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que ora es Hello friends and welcome to korra s the program that teaches you spanish my name is dr danny evans and I will be your spanish teacher now I am very excited friends for the sample because I have the privilege of opening a new world of culture and language to you. Spanish is spoken by hundreds of millions of people around the world every day and therefore by learning the language you will find that it benefits you in many different ways. Before starting, I want to tell you from the beginning that it is going to be practically impossible for me to teach you every word in Spanish during our show together, so I encourage you to go out and get a Spanish dictionary from scratch or find a good online website with a good word bank so you can supplement what you learn in the program and most of all when you learn something about kores, go out and practice it because that is the best way to solidify and internalize what you have already learned and you will be surprised how quickly you will become familiar if you just practice, so if you are ready, continue go ahead and get a pen, a pen or a lapis pencil and a notebook, a notebook and let's get started let's go to the classroom okay now that you have your notebook and your pen or lapis we're ready to start learning some Spanish now To begin with, it is better that we understand the sounds of Spanish, Spanish is not like English with English, sometimes we have many difficulties because the a can have three or four different sounds, the e and the i can have different sounds, the o and the u can have different sounds but in Spanish we don't have that problem our vowels only have one sound each so that makes it very easy to pronounce Spanish to read and write it and also when you listen to Spanish you know exactly what letters are said and used so to start, let's take a look look at the alphabet now I will review it and try to pronounce it. after me ah b a ok now you probably noticed when looking at the alphabet that there are some extra letters in Spanish we add some letters to make different sounds in Spanish that we don't make in English let's start with the beginning now first look at g g is not the normal sound j or g has sounds different sometimes we pronounce the g with a breathing sound like when a g is before an e for example or before an i in Spanish we are going to pronounce it almost like the h in Spanish an example of this could be the word geography in Spanish which the g is in front of an e, therefore we would say it as a breathed h, then this word would be geographia, try saying it geographia, okay, now let's continue. the rest of the alphabet you will also notice that the h was pronounced quite differently to English, it is pronounced as.

Now one thing you should know about the h in Spanish, the h is silent, it is written there but you will never say an h. In Spanish, for the example, the word we use to greet someone we would simply say hello, we don't pronounce the h at all, so we just say hello, try it well, now we move through the rest of the alphabet, we go down to the j. now the j in Spanish does not have the same sound as in English the j in Spanish is like the h in English so let's breathe that word with the sound ok so you have probably seen words like this or names using the j for example for For example, the name Jose, let's breathe that j like an h in English, okay, so let's move on to the l.

The l in Spanish has the same sound as in English, but the double l is actually different. Many times in Spanish, you will see the l's alone, but you'll also see the doubles now whenever we have a double l in Spanish we'll treat it as one and, okay, here's an example, this is a very popular surname in Spanish. It also gives you one more look at the j, we're going to treat the double l as an a y, so it will have one sound, so this name would be haramiyo haramiyo, so treat the double l as a y, now we move on to the sound n. in the n now there is an n and there is an n with what we call an accent, it's a little curved accent at the top, that's the only letter in Spanish that has that kind of accent, okay, so if we use the n normal It will have the same sound as in English, like when you tell someone no, but what you want to do is push that tongue forward a little bit more than what we do in English instead of no, you want to say no, that's you.

Helping. It sounds more like a native speaker in Spanish push your tongue forward and try it once and say no now when you have an n in Spanish with the accent on it I'll write an example right here when we say the word tomorrow and put the accent on the end, this ending will remain as an English and this becomes a mia sound, so try saying this tomorrow. Okay, now we're almost done looking at the alphabet while we go over the only one we really have to do. look now it's the r, now the r is a little complicated because we don't do this in English, the r never sounds like in English, it's never going to sound like er or something like that, get it out of your mind, it's not there.

Spanish I know, okay, so it's going to be a little difficult, but you can do it now. I'm going to write two different words here in Spanish, one will have the single r and the other will have the double r. difference completely changes the meaning of the word now this word means expensive and this word means car an r makes a completely different word and means a completely different thing now make the r sound in Spanish this is called flap what you want What you should do is to move your tongue back just behind your teeth where your ridge with the ridge of your mouth starts to rise and what you want to do is flick it lightly against the top of your mouth with a sound that sounds like this karo. karo, try saying it once, okay, if you're thinking right now, I can't do that with my R's, okay, I hear that all the time with my students, but you can do it, it takes some practice, but keep working on it. try it. to say karo now, when you look at the double r, this makes more of that Spanish sound that you've probably heard the trill sound, so it's going to be kind of an r sound, so this is going to be expensive, try saying expensive right now. let's compare the two this one is expensive and this one is expensive try again garo cart okay now we've covered the basics of the alphabet now I want to get to what I call our toolbox.

I often tell my students that vowels in Spanish are your toolbox if you have those tools you can pronounce anything in Spanish now my goal for you as a viewer is that at the end of our episodes I want you to have the tools you need to continue going as far as you want in Spanish to have the knowledge and the tools to continue learning at your own pace and learning everything you want and this here what I am about to show you is what I call your toolbox the toolbox is the vowels, okay, let's look at our vowels again. like in English, there are only five, but they are much easier, first of all, we have the a, like in English, now the e, the i, the o and the u.

Now, the easy part, as I said, is that in English there are three or four sounds, but in Spanish they only have one sound each, so it is very easy to use, so let's look at the a here, the a always will have that ah sound, it will always sound like ah, so every time you see an a, you know it will be pronounced ah, okay, look at it from the other side too, if you ever hear the ah sound, you know exactly what letter it is and if If you were to spell it, you would know exactly which letter to write. let's use let's see the e in English this can sound like e it can sound like egg and sound like schwa but in Spanish it always sounds like e until now we have a and again the good part the e always sounds like e if you ever hear that sound you know it will be the letter e, don't get confused like some people do and say, you hear the e sound and you think, oh, that's the letter e, it's easy to do because we're English speakers, right, but try it. remember that e always sounds like e, but now we come to the sound e, the i makes it sound like e, so it will always sound like e, so if you ever hear e, don't be fooled into thinking that's the letter e , it is not. the letter i is okay, now we get into the letter o and u and these can be a little bit funny sometimes because as American English speakers, sometimes we like to do what I call rounding and we put our lips together and we like to say things like taco. and we put our lips together and that makes us sound like Americans, doesn't it?

Trying to speak Spanish, but what you want to do with Spanish is keep your mouth straight, don't put those lips together and just say. oh, try to say, oh, okay, now don't put those lips in because that's what makes you sound like an American, right? Same thing, we're not going to put our lips in, we're going to leave them straight and say ooh now let's see all of these together first of all the a sounds like ah the e sounds like e the i sounds like e the o sounds like o and the u sounds like ooh Now try going through the list on your own without me Say it done, try it, okay, it won't take you long to learn those five sounds, since I said they all have one sound, so what I encourage you to do is really practice. those five sounds so you can remember them. and say them without even having to think about it too much because what you're going to find is that if you learn these five sounds and also those little different letters that we did in the alphabet a while ago, you'll find it now.

You can correctly pronounce anything in Spanish, I know it's hard to believe, but think about it, if you just use the tools in your toolbox you can do it, let's try a couple of words. I am going to write a word that is pleasant and popular in Spain. and this word means pen, this word seems big and many times we think I don't know how to say that, but you can do it if you use your toolbox first, the b will be more or less the same as in English. now think to yourself what does an o sound like in Spanish, okay, so just take this syllable here b o and put it together and what do you get okay, now look at the next part, you have an l and you have an i, just ask yourself, what does it sound like? an I?

It's the same thing we talked about a while ago, it's the same thing in English as it is in Spanish and now look at the i, the i always sounds like e, so now put these two syllables together, what do we do? now I have li, now the g will be more or less like in English right now and we have that r tab. This is going to be complicated for some of you, I know because it takes a while to understand, okay. don't worry about it though, then you're going to have that sound, that flap sound, now what sounds like a sound, it's an ah, so put all that together and what do you get, so let's start from the beginning, now take the The last syllable f is the same in Spanish as it is in English.

What does an o sound like? Oh, so put them all together, so now you're ready to make the whole word bo li gra for now, before I go any further, I need to do that. tell you about the accents these little lines are going to appear in Spanish sometimes they are only on the vowels they are not going to be on all the vowels sometimes they are going to be on the vowels and before the program ends I will try I will give you some rules about when they appear those accents, but for now just know that when you see one of those accents it's there to tell you that I'm special and you have to tell me a little louder, okay, so let's say that syllable is a little stronger than the others me.

I like to tell my students to step on it a little so let's say bo li gra fo boli graffo okay try it like this it's pen emphasize that eye because it has an accent on top, that's all you have to do with the accents, if you see just one say it a little louder, okay, now that we have our tools, we have our alphabet, our letters that are different and we have our vowel sounds, you can read and pronounce anything correctly in Spanish try it I encourage you to go to the Internet, go to the library, get a book in Spanish and just read it and try to pronounce the words because what you will find is that it can be a little complicated. at first, but you will figure it out very quickly, you will be an expert at this and you will read anything in Spanish if you just use your toolbox.

Well, with that said now I want you to try some basic greetings. We're going to include some basic greetings now, these are just general phrases that you would use on the street if you were greeting someone in Spanish or meeting a friend and hopefully one day you'll be in a Spanish speaking country trying them out. So we're going to put some basic greetings on the screen and we're going to start going over them and I want you to try to learn them and prepare because I bet you can find someone you know who speaks Spanish. practiced because I want you to try to talk to them the next time you see them, okay, prepare your pen or your lapis lazuli because I'm going to give you some basic phrases that you can use and speak in Spanish, first of all, you know the one that we learned ago At one time when we were talking about h pronunciation, saying hello to someone is simply hello.

Also, if you are going to see someone in the morning and want to say good morning, you can say good morning. Now look at this. the word ends in good ends in o s we are about to cover two more that end in a s make sure you say good and notice that ds has an accent on the i so emphasize it try it good morning okay now the next two afterat lunch if you see someone you want to say good afternoon you can say good afternoon good ends in a.s and so good night, good night, good night, you can also say goodbye to someone, which is goodbye.

Now notice that adios has an accent on the o and also that the d is going to be a little forward, also push your tongue forward a little and say goodbye. now if you're going to say uh if you're going to see someone later and you want to just say see you later instead of goodbye you can say see you later or if you're going to see him the next day you can say See you tomorrow, which is see you tomorrow and now ends with the day of until. If you meet someone for the first time and want to ask them what your name is, you can simply say what your name is and there are different ways to respond. that in Spanish but one is my name is what I am I call also if you want to ask one do you speak Spanish you could say you speak Spanish and if someone asks you if you speak Spanish you can say I speak Spanish I speak Spanish and I I hope that will be true for you very soon .

You can say yes, I speak Spanish, but if you don't have that confidence yet and you want to say I don't speak Spanish, you can just say I don't speak Spanish. Okay, now if you want. ask someone how are you, there are different ways to say it, but we'll start with cuomo estes, which literally means how are you, and to answer that you can say well, which is fine, more or less, I see, I see, and sometimes people will tell. It mostly depends on where you are now you've probably heard this yes in Spanish it's simply c with an accent on the i and then the word no is no and there are some general phrases that would help you also please it's please thank you it's thanks you're welcome it depends on where you are there are three different ways to say it but the most common one is you're welcome now also if you want to say sorry and you can ask them if you speak Spanish or whatever you want I mean you can say sorry so that covers some basic phrases.

Now I encourage you to review them, learn them, and prepare to practice them with someone. Now I want to give you some information. Let's look at the 10 basic pronouns in Spanish now these 10 pronouns are used all the time in Spanish all day long everywhere you go with only minor exceptions now get ready because I'm going to draw them on a graph now this graph has a line down and two lines across now You might be wondering why I'm going to show you the 10 pronouns on a chart where you can memorize the words. You can memorize the words and I encourage you to do so, but also learn the words on this chart where they go. the chart because later you will discover that this chart will be a visual organizer for you and when you are on the street trying to use your Spanish in a Spanish speaking country one day and you want to say a conjugation of a particular verb, you can think of this chart and it will help you find the right verb in the right form, so it will be of great help to you.

Well, the first thing I want to point out is some things about the Graph this side here on the left are all the singular singular pronouns only one person and for example I that's just I'm you're you're just you no one else involved and on the right side we go to put the plural pronouns okay now up here in these top boxes, if you're good at English grammar, we call it first person, okay, so this will always involve me and these are second person boxes, this will always involve someone who you are speaking to directly and the bottom two boxes are I will refer to a third person talking about someone, but not to that person.

In most cases there is an exception to Spanish that I'll show you in a minute, so up here in the top left box, type the word yo now in Spanish yo means. So any time you can say I do anything, you can say "Okay", so in the middle box here we are going to write the word t with an accent on the u, make sure you put that accent because if you don't, actually changes the meaning of the word okay, so far we have i, which is me, and we have you talking directly to someone and it is thul, now down here, in this third box, we are going to write three pronouns, they go together, they have what to be. together in the same frame, okay, because they use a lot of the same parts of grammar, so this is the now also this again, this has to have its accent if you don't put an accent on l, it changes the meaning, okay, now under n because of the way I refer to it, if you're talking about someone, he, aya, you can guess what she means, so we'll write aya under that e-l-l-a now remember that the double l sounds like a y, so don't say she, say yes, okay now in this bottom box just below l and aya let's write the word you u-s-t-e-d now you means you if you're talking to someone and you mean you, then right now you could be saying wait a minute, I thought it was you.

It is, but here is the difference when we use the word tulle, we are talking to someone in an informal and casual way, this would be a friend, a family member, someone you know well, okay, but you are more respectful, It's okay now on this side. let's write n-o-s-o-t-r-o-s we try to say that one we we means it's okay now this one here in the second box is the one that is quite rare in the Spanish speaking world this is you now something I want to tell you about the letter v in Spanish almost sounds like a b you don't say you say well like a light b says you now you means plural if you are speaking to a group and you want to say right now in the third box again we are going to write three pronouns the first is els double l again egos what means them now we are going to write another yes and it also means them the difference is that egas is only used when you are talking about a group of only girls if you say they and they are only girls okay now a final pronoun and we are almost done let's write you now the same as this side you and tú mean the same you mean plural if you're talking to a group of people here's the difference you are used in almost all Spanish speaking countries wherever you go you'll get along pretty well with us but now you that is really a Spanish word and you are not going to hear it too much around here now some countries will use voss vos in central america i have heard it in central america and guatemala i have heard it in south america and peru and bolivia so you will hear balls but they use it in different contexts We'll get to that a little later, so let's conclude this part, let's say the pronouns together repeat them after me.

Now these 10 pronouns will be the key to a very effective conversation in the future, so I encourage you to follow them and learn them. as fast and as best as you can, tell your friends to close each program, we will have a section called kurtura and you can guess that kurtura means culture now, since today we talked about greetings, let's talk about how to greet people in other countries, now You will hear me say many times during the program do your homework before visiting another country do some research and know what to do and what not to do trust me you will find it very beneficial to know these things in advance okay so here are a couple for examples of how to greet other people in other countries in Bolivia, for example, instead of shaking hands, many times people pat each other on the shoulders, shake hands, and then pat each other again, and in El Salvador This is very common for women. patting each other on the arms and shoulders and not shaking hands altogether, so these are just a couple of examples.

Now I want you to go out, learn those words and phrases and practice them as much as you can, so if you want to send me a comment or question you can do so on s aibtv