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A,B,C....

Posted by Brittany Atkinson in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
​The alphabet or alfabeto is simple to learn in Spanish
There are just something things you need to know.

There are two different n's. One is your normal n and the other is ñ. Another thing is that none of the letters are pronounced the same, matter-of-fact most of them are vastly different.
Here is a little something to explain.
Whats in the parentheses help you pronounce the letters.
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I hope that helped you at least a little bit


Video
Here is video of a real life situation where two girls say the spanish alphabet





Spanish Courtesy

Posted by Todd Samuels in Spanish 1 - Manuel on

Spanish Courtesy Phrases 

¡Gracias!   

Thanks!


¡No, gracias!   

No, thanks!


¡Muchas gracias!   

Thanks a lot!


¡De nada!   

You’re welcome!


¡Disculpa!  

Disculpa.


Perdón.   

Excuse me.


Lo siento.   

I’m sorry.


Está bien.   

That’s okay.


Eres muy amable.   

You are very nice.


¡Por favor!    

Please!

In this video someone is going to order a meal at restaurant. I'll use the different courtesy forms to order my meal & be in the restaurant the entire dinner. My goal is to have the audience fully understand courtesy.


 

Here's an introduction to a video of toby & myself pretending to be at a restaurant.

Los Días De La Semaña

Posted by Angelo Casasanto in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Now we are going to learn the days of the week in Spanish!

Monday - lunes
Tuesday - martes
Wednesday - miércoles
Thursday - jueves
Friday - viernes
Saturday - sábado
Sunday - domingo
(Note The Accents)

- Whenever you write the days of the week in spanish they must be lowercase.

- What day is it? = ¿Qué día es hoy?
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You have to know how to say the days of the week​ in Spanish if you want to know what day it is today. Here is a GoAnimate video of a person who doesn't know what day it is.



Click the link below to study some flashcards...
Los días de la semana

Tú (vs.) Usted

Posted by Angelo Casasanto in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
​Hola, today were going to learn about how to differentiate between speaking formally and speaking informally in Spanish.

Now to understand this fully you have to know who you're speaking to. If you are speaking to a friend or someone who's younger than you, then you speak informally (tú). If your speaking to your parents or someone older than you, then you speak formally (Usted). Listed below is a chart with spanish phrases that are formal and informal. You can also use these flashcards to help you distinguish between the two. 
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Click the link below to study some more flashcards...
Tú vs. Usted
You need to know the difference between tú and usted so you dont disrespect anyone when speaking in Spanish. Here are two videos of Brittany asking people questions the correct way.

Tú - Usted

Que Dia Es Hoy? (What day Is Today?) How To Ask and say the days of the week In Spanish

Posted by Kevin Horton in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
¡Hola! In Order to ask what day it is and say the days of the week in spanish you need to know the following. First you need to know how to ask what day it is. Then You need to know how to say the days in spanish and respond in spanish as well.

Imagine you wake up in the middle of nowhere and walk right into a what you thought was an english-speaking town. But you discover its not. Some random person comes out of nowhere and is like "¿Qué dia es hoy?" I'll tell you the truth. All He's asking is "What day is today?" Now reply by saying "Es el..." But wait! I haven't told you how to say the days of the week. Here is a list below

lunes-Monday
martes-Tuesday
miércoles-Wednesday
jueves-Thursday
viernes-Friday
sábado-Saturday
domingo-Sunday

Now you know how to say the days in spanish. Now to finish what you were saying just say "Es el lunes". Thats all you have to do. Here are some good flashcards to study. Here you can learn the days even better. Here is a short video on all that you learned to say and ask in spanish, be put into action. Hope this mini-lesson help on your quest to suceed in saying the days of the week in spanish!

Weather

Posted by Imani Weeks in Spanish 1 - Manuel on

Weather


Weather is like the easiest subject to learn in Español. Your just basically giving a one word answer on how the weather is using hace or esta, which means it’s or it is.

Example:

rainy: hace lloviendo

snowy: está nevando 


If you want to say the temperature is either good or bad you just say; mal for bad or bien for good. Some temperature is pronounce to its meaning in English or to a word that means the same

Example:

hace  (bastante) frio - it’s (very) cold     está (mayormente) nublado - it’s (mostly) cloudy 

hace (bastante) calor - it’s (very) hot      está (mayormente) húmedo - it’s (mostly) humid 

hace (bastante) sol - it’s (very) sunny     está (mayormente) lloviendo - it’s (mostly)

                                                                 rainy         

hace (bastante) viento - it’s (very) windy  está (mayormente) nevando - it’s (mostly)

                                            snowy 


Weather:


For this video to teach the weather, we’re going to do a fake weather forecast. First the two girls are going to turn on the television to the weather channel and the anchor is going to tell them how the weather is in Spanish .

Spanish video 6 - Medium from Marlyn Mooney on Vimeo.

Months and Dates

Posted by Imani Weeks in Spanish 1 - Manuel on

Dates


Numbers in Spanish are also very different from English. The first letter in the word 

also start with lower case. In Spanish the date comes before the month as in English the month comes before the date, but the year still goes last.

Example:

  English:                         Spanish:

6/12/09                          12/6/09


Dates are very important if you want to know when your homework is due, when somebody birthday is and when something expires.


Months 



Months and Dates are very different from each other in Spanish and English . In Spanish the first letter of a word is lower case while in English it’s upper case 


Spanish Months: 


enero

febrero

marzo

abril

mayo

junio

julio

agosto

septiembre

octubre

noviembre 

diciembre 








 English Months:


January 

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December



As you can see in the chat there are some words that look the same as in English but some look very different and is spelled different . The most common misspelled  Spanish months are :


agosto - august

septiembre - september

octubre - october 


noviembre - november

diciembre - december 

Months and Dates:


This video is about a husband forgetting his wife birthday. She is going to throw around a couple of hints like for example she’s going to say all the months in Spanish and say something like aren't you forgetting something.


Spanish video 5 - Medium from Marlyn Mooney on Vimeo.

Months

Posted by Imani Weeks in Spanish 1 - Manuel on

Months 



Months and Dates are very different from each other in Spanish and English . In Spanish the first letter of a word is lower case while in English it’s upper case 


Spanish Months: 


enero

febrero

marzo

abril

mayo

junio

julio

agosto

septiembre

octubre

noviembre 

diciembre 








 English Months:


January 

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December



As you can see in the chat there are some words that look the same as in English but some look very different and is spelled different . The most common misspelled  Spanish months are :


agosto - august

septiembre - september

octubre - october 


noviembre - november

diciembre - december 

Icebreaker

Posted by Tiarra Bell in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Icebreaker:

In order to make basic conversation, you need to know:
conver.
conver.
mycomic
mycomic
Here is a video of a girl meeting a new student making conversation at SLA.

Los meses de la año

Posted by Brian Torres in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
To know the months in español, you must first know the months of the year in english.  After that it gets pretty simple, you just learn how to pronounce them in spanish.
Enero  (january)    Febrero  (february)    Marzo  (march)    Abril  (april)    Mayo  (mayo)   
Junio  (june)  Julio  (july)    Agosto  (august)    septiembre  (september)    octubre  (october)    
noviembre  (november)    diciembre  (december)

Those are the months of the year, I personally had a lot of fun when learning this for the first time.  I hope you will have the same experience.

El Alfabeto y mas

Posted by Brian Torres in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Hello, today we are going to learn the most basic piece of the spanish language.  Can anyone guess. That's right the alphabet.  In spanish, though, it is pronounced "El alfabeto."  It is actually very easy learn and it can be pretty fun.  Here are some really cool fun facts about the spanish language is , 
1. There are only 27 letters in the spanish language, where as there are only 26 in the english language.
2. Unlike the english alphabet, where all the letters are uppercase, all letters in the spanish alfabeto are lower-case letters
Here are the letters of the spanish language

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)

Something that most people looking at this list would notice is that the "v" in the spanish alfabeto is pronounced the same as the "b".  Thank you for listening to this wonderful lesson on the spanish alfabeto.
Here is the link to a video I made: ¡El alfabeto! | Xtranormal

De la Semana - Days of the Week en Espanol

Posted by Eamon Kelly in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
De la Semana - Days of the Week

These are the days of the week in English, and Spanish.
Our calendar begins on a Sunday, but the Spanish calendar begins on a Monday.


ENGLISH ESPANOL
Mondaylunes
Tuesdaymartes
Wednesdaymíercoles
Thursdayjueves
Fridayviernes
Saturdaysábado
Sundaydomingo




There is a song to remember this:

“Hay siete, Hay siete, Hay siete días de la semana...
lunes, martes, míercoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo”

REAL LIFE SITUATION: There is an exchange student from Puerto Rico named Pablo who is your partner for a Spanish project. On a Tuesday, Pablo asks his partner, "qué días es manana. Then you would reply with "Míercoles" (Wednesday)

Here is a video that provides an example on remembering the days of the week

The weather in español!!!!!

Posted by Cameron Hinton in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
  Do I need my umbrella?

  When on vacation in a spanish speaking country, you have to know how to understand how to ask and tell the weather


* you have to understand how to tell what the weather weather ( Hace ... OR   tiempo ....) the weather today is 

* you have to know how to ask what the weather is like ( ¿ Qué timepo hace hoy ..... ) 

* you have to know the little words inside other words to remember them easily ( húmedo=humid ) 
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Watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/52681525

Meses y Fechas - Months and Dates

Posted by Eamon Kelly in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
This table shows the months of the year in english and spanish

Januaryenero
Februaryfebrero
Marchmarzo
Aprilabril
Maymayo
June junio
Julyjulio
Augustagosto
Septemberseptiembre
Octoberoctubre
Novembernoviembre
Decemberdiciembre




-Some of the months in spanish sound like the months in english.

-Most students misspell 5 months a lot: agosto, septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre.

With the dates in spanish, the month and the day are switched.   (Christmas = 25/12, Valentine’s Day = 14/2)

REAL LIFE SITUATION:  You are taking a vacation to Mexico and you make a new friend who hardly speaks any English. When he asks when your birthday is, you would say (day y month)

VIDEO: Click here to view a video about months and dates.

Days of the week in Epañol

Posted by Jada Terrell in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
The days of the week in espanol have rules just as well as the months. There is no capital letter in the front unless its the first word in the sentence. 
Remember when writing them, to always put the accents over the right letters. The whole thing can be wrong if you forget. 
Lastly, on the spanish calendar the week doesn't start on Sunday. It starts on Monday. 
 
-When speaking you might also hear the following words:
1. "el día" which means day.
2. "la semana" which means week.
3. "hoy" which means today.

Go to the following link in order to quiz yourself and also to hear the pronunciation of the words: http://quizlet.com/13861290/days-months-spanish-flash-cards/

The chart below shows the relationship to the day of the week in english and in espanol. 
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Watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/52681523

Conversations and Greetings in Español!

Posted by Noah Caruso in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Lesson

When meeting a Spanish speaking exchange student for the first time, it would be best to speak to them in their own language. These are the phrases that you need to know in order to do it:

Common greetings (Hola, buenos días, tardes, noches)
Conversation questions (How are you?, What's your name?, How old are you?, Where are you from?, When's your birthday?)
Ways to say goodbye (Hasta mañana, Hasta luego, Adios)
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​Intro to video:

In this video, we will show a real life application of Español by demonstrating how to conduct a basic conversation with an exchange student. We will use phrases and words such as Hola, Cómo te llamas, and Cúantos años tienes tú.

Watch a video here: https://vimeo.com/52681521

¿y tú? ¿y usted? Which do I use?

Posted by Noah Caruso in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
In Español, you may not speak to everyone the same way. Much in the way we use different words for our elders, in the Spanish language, different words are used to show respect to different people. The words and phrases below are key when speaking to people.

When speaking to those who you wish to show respect, you use usted (ud.)
When speaking to friends or someone younger, you use tú.

Here are some examples of using tú versus usted.

President Obama: ¿Cómo estás?
You: ¡Muy bien, gracias! ¿Y usted?

or

A new exchange student: ¿Cómo te llamas?
You: Mi nombre es _____. ¿Y tú?

Think of which phrase (tú or usted) you would use for each person.

1. Your teacher 2. Your classmate 3. Your friend's mom


4. An elder man on the train         5. The cashier  6. Mr. Lehmann                   
​Intro to video:

In this video we will present a real life application of Español by demonstrating the different instances in which you use the phrases y tú and y usted.
Watch a video here: https://vimeo.com/52681524

¡Hola, guapa!: lunes to domingo

Posted by Caitlin Keough in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Some other spanish words that are helpful to know are the days of the week or los días de la semana.
If you want to aks someone what day it is, you would say "¿Qué día es hoy?". 
If you want to hear how to pronounce the days of the week, click here.

Remember!
In spanish, the days of the week are NOT capitalized!

Below is a chart that shows the days of the week in english and in spanish.
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Introduction to Video:

Here's a video showing Mia asking Jackie when the project was due.