Greetings, How are you and Good Byes

Posted by Aaron Tang on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 12:47 pm

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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The Greeting, How are you and Goodbyes

Here are the greetings if you are in the Spanish native country. It is very handy to greet people, how they are and saying good byes in couple ways.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
¡Hola!	oh-la	Hi
¡Buenos Dias	boy- nos de-is	Good morning
¡Buenas Tardes	boy-nos dar-des	Good afternoon
¡Buenas Noches	boy-nos no-chess	Good Evening/ night

Then the followings of “How are you.” You use informal to younger people and the same age group. Formal is to use for older people/ interviews. Plural is for more than one person.

¿Como estas?	co-mo s-stas	Informal
¿Que tal?	kay- tale	Informal
¿Como esta ud?	co-mo s-sta u-d	Formal
¿Como estan ustedes?	co-mo es-stan es-t-des	Plural

Here are some following that can be answer by the question

Feliz	f-a-lees	Happy
Bien	b-een	Okay
Mal	mal	Sad
Excelente	ex-cell-len-tay	Great
Estupendo/a	es-tu-pen- do/a	Great
Maso Menos	mas-o may-nos	So/so or Alright
Ma/Horrible	mal/horrible	Bad/Horible/ Poorly

Ways to say goodbye.

!Adios!	a-de-os	Bye- Formal
¡Chao!	ch-oww	Bye- informal
¡Hasta Luego!	asta lu-a-go	See you later
¡Hasta Mañana!	asta min-an-na	See you tomorrow

Comments (1)

Betty Louis

I like how for almost everything you put down the pronunciation next to it.