Spanish For Beginners | Spanish 101 (Ep.1)

espanol hola buenos dias pronoun chart spanish toolbox [Music] que ora es [Music] hi friends and welcome to korra s the show that teaches you espanol my name is dr danny evans and i'm going to be your professor de espanol now i'm really excited friends about the show because i get the privilege of opening up to you a brand new world of culture and language spanish is spoken by hundreds of millions of people all over the world every day and so by learning the language you'll find that it benefits you in many different ways now before we get started i want to tell you up front it's going to be pretty much impossible for me to teach you every word in spanish during our show time together so i encourage you to go out and early on get a spanish dictionary or find a good online website with a good word bank on it so that you can supplement what you learn on the show and most of all when you learn something on kores get out there and practice it because that's the best way to solidify and internalize what you've learned and you'll be surprised at how fast you become conversant if you just practice so if you're ready go ahead and get a pluma a pen or a lapis pencil and a cuaderno a notebook and let's get started let's go to the classroom okay now that you have your cuaderno and your pluma or lapis we're ready to start learning some spanish now to start off it's best that we understand the sounds of spanish spanish is not like english with english we have a lot of difficulty sometimes 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 it and to write it and also when you hear spanish you know exactly what letters are being said and used so to get started let's take a look at the alphabet now i'll go through the alphabet and try to pronounce it after me ah b a okay now you probably noticed looking at the alphabet that there are a few extra letters in spanish we add a few letters to make different sounds in spanish that we don't do in english let's start out with the beginning one now first look at g g is not the normal j or g sound it has different sounds to it 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're going to pronounce it almost like the h in spanish one example of this might be the word geography in spanish that the g is in front of an e so therefore we would say it like a breathed h so this word would be geographia try to say it geographia okay now going on through the rest of the alphabet also you'll notice that the h it was pronounced pretty different than english it's pronounced ace now one thing you need to know about the h in spanish the h is silent it's there in writing but you will never say an h in spanish so for the example the word we used to say hello to somebody we would simply say hola we don't pronounce the h whatsoever so we just simply say hola try it okay now moving through the rest of the alphabet move down to the j now the j in spanish does not at all have the same sound as it does in english the j in spanish is like the h in english so we're going to breathe that word with the sound okay so you've probably seen words like this or names using the j for example for example the name jose we're going to breathe that j like an h in english okay so let's move on the l the l in spanish has the same sound as it does in english but the double l is actually different many times in spanish you will see l's by themselves but you also see double l's now anytime we have a double l in spanish we're going to treat it like a y okay here's an example this is a very popular last name in spanish it also gives you one more look at the j we're going to treat the double l like like a a y so it's going to have a sound so this name would be haramiyo haramiyo so treat the double l like a y now moving on forward the n sound look at the n now there's an n and there's an n with a what we call a tilde on it it's a little curvy accent on the top that's the only letter in spanish that has that kind of accent on it okay so if we use the normal n it's going to have the same sound as it does in english like when you tell someone no but what you want to do is push that tongue forward just a little bit more than we do in english instead of no you want to say no that's helping you sound more like a native speaker in spanish push your tongue forward and try it one time and say no now when you have an n in spanish with the tilde over it i'll write an example right here when we say the word tomorrow and we put the tilde over the end this end will remain just like an english in and this one becomes a mia sound so try to say this manana okay now we're almost finished with looking at the alphabet as we go through the only one we really have to look at now is the r now the r is a little bit tricky because we don't do this in english the r never sounds like the english are it's never going to sound like er or so push that out of your mind it's not there in spanish i know okay so it's going to be a little tough but you can do it now i'm going to write two different words over here in spanish one's going to have the single r and the other is going to have the double r notice the difference it completely changes the meaning of the word now this word means expensive and this word means car one r makes a completely different word and it means a completely different thing now to make the r sound in spanish this is called a flap what you want to do is move your tongue back right there behind your teeth where your ridge with the ridge of your mouth starts to go up and what you want to do is lightly flap against the top of your mouth with a sound so it kind of sounds like this karo karo try to say it once all right if you're thinking right now i can't do that with my r's it'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 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 a r sound so this is going to be caro try to say caro all right now let's compare the two this is caro and this is caro try it again garo carro okay now we've covered the basics of the alphabet now i want to get to what i call our toolbox i tell my students often that the vowels in spanish are your toolbox if you have those tools you can pronounce anything in spanish now my goal for you as the viewer is to at the end of our episodes i want you to have the tools that you need to keep going as far as you want in spanish have the knowledge and the tools to keep going learning at your own pace and learning as much as you want and this right here what i'm about to show you is what i call your toolbox the toolbox is the vowels okay let's look at our vowels again just like english there are only five of them but they're much easier all right first of all we have the a just like english now the e the i the o and the u now the easy part as i've said is that in english there are three or four sounds but in spanish these only have one sound each so it makes it very easy to use so let's look at the a right here the a is always going to have that ah sound to it it's always going to sound like ah so anytime you see an a you know it's going to be pronounced ah okay also look at it from the other side if you ever hear the sound ah you know exactly what letter it is and if you were gonna spell it you would know exactly what letter to use let's look at the e in english this can sound like e can sound like egg and sound like the schwa but in spanish it always sounds like e so so far we have a and again the good part the e always sounds like e if you ever hear that sound you know it's going to be the letter e don't get confused like some people do and say and hear the e sound and think oh that's the letter e it's easy to do that because we're english speakers right but just try to remember that e always sounds like e but now we get to the e sound the i makes the e sound so it's always going to sound like e so if you ever hear e don't be tricked and think that's the letter e it's not it's the letter i okay now we get into the letter o and u and these can be kind of fun sometimes because as as american english speakers sometimes we like to do what i call rounding and we pull our lips in and we like to say things like taco and pull our lips in together and that kind of makes us sound like americans doesn't it trying to speak spanish but what you want to do with the with the spanish o is leave your mouth straight don't pull those lips in and just say oh try say oh okay now don't pull those lips in because that's kind of what makes you sound like an american right all right now the u same thing we're not gonna pull our lips in we're gonna leave our lips straight and say ooh now let's look at all 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 to go through the list on your own without me saying it ready try okay now it won't take you very long to learn those five sounds as i've said they all only have one sound so what i encourage you to do is really really practice those five sounds so that 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 while ago you're going to find that now you can pronounce correctly anything in spanish i know it's hard to believe but think about it if you just use your tools in your toolbox you can do it let's try a couple of words i'm going to write a word that's nice and popular in spain and this word means pen this word looks big and a lot of times we think i don't know how to say that but you can if you just use your toolbox first of all the b is going to be pretty much the same as in english now think to yourself what does an o sound like in spanish okay so take just this syllable right here b o and put it together and what do you get right bull now look at this next part you have an l and you have an i just simply ask yourself what does an l sound like it's the same as we talked about while ago it's the same in english as it is in spanish and now look at the i sound the i always sounds like e so now put these two syllables together so what do we have now li now the g is going to be pretty much like it is in english right now and we've got that r flap this is going to be tricky for some of you i know because it takes a while to get it down it's okay though don't worry about it so you're going to have that sound that flap sound now what does an a sound like one 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 last syllable f is the same thing in spanish as it is in english what does an o sound like oh so put them together full so now you're ready to do the whole word bo li gra for now before we go any further i need to tell you about accents these little lines are going to show up in spanish sometimes they're only over vowels they're not going to be over all vowels they're going to be over vowels sometimes and before the show's over i'll try to get you some rules on when those accents show up but for now just know that when you see one of those accents it's there to tell you i'm special and you got to say me a little bit stronger okay so we're going to say that syllable a little stronger than the other ones i like to tell my students to step on it a little bit so we're going to say bo li gra fo boli graffo okay try it that's right boligrafo stress that eye because it's it's got the accent above it that's all you got to do with accents if you see one just say it a little bit stronger okay so now that we have our tools down we have our alphabet our letters that are different and we have our vowel sounds down you can read and pronounce correctly anything in spanish try it i encourage you to go on the internet go to the library get a book in spanish and just go through it and try to pronounce the words because what you'll find is that it may be a little bit tricky at first but you're going to find that very quickly you'll be an expert at it and you'll be reading anything in spanish if you just use your toolbox okay so with that being said now i want you to try some basic greetings we're going to put some basic greetings up 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 someday you'll be in a spanish-speaking country actually trying these out so we're going to put some basic greetings up on the screen and we're going to start going through them and i want you to try to learn them and get ready because i bet you can find somebody you know that speaks spanish get practiced up because i want you to try to speak to them next time you see them okay get your pluma or your lapis ready 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 we learned while ago when we were talking about pronunciation with the h saying hello to somebody is simply hola also if you're going to see someone in the morning and you want to say good morning to them you could say buenos dias now notice this word ends in buenos ends in an o s we're about to cover two more that end in a s make sure you say buenos and notice that ds has an accent over the i so stress it try it buenos dias okay now the next two after lunch if you see someone you want to say good afternoon you can say buenas tardes buenos ends in an a.s and so will good night goodnight goodnight is buenas noches also you can say goodbye to someone which is adios now notice adios has an accent on the o and also that d is going to be a little bit forward too push your tongue a little bit forward and say adios 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 hasta luego or if you're going to see them the next day you might say see you tomorrow which is hasta manana and there's that end with the till day again now if you're meeting someone the first time and you want to ask what is your name you could simply say como te llamas and there are different ways to respond to that in spanish but one is my name is which is me llamo also if you want to ask him one do you speak spanish you might say hablas espanol and if someone asks you if you speak spanish you can say yo hablo espanol i speak spanish and i hope that's true for you pretty soon you can say yes i speak spanish but if you don't have that confidence quite yet and you want to say i don't speak spanish you can just simply say no hablo espanol okay now if you want to ask someone how are you there are different ways to say it but we'll start with cuomo estas which literally means how are you and to answer that you can say fine which is bien or so so is i see i see and sometimes people will say masomenos it depends on where you are now we are you've probably heard this one yes in spanish is simply c with an accent on the i and then the word no is no and are some general phrases that would help you also please is por favor thank you is gracias you're welcome it depends on where you are there's about three different ways to say it but the most common is de nada now also if you want to say excuse me and you can ask them do you speak spanish or whatever you want to say you can say perdon so that covers some basic phrases now i encourage you to look those over and learn them and get ready to practice them with somebody and now i want to give you some information we're going to 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 gonna draw these on a chart now this chart has one line down and two lines across now you might be wondering why am i going to teach you the 10 pronouns on a chart where you can just memorize the words well you can just memorize the words and i encourage you to do so but also learn the words on this chart where they go on the chart because later on you're going to find that this chart will be a visual organizer for you and when you're out in the street trying to use your spanish in a spanish-speaking country someday and you're wanting to say a particular verb conjugation you can think about this chart and it's going to help you pull up the right verb in the right form and so it's going to be a really big help for you okay so first thing i want to point out a few things about the chart this side over here on the left is all singular singular pronouns just one person and for example i that's just me are you it's just you nobody else involved and on the right side we're going to put the plural pronouns okay now up here in these top boxes if you're good at english grammar we call this first person okay so this is always going to involve me and this is second person boxes this is always going to involve someone you're talking directly to and the bottom two boxes are going to refer to third person talking about somebody but not to that person in most cases there is one exception to spanish which i'll show you in a minute so right up here in the top left box write the word yo now in spanish yo means i so anytime you can say i do anything you can say yo okay so in the middle box here we're going to write the word t you with an accent on the u make sure you put that accent because if you don't it actually changes the meaning of the word okay now so so far we have i which is yo and we have you talking directly to somebody and it's thul now down here in this third box we're going to write three pronouns they go together they have to be together in the same box okay because they use a lot of the same parts of grammar so this is el now also this again this has to have its accent if you don't put the accent on l it changes the meaning okay now underneath n by the way l means he if you're talking about someone he aya you can guess means she so we're going to write aya below that e-l-l-a now remember that double l sounds like a y right so don't say ella say yeah okay now in this bottom box right under l and aya we're going to write the word usted u-s-t-e-d now usted means you if you're talking to someone and you want to say you so right now you might be saying wait a minute i thought thu was you it is but here's the difference when we're using the word tulle we're talking to someone in an informal and a casual way this would be a friend a family member someone you know well okay but usted is more respectful okay now on this side we're going to write n-o-s-o-t-r-o-s nosotros try to say that one nosotros nosotros means we okay now this one here in the second box is the one that's pretty rare in the spanish speaking world this is vosotros now something i want to tell you about the letter v in spanish it almost sounds like a b you don't say you say well like a light b say vosotros now vosotros means you plural if you're speaking to a group and you want to say you all right now down in the third box again we're going to write three pronouns the first one is els double l again egos which means they now we're going to write another one yes and it also means they the difference is egas is only used when you're talking about a group of just girls if you say they and it's just girls okay now one final pronoun and we're almost done we're going to write ustedes now same thing as this side vosotros and ustedes mean the same thing ustedes means you plural if you're speaking to a group of people here's the difference ustedes is used in pretty much all spanish-speaking countries anywhere you go you're going to get by with us fairly well but now vosotros that's really a spain word you're not going to hear it too much over here now some countries will use voss vos in central america i've heard it in central america and guatemala i've 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 wrap this part up let's say the pronouns together repeat them after me now these 10 pronouns are going to be your key to very effective conversation in the future so i encourage you to get on these and learn them as fast and as well as you can [Music] okay friends to close each show we'll have a section called kurtura and you can guess kurtura means culture now since we talked about greetings today let's talk about how to greet people in other countries now you'll hear me say many times during the show do your homework before you visit another country do some research and know what to do and what not to do believe me you'll find it very beneficial to know these things ahead of time okay so here are a couple examples about how to greet other people in other countries in bolivia for example instead of shaking hands a lot of times people will pat each other on the shoulders shake hands and then pat each other again and in el salvador this is very common for women to pat each other on the arms and shoulders and not shake hands altogether so these are just a couple of examples now i want you to get out there learn those words and phrases and practice them all you can so if you'd like to send me a comment or a question you can do so at s aibtv

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Length: 27min 31sec (1651 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 17 2014