Salutations : révision et approfondissement

¡Hola, bienvenidos! Welcome back to Spanish for Beginners with Lingua. This is lesson eleven of course one. You've made it halfway through, so congratulations. As always, I'm your teacher, Isabella. Let's get started.

Let's review the seven verbs we learned in the previous lesson. Repeat after me. Saber. Conocer. Poner. Decir. Querer. Dar. Comer. Very good.

All right, so this lesson is a review of lesson one. Over the next several lessons, we will do reviews of what we've previously learned. It's really important to review when learning a new language, because repetition is key to memorization. Now, don't feel like you can just skip these lessons, because in every lesson I will be adding more vocabulary to bulk up everything you've learned so far.

OK, let's get started. Lesson one was all about greetings. We started with "hola". Hola. Very simple. Hola.

We also learned "soy", and then your name : soy Isabella. Now, you can say "I am" + your name using "soy". You can also use "soy" to say where you are from. We do that by saying "soy de…" and then the country you're from. I am from the United States, so I would say "Soy de Estados Unidos". Someone from the United Kingdom would say "Soy del Reino Unido". Someone from Australia would say "Soy de Australia". Someone from Canada would say "Soy de Canadá". This literally means "I am of this country", but is just a way of saying "I am from". Soy de Estados Unidos. Good.

We also learned "me llamo". "Me llamo" literally means "I call myself", but it's just a way to say "my name is" : Me llamo Isabella. This is not the only way to say "my name is" in Spanish. There is a more literal translation : "mi nombre es". Mi nombre es Isabella. When I was studying Spanish in high school in the United States, this is what we learned, because this is more common in Latin America, specifically Mexico. It's totally fine to say "me llamo" no matter where you are, but "me llamo" is pretty much the go-to in a place like Spain, whereas "mi nombre es" is more common in Latin America. Ultimately, people will understand you no matter what you say. Mi nombre es Isabella.

Next, we have "¿Cómo te llamas?" : how do you call yourself, or "what is your name?". Like "me llamo", there is a more literal translation for this question : "¿Cuál es tu nombre?". This is a very formal way of asking someone's name. It's OK to use this no matter where you are. If you're not sure, Spaniards are very casual and totally fine with just saying "¿Cómo te llamas?" with anyone you meet. Latin Americans can be a little bit more formal, so you're more likely to hear "¿Cuál es tu nombre?" in Latin America. Either way, both are correct.

We also have "mucho gusto" : we already learned this, "nice to meet you". Mucho gusto. Another way to say "nice to meet you" is a very simple one word : "encantado" / "encantada". If you are a man, you will always say "encantado". If you are a woman like me, you always say "encantada". If I meet another woman, I say "encantada". If I meet a man, I say "encantada". It doesn't change based on the other person, it only changes based on your own gender. If you are a woman, use "encantada". If you are a man, use "encantado". Always.

All right, let's do a practice. I will be black, you be red. OK, and we are going to do the same practice as we did in the first lesson, but we're going to use the new words and phrases that we just learned.

Hola. ¿Cuál es tu nombre? Mi nombre es Isabella. Encantada.

All righty, let's see how you did. Is this what you said? If not, go ahead and rewind and practice again. If it is, great job, let's move on.

We learned how to say good morning, good evening and good night. There are no other ways to say those, so we can review these quickly. Buenos días : good morning. Buenas tardes : good afternoon. Buenas noches : good evening or good night.

We also learned how to say "how are you?" : ¿Cómo estás? Very simple. ¿Cómo estás? Now that we have conjugated, does this make more sense? I hope so. ¿Cómo estás?

Now, there's another way to greet someone and ask how they are, and that is "¿qué tal?". This is a more informal way of asking someone how they are. This is how we might say "what's up?" in English. There are a few ways to say "what's up" in Spanish. There's "¿qué pasa?", which is also quite common. You might have heard that before. But "¿qué tal?", particularly in Spain where I live, is used everywhere all the time.

If someone says "¿qué tal?", a good way to respond is by saying "bien, ¿y tú?". You might remember that before we learned to say "estoy bien", and that's still correct. But if we are speaking very casually, we can just say "bien". Just a "good", and "y tú?". "I'm good, you?". Let's practice that.

Hola. Buenas tardes. ¿Qué tal? Bien, ¿y tú? Simple, no? Very good.

All right. We already learned how to say goodbye : adiós. Adiós. And see you later is "hasta luego". Just like in English, those are pretty much the two main ways to say goodbye. So I don't really have more vocabulary to teach you here.

So these are our new vocabulary words and phrases for this lesson. Let's review them. Soy de. Mi nombre es. ¿Cuál es tu nombre? Encantado. Encantada. ¿Qué tal? Bien, ¿y tú?

All righty, ¡felicidades! Simple, yes? This is what we will be doing for the next several lessons. So in the next lesson, we will review lesson two and add some extra vocabulary words and phrases to that as well. I will see you in the next lesson. Adiós.