Learn Spanish - Introductions

Moving on to the Rocket Spanish Mini Course Part 4, this part of the course returns to look at some written Spanish.

It's all about Spanish introductions and greetings - essential material if your visiting a Spanish speaking country even for a short time.

Here we learn expressions such as:

Encantado (Like the old English expression Enchanted)

EI gusto es mío (The pleasure is mine - again like the old English expression)

¿Cómo te llamas? (What's your name - literally, how do you call yourself)

Me llamo Antonio (I'm called Antonio)

¿De dónde eres? (Where do you come from? - literally, From where are you?)

Also introduced at this point is the concept of masculine and feminine words in the Spanish language. In general, masculine words end in an "o", and feminine in an "a". Apparently the same applies to the adjectives which must agree with the nouns to which they relate. So Spanish is much like most European languages in this way.

However, they leave it at that for the time being so as not to complicate matters.

One interesting little point I've learnt here is that, if you don't understand something somebody says while talking to you, it's more natural to say No entiendo, rather than the expression which first comes to mind and everyone knows, No comprendo !!! It's the difference between "I don't understand" and "I don't comprehend" - obvious really!

Well, that's it - another useful little lesson in the basics of learning Spanish. Take a look yourself. It's free to sign up for this mini Spanish course. Here's the web address again: Rocket SpanishUntil next time.

Let's go learn Spanish !