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Icebreaker:

In order to make basic conversation, you need to know:

Here is a video of a girl meeting a new student making conversation at SLA.

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.

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/file/d/0B7tlFAq13C0MNzZZZ3JsVmt0YVE/editClick here to see how to use formal and informal terms in Spanish.

http://goanimate.com/videos/0rJbpkEQ2QHA/1

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

Ay dios mios weather:

In order to know the weather you need to know:

Here is a video of Carlos describing the weather outside:

  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 ) 

Watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/52681525

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. 

Watch a video here: http://vimeo.com/52681523

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)

​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

Watch a video here: https://vimeo.com/52681524

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.

Introduction to Video:

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

Introduction to Video:

Here is a video showing Micaela and Yolanda greeting each other on the first day of school.

This is a chart of all the ways to greet people in Español : )

click here for a video of two friends meeting up, who use spanish greetings 

Click HERE for a video

​This will help you learn how to say the weather in Spanish by:
- Teaching you how to describe the weather (ex. hot,cold,warm,rainy,windy, cloudy,etc.)
- Teaching you how to say how many degrees the weather is
- How to ask the weather

http://quizlet.com/15511830/%C2%BFque-tiempo-hace-flash-cards/

Intro to Video
In this video we will be telling you the weather forecast in Spanish. We will describe the weather in many ways such as:
Asking the weather (Qué tiempo hace?)
- Hace calor
- Hace viento
- Hace sol
- Hace frío
- Hace fresco
- Está nublado (Mayormente or Parcialmente)
- Está nevando
- Está lloviendo
We will also include how many degrees the weather is along with the different forecasts of the weather.

Click here for a video of this situation.

Frases de Cortesía (Courtesy Phrases)

Lesson 3
This lesson will help you learn how to be polite to others when speaking in Spanish.
It will help you learn how to thank someone, reply to someone, excuse yourself, and say please.

Part 1

Spanish	English
¡Gracias! ¡Muchas gracias! ¡Muy amable gracias!	Thank you! Thank you very much! That’s kind of you, thank you!
De nada/ por nada	You’re welcome
¡Disculpe!	Excuse me! ( to get an atencion)
¡Perdon!	Excuse me! (sorry)
¡Con Permiso!	Excuse me!
Por favor	Please
No hay de qué.	You’re welcome. (no problem)

Part 2
Excuse me phrases: http://goanimate.com/videos/0G5BUxPLByys/1


Intro to Video
In this video we will be teaching you how to use courtesy phrases. This video shows two strangers who bump into each other. The first person drops their wallet, and the second person calls out to the first person as they need to return it. The first person thanks the second person, who replies in saying your welcome. All of this will be said in Español.

Click here for a video of this situation. 

An important lesson to learn in spanish is the weather. ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?: What's the weather today? You need to know how to spell/pronounce the weather in order to fully understand it.

Our video will show a girl trying to decide whether or not to get her jacket so she asks her friend what the whether is like.

We are teaching the weather in español. What you need to know is......

- What is the temperature like? (¿Qué tiempo hace?)
- It's very cold (Hace frío)
- It's very hot (Hace calor)
- It's very sunny (Hace sol)
- It's very windy (Hace viento)
- It's mostly/partly cloudy (Está mayormente/parcialmente nebulous)
- It's humid (Está húmedo)
- It's raining (Está lloviendo)
- It's snowing (Está nevando)

We are teaching how to ask and tell time in español. What you need to know is...

- How to ask time (¿Qué hora es?, ¿Qué hora son, ¿Qué hora tiene?)
- How to tell time ( Es la: 1 , Son las...2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)
- 12:00 A.M. (Es la medianoche)
- 12:00 P.M. (Es el mediodia)
- :15 (y cuarto)
- :30 (y media)
- :45 (menos cuarto)
- :55 (menos cinco)

Our lesson will be on time, and how to ask the time.
: Que hora es?
:la hora?
:Son las...
: Es la...
: Con permiso, que hora es?
: Si son las...

English
: What time is it
: The time?
: Its the...
:The time is...
Excuse me, what time is it?
:Yes its the...

-Don't know how to say your pleases and thank yous in spanish? Than this is the blog post for you!

 -What you need to know about courtesy phrases are the basic word phases, and I can teach you!

*Before You Start you need to know that Spanish has three different words for the phrase "excuse       me".

  Disculpe- said to get someones attention
  Perdon- said when you bump into someone  
  Con Permiso- said to excuse yourself from a rude gesture (pass gass, burp, etc.)
  Gracias- thank you
  Por Favor- please
  y usted- and you (formal)
  igualmente- likewise 

Also you should check out this awesome movie at zimmertwins.com. It's about using the word disculpe to get someones attention.

http://www.zimmertwins.com/node/1317769
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This is a video about conversation using courtesy phrases to catch up with an old freind.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3_R0dyaVKqUSnlhMzJYRmhhODQ