“Aprender un idioma es tener una ventana más desde la que observar el mundo.”
You have booked your tickets. Your bags are packed. Passport at the ready. Are you off for a holiday or are you emigrating?
If there’s something to make your trip more enjoyable, it’s the ability to communicate. Maybe, you’re a solo traveller and it will help you will feel safer. Maybe, you’ll make a friend. Maybe, you’ll save some money! If nothing else, you’ll make the locals happy when you slide some of the lingo.
If you’re here, you’ve stumbled across my new blog series. Learn Spanish. You will find this category on the home page, there you will find other Spanish phrases and mini-lessons to help you learn Spanish, at no cost!
These are the basics to help you begin!
Greetings
Hello – Hola (oh-la)
Good morning – Buenos días (bwenos dee-ass)
Good afternoon – Buenas tardes (bwenas tar-dess)
Good evening – Buenas noches (bwenass noch-ess)
How are you? (informal) – ¿Cómo estás? (coh-mo est-ass)
How are you? (formal) – ¿Cómo está? (coh-mo es-tah)
Do you speak English? – ¿Habla inglés? (ab-la in-gless)
Basic Phrases
I want – Yo quiero (joh key-air-oh)
I don’t want – Yo no quiero (joh no key-air-oh)
Where is..? ¿Donde está? (don-dee es-tah)
How much..? ¿Cuánto cuesta? (cwan-toh cwes-tah)
I have – Yo tengo (joh ten-go)
I don’t have – Yo no tengo (joh no ten-go)
I understand – Yo entiendo (joh en-tea-en-doh)
I don’t understand – Yo no entiendo (joh no en-tea-en-doh)
Nouns
Bag – Bolsa (bol-sah)
Suitcase – Maleta (ma-leh-tah)
Backpack – Mochila (moh-chee-lah)
Card – Tarjeta (tar-heh-tah)
Cash – Efectivo (ee-fect-tea-boh)
Train – Tren (tr-en)
Plane – Avion (ah-bion)
Taxi – Taxi (ta-si)
Bus – Autobus (ah-ut-oh-boos)
Car – Coche (coh-chay)
Passport – Pasaporte (pass-a-por-tay)
Boarding card – Tarjeta de embarque (tar-heh-tah day em-bar-kay)
Money – Dinero (de-nair-oh)
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Hasta luego,
Very enjoyable and learned me lots. Well talented Lauren Keep up the good work x
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thank you!! I’ll try to update twice a week! 😀 xx
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Great that thanks very much, slowly learning
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Glad you enjoyed it! Will keep updating 🙂
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Love your pages
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Thanks, Gill! 🙂
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Really hoping I’ll get the Erasmus in Spain so I can use these xx
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Hope you come, lovely! You can practice your Spanish with me! 😀 xx
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Would love to learn the Spanish lingo
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Good luck 🙂 Hope you enjoy the series!
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Enjoyed reading that, now you try and remember it 🙄, fingers crossed Lauren
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Practice, practice, practice. 🙂 xxx
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I meant now I will try to remember it, sorry 😊
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haha! good luck, you can do it. 🙂
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Thank you
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Thank you, Julie. 🙂
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Brilliant thanks have picked up a small bit over the years but could really do with learning more instead of dos cerveza por for vour
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Glad you enjoyed it! More to come! 🙂
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Gracias Lauren, I’ve just had a practise he he xxxx
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Ahh, muy bien!! Well done. You’ll be speaking Spanish in no time!!! xxx
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I used to know quite a lot of Spanish, would love to relearn it actually. Just not sure when or how haha! Brilliant post for beginners lovely x
Alys
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It would be easy to pick it back up. You definitely should love! Thanks 🙂 xx
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Ooh love this..great way to learn basic spanish
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thank you! 🙂
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Enjoyed trying out, must practice more 😄
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Glad you liked it! Next weeks will be posted on Tuesday at 19:00GMT 🙂
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What a fantastic idea for a blog series! Thank you 😊
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😊❤️
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Very helpful, would love to speak Spanish
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You are so clever Lauren! I love how you break each word up to enable us to pronounce the words and phrases correctly! Thankyou Lauren. Keep up the good work.xx
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Ahh thank you! 🙂 xx
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Very informative would like to learn spanish
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New post every Tuesday! Hopefully it helps 😎
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After watching Velvet on Netflix, I started learning a little Spanish on Duolingo, but never completed it…This has inspired me to start again. Thanks! ❤
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