This was a “hello” to
Spanish. So we focused on ways of saying hello and good bye. Through the
vocabulary introduced in this lesson, we not only learned about greetings, but
also some basics of pronouncing Spanish words. We also had
an introduction to letters and numbers.
For our next lesson, we
will be introducing some vocabulary from around the home (including family
members). We will also learn how to conjugate
and use the verbs “ser” and “estar”. Both
verbs translate to English as “to be”, but there are rules that we will cover
in class about when to use which in Spanish.
Just so you know, you have already started using “estar”. We learned estás and está. These are the informal and formal version of
the second person.
I now close with a list
of words that are some basic essentials (most of them we covered in class):
§ yo- I
§ tú- you (informal/familiar)
§ el- he or the masculine version of “the”
§ ella –she
§ ellos –they masculine version
§ ellas –they feminine version
§ usted – you (formal)
§ ustedes – you (plural, formal or informal)
§ la- feminine version of “the”
§ los – the (plural, masculine)
§ las- the (plural, feminine)
§ y – and
§ o –or
