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When you first greet someone you would say “¡Hola!” to make them feel welcome. When you wake up in the morning and then see your mom would say “¡Buenos dias!” to wish her a good morning. If you meet up with your friend in the middle of the day you can say “¡Buenas tardes!” to wish them a good afternoon. When you’re about to go to sleep you can say “¡Buenas noches!” to wish the people around you a good night. When someone wants to sit down and talk with you, you can say ¿Que tal?” to see what’s up. When you’re speaking to your grandparents to see how they’re doing say “¿Como esta?” to see how they are. When your talking to your little sister and you want to see how she is say “¿Como estas?” to see what she is up to.  When your confused about what is going on you can say “¿Que pasa?” to find out what you didn’t get.

 Los Buenos modales.                            Good manners.

 In this lesson I will be teaching you how to be polite in Spanish. When your mom feeds you dinner you would say “Gracias”. When your walking down the street and your keys fall out of your pocket, and a stranger hands them back to you respond “Mil gracias”. If you’re in class and you’re trying to figure something out, and your teacher comes over to help respond “Muchos Gracias”. If you do someone a favor and they say “Gracias” then you could use any of the three of these “De nada”, “Por nada”, or “No hay de qué”. When someone says something fast and you don’t understand what they said you could say “¿Como?” When you ask someone to do you a favor you can add a “Por favor” to it to make the person more inclined to do it. When you’re in class copying down notes and someone is in your view you can say, “Con permiso” for them to move. When you speak in front of a large group of people and your trying to get their attention you can say “Disculpe” to make them listen.  If your walking on the street and you pump into to someone inadvertently you can say, “Perdon” to see if they are all right.

What month is Martin Luther King Day celebrated in? A: Enero

What month is Valentines Day celebrated in?  A: febrero

What month is Pi day celebrated in?  A: marzo

What month is April fools day celebrated in? A: abril

What month is Mothers day celebrated in? A: mayo

What month is Fathers day celebrated in? A: junio

What month is Independence Day celebrated in? A: julio

What month doesn’t have any major holidays celebrated? A: agosto

What month is Labor Day celebrated in? A: septiembre

What month is Halloween celebrated in? A: octubre

What month is Thanksgiving celebrated in? A: noviembre

What month is Christmas celebrated in? A: deciembre

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1. For this I am doing Tú vs. Usted.  For Tú it is informal and used for people of equal or a lower age than you.  Ud is used for people that are older than you and for people you respect.  It is formal. An example for it would be for asking some one “How are you?”  ?Como estas? Is the informal and used for a friend and ¿Como esta? is formal and used for an adult.  The different letter is the s at the end.  For other phrases are different for Tú and Ud like:

What’s your name? is ¿Cómo te lamas (tú)? or ¿Cómo se llama (ud).

Where are you from? is ¿De dónde eres (tú)? or ¿De dónde es(ud)?

How old are you? is ¿Cuántos años tienes (tú)? or ¿Cuántos años tiene (ud)?

An Adult talking to there kid:

A: ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás?

K: Bien, gracias. ¿Y Usted?

A: Más o menos.

2. This is the alphabet in español

A: ah [in English this would be an a.  You must remember to use ah and make its sound.]

B: beh [in español to say B it would be a softer sound than English]

C: seh [same as the s sound for English] 

CH: cheh [same for English]

D: deh [similar to English]

E: eh [in español to say E it is softer than English E]

F: efeh [its similar to the English way]

G: heh [very different more like a H sound]  

H: ah-cheh [close to the English ha choo for sneezing but always silent in words]

I: eee [sounds like a long E]

J: ho-ta [very different than the English way]

K: ka [just like the englesh way but instead of just K sound you use an A sound with it]

L: eleh [it is close to the English way and some small differentness]

LL: elleh [close to single L]

M: emeh [close to English but adds E at beginning]

N: eneh [same as M but changed wit the N]

Ñ: enyeh [like N buy a Y sound in the middle of it]

O: oh [sounds like a long O]

P: peh [sounds like pee but instead of the end E there is a H]

Q: cooooo [sound of a long O with a C on the front]
R: ereh [sounds like M and N but with a R]

S: eseh [same as R, M, and N]

T: teh [close to the English way]

U: ooo [a long O sound]
V: veh [sounds like B but more of a V sound]

W: dobleh veh [dobleh sounds like the English double]

X: eh-quis [nothing like the English way]

Y: eee gree -eh-gah [combo of long E GR sound with long E, short E, and blah but replace BL with G]
Z: zetah [it is close to Zelda]

How to spell your name.

    M         E      R         R           I           K

Emeh    eh   ereh   ereh     eee        ka

3.Hear are the days of the week:

To ask what day it today? is ¿Qué día es hoy?

A response is Hoy es and the day it is.

To ask what day is it tomorrow? is ¿Qué día es mañana?

A response is Hoy es and the next day of the week.

The days of the week are not capitalized like in English.

The weather and seasons are very important to learn in any language. You have to make sure of proper spelling and puctioation when writing the seasons. Here are the four seasons. Here are the

Las Estaciones (Seasons)

                                                                         El Tiempo

The next thing I went to teach you is how to ask what the weather is like in Spanish.

English) What’s the weather like?

Spanish)  ¿Qué tiempo hace?

This is the Spanish alaphbet. This shows how to properly prononce the letters.

If someone asked me to spell my name (Robbie) it would be ereh  o beh beh eeeeee eh.

To ask someone what day is today in spanish you say "¿Qué dia es hoy?"
If you want to say "it's" in spanish you say "Es",  before you say a day you say "Es jueves (Thursday)"
"Today" in Spanish is "hoy"
Day in Spanish is "dias"

Don't get mixed up with American ways of writing days of the week. *NOTE* - the days of the week en espanol are not capitalized.

lunes - Monday

martes - Tuesday,

miércole - Wednesday

jueves - Thursday

viernes - Friday

sábado - Saturday 

domingo - Sunday

When someone asked you, "¿Qué día es hoy?" (which means: What day is today?) you reply, "Es viernes" [It is Friday] 

For the calendar when someone ask you, "¿Qué día de la semana es el 5 de Octubre? you respond, "el martes"

Semana = week.

Real life Application: When someone is asking what is today or the days of the week.

This post will teach you the seasons of the the year

in espánol and how to pronounce them.

Winter-->El inverno

Spring--La primavera

Summer--El verano

Fall--El otóno

Winter:( L)-inveer-no

Spring: La pre-ma-vera

Summer: (L)-ver-ah-no

Fall: (L)-on-tone-yo

Real Life Application: How to read/write the seasons in espánol.

To ask someone what day is today in spanish you say "¿Qué dia es hoy?"
If you want to say "it's" in spanish you say "Es",  before you say a day you say "Es jueves (Thursday)"
"Today" in Spanish is "hoy"
Day in Spanish is "dias"

Don't get mixed up with American ways of writing days of the week. *NOTE* - the days of the week en espanol are not capitalized.

lunes - Monday

martes - Tuesday,

miércole - Wednesday

jueves - Thursday

viernes - Friday

sábado - Saturday 

domingo - Sunday

When someone asked you, "¿Qué día es hoy?" (which means: What day is today?) you reply, "Es viernes" [It is Friday] 

For the calendar when someone ask you, "¿Qué día de la semana es el 5 de Octubre? you respond, "el martes"

Semana = week.

Real life Application: When someone is asking what is today or the days of the week.

Part one: Greetings and Goodbyes

created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall

Knowing is important because if you meet someone new who only know Spanish this is how you greet them.

All of the following are ways to say hello:

Good evening can be used as a greeting or a good bye.

The following are ways to say how are you and ways to respond:

You use formal when talking to a person who is older than you. Informal is used talk to people younger than you.

The following are all ways to say goodbye:

Two friends are walking in the hallway and pass each other.

Friend 1: Hola senor. (hello sir)

Friend 2: Hola. ¿Que tal? (hi, how are you?)

Friend 1: Bien. ¿Y tú? (good, and you?)

Friend 2: Muy Bien gracias. Adios. (very good thanks. bye)

Friend 1: Adios. (bye)

Person 1: Muchas gracias senor.

Person 2: Por nada.

Part three: Numbers reference sheet.

Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall

For most of the following lessons, it is important that you learn/know the numbers 1-100 in Spanish, here is a brief lesson and numbers table, refer back to this as needed throughout the rest of the lesson. The numbers one through fifteen all have their own individual names; these will be the hardest to learn. They still won’t be very difficult though. And once you have them down the rest of the numbers will be a breeze to learn. 

Now that you have these down, the rest will be a snap. The numbers 16 through 29 fallow a simple pattern, the tens column number is merged with the units column number. Here is a chart

For the numbers 30-99 the pattern changes. From here you really only need to know the base numbers, so 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90. All of these numbers and their pronunciations are listed below.

So add a unit, you just put “y ______(fill in the blank)” after the tens column number so 33 is written as “treinta y tres” but remember, you pronounce all three of those words as one word.  Refer back to this tutorial as needed throughout the rest of the blog. Now that you have the numbers down you can move on to the date and time.

Part four: The date

Created be Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall

Ok, so you’ve covered numbers, the time, now on to the date! The easiest place to start with the date is learning the months, or “mes” in spanish. You need to know these before you can answer questions about the date. Here is a table of the months and their translations

Refer back to this chart as needed throughout the tutorial.

Ok so now you can learn to ask “what is today’s date”. In spanish “what is todays date” translates to “¿Cual es la fecha de hoy?”. Like “¿A Què hora es?” this is not a direct translation. But because different languages use different grammar, it is written differently.

To answer this question, the next thing you should learn is the formant the date is written in. here in America, we write it as MM/DD but in Spanish speaking cultures, its written as DD/MM. as you might guess it is read and said in the same order. Lets say, for example that you were asked this on October the 10^th. You would say “es el diez de octubre” be sure to remember that the pattern is always es el [date] de [month]

Situation: one person asks another for todays date:

Person 1#: hola (hi)

Person 2#: hola. ¿cual es la fecha de hoy?(hi, what is todays date?)

Person 1#: Es el uno de noviembre (its the first of novembre)

Part four: Days Of The Week

created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall

When you need to plan a future event with someone who only speaks Spanish you need to know the days of the week. The days of the week are:

The days in Spanish aren’t capitalized.

To ask the day of the week you say: ¿Qué día es hoy?

The answer to this question is: Hoy (Today) es (is) ______________

 To say "tomorrow" you say "mañana" so "Què dia es hoy" becomes "¿Què dia es mañana?"

Situation: two friends bump into each other in the hallway. one asks the other what day it is and what day tomorrow is:

Person 1#: Hola.

Person 2#: ¿Que dia es hoy?

Person 1#: es lunes

Person 2#: ¿que dia es mañana?

Person 1#: es martes

Part five:Time is of the essence

Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall

Ok, now that you have the numbers down, let move on to the time. Knowing the time is as essential in Spanish as it is in English. It will be fairly easy to learn since it fallows the same patterns as it does in the English language. Lets start with the basics. To ask the time in Spanish, you say “¿Què hora es?” or “¿Què hora son? Or ¿Què hora tiene? All of these translate roughly to “What time is it?”

Now, you know how to ask what time it is, but what if you need to ask when something is? To ask this, you use the same basic phrases but you ad “A” in front of them so as a complete phrase, this would be “¿A què hora es?”  While this directly translates to “ at what time is?” but literally means “what time is _______ at?” the answer to “¿Què hora es?” you simply say  “Son las ___” so eight o clock would be, “ Son las ocho” you use “Son las” for all the numbers except the number one, for which you use “Es la” so “Es la una” means its one o clock. To say what time something is at, you follow the same pattern as when your asking, you just add “A” to the front of the sentence. So “A son las ocho” means its at eight. To say it is an hour and some minutes you just add “y __” In Spanish “y” is pronounced as “eee” .  Keep this in mind when using verbal Spanish. This is the same system used so, 8:23 translates to “ocho y ventitrès”. Remember to say the time you say the hour number than the minute number so “[hour] y [minute]”

Now that you have that down, your eighty percent of the way there, all you have left to learn are a few ways to say a few specific times, these are for the half hour and the quarter hour. For the half hour you say “media” so 10:30 is “diez y media”. For the quarter hour, you say “__ y cuarto” for :15 and “__menos cuarto” for :45. Menos is Spanish for “minus” you u start saying “menos” instead of “y” at the :45.

Situation: one friend asks another what time is math class.

Person 1#: Hola(hi)

Person 2#: Hola(hi)

Person 1#: ¿A que hora es la classe de mathematicas?(at what time is math class?)

Person 2#: A son las ocho y media( its at eight  thirty

Person 1#: gracias

Part six: the weather

Created by Cameron Klales and Matthew Marshall

Knowing how to ask and explain about the weather is a valuable skill; it (if nothing else) will allow you to make small talk among friends and family.

To ask the what the weather is like you say “ ¿Qúe teimpo hace?”.  Remember, teimpo mean weather, not temperature. To ask temperature, you say “ ¿Qùe es la temparatura?”

To reply to ¿Qúe teimpo hace? You can say any of the following, depending on the weather.

All of these are applicable to a conversation about the weather.

Hace and Està  both mean “it is” or  “it’s” It is also good to know seasons, so that you can articulate yearly weather.

Now you can say what is weather is like in a given season. So describing your local weather is made easier. For example, to say “In Philadelphia, it is cold in the winter” you say :” En Filadelfia, el inveirno es moy frìo.

A real life conversation about the weather:

Person 1#: ¡Hola! ¿Que teimpo hace hoy? Translation: Hi, whats the weather like today?

Person 2#:Hace frìo Translation: it’s cold

Person 1#:  Ay Translation: oh

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In the process of this project, i had a lot of help from the people. When i went to my neighborhood poling place the people were happy that i was doing a project like that. They cooperated with me when i was doing the questions and the i was happy with the outcome.

1.)  

Do you vote every election? I don’t. This year was the first year I came out to vote. My mother never did it because it was against her religion and so I never got accustomed to doing so.

2.)  Do you know why we vote on Tuesday? I don’t.

3.)  What motivated you to come out and vote? My daughter motivated me to come out and vote. She just turned 18 last week so she was super excited to get out here and so I decided to come with her.

4.)  Where have you encountered the highest amount of campaign advertisement?  Definitely the radio. When I’m in the car that’s all I hear. I don’t watch much tv.

5.)  What was the most memorable campaign you encountered? The most memorable one would have had to be when Obama was elected into office. I don’t consume my time with city council as much. I hardly ever know whats going on. 

1.   What motivated you to come out and vote?

She found her parent’s voter registration card and it made her realize that not everyone was born with the right to vote and she wanted to take advantage of it.

3. Do you vote in every election? (How regularly do you vote?)

All the major elections.

4. Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?

No

5. Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning? Radio, TV, print, internet, other.

TV

6. What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?

“I am not a witch”  -Christine Odonnell.

7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating?

She just votes democrat.

8. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election?  

More Jobs

 
9. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the election?

She feels like the voter turnout for today was particularly low in this district, so hopefully her vote will make an impact.

10. Did you learn about voting in school?  If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote today?  

Yes and yes

1.What motivated you to come out and vote?

"[I] Didn’t want things to bogged up by the republicans."

2. Do you vote in every election? (How regularly do you vote?)

"Yes."

3. What would you like to see changed in our political system?

"Republicans come up with a platform that works for everybody."

4. Do you know why we vote on Tuesday?

"Not really. "

5. Where have you encountered the highest amount of ad campaigning?

"Television."

6. What was the most memorable campaign ad that you have encountered?

"The one that says that 'Tooney gets jobs for china.'"

7. Are you always sure of who you are going to vote for when you walk into the booth or are you still deliberating? 

"I'm sure. "

8. What changes do you hope to see in Philadelphia as a result of this election? 

"More jobs."

9. What impact do you feel that your vote will have on the election?

"Less republicans in office. "

10. Did you learn about voting in school? If yes, did that impact your willingness to vote?

"Yes, and yes. "