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Learning the ABC!

Posted by Amy Chen in SP1-006 on
In order to know how to spell or write in spanish, you need to know your alphabet! The chart below will teach you everything you need to know!


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here is also a song to it to help you out 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8vfTWmWUw&feature=related
REAL LIFE SITUATION

You are having a spanish test on spelling and you don't want to fail that test. Well, you have to know the spanish alphabet in order to pass the test.
Here is Kenayah's blog post for basic conversation 
Here is Kenayah's blog post for weather 
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¡Hola, amigo!

Posted by Amy Chen in SP1-006 on
How to greet someone?

In order to greet someone, you need to know basic greetings, like goodbye, hello, good morning, etc... The chart below teaches you everything you need to know about greeting someone.



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Here is a fill in the blank example that you can use for practice!!

¡Buenos días! ¿Como está?
________,gracias. ¿Y tú?
muy bien,______
____________
Igualmente 
!Adiós! 


TIME TO GET REAL!!!
Real Life situation 
 
You are walking to your class and and you see a girl sitting down. You want to greet her but she only speaks spanish. Here is how: 


















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¿Qué hora es?

Posted by Amy Chen in SP1-006 on
How to tell time and ask someone what time it is?

Before you learn how to tell what time it is, you have to know numbers 1-12. You also would need to know when to use the words es la and son las. Last but not least, you need to know the meaning of menos and y media and when to use it. The chart below it will show you all these things.




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Here are examples you can practice on:
 ¿Que´ hora es?

Son las tres y ________

Es la una y ____

Son las ___ y media 
 
Son las ____ menos cuatro 






Real Life Situation 

Your at class and  you want to know when do class end, but the person next to you only speak spanish therefore you have to talk to him in spanish asking him what time it is.

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Walking Into Class Greeting Señor Allen

Posted by Daniel Varnis in SP1-006 on
Lesson:
To perform such a task as greeting a teacher, you need to know very few things.
First - You want to know how to say Hello to someone which is ¡Hola!

Second - You need to know how to ask someone how they are which is ¿Como estas? But if your talking to someone older such as an adult, you would say ¿Como esta Usted?.

Third - When someone says to you, "E tu" thats him/her asking you back how you are. From there you can something like Muy bien meaning very good etc.

Fourth - Lastly you thank them by saying, "Gracias." From there they would say "De nada" meaning your welcome.


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The Dates En Español

Posted by Sabian Rosales in SP1-006 on
Todays lesson will consist of delicious information about the months and dates in Spanish. 

Here is a link for a song to help you.

Link to song.  (If it doesn't work, copy and paste this link) http://moodle.scienceleadership.org/pluginfile.php/6735/mod_resource/content/1/11%20Meses.m4a


Here's a useful chart to help you learn the months!
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Some flashcards have been included for easy studying.
Since you must also know the numbers 1-31 to say the date, this chart has been included.
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But what do you do with those numbers? 


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And here is a video of Alaina asking Sabian about today's date.
​Here is Alaina's Blog Post for Alfabeto
Here is Alaina's Blog Post for Greetings En Español
Here is Alaina's Blog Post for Small Talk En Español
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Weather of Doom and Destiny

Posted by Sabian Rosales in SP1-006 on
​Below you will find the terms for the weather in Spanish and a photo chart for some of the weather terms. Knowing the weather is very important in any language, for example, what if you needed to know how to dress in Ecuador? 







Link for Website of Spanish Weather Terms
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Here's a chart saying how to ask or tell the weather.
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Here is a video of Alaina asking about today's weather so she'll know whether to take off her jacket or not. 
Here is Alaina's Blog post for Alfabeto
Here is Alaina's Blog post for Greetings En Español
Here is Alaina's Blog post for Small Talk En Español
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¡Hola, amigo! : How to ask where are you from to someone

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in SP1-006 on
Have you ever wanted to learn basic Spanish lessons about asking basic questions to someone? This lesson will be about asking someone about themselves, such as where are you from and where you live. This lesson will also teach you how to reply and answer to those questions.

As you can see in the picture below, the word tú at the end of the question means that you are talking to someone around your age. Ud. is when you are talking to an older person.

tú = person around your age
Ud.= person that is older than you, such as an adult

The word soy means I'm and de means from. So if you put it together, you get, I'm from. If you are from that place and you live somewhere else, you would have to say , pero vivo en. Meaning that you live somewhere else from where you are from. This is similar to saying, I'm from. You would just need to add, pero vivo en, after the place you are from. So its, Soy de (a place of where you're from) pero vivo en ( a place where you live, instead of where you are from).


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After you tell where you're from and/or live, you can ask them, ¿Y tú ? or ¿Y Ud.? , meaning " And you?" or they may say, Yo tambien, which means " Me, too".

¿Y tú ? = And you?
Yo tambien = Me, too.

* All questions in español has an upside question mark before the question, another question mark, that is not upside down, is after the question.
*Exclamation points are similar to the question marks in questions. It has an upside down exclamation point before and after the sentence.

Example:
        ¿De dònde eres (tù)?
        ¡Gracias!  *meaning "Thank you!"
Here's a video of a Hispanic and an American student asking where they are from on their first day of school. This video can be applied in real-life, whereas a student, that knows only English, but can also communicate in Spanish to make them feel welcome on their first day of school. Enjoy the video.
Here's a link to learn the days of the weeks en español from Temperance and I.
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¿Qúe Día es Hoy?

Posted by Temperance Moore in SP1-006 on
In order to learn the days of the week, you will need to know how to say the days of the week in Spanish and know what days they are. Unlike English, the days of the week in Spanish aren't capitalized and the week starts with Monday instead of Sunday.
*miércoles and sábado are the only two days that have accents on top of them
If you are to tell someone what day of the week it is and what day it is tomorrow, here is a way you can say it:

Hoy es lunes. Mañana es martes.
Hoy es martes. Mañana es miércoles.
Hoy es jueves. Mañana es viernes.
Hoy es viernes. Mañana es sábado.
Hoy es sábado. Mañana es domingo.
A man asks a woman what day it is. He first says "disculpe" which means "excuse me" and asks the woman what day it is. The woman tells the man that it's Tuesday and the man thanks her.
Here's a link to learn the months of the year in Spanish. 
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Knowing the a,b,c en español

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in SP1-006 on
Knowing the alphabet is very important to learn. By learning the Spanish alfabeto, you can know how to write someone's name, if they don't know English. If you're at work and someone approaches you, asking for something, but you can't understand whose name they are saying. So you can ask them to spell it in español and you would know who they are talking about. The alfabeto is very easy to learn and kind of fun too.
*Fun fact : There are 27 letters in the Spanish alfabeto, whereas in English, there are only 26.
* All español letters are lower-cased, not upper-cased.

a   (ah)                  i  (eee)                    p (peh)           x (equis)    

b   (beh)                j   (hota)                 q (cooo)         y ( eee griega)  

c   (seh)                 k  (kah)                   r (ereh)          z (seta)     

d   (deh)                l   (eleh)                  s  (eseh)         

e    (eh)                 m  (emeh)                t  (teh)

f    (efeh)               n   (eneh)                u  (oooo)

g    (hey)                ñ  (enyeh)               v  (beh)

h    (acheh)            o    (o)                     w (doble ve)

You may notice that the pronunciation for the letter "v" is the same as the letter "b". Those 2 letters' pronunciation are the same, so if you are spelling a name, Billy. You would have to say "B" larga. If the name is Victor, the "V" would be corta. So you need to tell which letter you are saying, either b (larga) or v (corta). Both same pronunciations, but different letter.

b = larga
v = corta



This is a video of a spelling bee contest, where they hear the words in English and spells it in Spanish. A judge asking a contestant to spell "cat" and "dog" in Spanish. Enjoy!
This link is a lesson to learn how to greet someone en español​. Please feel free to click here.
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Learning the Los Meses del Año (Months of the Year) and saying the dates

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in SP1-006 on
All the months in español are similar to the months in English and is fairly easy to learn. This guide will make you learn the months easily. Everything is simplified for beginners. The pronunciations will be shown after the months in español. A song of the months will also be included in this guide.

January enero                  e-ner-o

February febrero                fe-brer-o

March marzo                  mar-zo

April abril                     ab-ril

May mayo                   ma-yo

June junio                    ju-ni-o

July julio                     ju-li-o

August agosto                 a-gos-to

September septiembre          sept-ti-em-bre
 
October octubre                oc-tu-bre

November noviembre            no-vi-em-bre

Decembre
deciembre            de-ci-em-bre








*All the months in español are lower-cased. Another thing to keep in mind is that the j is always silent in the months. For example, junio and julio would be pronounced as who-ni-o for the month junio and julio would be pronounced as who-li-o.


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All the months are somewhat similar to the English months, but the only month that is different than the rest of them are January. January in español is enero. That's the only difference. The rest of the months are similar in English and in español.




Here is a song of the months in español. ENJOY!!











Saying the dates......

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In Spanish the way to write the date is, day-month-year, and in the American way it's month-day-year.

 Example: el 15 de agosto de 2011
               15-8-2011



Here's a video of a Hispanic student asking another Hispanic student what the date for today is. (Discuple means excuse me).

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