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Lesson 1 — ¿Cómo te llamas?

An aqueduct in Segovia.

Dialogue

Raúl: ¡Hola! Me llamo Raúl. ¿Cómo te llamas?

Sofía: Hola, Raúl. Me llamo Sofía. ¿Cómo se escribe Raúl?

Raúl: Se escribe R-A-Ú-L. ¿Qué tal?

Sofía: Regular. ¿Y tú?

Raúl: Muy bien, gracias.

Sofía: ¡Qué fantástico! Adiós, Raúl.

Raúl: ¡Hasta luego!

Translation (wait until the end of the lesson).

Hello!

Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¡Hola! Hello!
Inglés	Español
Hello	Hola
Good morning!	¡Buenas mañanas!
Good day!	¡Buenos días!
Good evening!	¡Buenas tardes!
Good night!	¡Buenas noches!
See you later!	¡Hasta luego!
Goodbye	Adiós

Examples

• ¡Buenas mañanas, clase!

  Good morning, class!

• Hola, ¿Qué tal hoy?

  Hello, how are you today?

• Adiós, ¡hasta luego!

  Bye, see you soon!

Go to the exercise.

What's your name?

To ask someone else's name in Spanish, use Cómo, then one of the phrases in the table below (¿Cómo te llamas? is "What's your name?").

In Spanish, to say your name, you use the reflexive verb llamarse, which means literally to call oneself (Me llamo Robert is "My name is Robert").

Spanish Verb • Lesson 1 Llamarse To call oneself
Inglés	Español
I am called	Me llamo
You are called	Te llamas
He/She is called	Se llama
We are called	Nos llamamos
You lot are called	Os llamáis
They are called	Se llaman

Examples

• Me llamo Chris

  My name is Chris

• Se llaman Peter y Robert

  They're called Peter and Robert.

• ¿Cómo te llamas?

  What's your name?

• ¿Cómo se llama?

  What's his name?

Go to the exercise.

Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¿Qué tal? How are you? Inglés Español How are you?Qué tal? ¿Cómo estás? Great!Fantástico Fantástica Very well muy bien Well Bien Fine Regular Bad Malo Mala Really bad Fatal And you? ¿Y tú? Thank you Gracias

How are you?

Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¿Qué tal? How are you?
Inglés=English	-	How are you?=1.¿Qué tal?
Great!-1.Fantástico(Male)
-		-	-		-	-	Thank you=Gracias

Note

On some of the words above, there are two options. The one ending in "o" is for males, and the one ending in "a" is for females. It's all to do with agreement, which is covered in the next lesson.

Examples

• Roberto: Hola, Rosa. ¿Qué tal?

  Hello, Rose. How are you?

• Rosa: Muy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú, Roberto?

  Very well, thanks. And you, Robert?

• Roberto: Regular. ¡Hasta luego!

  I'm OK. See you later!

Go to the exercise. Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¿Qué tal? How are you? Inglés Español How are you? ¿Qué tal? ¿Cómo estás? Great! Fantástico Fantástica Very well Muy bien Well Bien Fine Regular Bad Malo Mala Really bad Fatal And you? ¿Y tú? Thank you Gracias

The Spanish alphabet

Here is the normal Spanish alphabet. However words aren't alphabetized by it. Please read the notes and sections below. (Blue letters are a part of the normal English alphabet.)

Audio: OGG (646KB)

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	ñ	o	p	q	r	rr	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z
Notes about Ñ and RR
N and Ñ are considered two different letters, as are RR and R (though no words begin with RR). They are alphabetized as separate letters, so Ñ always comes after N, regardless of where it appears in the word. Ex: muñeca comes after municipal, and carro comes after carta.
Notes about CH and LL
CH and LL used to be considered as distinct letters of the alphabet, but in 1994, the Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) declared that CH and LL were not letters but digraphs. Accordingly, words beginning with CH and LL are now alphabetized under C and L, respectively.
Notes about K and W
K and W are part of the alphabet but are mostly seen in foreign derived words and names, such as karate and whisky. For instance, kilo is commonly used in Mexico to refer to a kilogram.

Although the above will help you understand, proper pronunciation of Spanish consonants is a bit more complicated:

Most of the consonants are pronounced as they are in American English with these exceptions:

• b like the English b at the start of a word and after m or n; otherwise closer to v (in Latin America there's no distinction)
• c before a, o, u and other consonants, like English k
• c before i and e like English th in “think” (in Latin America is like English s)
• ch like ch in “cheese”
• d between vowels (even if it starts a word following a word ending in a vowel) or at the end of a word, like English d in dental
• g before e or i like the Scottish pronunciation of ch in “loch”, except that it is voiced
• g before a or o like g in “get”
• h is always silent (except in the digraph ch)
• j like the h in hotel
• ll is pronounced like English y in “yes”
• ñ like nio in “onion” (or gn in French cognac)
• q like the English k
• r slighty trilled; like a soft d except at the beginning of a word or after l, n or s where it is trilled
• rr should be trilled longer than a single r
• v is pronounced like a cross between a v and a b
• z like the English th (in Latin America, like English s)

How do you spell that?

Spanish Vocabulary • Lesson 1 ¿Qué tal? How are you?
Inglés	Español
How is it spelt?	¿Cómo se escribe?
It is spelt	Se escribe
B as in Barcelona	B de Barcelona

Examples

• Roberto: Buenas días. Me llamo Roberto. ¿Cómo te llamas?

  Good day. My name is Robert. What's your name?

• Rosa: Hola. Me llamo Benjamín. ¿Cómo se escribe Roberto?

  Hello. I'm Benjamin. How do you spell Robert?

• Roberto: Se escribe R (de Rioja); O (de Orangutan); B (de Barcelona); E (de España); R (de Rioja); T (de Tigre); O (de Orangutan).

  It's spelt R (as in Rioja); O (as in Orangutan); B (as in Barcelona); E (as in Spain); R (as in Rioja); T (as in Tiger); O (as in Orangutan).

• Rosa: Muchas gracias. ¡Adiós, Roberto!

  Many thanks. Goodbye, Robert.

Go to the exercise.

Summary

In this lesson, you have learnt

• How to greet people.
• How to introduce yourself.
• How to introduce others.
• How to say how you are.
• How to spell your name.
• How to ask others about any of the above.

You should now do the exercise related to each section (found here), and translate the dialogue at the top before moving on to lesson 2...