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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
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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
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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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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

 

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 

​What you need to know:

1. the Months of the year ins spanish and in English

2. how to use them


3.how to remember them


                                                    1)Enereo- Janruary

Febrereo- Febuaray

Marzo- March

Abril- April

Mayo- May

Junio- June

Julio- July

Augosto- August

Septiembre- September

Octubre- October

Noviembre- November

                                                                     Diciembre- December

2) You would normally use these months when ever someone askes you what month is it? You will also need these Months in writing the date.
Ex. Hoy es el quince de Noviembre (Today is November 15th)

3) As you can already see that most of the months of year look and sound similar to the english version of the months of the year. That one of the ways you can remember the spanish version! Since they already look familiar it will be much easier to remember. Just use index cards and practice at home to get a goo vision of how they are exactly spelled and sound like.

​What you need to know:


1. The letters of alphabet

2. The pronunciation of the letters

3.How to remember the alphabet

4. how would you use them

B: be 

C: ce

D: de 

E: e

F: efe 

G: ge (sound like h; “hey”)

H: hache (h is silent)

I: I (sounds like a long e) 

J: jota 

K: ka

L: ele 

M: eme 

N ene 

Ñ: eñe (sound lik ennyee)

O: o

P: pe 

Q: cu 

R: ere

S: ese 

T: te 

U: u

V: ve (sounds like b; “be”) 

W: doble ve 

X: equis 

Y: ye or i griega

Z: zeta

3) In order to remember the alphabet and how to pronounce them you can always sing along to the alphabet song over and over until you finally get it!

4) Learning the alphabet in spanish will also help you learn how to spell words a lot easier!
http://https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/Spanish%20abcs.mov?w=2423bb8d

If you want to know about courtesy phrases in Español, then click this link to see my partner True's page.
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/Courtesy_Phrases:5

The days of the week in Sapanish are never capitalized like they are in English and it always starts with Monday. Here are the days of the week in Español with their meaning and pronunceation: 

You also need to know how to tell someone what today is, or what tomorrow will be if they ask. Here is how:
 

Imagine your dad wanted to know what day today was and what tomorrow will be. You would need to know how to tell her the day of the week.

People may think that it's really difficult to learn how to ask and tell time in spanish,but in fact it's really simple.
First you need to know your numbers.

Another thing you will need to know is how to tell time.

1:00- es la una (en punto)                    7:00- son las siete (en punto)
2:00- son las dos (en punto) 8:00- son las ocho (en punto)
3:00- son las tres (en punto)                 9:00- son las nueve (en punto)
4:00- son las cuatro (en punto) 10:00- son las diez (en punto)
5:00- son las cinco (en punto) 11:00- son las once (en punto)
6:00- son las seis (en punto) 12:00- son las doce (en punto)
  
                      12:00 AM- es la medianoche (it's midnight)
                      12:00 PM- es la mediodia (it's noon)


:05- y cinco           :45- menos cuarto
:15- y cuarto          :55- menos cinco

EX: 5:05- son las cinco y cinco
      5:15- son las cinco y cuarto
      5:45- son las seis menos cuarto
                          6   minus   15
      5:55- son las seis menos cinco
                          6   minus   5
       4:10- son las cuatro y diez
        8:20- son las ocho y veinte
       10:40- son las diez y cuarenta





...de la mañana (in the morning)   ...y cuarto (quarter after)        ...en punto (on the dot)
...de la tarde (in the afternoon)     ...menos cuarto (quarter of)
...de la noche (in the evening)      ...y media (half past)

Imagine you were stuck in Mexico and you needed to catch the next train out of there. Your train leaves at 1:00, but you don't know what time it is. You would have to ask someone what the current time is..

Do you want to know your ABC's in Español?
"A B C, it's easy as one two three!"
Here is the Alphabet and how to prnounce the letters:

There are some other things you need to know.
For Example:

v and b make the same sound: beh.
v= beh corta (small)
b= beh larga (big)

h is silent
hola (hello)= oh la

ll- two l's= j

ay= eye

i= eeee

j=h

n does not equal ñ
ñ= ny

ge= he

Imagine that your talking to a spanish speaking friend and they want to know how to spell a word in spanish. You would need to spel it out for them.

If you want to learn more about the days of the week in Español, then click this link to see my partner Melanie's page.
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/Days_of_the_Week:7

If you want to know more about how to say the time in Español, then click this link to see my partner Melanie's page.
http://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/What_Time_Is_It

Isn’t it an awkward moment when someone tries to be polite and greet him or herself but you can’t understand what they’re saying because they’re speaking Spanish? Well, now you won’t have that problem because I’m teaching you what they’re saying.

Some basic greetings are hola, buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas nóche, cómo te llamas, qué tal, and adios.

 

Hola in English is hello

 

Buenos días in English good morning

 

Buenas tardes in English is good afternoon

 

Buenas nóche in English is good night

 

Cómo te llmas in English is what’s your name

 

Qué tal in engles is how are you

 

Adios in engles is goodbye

Imagine there is a new kid in your school who manly speaks Spanish. To be polite you might want to greet yourself in Spanish.

When someone does you a favor, you would want to thank them for it right. Or if you’re trying to get someone’s attention or they do something to you you’d want to respond to them correct. Well here are some courtesy phrases to eliminate those problems.

When you want to thank someone.

Gracias= thanks

Muchas gracias=thanks a lot

Mil  gracias= thanks a million

 

When you want to say you’re welcome.

 

De nada= you’re welcome

Por nada= you’re very welcome

No hay de qué= you’re super welcome

 

When you want to say please.

Por favor= please

 

Imagine you are walking down the hallway and you see someone drop their books. You bend down to hand it to them. What will they say in return? Lets find out.

In order to know how to spell or write in spanish, you need to know your alphabet! The chart below will teach you everything you need to know!

here is also a song to it to help you out 

REAL LIFE SITUATION

You are having a spanish test on spelling and you don't want to fail that test. Well, you have to know the spanish alphabet in order to pass the test.

Here is Kenayah's blog post for basic conversation 
Here is Kenayah's blog post for weather