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Say your introducing your self to a foreign exchange student. (From a spanish speaking country.)

Now that you know how to have a basic conversation, here is a real life situation of someone having a basic conversation with a foreign exchange student.

Lesson:
You need to know how to ask when something is, and you need to know how to say Christmas in Español. Also some basic spanish such as hello, good bye, thank you, and your welcome.
When Is? - ¿Cuando es...?"
Christmas - Navidad
Hello - ¡Hola!
Good Bye - ¡Adios!
Thank You - Gracias
Your Welcome - De nada

Here is a video of Allen and Daniel putting the lesson to use.

Lesson:
When traveling to a different time zone, there are many different things that are needed to be known. First, you need to know how to say 1-60 in Spanish, which are in a picture below. You need to know 1-60 because those are the highest numbers when counting time in Minutes, hours, and seconds.

Next, you need to know how to ask, "What time is it in..." and you need to know how to tell people what time it is. But before you can ask what time it is, you need to say, "I have a question" which is, "Tengo una pregunta."

ALSO, you should know how to get someone attention. When they are walking by you can say, "Disculpe!" which means, "Excuse me!"

When learning people's numbers, there are some things you need to know:
Now here is a real-life situation of someone asking someone else for their number in a party.

Knowing how to spell something can be very useful learning a new language. Also, pronunciation is a big factor in learning a language. Here is the alphabet...

Here is a video of a real life situation...

Here are my pareja's (Bryanna) three lessons:
1) Días de la Semana
2) ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
3)La Fecha

In spanish, one of the most basic, but important, things is knowing how to ask and tell the time. Below is a diagram of how to do so...

As for telling time, it is very simple...

You need to ask your uncle's (fluent spanish speaking) fiancee what the date of the wedding is because for some reason invites can not be flown out of Puerto Rico. Here is a lesson that can teach you to ask and tell dates and times in spanish.

Use previous lessons to help you with this one :) 

The chart below will help you learn what the months and numbers are

One side English

One side Spanish

The key to saying the date in Spanish is to know the numbers 1-31 and the months in Spanish.

 

Here are charts below to help you to know the numbers and months in Spanish.

 

 

 

    English                                                                  Spanish

                                              

January	enero
February	febrero
March	marzo
April	abril
May	mayo
June	junio
July	julio
August	agosto
September	septiembre
October	octubre
November	noviembre
December	diciembre

1	uno	11	once	21	veintiuno
2	dos	12	dose	22	veintidos
3	tres	13	trece	23	veintitres
4	cuatro	14	catorce	24	veinticuatro
5	cinco	15	quince	25	veinticinco
6	seis	16	dieciseis	26	veintiseis
7	siete	17	diecisiete	27	veintisiete
8	ocho	18	dieciocho	28	veintiocho
9	nueve	19	diecinueve	29	veintinueve
10	diez	20	veinte	30	treina
				31	treina y uno

 English            Spanish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        English                                                            Spanish

In order to express the date in Spanish you you flip the date and month in English and put it like this           D=Day      M=Month   Y=Year

9/10/11

D M Y

Imagine your father is a diplomat stationed in Spain and you will attend public school there. You will need to learn some basic conversation phrases to socialize with your classmates. Here are some basic phrases to get you started.
hola is a common way to greet someone hola means hello or hi
buenos is only used with días so it would be buenos dias and this means good morning.
the other two (good evening and good night)
both start with buenas, so its buenAs not buenOs
good evening is buenas tardes
good night is buenas noches
here is a site to provide you with more info on greetings: 

http://http://www.lingolex.com/swom/wom-greetings.htm

​Greetings

 

 

Hola- Hello

 

Buenos Dias- Good morning

 

Buenas tardes- Good afternoon

 

 

 

Ways to ask “How are you?”

 

“Que Tal”

 

“Como va?”

 

“Como estas?”

 

“Como esta usted”

 

Ways to say hello.

 

 

Goodbyes

 

“Hasta lvego!”- See you later

 

“Hasta prento”- See you soon

 

“Hasta manana”- See you tomorrow

 

“Adios”- Bye

 

“Chao” (Informal)- Bye

 

“Mucho Gusto”- Nice to meet you

 

“Unplacer”- It’s a pleasure,

you would say that with nice to meet you

 

Hello
-"Hola"

Asking someone how are they?
-Como estas(Informal)

Answers that you respond with

-Happy/ Feliz
-Ok/Bien
-Great/Excelentia
-So So/ Mas o Menos
- Terrible/Mal

Asking where they are from
-"De donde eres"- Where are you from?

You would answer with:

"Soy De"- I am from ____ Then you would say where you are from


Asking someone for their age
-"Cuantoes anoes tienes"- How old are you?



You would answer with:

-"Yo tengo _____ anos"- I am ___ years old


Asking for someones name:
-"Como te llamas?"- What is your name (Informal)
- Como se llama?" - What's your name (Formal)

You would say someone informal to somebody like your friend, Or just someone your own age

Hola! In this last lesson we are going to teach you how to say the weather in spanish. This is a very difficult  one but with practice, you're sure to get it.

Sunny - Hace Sol
Rainy - Está lloviendo
Snowing - Está Nevando
Cloudy - Está Nublado
Windy - Hace Viento

Hola, amigas and amigos! 
Today you will be learning how to tell and ask for the time in spanish. You will be learning the differences between time in english and time in spanish. It may be hard at first but once you get it it'll be a piece of cake. Here are some steps to make it easier

Step 1: Before you write the time you must either write "Es la" or "Son las". 
Es la is only used when it's 1:00. Son las is used for 2-12:00.
Step 2: Put the hour.
Ex. Son las dos = 2:00 or Es la una = 1:00
Step 3: Write either "y" or "menos"
Y: use this if the minutes are from 1-29
Menos: use this if the minutes are from 30-59 
(State the hour ahead, write menos, and state how many minutes it would take to be the given hour in the hour ahead)
Step 4: Write the minutes.
Ex. Son las dos y cinco or Son las tres menos diez

Here is a few examples:

Hola! Would you like to learn about the days of the weeks in spanish? Well, today's your chance to learn. Here's a song to help you learn the days of the week:
lunes (clap 2x)
martes (clap 2x)
mirecoles (clap 2x)
jueves (clap 2x)
viernes (clap 2x)
sabado (clap 2x)
domingo (clap 2x)

Hint: The days of the wek always starts with Monday (lunes)

Hola estudiantes, 
Here is what you need to know to learn how to count for 1-20. We will sing a song to make the process of learning numeros easier. 

Follow along as you here each number:

One - Uno                Eleven - Once
Two - Dos                Twelve - Doce
Three - Tres              Thirteen - Trece
Four - Cuatro            Fourteen - Catorce
Five - Cinco              Fifteen - Quince
Six - Seis                 Sixteen - Diez y seis
Seven - Siete            Seventeen - Diez y siete
Eight - Ocho            Eighteen - Diez y ocho       
Nine - Nueve            Nineteen - Diez y nueve
Ten - Diez                Twenty - Veinte 

​Birthday-

 

What is your birthday- ¿ Cuando es tu cumpleanos?

 

You would reply- Mi cupleanos es el ______ de ______

                                  My birthday is         day/#       month

 

Ex- Mi cupleano es el veinte de mayo

                        

Where are you from? -

 

To ask someone where they are from you….

 

To ask someone- ¿ De donde eres? - Where are you from?

 

Then the person would answer Soy de ________ - I’m from