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Alphabet! Learning the alphabet.

Posted by Angelina Pingitore in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
​Lets say you are in Puerto Rico and you are going to live there for a little bit but you don't know much of spanish. You mainly want to learn the alphabet so here is a fun way of learning it. 
In this lesson I will share a video and also a song to teach you it faster and more fun. 
 You will need to learn
-The alphabet
-Pronunciation 
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​Now here is a little video of a girl on an Interview for a job and having to give her name to the man who in interviewing her. Watch close and find her one mistake!

¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono?... What's your number!

Posted by Angelina Pingitore in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
​When your out and see someone that is cute, You go up to them and say hi but you notice that they speak only SPANISH ! You want his number but you dont know how to ask. Here is a easy / fast way to learn.

In this little lesson you will learn a few things such as 
-How to ask "Whats your number?"
- You will learn the numbers in spanish.

When you want to ask someone their phone number you would say ;


¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono? or "su"
To say your number start off by saying Es el.....

Here are some Flashcards and also an audio on the pronunciations 
Now this is a little game where you have to over-lap the numbers (1,2,3,4,5 ect) with the words in spanish. So you would see the word uno and the number 1 . You would click and drag the 1 to over-lap the word "uno". 
A fun way to test your self. 

After you play the game watch the video clip about a girl who is at school but she is new and is from Puerto Rico and this boy wants her number because he thinks she is really cute. But the girl doesn't really understand that much English. 


​And now here is a lesson about Basic conversation , Greetings and Days of the week. 

By Kaboni Bailey.
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​Here is a video about a two spanish people having a conversation.
Last video about how to greet someone you just met.

Walking Into Class Greeting Señor Allen

Posted by Daniel Varnis in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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.


Lobbying - Curb your dog & Waste Bins

Posted by Kern Clarke in American Government - Laufenberg on

No one enjoys going for a walk and then noticing that the streets are littered with trash or people refuse to clean up after their pets. If you were in Center City however this would never happen. There are many things already in place that would lower the chances of you seeing these nuisances. First there are trash cans in Center City virtually on every street corner. Secondly their are "please curb your dog" signs posted up all over every park and trails. These are both due to the face that when tourists come to visit Philadelphia most of the traffic is in the Center City area, which requires us to keep these parts especially clean. 

I would propose that "please curb your dog" and public trash bins be of greater for the other parts of the city also. In most parts of the city outside of Center City there is trash on the streets in great abundance. This is because there aren't public trash cans on the corners of those parts of the city. Also the "please curb you dog" law isn't enforced at all so animal droppings are on people's lawn and on private property. I would very much like to see cleaner streets in Philadelphia. I also want to see tourism not only be mainly concentrated in Center City but in other parts that make up philadelphia as well, and I feel as though cleaning up the streets is a very good place to start.

The main people I can get support from while trying to get these enforced or enacted would be the district representatives of the different parts of the city. They would be the main supporters because they would like the thought of having cleaner streets and improving on tourism. Even though I can get the most support from them they can also give me the most opposition. Placing a trash can on street corners isn't a very cheap tasks. Especially managing the trash pickup. If there isn't room in the budget to pay for this then they may not even consider it. 

Currently there isn't any legislation dealing with my topic. But I would like to see one regarding the enforcement of people not cleaning up after their dogs. There are already laws in place that say that it is illegal to not clean up after your pets but there isn't anything regarding the enforcement of that law. 

Law referencing not cleaning up after animals.

(Amending Chapter 10-100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Animals," by amending Section 10-105, entitled "Animals Committing Nuisances," by expanding the section to include nuisances committed upon the private property of the owner and animal noises which cause unreasonable annoyance, disturbance or discomfort to a person or persons, all under certain terms and conditions.
Legislative File ID   000103-A)

The Dates En Español

Posted by Sabian Rosales in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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

Weather of Doom and Destiny

Posted by Sabian Rosales in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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

¡Hola, amigo! : How to ask where are you from to someone

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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.

¿Qúe Día es Hoy?

Posted by Temperance Moore in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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. 

Knowing the a,b,c en español

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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.

Learning the Los Meses del Año (Months of the Year) and saying the dates

Posted by Kenny Nguyen in Spanish 1 - Manuel 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.


* 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!!

La marcha de calendario by Luz Welmans











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).

"What Time is it?"

Posted by Chris Tran in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Imagine a time where your really late to school, but then you don't know the time. You see a spanish speaking person and you don't know how to ask for time. Here in this lesson I'm going to teach you how to ask for time and how you answer it. So the phrase for asking time in english is "What time is it", but in spanish it is "¿Qué hora es?","¿Qué hora son?",  or "¿Qué hora tiene(s)?". Well when you answer it is really simple. The phrase is Son las.. which means It is.. 
Well when you answer for 12:00 pm or am there is also phrases for those too. For 12:00 pm in the middle of the day it is " es el mediodía". For 12:00 am it is "es la medianoche". Well in spanish when you say one o'clock its not " son las uno" that is not the right way to say one o'clock.The correct way is "es la una punto". Well "punto" means "on the dot", so if i say "son las dos punto". It means 2 o'clock on the dot. Well there are also phrases for in the morning, afternoon, and evening. In the morning is "de la mañana".For afternoon is "de la tardes". Then for the evening is "de la noches". You will have to add this when your giving somebody the time. Below you will see flashcards that you can use to practice the phrases in the lesson.
This video is going to be about asking for time and how to answer say time in Spanish. In this scene you will see again a guy and a girl, but this time in this scene this guy is in a hurry. Wondering what time is it really? Then stops by and ask a lady or girl who is sitting in the bench. This guy asks her “¿Qué hora es?” meaning, “What time is it?” and then the way she answers it is “Son las..” meaning “ It is..”.

Here is Molly's leccíon on Weather
Here is Molly's leccíon on the Spanish Alphabet
Here is Molly's leccíon on Days of the Week
Here is another of my leccíon on How to Introduce Yourself 

What day is it?

Posted by Molly Olshin in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Everyone needs to know what day it is! ​Let's say you are in class and your spanish teacher says "tenemos una prueba el viernes."
You know that she said "We have a test on..." But you are unsure on what day "viernes" is.


Use this chart to figure out what day it is.
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Knowing what day it is could be useful for multiple situations. HERE is a song that's helpful for memorizing the days of the week.
Here is another video on how to greet someone is spanish.
Here is another video on how to tell the time in spanish.

How to Greet Someone When You First Meet

Posted by Chris Tran in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Well there is a way to greet someone in Spanish. The word to say hello is ¡hola!. Well after you say hi don't you want to ask for their name? Well the phrase to ask them for their name is ¿Cómo te llamas? or to ask an adult you got to ask formally ¿Cómo se llama?. As you can see I underline "se" is the sentences. When you ask a adult you have to use "se" not "te". 


As you can see here there are flashcards you can use to study spanish anytime and anywhere.
Well now I'm going to show you how to answer and ask how are they in spanish. When you ask how are they there will be three phrase for asking how are they. For example ¿Qué tal? or ¿Cómo esta? (tú or usted). Well "usted" is used at the end of the sentence. It is used when asking an adult, tú is used to ask a friend or someone younger than you. So one day if you want to ask your grandparents how are they you should say "¿Cómo está usted?. Well when you answer there are three possible. One possible phrase is Mas o menos, Muy bien, or Muy horrible. On the bottom here there are flash on how you say these things. When you wanna ask someone back you would say "y Tú" it means how about you. Then the person answer back.
Well here is an example for a realife situation of how you ask and answer a " how are you doing" type of questions.
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When they ask you you have to end the conversation by saying nice to meet you or nice talking to you right? Well there is one phrase "mucho gusto" means nice to meet you and the way to answer is "igualmente" means  likewise.
This video is going to be about this lesson of how to introduce you. In this scene you will see a guy and a girl. Who are actually meeting each other for the very first time. In this video you will hear these two saying hi to each other. Then the guy asks the girl for her name. After the girl answers him, she also want to know his name so she would say “¿Y tú?” which means “and you”. Also pay close to how they ended the conversation with the words “mucho gusto” meaning “nice to meet you” and “igualmente” meaning “likewise”.
Here is Molly's leccíon on Weather
Here is Molly's leccíon on the spanish alphabet
Here is Molly's leccíon on Days of the week
Here is another of my leccíon on What time is it

Greetings In Spanish

Posted by Stephanie Lin in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Here's is a lesson on greetings on spanish. You can use spanish to meet and talk to other or to end what the other person is talking about but frist you'll need how to greet some one frist. There is a video on when someone iss greeting someone and there is a small part in this blog where u will see a small chart to help u in greeting and show you many way of saying some of the greeting we didn't use in the video.
this is part one of greetings 

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now part 2 
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Uso Modales

Posted by Bailey Collins in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
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Introduction to Video:
In a real-life situation, you may need to use your manners in a restaurant to get your waiter's attention and to say thank you when the waiter hands you your food. Also, if you leave a tip and say you're welcome.
Now to learn a lesson on the dates and months, click on the url below.

http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/HEY_YOU_ARE_YOU_UP_TO_DATE_IN_ESPANOL

¡Hola amigo!

Posted by Bailey Collins in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
  • The most common way of saying hello in Español is ¡Hola!

  • When talking to your friend or someone closer to your own age you may say ¡Hola amigo!

  • To say how are you in Spanish, You may say "¿Comó estás?' or ¿Qúe tal?

  • When leaving a conversation, to say goodbye there is many different ways to respond such as,
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​In a real-life situation, you may need to say hello, how are you, and goodbye if you wonder how a person feels in a conversation, and how to say goodbye when the conversation is finished.

Click on the url below to learn a lesson on the weather in Español.

http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/EL_TIEMPO_:-WEATHER

Ways of asking basic conversation questions

Posted by Alexander Held in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
​Basic Conversation Questions En Español

 

Ways of asking what someone’s name, both informally and formally.

 

¿Cómo te llamas? – What is your name? (Informal)- when talking to a friend or someone your age.

 

¿Cómo se llama? – What is your name? (Formal)- when talking to someone of authority or an older person.

 

Ways of asking how someone is doing, both informally and formally.

 

¿Cómo estás tú? – How are you? (Informal)- Same rules apply as above.

 

¿Cõmo esta usted? – How are you? (Formal)- Same rules apply as above.

 

Ways of asking where someone is from, both informally and formally.

 

¿De dónde eres tú? – Where are you from? (Informal)- Same rules apply as above.

 

¿De dónde es usted? – Where are you from? (Formal)- Same rules apply as above.

 

Ways of asking when someone’s birthday is, both informally and formally.

 

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? – When is your birthday? (Informal)- Same rules apply as above.

Do you want to learn more Spanish?



Time, Weather, and Numbers

Hey You! Are You Up To Date In Español?

Posted by Jamelia Barrett in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Here is a guide to learn how to ask what todays date and day.
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We use the days and month everyday of our life weather it some ones birthday or someone need tho know todays date. And remember the day always come before the month. Here is a video of someone asking someone birthday in en español.
 Click on the link below for other lesson in Español :

To learn about the greeting and goodbye in Español
 

EL TIEMPO :) (WEATHER)

Posted by Jamelia Barrett in Spanish 1 - Manuel on
Are you planing to go to a spanish speaking country and you want to know whats the weather is like . Learning the weather is very simple. Follow the table and you will learn it in a flash.
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When planing to go to a  different country is always good to know what the weather is like so you can pack proper clothing . Here is a video asking what the weather is  like in Cuba.
Click below to learn learning how to be polite in Español