Persuade me in Spanish! Two examples

I’d like you to come on holiday with me. I fancy a road trip to take in some beautiful countryside, a steam railway and finish it off with a day at the spa. Can you persuade me to do something even better than that? Let’s look at the vocab and the language, and study together to raise our nivel de español. ¿Vamos?

Your challenge, should you choose to acceptarlo, es escribirme sobre lo que vamos a hacer de vacaciones juntos. Use plenty of future tenses, and remember! Make it persuasive, or I won’t come!

La idea es aumentar nuestro nivel de español. Do you have any favourite phrases from today’s lesson? Make a note, and share the best ones in the comments.

Hasta la próxima,

Ruth 🙂

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Spanish Vocab: Holiday heaven? Or holiday hell?

We all know what we think of staying in a tent in the rain, or in a noisy hotel packed with drunk tourists … but can you talk about it en español? Download the presentation, watch the video, complete the tasks and enjoy your growing vocabulary. You are using your time wisely!

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Your challenge, should you choose to acceptarlo, es escribir un blog sobre varios tipos de vacaciones. Se titula “El paraíso de las vacaciones o el infierno de las vacaciones… ¡Qué elegir!”

La idea es escribir sobre tus preferencias, reconociendo lo malo de lo que te gusta y lo bueno de lo que no te gusta. If you would like to share your work, email me, or simply put it in the YouTube comments. Podría ser valioso y entretenido para nuestra pequeña comunidad leer sus ideas.

Hasta la próxima,

Ruth 🙂

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Practice Spanish Future Verbs

Revise your future tense verbs, memorising the endings and the “dirty dozen” – the 12 irregular stem forms. If you follow all the instructions in this lesson you will get some really good practice which will improve your confidence using Spanish, and improve your Spanish vocabulary.

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Lesson 1

The first word to learn is español.  From now on, I don’t want to say Spanish anymore.  Español means Spanish.  So why not use the español word for español from now on?

I want to suggest to you that you speak español.  You speak is hablas (bla bla bla bla).  Hablas español.  That’s my suggestion.  You might say, “No, I don’t.”  I say, “Yes you do, un poco.”  A little.  Hablas español un poco.  AND you can read español … un poco, a little.  So if you can read español, you can learn un poco más de español, a little bit more.  Because if you can read español, you can learn un poco más de español.

The word for yes is sí, pronouced see.  And the word for no is no, like not without the t.  The word for are you is eres.  This is how I want to prove to you that you can read español un poco, and hablas un poco de español.  The word for are you is … do you remember … eres.  The word for yes is … sí and the word for no is no.  All I want you to do is to considerar this grupo de eight questions, and I want you to answer with a resounding sí, for yes, or not for no.  ¿Preparado?

  1. ¿Eres vegetariano?
  2. ¿Eres religioso? ¿Cristiano?  ¿Católico?  ¿Musulmán?
  3. ¿Eres contento? Content is an English word but es más común to say happy.  Contento is not like the contents of a page … that’s contenidos.  Contento is a feeling.
  4. ¿Eres inteligente?
  5. ¿Eres estúpido? Remember, it’s a sí, or a no!
  6. ¿Eres rápido?
  7. ¿Eres divorciado? ¿Sí o no?
  8. ¿Eres américano?

Now, if you’ve been able to answer any of those questions hablas un poco de español, like I told you!  Or, if you’re reading, you can read un poco de español, so well done!  That’s a good start!

I’d love to hear about your answers so please feel welcome to post comments.

Lesson 2