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​Here are some Basic- Everyday Spanish Greetings:

Hola-Hello
Adios-Goodbye
Como te llamas-What is your name
Como estas-How are you?
Qual es la Fecha de hoy?-What is today's date
Que tiempo hace oy?-What is the weather?

Buenos Dias-Good morning
Buenas noches-Goodnight/evening
Buenas Tardes-Good afternoon                                                               

1. First, here are some basic things you need to know in order to tell time in spanish.

Una= 1 (in time-telling una means one.)
Dos= two
tres=three
cuatro=four
cinco=five
sies=six
siete=seven
ocho=eight
nueve=nine
diez=ten
once=eleven
doce=twelve


      2. Esla VS. Son las
You say Esla when you say anytime that has the hour of 1.
Son Las when you use any other hour

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What's The Weather like-¿Que Tiempo Hace Hoy?

Sunny-Hace Hoy


Windy-Hace Viento


Snowy-Esta Nevando


Cloudy-Esta Nublado


Rainy-Esta Hoviendo

 
Now is a video to let u see how it's pronounced 

Felix Hayes Raekwon Smith
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Months

Spanish English
Enero January
Febrero February
Marzo March
Abril April
Mayo May
Junio June
Julio July
Agosto August
Septiembre September
Octubre October
Noviembre November
Diciembre December

When you say the date you always say the date first then the month. For example if its may 1st you say uno de Mayo.

Now here is a video of Ockbar Awesome and Anthony Rodriguez III explaining the months in order

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Now here is a video of Felix and Ricardo having a conversation

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Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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Weather:  

What is the weather like?

Que tiempo hace?

Here are the weathers that are shown below. If someone ask the question what is the weather like, you can say one of the following below.

Esta Nublado

Cloudy

Hace Viento

Windy

Esta Nevando

Snowing

   

Esta lloviendo

Raining

Hace sol

Sunny

 

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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Months/ Dates

Here are the months that are shown below.

Months In Spanish	Pronunciation	English
Enero	Enero	January
Febrero	Feb-rare-o	Febuary
Marzo	Marso	March
Abril	ab-reel	April
Mayo	maio	May
Junio	Hoon-e-o	June
Julio	Hoo-lee-o	July
Agosto	A-gos-to	August
Septiembre	Sep-tee-embre	September
Octubre	Oct-oo-bre	October
Noviembre	No-vee-embre	November
Deciembre	d-ceem-bre	December

Here are the Numbers In spanish and in English.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
uno	oo-no	1
dos	d-os	2
tres	tr-es	3
cuatro	cu-at-ro	4
cinco	See-nco	5
seis	Sey-ss	6
siete	See-et-te	7
ocho	o-cho	8
nueve	New-a-ve	9
diez	d-es	10
once	on-say	11
doce	d-o-say	12
trece	dre-say	13
catorce	ka-tore-say	14
quince	keen-say	15
“diez y” sies, siete, oncho, nueve	de-ez-  e …...	16,17,18,19
“veinte y”  viente, uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, sies,siete, ocho, nueve	v-ein-tay   e.....	20, 21,22,23,24,25,26.27,28,29
treinta, trienta y uno	tre-in-da e....	30,31

In America, we pronounce the month first and then the date. in Spanish we pronounce the date first, and the month second. Here are some examples below. We would say “ el” then the number, then “de” the month,

Dates In America	Dates In spanish
August, 27	El veinte y siete de agosto
December, 16	El diez y sies de deciembre
April, 4	El cuatro de Abril
June 17th	El diez y siete de junio

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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Days of the week:

Here are the days to ask the question what day is it today, yesterday was, tomorrow will be, and the days of the week. As you notice in Spanish, the days that start a new week will be Mondays.  

Question/ Days of the week	In Spanish	Pronunciation
What day is it today?	¿Qué dîa es hoy?	¿kay d-ay es oy?
Yesterday was	Ayer fue	a-year fuey
Tomorrow will be	Manaña Sera	min-ya-na sera
Monday	Lunés	lu-nes
Tuesday	Martes	mar/tes
Wednesday	Miercoles	mier/co/les
Thursday	Jueves	huay-ves
Friday	Viernes	v/ear/ness
Saturday	Sabado	sa/ba/d/o
Sunday	Domingo	d/o/ming/go

 

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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Telling Time:

            In the Spanish country, it is good to know the time and asking them in Spanish. It helps you understand the time and to do something next.
Here are three ways to say what time it is.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
¿Qué hora es?	¿Kay ora- es?	What time is it?
¿Qué hora son?	¿Kay ora son?	What time is it?
¿Qué hora tiene?	¿ kay ora t- an?	What time is it?

Here are two ways when to use the time on different hours.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
Es la una	S la oo-na	You use “es la” on 1 o clock
Son las….	sun las	You use “ son las” from 2- 12 o clock

Here are some ways to say quarter, half of the minutes.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
y cuarto	e core-toe	15
y media	e mi-dia	30
y menos cuarto	e mi-nos core-toe	45

From 1- 30 minutes:
1) Es la_____
son los_____

2) Write/ say the time was given
3) When there is minutes you say “y”
4) Write/ say the minutes

Eamples:

10:16	Son las diez y diezsiete
1:28	Es la una y veinteocho

From 31-59 minutes
1) Es la____
Son las____

2) Take the number ahead of the hour
3) When there is minutes, you write/say “menos”
4) Subtract the time of the original time by 60.

Examples:

11:55	son las doce menos cinco
2:35	son los tres menos viente y cinco

You will say the following at the end when the time will be.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
de la mañana	day la min-an-na	Am in the morning
de la tarde	day la -dar-day	Pm in the afternoon
de la noche	day la no=chay	Pm at the evening/ night

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

 Numbers, phone numbers:

Here is one way to ask someone for the number.

¿Cuales tu numero de telefono /celluar?

¿cua-les tu nu-mer-ro  day te-le-fo-no/ cell- u-er

What is your house number/ cellphone number?

Answering back the question.

Mi numero de telefono /celluar es...

me nu-mer-ro day te-le-fo-no/cell-u-er s....

My telephone/ cellphone number is.....

Here are the numbers you need to know

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
uno	oo-no	1
dos	d-os	2
tres	tr-es	3
cuatro	cu-at-ro	4
cinco	see-nco	5
seis	sey-ss	6
siete	see-et-te	7
ocho	o-cho	8
nueve	new-a-ve	9
cero	ser-o	0

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

 

I live in the second council district of Philadelphia, which is represented by Democrat Anna Verna.  As luck would have it, Verna also happens to be serving her third term as City Council President.  First elected in 1999, Verna was the first woman to become the City Council President of Philadelphia.  She has generally won her elections by a wide margin, and examiner.com called her "Philadelphia's Number One Employee."

Verna has a history of fighting on behalf of Philadelphia's low-SES families.  While working on the City Council Finance Committee, she investigated Philadelphia Gas Works and saved endangered programs that helped needy people pay their gas bills.  She also froze tax rates for low-income seniors, and has successfully fought for more funding for police, recreation, fire facilities, and public education, as well as the renovation of housing stock.  She has said that affordable housing for Philadelphians is her "top priority."

Unfortunately, President Verna has decided that at the end of her term as City Council President, she will retire.  For this reason, she may not be the most helpful person to lobby.

I think that Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey would be more helpful.  He has identified helping children as a top priority.  In fact, he used to teach 5th grade, and at one point he coached 8th grade basketball in inner-city Philadelphia with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.  This tells me that he cares not just for children but for low-income children in particular.  He has also supported funding for education and children's health, especially for low-income children.  On his website, he expresses support for quality healthcare for everyone, "particularly children for whom health care in the earliest years is so critical."  Most notably, he added an amendment to the Senate health care reform bill that would continue full funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through 2019.

Since obesity is a huge problem among low-income children in Philadelphia, I think he'd be very much in favor of healthier school lunches.

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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Weather:  

What is the weather like?

¿Que tiempo hace?

Here are the weathers that are shown below. If someone ask the question what is the weather like, you can say one of the following below.

Esta Nublado

Cloudy

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

Band X

Telling Time:

            In the Spanish country, it is good to know the time and asking them in Spanish. It helps you understand the time and to do something next.
Here are three ways to say what time it is.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
¿Qué hora es?	¿Kay ora- es?	What time is it?
¿Qué hora son?	¿Kay ora son?	What time is it?
¿Qué hora tiene?	¿ kay ora t- an?	What time is it?

Here are two ways when to use the time on different hours.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
Es la una	S la oo-na	You use “es la” on 1 o clock
Son las….	sun las	You use “ son las” from 2- 12 o clock

Here are some ways to say quarter, half of the minutes.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
y cuarto	e core-toe	15
y media	e mi-dia	30
y menos cuarto	e mi-nos core-toe	45

From 1- 30 minutes:
1) Es la_____
son los_____

2) Write/ say the time was given
3) When there is minutes you say “y”
4) Write/ say the minutes

Eamples:

10:16	Son las diez y diezsiete
1:28	Es la una y veinteocho

From 31-59 minutes
1) Es la____
Son las____

2) Take the number ahead of the hour
3) When there is minutes, you write/say “menos”
4) Subtract the time of the original time by 60.

Examples:

11:55	son las doce menos cinco
2:35	son los tres menos viente y cinco

You will say the following at the end when the time will be.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
de la mañana	day la min-an-na	Am in the morning
de la tarde	day la -dar-day	Pm in the afternoon
de la noche	day la no=chay	Pm at the evening/ night

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff
Band X

Months/ Dates

Here are the months that are shown below.

Months In Spanish	Pronunciation	English
Enero	en-errro	January
Febrero	Feb-rare-o	Febuary
Marzo	Marso	March
Abril	ab-reel	April
Mayo	maio	May
Junio	Hoon-e-o	June
Julio	Hoo-lee-o	July
Agosto	A-gos-to	August
Septiembre	Sep-tee-embre	September
Octubre	Oct-oo-bre	October
Noviembre	No-vee-embre	November
Deciembre	d-ceem-bre	December

Here are the Numbers In spanish and in English.

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
uno	oo-no	1
dos	d-os	2
tres	tr-es	3
cuatro	cu-at-ro	4
cinco	See-nco	5
seis	Sey-ss	6
siete	See-et-te	7
ocho	o-cho	8
nueve	New-a-ve	9
diez	d-es	10
once	on-say	11
doce	d-o-say	12
trece	dre-say	13
catorce	ka-tore-say	14
quince	keen-say	15
“diez y” sies, siete, oncho, nueve	de-ez-  e …...	16,17,18,19
“veinte y”  viente, uno, doz, tres, cuatro, cinco, sies,siete, ocho, nueve	v-ein-tay   e.....	20, 21,22,23,24,25,26.27,28,29
treinta, trienta y uno	tre-in-da	30,31

In America, we pronounce the month first and then the date. in Spanish we pronounce the date first, and the month second. Here are some examples below. We would say “ el” then the number, then “de” the month,

Dates In America	Dates In spanish
August, 27	El veinte y siete de agosto
December, 16	El diez y sies de deciembre
April, 4	El cuatro de Abril

 

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Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff
Band X

Days of the week:

Here are the days to ask the question what day is it today, yesterday was, tomorrow will be, and the days of the week. As you notice in Spanish, the days that start a new week will be Mondays.  

Question/ Days of the week	In Spanish	Pronunciation
What day is it today?	¿Qué dîa es hoy?	¿kay d-ay es oy?
Yesterday was	Ayer fue	a-year fuey
Tomorrow will be	Manaña Sera	min-ya-na sera
Monday	Lunés	lu-nes
Tuesday	Martes	mar/tes
Wednesday	Miercoles	mier/co/les
Thursday	Jueves	huay-ves
Friday	Viernes	v/ear/ness
Saturday	Sabado	sa/ba/d/o
Sunday	Domingo	d/o/ming/go

 

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

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Numbers, phone numbers:

Here is one way to ask someone for the number.

¿Cuales tu numero de telefono /celluar?

¿cua-les tu nu-mer-ro  day te-le-fo-no/ cell- u-er

What is your house number/ cellphone number?

Answering back the question.

Mi numero de telefono /celluar es...

me nu-mer-ro day te-le-fo-no/cell-u-er s....

My telephone/ cellphone number is.....

Here are the numbers you need to know

Spanish	Pronunciation	English
uno	oo-no	1
dos	d-os	2
tres	tr-es	3
cuatro	cu-at-ro	4
cinco	see-nco	5
seis	sey-ss	6
siete	see-et-te	7
ocho	o-cho	8
nueve	new-a-ve	9
cero	ser-o	0

Alfredo Tang & Miguel Woodruff

Band x

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

 

There are three ways to ask for time in spanish. 
¿Qué hora es? ¿Qué hora son? ¿Qué hora tiene(s)? 

The following are statements to how you can answer: 

1:OO    ES LA UNA  ( EN PUNTO) 
2:00    SON LAS DOS (EN PUNTO)  3:00    SONLAS TRES  (EN PUNTO)
4:00    SON LAS CUATRO      ( EN PUNTO) 5:00    SON LAS CINO  (EN PUNTO)
6:00    SON LAS SEIS  (EN PUNTO)  7:00    SON LAS SIETE  (EN PUNTO) 
8:00   SON LAS OCHO  (EN PUNTO)  9:00    SON LAS NUEVE  (EN PUNTO) 
10:00  SON LAS DIEZ  (EN PUNTO)  11:00  SON LAS ONCE  (EN PUNTO) 
12:00    SON LAS DOCE  (EN PUNTO)
    12:00 AM   ES LA MEIANOCHE.  ( IT'S MIDNIGHT) 
       12:00 PM   ES LE MEDIODIA    (IT'S NOON) 
Minutes can be stated simply by separating the hour using “y".
Son las seis y cinco. It is 6:05
Son las siete y diez. It is 7:10
Son las once y diecinueve. It is 11:19

We use media to indicate the half hour and use cuarto to indicate the quarter hours.

Es la una y media. It is 1:30
   Son las cuatro y media. It is 4:30.
    Es la una y cuarto. It is 1:15.

It is customary to use menos to tell time during the second half of each hour. We simply state the number of minutes until the following hour.

Es la una menos diez. It is 12:50. (It is ten until one.)
Son las cinco menos cinco. It is 4:55. (It is five until five.)
Son las diez menos veinte. It is 9:40. (It is twenty until ten.)
Son las ocho menos cuarto. It is 7:45. (It is quarter until eight.)

The following are some main words you should remember when you respond:

... de la mañana  ( in the morning) ... y cuarto ( quarter after) 
... de la tarde ( in the afternoon) ... mesos cuarto ( quarter of) 
... de la noche ( in the evening)  ... y media ( haft past) 
 

Son las siete y cuarto de la mañana. It's 7:15 a.m. (It is 7:15 in the morning.)

Son las cuatro menos cinco de la tarde. It's 3:55 p.m. (It is five before four in the afternoon.)

Son las ocho y media de la noche. It's 8:30 p.m. (It is eight and a half at night).

Time are essentially very important for everyone to keep track of. If I am in a country that only speak Spanish, I think I will be late for school.

Have you ever walked, Have you ever walked to a school, the teacher asks the you: "¿Qué día es hoy"? You are wondering what the teacher is saying?Well today is your luck, we will teach you how to say the days of the week in spanish today.

In Spanish, ¿Qué día es hoy? means "what day is today"

 here is how you can respond.. 

Here is an example of real life situation where you might need to know the day of the weeks.

You watch the news, and they tell you the weather of the weeks. You will need to be able to understand what days of the week are in order for you to follow the weather that is being told for that particular day. The following is the video showing the weather and days of the week.

In spanish there are two ways  to ask people something. One is to say  tú= informal and one is Usted= formal. 
Tú can also translate to english as "you". You only use tú to talk to a friend, or people who are younger than you, or people who are close to you and they are about your age.
Usted (ud) means  sir/mam in english. You use Ud when you're talking to a older person, Like your teacher, your mom/dad, and their friends. If you do not know the person or you are unsure of their age, use ustead.
For example:

 

Now let try out this practice. 
 Ask each of the following people their names and how they feeling today in spanish. Remember tú v.s Usted 

When you go a class and you want to introduce yourself to a spanish teacher. Watch a video of us in class trying to introduce to a spanish teacher