Spanish For You

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¡Hola! - hi!
¿Cómo te va? - How's it going?
Encantado - Pleased to meet you (m)
Encantada - Pleased to meet you (f)
Mucho gusto - It's nice to meet you
¿Qué pasa? - What's up?
¿Qué tal? - How ya doing?
¿Qué cuentas? - What's new?
¿Cómo está? - How are you?
¿Cómo está hoy? - How are you today?
¿Cómo estás? - How are you?
¿Todo bien? - Everything okay?
Buenos días. - Good morning
Buenas tardes. - Good afternoon.
Buenas noches. - Good evening.

Household Objects

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Personalities

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Color

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Month of the years

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Days

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Numbers

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Spanish describing people

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	Describing People
	Activo		active
	Alto		tall
	Atletico		athletic
	Bajo		short
	Bonito		pretty
	Extrovertido		outgoing
	Rubio		blond
	Serio		serious
	Simpatico		friendly

Family and Describing people

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1.	¡Mucho gusto!	Nice to meet you!
2.	¡Oye!	Listen!
3.	¿cómo?	how?
4.	¿de dónde?	from where?
5.	¿de qué nacionalidad?	what nationality?
6.	¿quién?	who?
7.	¿quiénes?	who?
8.	aburrido(a)	boring
9.	alto(a)	tall
10.	ambicioso(a)	hard-working
11.	antipático(a)	unpleasant, not nice
12.	argentino(a)	Argentine
13.	bajo(a)	short
14.	bastante	rather, quite
15.	bonito(a)	good-looking
16.	bueno(a)	good
17.	chileno(a)	Chilean
18.	colombiano(a)	Colombian
19.	cómico(a)	funny, comical
20.	cubano(a)	Cuban
21.	difícil	difficult, hard
22.	dominicano(a)	Dominican
23.	duro(a)	difficult, hard
24.	ecuatoriano(a)	Ecuadorian
25.	el arte	art
26.	el curso	class, course
27.	el español	Spanish (language)
28.	el francés	French (language)
29.	el inglés	English (language)
30.	el muchacho	boy
31.	el/la alumno(a)	student
32.	el/la amigo(a)	friend
33.	el/la joven	young person
34.	el/la profesor(a)	teacher
35.	fácil	easy
36.	feo(a)	unattractive, ugly
37.	gracioso(a)	funny
38.	grande	big, large

39.	guapo(a)	attractive
40.	guatemalteco(a)	Guatemalan
41.	inteligente	intelligent
42.	interesante	interesting
43.	joven	young
44.	la ciencia	science
45.	la clase	class
46.	la educación física	physical education
47.	la escuela	school
48.	la historia	history
49.	la muchacha	girl
50.	la música	music
51.	las matemáticas	mathematics, math
52.	los estudios sociales	social studies
53.	malo(a)	bad
54.	mexicano(a)	Mexican
55.	mismo(a)	same
56.	moreno(a)	dark-haired, brunette
57.	muy	very
58.	norteamericano(a)	North American
59.	nuevo(a)	new
60.	pelirrojo(a)	redheaded
61.	pequeño(a)	small, Little
62.	perezoso(a)	lazy
63.	pero	but
64.	peruano(a)	Peruvian
65.	puertorriqueño(a)	Puerto Rican
66.	rubio(a)	blond
67.	secundario(a)	secondary
68.	serio(a)	serious
69.	simpático(a)	nice
70.	también	also, too
71.	venezolano(a)	Venezuelan

Spanish Chapter 1 Vocab

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1.	¿ A que hora?	At what time?
2.	¿ Que hora es?	What time is it?
3.	a tiempo	on time
4.	ahora	now
5.	amarillo	yellow
6.	ayudar	to help
7.	azul	blue
8.	bailar	to dance
9.	blanco	white
10.	buscar	to look for
11.	caminar	to walk
12.	cantar	to sing
13.	comprar	to buy
14.	contestar	to answer
15.	de la manana	in the morning
16.	de por la noche	in the evening
17.	de por la tarde	in the afternoon
18.	de texto	textbook
19.	descansar	to rest
20.	desear	to want/wish
21.	dibujar	to draw
22.	el amigo	friend (mascaline)
23.	el apartamento	apartment
24.	el boligarfo	pen
25.	el borrador	eraser
26.	el centro estudiantil	student center
27.	el companero de cuarto	room mate (mascaline)
28.	el cuaderno	notebook
29.	el diccionario	dictionary
30.	el dinero	money
31.	el domingo	Sunday
32.	el escritorio	desk
33.	el estudiante	student (masculine)
34.	el examen	test
35.	el fin de semana	weekend
36.	el gimnasio	gymnasium
37.	el hombre	man
38.	el jueves	Thrusday
39.	el lapiz	pencil
40.	el libro	book

41.	el lunes	Monday
42.	el mapa	map
43.	el martes	Tuesday
44.	el mediodia	noon
45.	el miercoles	Wedesday
46.	el novio	boy friend
47.	el papel	paper
48.	el professor	professor (mascaline)
49.	el reloj	watch
50.	el reloj	clock
51.	el sabado	Saturday
52.	el viernes	Friday
53.	en punto	on time
54.	ensenar	to teach
55.	entrar	to enter
56.	escuchar	to listen
57.	esperar	to hope/expect
58.	estudiar	to study
59.	hablar	to speak
60.	hoy	today
61.	la amiga	friend (femenine)
62.	la bilioteca	libary
63.	la calendario	calendar
64.	la cateteria	cafeteria
65.	la companera de cuarto	room mate (femanine)
66.	la computadora	computer
67.	la estudiante	student (femanine)
68.	la leccion	lesson
69.	la libreria	book store
70.	la luz	light
71.	la medianoche	midnight
72.	la mocila	backpack
73.	la mujer	woman
74.	la novia	girl friend
75.	la oficina	office
76.	la palabra	word
77.	la pantalla	screen
78.	la pizarra	chalkboard
79.	la pluma	pen
80.	la professora	professor (femaine)

81.	la residencia	dormitory
82.	la tarea	homework
83.	la tiza	chalk
84.	llamar	to call/phone
85.	llegar	to arrive
86.	manana	tomorrow
87.	mandar	to send
88.	marron	brown
89.	mirar	to watch
90.	morado	purple
91.	naranjo	orange
92.	necesitar	to need
93.	negro	black
94.	pagar	to pay
95.	pasar	to spend time/ to pass
96.	practicar	to practice
97.	preguntar	to ask a question
98.	regresar	to return
99.	rojo	red
100.	tarde	late
101.	teminar	to finish
102.	temprano	early
103.	tocar	to touch; to play an instrument
104.	todos los dias	every day
105.	tomar	to take
106.	trabajar	to work
107.	usar	to use
108.	verde	green
109.	viajar	to travel
110.	visitar	to visit

Welcome to the Hispanic world

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Back to Spanish Beginners

Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico; Portuguese: hispânico, hispano, Catalan: hispà, hispànic) is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain or, in some definitions, to ancient Hispania, which comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the modern states of Andorra, Portugal, and Spain and the British Crown Dependency of Gibraltar. Today, organizations in the United States use the term to refer to persons with a historical and cultural relationship either with Spain and Portugal or with only Spain. Some organizations intend to encapsulate only the Spanish-speaking populations in the term Hispanic, limiting the definition to that subset, while others encapsulate Spain and Portugal in the term "Hispanic." The term is more broadly used to refer to the culture, peoples, or nations with a historical link to Spain, especially those countries which were once colonized by Spain, particularly the countries of Latin America which were colonized by Spain. The Hispanic culture is a set of customs, traditions, beliefs and art forms (music, literature, dress, architecture, cuisine or others) which are generally shared by peoples in Hispanic regions, but which can vary considerably from one country or territory to another. The Spanish and Portuguese languages are the main cultural element shared by Hispanic peoples.

Definitions in the United States

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget currently defines "Hispanic or Latino" as "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. In a recent study, most Spanish-speakers of Spanish or Latin American descent do not prefer the term “Hispanic” or “Latino” when it comes to describing their identity. Instead, they prefer to be identified by their country of origin. When asked if they have a preference for either being identified as “Hispanic” or “Latino,” the Pew study finds that “half (51%) say they have no preference for either term.” If they did have to choose, the study finds that “’Hispanic’ is preferred over ‘Latino’ by more than a two-to-one margin—33% versus 14%.”

List of countries where Spanish is an official language

Spanish is an official language in 20 sovereign states and one dependent entity, totalling around 423 million people.

Equatorial Guinea, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Paraguay, Honduras, Bolivia, Cuba, Guatemala, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Uruguay.

Dependent entities where Spanish is a de jure official language.

Puerto Rico

Class # 1 Alphabet "El Alfabeto"

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The Spanish alphabet has the following 27 letters and 2 digraphs:

Vowell "Vocales" A - E - I - 0 - U

The Letters : B(be) - V(ve) There is no longer any distinction between the sounds of these letters.

The Letters : R(ere / erre) It is sometimes suggested that the name of the letter R be ere when it is single, and erre when it is double RR, but the dictionary of the Real Academia Española defines the name of R as erre or ere.

The Letters : L(ele-elye) It is sometimes suggested that the name of the letter L be ele when it is single, and elye when it is double LL

The Letter : W It is sometimes called doble ve, ve doble, doble uve

The language known today as Spanish is derived from a dialect of spoken Latin that is thought to have developed in the north-central part of the Iberian Peninsula in what is now northern Spain, and for which a written standard was developed in the cities of Toledo (13th to 16th centuries) and Madrid (from the 1560s). Over the past 1,000 years, the language expanded south to the Mediterranean Sea, and was later transferred to the Spanish colonial empire, most notably to the Americas. Today it is the official language of 21 countries Spain, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia, Honduras, Paraguay, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Uruguay. Spanish was removed as an official language of the Philippines in 1973.
Additionally, Spanish is by far the most studied foreign language in the United States. With over 50 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. It is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Spanish 1

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Class # 1 Alphabet "El Alfabeto"
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