Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! You got a great price on tickets to vacation in Spain! It’s the Spanish vacation you have always dreamed of; only in your dreams, you had more time to learn to speak Spanish! But you can’t pass up these tickets! You can take along your English-Spanish dictionary, but it always takes so much time to look Spanish words up…and what if someone says these Spanish words to you? It would be nice to go to Spain armed with at least a few Spanish phrases that people use often! After all, it might buy you the extra time you need to look the other words up in your handy English-Spanish dictionary!
Learning Spanish with SpanishPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Spanish! This Spanish All About lesson will teach you some common Spanish phrases you may hear every day while traveling in Spain. These are common Spanish expressions you simply cannot travel, shop, study, or work in Spain without knowing! Visit us at SpanishPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic Spanish lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!
Subscription Information
Course Information
Technical Information
Feature List
Video Guides
Privacy Statement
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under All About . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
6 Responses to “All About #5 - Top 5 Essential Spanish Phrases”
Tuesday at 6:30 pm
I hope these key phrases prove to be helpful to you!
Do you know another key phrase that you recommend? Or maybe you’re dying to know how to say one particular phrase in Spanish? Or maybe you’ve heard a phrase a thousand times, and you want to know what it means?
Ask us, right here in the comments section! We’re here to help you figure it out!
jp@spanishpod101.com
Wednesday at 12:18 am
Why do you stop with 5 phrases. There are many phrases that would be helpful. Especially idomatic phrases.
Wednesday at 1:37 am
Hi Ernest Klein!
There are tons of great phrases to learn, but I wanted to present my five most essential phrases in this podcast. Don’t worry, there will be plenty more phrases in upcoming lessons… Fernando makes sure of that!
Are there any helpful phrases that you have in mind?
jp@spanishpod101.com
Thursday at 2:03 am
Hi Ernest,
Fernando here. As JP mentioned there are plethora of phrases to learn. Sheesh, I’m still learning new ones! That said, we want our different lessons to provide you and the rest of our listeners with phrases that are commonly used and then break them down as best we can.
Comments like these are what helps us continue to improve our products and allow for a better cultural understanding of these phrases.
¡Gracias!
fernando@spanishpod101.com
Friday at 5:48 am
A couple years ago as I was just getting started in Spanish. I went to the the shop of a customer that made drapes and curtains. The boss was there with two hispanics that were ironing out the huge bolts of cloth. Plancheros. I told them I was studying Spanish but all that about all I could remember was Hola, Gracias, and Dos cervezas por favor.
One of the Mexicans laughed and said - No! Quatro!
Que?
Then he smiled and counted his coworker, his boss, me and himself. - Quatro cervezas, POR FAVOR!.
… and here I find I have forgotten. In the singular we say una cerveza adding the a for the feminine cerveza, would I also change the o to a for quatro too, or are the higher numbers generic masculine?
Gracias con anticpaci;on por sus respuestas.
Tuesday at 12:47 am
Hi cobre,
Funny story! To answer your question, the numbers 2 through 199 are invariable; they don’t reflect the gender or number of the nouns they modify. Starting at two hundred, though, you’ll start having to say:
doscientos libros
doscientas sillas
As for the number “one,” I like to think of the numberal “uno” as invariable, but the indefinite article “un, uno, una, unos, unas” as separate from the number. It’s the difference between saying:
I’ll have *one* beer, please…
I’ll have *a* beer, please…
Notice, though, that only the indefinite article is possible in that sentence in Spanish:
Me da *una* cerveza, por favor…
After that, dos, tres, veite, ciento noventa y nueve are all invariable.
But then…
Me da *doscientas* cervezas, por favor…. (boy, am I thirsty).
jp@spanishpod101.com
Leave a Reply