and you make a sentence and mixed up some English words in between to make the whole thing. If you make up words, it's fine. I've said many times you are trying and that's the best thing that you can do. That being said, we're going to go through all the words one more time. Mass. What's your name memo? My name is to Santos. How old are you to? I am years old. There is. Where are you from? Say there. There. I'm from Abs. Where do you live in? That would be. Hope you've enjoyed it. I'll see you on the next one. 14. Do You Speak English?: This is the fourth video of the section. In this one, we're going to learn some sentences that will be useful for you now that you are on your journey of learning Spanish. Let's say that you're not so good, that you might need some help. That you can still rely on people speaking English for you to be able to communicate. The first one would be Spanish. They will understand that you're not so great yet. It would be a app. I'm learning Spanish. Stop. The next step would be that you don't speak Spanish. App doesn't make a sound. Doesn't make a sound too. Used to be with kids, Alpro, getting a bit better. We can say I don't speak Spanish well. It means that it's not there yet. No. Bien Espana, Esp. Then for you to ask for that extra bit of help, You could ask if they speak English or if they understand English. First one would be ala singles. A ingles means English, alas, les. Or you can ask if they understand English. Less notice as well that all the languages that I've posted, they're not in capital letters. And that's because in Spanish languages don't go capitalized. Another fun fact, let's go through all these words one more time. Aprendo panopendopo estapa I'm learning Spanish. No, ablespaolobloespao. I don't speak Spanish. Noblespa. I don't speak Spanish that well. Nobles, able, able. Do you speak English? Singles. Do you understand English? And Ms. Le Mingles. And that would be for this one. See Zoon alias. 15. I Understand / I Don't Understand: Welcome to the fifth video of the section. In this video, we're going to talk about understanding, not understanding. Asking people to repeat, or the ones are not as basic as the previous ones. The previous ones, you were just saying, I can't do this. I'm not good at Spanish in this one. Just understanding the first two are a bit confusing, but explain the difference in a minute. We'd I don't understand, it doesn't mean I don't understand you. I think in English we would say I don't understand what you're saying. It's not being rude, I don't understand what you're saying. It means that I don't have vocabulary or it doesn't make sense. Could beat someone, maybe would phrase in another way. But if you're not being rude. Endo. I don't know what you're saying. Endo. The second version is endo. I don't understand it. By it you mean what you just said? No law deno, no lo, end. The difference between the two is that if you were talking to someone, you would normally say endo because you're not understanding that person, you're talking to someone. However, if it's me explaining something that we are working on, you would tell me what you just told me. No. Do these things that you're saying I don't understand. It could also be in another situation, like someone declining a problem that they haven't do or why is my computer not working? If you're working in computing, I don't know. It doesn't work. No, I don't know why it's not working. Okay, so that would be the difference if you're speaking to someone. No. Would be the way for you to go. Next one put. Could you repeat Buzick? Out roll, Dare repetcptuz. Again, I told you we merged word together, petit. It sounds like one. Then the next one is a mouthful. But it will really help you, especially in your journey as a Spanish learner, because you would be asking, can you say that again slower? This will help you understand the words. Maybe instead of saying the words merged into one, they'll say more slowly, making a differentiation of words. This will help you in your, this would be similar to the previous sentence, but you add map. Can you say that again? But slower Patio, patio. These awesome words. That would be really helpful for you. I'm going to go through all of them one more time. Do I don't know what you're saying? Do I don't understand it? I'll say those two. No, lo entiendo pues pet. Can you repeat? Pues patio. Pues patio. Can you say that again? So, see you on the next video as. 16. How do you say..... in Spanish?: In the last video of this section. Finally, in this one, we're going to one up our question and asking how to say stuff. These few things are going to be really useful for you to ask in your learning process. These things you could to me, you can ask them if you go to a Spanish tutor. You could ask them to someone who's helping you learn Spanish. You can ask them in forums if you're doing that or in social media. You could also ask them if you know someone Spanish that you can trust and it's helping you learn. You can ask them if you ask in Spanish, you look so great. These are going to be of how to say stop and how people can help you with your learning. The first one is comer word pan. How do you say the word in Spanish? Let's just an example. Comothnd. I don't know how to say if you're wondering, is because I've got many in my eyesight and the pan, the next one is the opposite. If you've got a word in Spanish that you don't understand significa word, what does this word mean? Bella word, a significant word. Then you can ask this to someone if you've got it written down, a word that you've seen, you don't remember the videos from the previous section that, well, you don't know how to read it. You don't know how to say it. You want to ask how do you say this word? You show the word gootam. Estara esta palabra, and that's it, keeping the last word short and sweet, because I'm going to give you some work. How do you say this word in Spanish? Pan significa. What does this word mean? Significa. Significa la gota. Palmer, pala. How do you say that word? Goal, Goop. That would be it. Now my work is to go back. Watch this section all over again. Make sure you're repeating what I'm saying. Make sure you're going back. Make sure you're taking notes if you need to. It's very important because repetition is key in languages. Like I said, if you can go out now if you've got a trip with this section, now you're ready to go and ask for small stuff in Spanish, not a lot. You've learned a few things. Again, you're on the right track. And make sure again, you go back, repeat, repeat, repeat. You might want to do another few sections again and then go back maybe 123 sections and then go back to the first one and do it all over again. I hope that you've been able to identify some of the words that we talked about, the saying, the phonics that we've been practicing. Now that we've put it in practice, you've been able to see it, what everything is, you know how it works. Maybe you could go back and watch that phonics and then rewatch this one to see if you know the different stuff. But I hope that it was really good. I will see you on the next section very soon as.