User:Celestianpower/Spanish/Lesson 1

Lesson 1 &mdash; ¿Cómo te llamas?

Dialogue

 * Raúl: ¡Hola! Me llamo Raúl. ¿Cómo te llamas?
 * ''Sofía: Hola, Raúl. Me llamo Sofía. ¿Cómo se escribe Raúl?
 * ''Raúl: Se escribe R-A-Ú-L. ¿Qué tal?
 * ''Sofía: Regular. ¿Y tú?
 * ''Raúl: Muy bien, gracias.
 * ''Sofía: ¡Qué fantástico! Adiós, Raúl.
 * ''Raúl: ¡Hasta luego!

Translation (wait until the end of the lesson).

Hello!

 * Examples
 * ¡Buenas mañanas, clase!
 * Good morning, class!
 * Hola, ¿Qué tal hoy?
 * Hello, how are you today?
 * Adiós, ¡hasta luego!
 * Bye, see you soon!

Go to the exercise.

What's your name?
To ask someone else's name in Spanish, use Cómo, then one of the phrases in the table below (¿Cómo te llamas? is "What's your name?").

In Spanish, to say your name, you use the reflexive verb llamarse, which means literally to call oneself (Me llamo Robert is "My name is Robert").


 * Examples
 * Me llamo Chris
 * My name is Chris
 * Se llaman Peter y Robert
 * They're called Peter and Robert.
 * ¿Cómo te llamas?
 * What's your name?
 * ¿Cómo se llama?
 * What's his name?

Go to the exercise.

Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¿Qué tal? How are you? Inglés 	Español How are you?Qué tal? ¿Cómo estás? Great!Fantástico Fantástica Very well muy bien Well 	Bien Fine 	Regular Bad 	Malo Mala Really bad 	Fatal And you? ¿Y tú? Thank you 	Gracias

How are you?
On some of the words above, there are two options. The one ending in "o" is for males, and the one ending in "a" is for females. It's all to do with agreement, which is covered in the next lesson.
 * Note


 * Examples
 * Roberto: Hola, Rosa. ¿Qué tal?
 * Hello, Rose. How are you?
 * Rosa: Muy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú, Roberto?
 * Very well, thanks. And you, Robert?
 * Roberto: Regular. ¡Hasta luego!
 * I'm OK. See you later!

Go to the exercise. Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¿Qué tal? How are you? Inglés 	Español How are you? ¿Qué tal? ¿Cómo estás? Great! Fantástico Fantástica Very well 	Muy bien Well 	Bien Fine 	Regular Bad 	Malo Mala Really bad 	Fatal And you? ¿Y tú? Thank you 	Gracias

The Spanish alphabet
Here is the normal Spanish alphabet. However words aren't alphabetized by it. Please read the notes and sections below. (Blue letters are a part of the normal English alphabet.)

Audio: [[media:Spanish_alphabet.ogg|OGG]] (646KB)

Although the above will help you understand, proper pronunciation of Spanish consonants is a bit more complicated:

Most of the consonants are pronounced as they are in American English with these exceptions:
 * b like the English b at the start of a word and after m or n; otherwise closer to v (in Latin America there's no distinction)
 * c before a, o, u and other consonants, like English k
 * c before i and e like English th in “think” (in Latin America is like English s)
 * ch like ch in “cheese”
 * d between vowels (even if it starts a word following a word ending in a vowel) or at the end of a word, like English d in dental
 * g before e or i like the Scottish pronunciation of ch in “loch”, except that it is voiced
 * g before a or o like g in “get”
 * h is always silent (except in the digraph ch)
 * j like the h in hotel
 * ll is pronounced like English y in “yes”
 * ñ like nio in “onion” (or gn in French cognac)
 * q like the English k
 * r slighty trilled; like a soft d except at the beginning of a word or after l, n or s where it is trilled
 * rr should be trilled longer than a single r
 * v is pronounced like a cross between a v and a b
 * z like the English th (in Latin America, like English s)

How do you spell that?

 * Examples
 * Roberto: Buenas días. Me llamo Roberto. ¿Cómo te llamas?
 * Good day. My name is Robert. What's your name?
 * Rosa: Hola. Me llamo Benjamín. ¿Cómo se escribe Roberto?
 * Hello. I'm Benjamin. How do you spell Robert?
 * Roberto: Se escribe R (de Rioja); O (de Orangutan); B (de Barcelona); E (de España); R (de Rioja); T (de Tigre); O (de Orangutan).
 * It's spelt R (as in Rioja); O (as in Orangutan); B (as in Barcelona); E (as in Spain); R (as in Rioja); T (as in Tiger); O (as in Orangutan).
 * ''Rosa: Muchas gracias. ¡Adiós, Roberto!
 * Many thanks. Goodbye, Robert.

Go to the exercise.

Summary
In this lesson, you have learnt You should now do the exercise related to each section (found here), and translate the dialogue at the top before moving on to lesson 2...
 * How to greet people.
 * How to introduce yourself.
 * How to introduce others.
 * How to say how you are.
 * How to spell your name.
 * How to ask others about any of the above.