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La Fecha:
Pronunciation
Word Order
Asking Questions
Alphabet
Pronunciation Spanish is a phonetic language; therefore, you pronounce nearly all the letters in
the word; some letters have different sounds depending on the letters that follow them.
Word order in Spanish, the word order, syntax, is most often subject, verb, object- SVO. There
are some examples which change the word order to subject, object, verb. For negative
statements: put the “no” in front of the verb, or in front of the I.O.P/Reflexive pronoun. Positive
statements put “si” in the same manner.
*Asking Questions
¿Cómo se dice en español/inglés?
¿Cómo estás?
¿Qué pasa?
¿Cómo te llamas?
¿De dónde eres?
¿Cuántos años tienes?
¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?
¿Cuál es tu dirección?
¿Dónde vives?
¿Cuál es tu teléfono?
¿Eres americano?
¿Cuál es tu nacionalidad?
¿Cómo eres?
¿Qué te gusta?
¿Qué tienes?
¿Qué tiempo hace?
How do you say in Spanish/English?
How are you?
What’s happening?/What’s up?
What’s your name?
Where are you from?
How old are you?
When’s your birthday?
What’s your address?
Where do you live?
What’s your phone number?
Are you an American?
What’s your nationality?
What are you like?
What do you like?
What do you have?/What’s wrong?
What’s the weather like?
Quién
Qué
Cuándo
Dónde
Por Qué
Cómo
Cuánto/Cuánta/Cuántos/Cuántas
Cuál
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
How much/many
What/Which
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Alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
These letters are no longer singleton letters: Ch, Ll, N, Rr; you will likely find
these letters in the older dictionaries alphabetically after the letters C, L, N, and R
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Ah
Bay
Say
Day
A (like I got an “A”)
Eff-A
Hey
Ache
E
JJJJJota
Kah
Ell-A
Emm-A
Enn-A
O
Pay
Coo
Air-A
Essay
Tay (like “Taylor”)
Oooh (like, “oooh” she has a crush)
Vay
Doobluh-Vay
A- Key-S
E-Gree-Yay-Gah
Zay-Tah (like “da” in “ta-da”)
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Vowels
A
E
I
O
U
ah (on)
e (stay)
e (eat)
o (hello)
oo (you); silent after the letter g, q
Consonants
B
quicker and no puff of air b sound (born)
Ca,Co, Cu hard c/k sound (cauliflower)
Ce, Ci
s sound (sea)
Ch
ch sound (chocolate)
D
hard d sound at the beginning of a stressed syllable (done)
D
softer t –like sound in an unstressed syllable (little)
Ga, Go, Gu hard g sound (gift)
Ge, Gi
h sound (hi)
H
silent
Ll
y sound (yes)
Ñ
nyu sound (onion)
P
quicker and no puff of air p sound (prefer)
Q
k sound (kind)
R
d sound in an unstressed syllable (steady), and at the end of a word
R
heavily trilled r at the beginning of a word
Rr
heavily trilled r
S
s sound at the beginning of a word/before vowels/silent consonants
S
z sound (rose) before a voiced consonant
V
b sound(bright)
W
u/v sound (wish)
X
ks sound (Mexico) in all words with x except for Mexico
X
hee sound (Spanish pronunciation of Mexico= Me hee co)
Y
y sound (yes) in the beginning of a word
Y
e sound (we) at the end of a word and for the word, and= y
Z
s sound (Spanish)
Z
th sound (think) in Castillian Spanish, in Spain/Argentina
Zz
ts sound, but not pronouncing the t (pizza)
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Las Notas:
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Las Notas (del profesor):
Subjects go after the verb in a question.
When we say “no” to an activity, it goes in front of the verb.