Asking someone the date is simple you should say "Cual es la Fecha de Hoy?" meaning what's today's date?
When you answer the question you would say "hoy es el (numero) de (mes)" meaning its the number of months
Months: ( you dont capitalize the months when you write them in spanish )
enero= January
febrero= February
marzo= March
abril= April
mayo= May
junio= June
julio= July
agosto= August
septiembre= September
octobure= October
noviembvre= November
diecembre= December
When you first greet someone you would say “¡Hola!”
to make them feel welcome. When you wake up in the morning and then see your
mom would say “¡Buenos dias!” to wish her a good morning. If you meet
up with your friend in the middle of the day you can say “¡Buenas tardes!”
to wish them a good afternoon. When you’re about to go to sleep you can say “¡Buenas
noches!” to wish the people around you a good night. When someone wants
to sit down and talk with you, you can say ¿Que tal?” to see what’s up.
When you’re speaking to your grandparents to see how they’re doing say “¿Como
esta?” to see how they are. When your talking to your little sister
and you want to see how she is say “¿Como estas?” to see what
she is up to. When your confused
about what is going on you can say “¿Que pasa?” to find out what
you didn’t get.
Los Buenos modales. Good
manners.
Gracias
Thank you.
Muchas gracias
Thanks a lot
Mil gracias
Thanks a million
De nada
It’s nothing
Por nada
You’re welcome
No hay de qué
You’re welcome
¿Como?
What was that? (If you didn't understand what someone
said.)
Por favor
Please
Con permiso. (When someone’s standing in your way)
Excuse me.
Disculpe (to get someone’s attention)
Excuse me.
Perdon (if you accidently bump into someone)
Excuse me.
In this lesson I will be teaching you how to be polite in Spanish. When your mom feeds you dinner you would say “Gracias”. When your walking down the street and your keys fall out of your pocket, and a stranger hands them back to you respond “Mil gracias”. If you’re in class and you’re trying to figure something out, and your teacher comes over to help respond “Muchos Gracias”. If you do someone a favor and they say “Gracias” then you could use any of the three of these “De nada”, “Por nada”, or “No hay de qué”. When someone says something fast and you don’t understand what they said you could say “¿Como?” When you ask someone to do you a favor you can add a “Por favor” to it to make the person more inclined to do it. When you’re in class copying down notes and someone is in your view you can say, “Con permiso” for them to move. When you speak in front of a large group of people and your trying to get their attention you can say “Disculpe” to make them listen. If your walking on the street and you pump into to someone inadvertently you can say, “Perdon” to see if they are all right.
Los meses del año
Months of the year
enero
January
febrero
February
marzo
March
abril
April
mayo
May
junio
June
julio
July
agosto
August
septiembre
September
octubre
October
noviembre
November
deciembre
December
What month is Martin Luther King Day celebrated in? A: Enero
What month is Valentines Day celebrated in? A: febrero
What month is Pi day celebrated in? A: marzo
What month is April fools day celebrated in? A: abril
What month is Mothers day celebrated in? A: mayo
What month is Fathers day celebrated in? A: junio
What month is Independence Day celebrated in? A: julio
What month doesn’t have any major holidays celebrated? A:
agosto
What month is Labor Day celebrated in? A: septiembre
What month is Halloween celebrated in? A: octubre
What month is Thanksgiving celebrated in? A: noviembre
What month is Christmas celebrated in? A: deciembre
1. For this I am doing Tú vs. Usted.For Tú it is informal and used for
people of equal or a lower age than you.Ud is used for people that are older than you and for people you
respect.It is formal. An example
for it would be for asking some one “How are you?”?Como estas? Is the informal and used for a friend and ¿Como
esta? is formal and used for an adult.The different letter is the s at the end.For other phrases are different for Tú and Ud like:
What’s your name? is ¿Cómo te lamas (tú)? or ¿Cómo se llama
(ud).
Where are you from? is ¿De dónde eres (tú)? or ¿De dónde
es(ud)?
How old are you? is ¿Cuántos años tienes (tú)? or ¿Cuántos
años tiene (ud)?
An Adult talking to there kid:
A: ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?
K: Bien, gracias. ¿Y Usted?
A: Más o menos.
2. This is the alphabet in español
A: ah [in English this would be an a.You must remember to use ah and make
its sound.]
B: beh [in español to say B it would be a softer sound than
English]
C: seh [same as the s sound for English]
CH: cheh [same for English]
D: deh [similar to English]
E: eh [in español to say E it is softer than English E]
F: efeh [its similar to the English way]
G: heh [very different more like a H sound]
H: ah-cheh [close to the English ha choo for sneezing but
always silent in words]
I: eee [sounds like a long E]
J: ho-ta [very different than the English way]
K: ka [just like the englesh way but instead of just K sound
you use an A sound with it]
L: eleh [it is close to the English way and some small differentness]
LL: elleh [close to single L]
M: emeh [close to English but adds E at beginning]
N: eneh [same as M but changed wit the N]
Ñ: enyeh [like N buy a Y sound in the middle of it]
O: oh [sounds like a long O]
P: peh [sounds like pee but instead of the end E there is a
H]
Q: cooooo [sound of a long O with a C on the front]
R: ereh [sounds like M and N but with a R]
S: eseh [same as R, M, and N]
T: teh [close to the English way]
U: ooo [a long O sound]
V: veh [sounds like B but more of a V sound]
W: dobleh veh [dobleh sounds like the English double]
X: eh-quis [nothing like the English way]
Y: eee gree -eh-gah [combo of long E GR sound with long E,
short E, and blah but replace BL with G]
Z: zetah [it is close to Zelda]
How to spell your name.
M E R R IK
Emeh ehereh ereh eeeka
3.Hear are the days of the week:
Lunes
Monday
Martes
Tuesday
Miércoles
Wednesday
Jueves
Thursday
Viernes
Friday
Sábado
Saturday
Domingo
Sunday
To ask what day it today? is ¿Qué día es hoy?
A response is Hoy es and the day it is.
To ask what day is it tomorrow? is ¿Qué día es mañana?
A response is Hoy es and the next day of the week.
The days of the week are not capitalized like in English.
The weather and seasons are very important to learn in any
language. You have to make sure of proper spelling and puctioation when writing
the seasons. Here are the four seasons. Here are the
Las Estaciones (Seasons)
Winter
El Vireno
Spring
La Primavera
Summer
El verano
Fall
El Otoño
El
Tiempo
The next thing I went to teach you is how to ask what the
weather is like in Spanish.
To ask someone what day is today in spanish you say "¿Qué dia es hoy?" If you want to say "it's" in spanish you say "Es", before you say a day you say "Es jueves (Thursday)" "Today" in Spanish is "hoy" Day in Spanish is "dias"
Don't get mixed up with American ways of writing days of the week. *NOTE* - the days of the week en espanol are not capitalized.
lunes - Monday
martes - Tuesday,
miércole - Wednesday
jueves - Thursday
viernes - Friday
sábado - Saturday
domingo - Sunday
When someone asked you, "¿Qué día es hoy?" (which means: What day is today?) you reply, "Es viernes" [It is Friday]
For the calendar when someone ask you, "¿Qué día de la semana es el 5 de Octubre? you respond, "el martes"
Semana = week.
Real life Application: When someone is asking what is today or the days of the week.
To ask someone what day is today in spanish you say "¿Qué dia es hoy?" If you want to say "it's" in spanish you say "Es", before you say a day you say "Es jueves (Thursday)" "Today" in Spanish is "hoy" Day in Spanish is "dias"
Don't get mixed up with American ways of writing days of the week. *NOTE* - the days of the week en espanol are not capitalized.
lunes - Monday
martes - Tuesday,
miércole - Wednesday
jueves - Thursday
viernes - Friday
sábado - Saturday
domingo - Sunday
When someone asked you, "¿Qué día es hoy?" (which means: What day is today?) you reply, "Es viernes" [It is Friday]
For the calendar when someone ask you, "¿Qué día de la semana es el 5 de Octubre? you respond, "el martes"
Semana = week.
Real life Application: When someone is asking what is today or the days of the week.
Whitney Washington and I created a video summing up our entire experience on Election Day! We handed out flyers and drew with chalk on the ground to try and send the message that every vote counts and we should take advantage of our right to vote. We spent our entire time at 40th and walnut.
Knowing is important because if you meet someone new who
only know Spanish this is how you greet them.
All of the following are ways to say hello:
Spanish
English
Hola
Hello
Buenos dias
Good morning
Buenas tardes
Good afternoon
Buenas noches
Good evening
Good evening can be used as a greeting or a good bye.
The following are ways to say how are you and ways to
respond:
Spanish
English
¿Qué tal?
¿Cómo va?
¿Cómo estas?Informal
¿Cómo esta?Formal
How are you?
Bien, gracias
Well, thanks
Más o menos
Alright
Mal/ Terrible
Awful
Y tuInformal
Y UstedFormal
And you?
¡Ay, ay, ay!
Oh, no!
¡Qué bien!
Oh, good!
You use formal when talking to a person who is older than
you. Informal is used talk to people younger than you.
The following are all ways to say goodbye:
Spanish
English
Adiós
Bye
¡Hasta luego!
See you later
¡Hasta pronto!
See you soon
Hasta mañana
See you tomorrow
Qué le vaya bien
Have a good one
Two friends are walking in the hallway and pass each other.
Friend 1: Hola senor. (hello sir)
Friend 2: Hola. ¿Que tal? (hi, how are you?)
Friend 1: Bien. ¿Y tú? (good, and you?)
Friend 2: Muy Bien gracias. Adios. (very good thanks. bye)
Friend 1: Adios. (bye)
Part two: Courtesy Phrases
Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
Common courtesy phrases are a good thing to know. If you
ever visit a Spanish-speaking country these are things you need to know. There
are three ways to say thank you each of them change a little bit.
·‘Gracias’ means thanks.
·Muchas gracias’ means thanks a lot.
·Mil gracias means thanks a million.
There are also many ways to say you’re welcome:
·De nada, por nada, and no hay qué, means you’re
welcome.
·¿Cómo? means what was that?
·You say cómo when you didn’t hear what somebody
said.
·Por favor means Please.
There are three situations when you use a certain type of
phrase to say excuse me:
·You say con permiso when someone is in your way.
·You say disculpe to get someone’s attention.
·Perdón when you bump into somebody.
Scene: A crowed train station. Person 1 and Person 2 are in
a crowed train station.
Spanish:
Person 1: (walking on the platform accidentally bumps into a
person hurrying to catch her train) Perdón senor.
Persin2: Es más o menos senor. (Person 1 walks away. Person
2 sees he dropped his ID.) Disculpe!!!
(Person 2 keeps running. He catches Person 1 and gives him,
his ID)
Person 1: Muchas gracias senor.
Person 2: Por nada.
Part three: Numbers reference sheet.
Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
For most of the following lessons, it is important that you
learn/know the numbers 1-100 in Spanish, here is a brief lesson and numbers
table, refer back to this as needed throughout the rest of the lesson. The
numbers one through fifteen all have their own individual names; these will be
the hardest to learn. They still won’t be very difficult though. And once you
have them down the rest of the numbers will be a breeze to learn.
Uno
One
Dos
Two
Tres
Three
Cuatro
Four
Cinco
Five
Seis
Six
Siete
Seven
Ocho
Eight
Nueve
Nine
Diez
Ten
Once
Eleven
Doce
Twelve
Trece
Thirteen
Catorce
Fourteen
Quince
Fifteen
Key:
English
Spanish
Now that you have these down, the rest will be a snap. The
numbers 16 through 29 fallow a simple pattern, the tens column number is merged
with the units column number. Here is a chart
Dieciseis
Sixteen
Dieciseite
Seventeen
Deiciocho
Eighteen
Diecinueve
Nineteen
Veinte
Twenty
Veintiuno
Twenty one
Veintidòs
Twenty two
Veintitrès
Twenty three
Veinticautro
Twenty four
Veinticinco
Twenty five
Veintiseis
Twenty six
Veintiseite
Twenty seven
Veintiocho
Twenty eight
Veintineuve
Twenty nine
For the numbers 30-99 the pattern changes. From here you
really only need to know the base numbers, so 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90.
All of these numbers and their pronunciations are listed below.
Treinta
Thirty
Cuarenta
Forty
Cincuenta
Fifty
Sesenta
Sixty
Setenta
Seventy
Ochenta
Eighty
noventa
Ninety
So add a unit, you just put “y ______(fill in the blank)”
after the tens column number so 33 is written as “treinta y tres” but remember,
you pronounce all three of those words as one word.Refer back to this tutorial as needed throughout the rest of
the blog. Now that you have the numbers down you can move on to the date and
time.
Part four: The date
Created be Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
Ok, so you’ve covered numbers, the time, now on to the date!
The easiest place to start with the date is learning the months, or “mes” in
spanish. You need to know these before you can answer questions about the date.
Here is a table of the months and their translations
Enero
January
Febrero
February
Marzo
Mach
Abril
April
Mayo
May
Junio
June
Julio
July
Agosto
August
Septeimbre
September
Octubre
October
Novembre
November
Deciciembre
December
Key:
English
Spanish
Refer back to this chart as needed throughout the tutorial.
Ok so now you can learn to ask “what is today’s date”. In
spanish “what is todays date” translates to “¿Cual es la fecha de hoy?”. Like
“¿A Què hora es?” this is not a direct translation. But because different
languages use different grammar, it is written differently.
To answer this question, the next thing you should learn is
the formant the date is written in. here in America, we write it as MM/DD but
in Spanish speaking cultures, its written as DD/MM. as you might guess it is read
and said in the same order. Lets say, for example that you were asked this on
October the 10th. You would say “es el diez de octubre” be sure to
remember that the pattern is always es el [date] de [month]
Situation: one person asks another for todays date:
Person 1#: hola (hi)
Person 2#: hola. ¿cual es la fecha de hoy?(hi, what is todays date?)
Person 1#: Es el uno de noviembre (its the first of novembre)
Part four: Days Of The Week
created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
When you need to plan a future event with someone who only
speaks Spanish you need to know the days of the week. The days of the week are:
Spanish:
English:
lunes
Monday
martes
Tuesday
miércoles
Wednesday
jueves
Thursday
viernes
Friday
sábado
Saturday
domingo
Sunday
The days in Spanish aren’t capitalized.
To ask the day of the week you say: ¿Qué día es hoy?
The answer to this question is: Hoy (Today) es (is)
______________
To say "tomorrow" you say "mañana" so "Què dia es hoy" becomes "¿Què dia es mañana?"
Situation: two friends bump into each other in the hallway. one asks the other what day it is and what day tomorrow is:
Person 1#: Hola.
Person 2#: ¿Que dia es hoy?
Person 1#: es lunes
Person 2#: ¿que dia es mañana?
Person 1#: es martes
Part five:Time is of the essence
Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
Ok, now that you have the numbers down, let move on to the
time. Knowing the time is as essential in Spanish as it is in English. It will
be fairly easy to learn since it fallows the same patterns as it does in the
English language. Lets start with the basics. To ask the time in Spanish, you
say “¿Què hora es?” or “¿Què hora son? Or ¿Què hora tiene? All of these
translate roughly to “What time is it?”
Now, you know how to ask what time it is, but what if you
need to ask when something is? To ask this, you use the same basic phrases but
you ad “A” in front of them so as a complete phrase, this would be “¿A què hora
es?”While this directly
translates to “ at what time is?” but literally means “what time is _______
at?” the answer to “¿Què hora es?” you simply say“Son las ___” so eight o clock would be, “ Son las ocho” you
use “Son las” for all the numbers except the number one, for which you use “Es
la” so “Es la una” means its one o clock. To say what time something is at, you
follow the same pattern as when your asking, you just add “A” to the front of
the sentence. So “A son las ocho” means its at eight. To say it is an hour and
some minutes you just add “y __” In Spanish “y” is pronounced as “eee” . Keep this in mind when using verbal Spanish.
This is the same system used so, 8:23 translates to “ocho y ventitrès”.
Remember to say the time you say the hour number than the minute number so
“[hour] y [minute]”
Now that you have that down, your eighty percent of the way
there, all you have left to learn are a few ways to say a few specific times,
these are for the half hour and the quarter hour. For the half hour you say
“media” so 10:30 is “diez y media”. For the quarter hour, you say “__ y cuarto”
for :15 and “__menos cuarto” for :45. Menos is Spanish for “minus” you u start
saying “menos” instead of “y” at the :45.
Situation: one friend asks another what time is math class.
Person 1#: Hola(hi)
Person 2#: Hola(hi)
Person 1#: ¿A que hora es la classe de mathematicas?(at what
time is math class?)
Person 2#: A son las ocho y media( its at eight thirty
Person 1#: gracias
Part six: the weather
Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
Knowing how to ask and explain about the weather is a
valuable skill; it (if nothing else) will allow you to make small talk among
friends and family.
To ask the what the weather is like you say “ ¿Qúe teimpo
hace?”.Remember, teimpo mean
weather, not temperature. To ask temperature, you say “ ¿Qùe es la
temparatura?”
To reply to ¿Qúe teimpo hace? You can say any of the
following, depending on the weather.
Hacefrìo
It’s cold
Hace calor
It’s hot
Hace viento
It’s windy
Hace sol
It’s sunny
Hace fresco
It’s cool
Hace tormentas
It’s stormy
Està loviendo
It’s raining
Està nevando
It’s snowing
Està nublado
It’s cloudy
All of these are applicable to a conversation about the
weather.
Key:
Spanish
English
Hace and Estàboth mean “it is” or“it’s”
It is also good to know seasons, so that you can articulate yearly weather.
El inveirno
Winter
La primavera
Spring
El verano
Summer
El otono
Fall
Now you can say what is weather is like in a given season.
So describing your local weather is made easier. For example, to say “In Philadelphia,
it is cold in the winter” you say :” En Filadelfia, el inveirno es moy frìo.
A real life conversation about the weather:
Person 1#: ¡Hola! ¿Que teimpo hace hoy? Translation: Hi,
whats the weather like today?
Person 2#:Hace frìo Translation: it’s cold
Person 1#: Ay Translation:
oh
Thank you for using our Spanish tutorial, we hope you found it helpful and can walk away with something new. yours truly, Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall
On Tuesday November 2nd me and my fellow classmate Tyrone Kidd headed down to Rittenhouse Square, Suburban Station and Greenfield School where we handed out flyers encouraging people to vote and also conducted an interview. When we first got down to Rittenhouse we found that not a lot of people traveled through the park and the very few people that did come through there had either already come from voting or just didn't want to bothered at the time. When we decided to then walk down to Suburban Station the number of people that we encountered was great, but even here we found that some people were either rushing to work after voting or didn't want to be bothered. What I found interesting was that some people that we handed flyers to stopped to look at it before going about their day and also were interested to see to students just as compelled to get people to vote as they may have been to get them to vote. When we came from passing out all the flyers we headed to the Greenfield School on 22nd and Chestnut where we interviewed a woman who had worked at the polls right after voting herself. The questions we asked were 1) What motivated you to come out and vote? 2)Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? 3) What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result in this election? 4) Do you vote in every election? 5)Do you know why we vote on Tuesdays?. Both the audio from the interview and video from our expedition today can be found on the links below.
Interviewee: Alex from Penn Time 06:18 p.m Location: Chinese Christian Church, 255 N. 10th street
1. What motivated you to come out and vote? -- “I am actually from California but I registered [to vote] in Philadelphia because I thought that it would make a bigger difference in Pennsylvania than it would back home. And I feel like it’s an important election just in term of control of Congress.”
2. What would you like to see changed in our political system? -- “Um..well...honesty, openness, transparency.”
3. How regularly do you vote? -- “Every election”
4. Do you know why we vote on Tuesday? -- “No, I actually don’t.” [I explained to them after that.]
5. Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? -- “On TV”
6. What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered? -- “I heard one this morning about Pat Toomy, and it was one of that...um...it was like the radio show host that he’s pretending to be really objective but the callers were saying all of this like nasty stuffs about Pat Toomy, and he’s like “That’s true, but I can only state the facts”... 7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth? -- “I am usually sure before.” 8. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election? -- “I am actually voting more on the federal, for the federal seats. I am not really interested in [Philadelphia]. Institutionally, I guess it’s the gun issue. I think that that’s something I’d love to see changed, obviously.”
9. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the election? -- “I think it will have quite an impact here, not necessarily as much if I was voting back in California.”
10. Did you learn about voting in school? -- “Yeah, I did. In middle school, elementary school. Did that impact how you feel about voting? -- “Yeah, absolutely. It helps me to learn about candidates and makes more informed decision when I vote.”
Here are some pictures at the poll place:
Chalking sidewalks
Location: 17 & St. James st
Time: 07:17 p.m Nov 1st 2010
Passing Flyers
Time: 07:15 p.m Nov 1st 2010 Location: 17 & St. James st.
When I was passing out the flyers it was very interesting. Nobody really wanted to take them, I'd have them in my hand and then they would say no thank you. I feel like I kind I kind of pressured them into it because once I asked "what are you not voting?" did they take the flyer. It was just weird that it happened that way but I don't know it was still fun.
In the process of this project, i had a lot of help from the people. When i went to my neighborhood poling place the people were happy that i was doing a project like that. They cooperated with me when i was doing the questions and the i was happy with the outcome.
Do
you vote every election? I don’t. This year was the first year I came out to
vote. My mother never did it because it was against her religion and so I never
got accustomed to doing so.
2.)Do
you know why we vote on Tuesday? I don’t.
3.)What
motivated you to come out and vote? My daughter motivated me to come out and
vote. She just turned 18 last week so she was super excited to get out here and
so I decided to come with her.
4.)Where
have you encountered the highest amount of campaign advertisement? Definitely the radio. When I’m in the
car that’s all I hear. I don’t watch much tv.
5.)What
was the most memorable campaign you encountered? The most memorable one would
have had to be when Obama was elected into office. I don’t consume my time with
city council as much. I hardly ever know whats going on.
Today, November 2, 2010. I Tyrone Kidd and my colleague Trevor Hinton. Went out bright early in the morning and passed out get out to vote flyers. The locations we choose were Rittenhouse Square and Suburban Station. The people, there were very curious of us being there and taking the flyers but some just gave the flyer back as you will see in the video. Enjoy!
She found her parent’s voter registration card and
it made her realize that not everyone was born with the right to vote and she
wanted to take advantage of it.
3. Do you vote in every election? (How regularly do you
vote?)
All the major elections.
4. Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?
No
5. Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad
campaigning? Radio, TV, print, internet, other.
TV
6. What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have
encountered?
“I am not a witch”-Christine Odonnell.
7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for
when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?
She just votes democrat.
8. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a
result of this election?
More Jobs
9. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the
election?
She feels like the voter
turnout for today was particularly low in this district, so hopefully her vote
will make an impact.
10.Did you
learn about voting in school?If
yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?
I interviewed Dr.Lambert, a neighbor of mine from Mt.Airy and head of the Democratic committee of the 9th ward, 12th division.
I started off asking her, "what motivated you to come out and vote?" She replied "It is my responsibility. I've even got a pin that says 'if you don't vote, don't bitch'. Since I was 18, I've voted every year.
She insisted on answering all of the questions!
Here is a summary of some of her responses: Dr.Lambert does not like the new supreme court ruling that allows people to campaign with out people knowing who they are. For example, a billionaire from Europe could campaign (without being recognized) just to distract votes from other candidates. Additionally, she thought 2008 was the most memorable election. She is excited there is a black president even though she herself is white.