Let's begin with the Seasonal greetings.

The method is dis: use star (*) to write the spanish language, use hash (#) to write the english translation. Take a cue from this:

*Feliz Navidad
#Merry (or Happy) Xmas

*Prospero ano y Felicidad
#Happy Prosperous New Year.


Please ensure you give us accurate wordings, be sure no typo error in the spanish words, and give us accurate translation.

If you detect any Error please quote and make your correction.

*Gracias!
#Thank you!

You may ask someone:
*Como estas? #How are you?
The responses could be any of these:
*bien #good (or well)
*muy bien #very good
If you are feeling on top of the world you could respond by saying:
*Fantastico #Fantastic

mi hermano tu eres muy gracioso, i don't think i should translate for you. Anyways this is cool. my lil' phone doesn't have spanish letters though. mi el amor a espanyol es grande!

junioromniscient:
mi hermano tu eres muy gracioso, i don't think i should translate for you.
Anyways this is cool.
my lil' phone doesn't have spanish letters though.
mi el amor a espanyol es grande!

How do we learn from your post if you didn't interprete?

*Buenas Tardes *Buenas Noches #Good evening

*de Nada.

#You're welcome.

You say this when you wanna respond to someone for saying Thank You.

belovedsamex:
*Buenas Tardes
*Buenas Noches
#Good evening

belovedsamex:
*de Nada.

#You're welcome.

You say this when you wanna respond to someone for saying Thank You.

belovedsamex:
*Buenas Tardes
*Buenas Noches
#Good evening

is this native espanyol, or mexican espanyol?
***for learners*** "vee" is actually pronunced as "bee"
and "zee" as "the", Sometimes /x/ is /sh/
in native espanyol.

junioromniscient:
is this native espanyol, or mexican espanyol? ***for learners*** "vee" is actually pronunced as "bee" and "zee" as "the", Sometimes /x/ is /sh/ in native espanyol.

It is Standard espanyol...acceptable to all spanish-speaking-countries.

* Buenos dias senor
#Good morning Sir

*como estuvo su noche?

#how was your night?

The response is:............

* Mi noche ha estado buena

#my night has been good

This is freaking simple friends. Its easy to make simple sentences in spanish and get on with the language if you're conversant with the simple words in spanish. Just make the sentence in English, and replace the words with their appropriate meanings in spanish, and you're good to go. I guess you could form other forms of greeting from the one above....for instance:

Noche.........night
Tarde..........day/noon
Dia..............morning

So if I wanna say:

#how was your morning?

The spanish translation would be:

*como estuvo su dia?

And the response would be:

*mi dia ha estado buena

If you got that, you could help me translate this one:

#How was your day?

Try also to give the response. Gracias!

Buenos dias mi amigos!

Now here is another one for today:

*Gracias, Mi amigo!
#Tank u, my friend!

*Voy a visitar a mi amigo
#I am going to visit my friend (male)

Pls u could help me translate my greeting message above. Dat wud show u're learning. Gracias!

#bravo, mi hermano amablé y trabajador!
*bravo, my tireless and friendly bro'.

Muy excelente.

*modified*
and "voy" was misrepresented as I.... in stead of "yo"

question tags in spanish carry double question marks -front and back-
latino, don't you think portugese, espanyol are similar?

Can you use the corrections in a sentence? Thanks

*Feliz ano nuevo
#Happy New Year

*Prospero ano nuevo
#Prosperous New Year
*Feliz ano nuevo, mi amigos!
#Happy New Year, my friends!

I want you to know that in writing spanish, whenever you wanna ask a question, u begin ur sentence with an inverted question mark and end with an upright question mark.
I failed to use it previously until someone here drew my attention to it. BTW thanks @junioromniscient.

So, if I wanna say:

#what time is it?

It would go like this:

*?que hora es?

Pls assume that the first question mark is inverted as there is no way I could achieve the inversion with my phone keys.

Gracias!

Buenos dias, amigos!

*Espero que tu noche fue bien

#Hope your night was good.

Today, let's learn a few things about saying the time in spanish. Remember what we learnt the last time.

*?que hora es?

Now the response could be anything depending on what time of the day it is. Here is a simple way to get a response across:


When someone asks you, ¿Qué hora es? respond with the
following:

*Es la una

#It's 1 o'clock (if the time is within the 1 o’clock hour)

or

*Son las + the hour (if the time is after 1 o’clock)

Now for this last response beyond one o'clock, you have to fill in the appropriate number other than Una (one) in spanish.

So, we are going to learn how to translate numbers into spanish so we could use them to form the remaining time responses. Now here they are:

One..........Uno/Una
Two..........Dos
Three.......Tres
Four.........Cuatro
Five..........Cinco
Six............seis
Seven.......siete
Eight.........Ocho
Nine..........Nueve
Ten............Diez
Eleven.......Once
Twelve.......Doce

So let's make a sentence here:
*Son las Tres!
#It's three O'clock
*son las dos
#it's two o'clock
*son las nueve #it's nine o'clock

@belovedsamex
give them a link already,
besides what initially made u like español?
mine was 'cos of the beauty i see on t..v, and the way their tongues wobble when they speak,
remember CATALINA AND SEBASTIAN?
sorry, for deviating.

pls u rili nid to continue teaching Spanish.. I'm learning a lot....or if u know of a site I can get it..pls share

Signing in.

Spanish is my romantic language.

dikeclint10:
pls u rili nid to continue teaching Spanish.. I'm learning a lot....or if u know of a site I can get it..pls share

Thanks...your words are encouraging. I'm in love with the language so I'll keep writing. Though I'm also learning too.lol

Buena Dias, amigos!
?Como estuvo su noche? (U can reply if u like)


Now let's go further in telling time.

Imagine the time is : (2:07)

In English you say:

"It's Seven minutes past two o'clock" (dat's correct!)

In spanish, the technique is like this:

It's + the Hour + y (dis one is constant) + the minute.

I.e

"Las dos y siete"

So that a time like: 2:09 would be reported as

"Las dos y nueve"

Just remember the technique: after "it's (las)" then u have the "hour" plus "y" and finally the "minute".

So let's do these ones once more:

7:10 "las siete y diez" "it's ten past seven"

9:25 "las nueve y veinticinco" "it's twenty-five past nine"

10:45 "las diez y cuarenta y cinco" "it's forty-five past ten"
*"cuarenta y cinco" means "forty-five" in spanish.

So try these:

1. Report these in spanish:

a. 6:03
b. 8:20

2. Report these in English:

a. Las once y veinte
b. Las doce y treinta

Fantastico amigos....More pls

Bello dia, mi buena gente! (Beautiful morning, my good people)


Now let's add some more to telling time:

Assuming the time is 2:30 or 3:30 or 7:30,
For English, there are two ways u could report the time and here are the spanish translations for each:

2:30

In English: (thirty past two o'clock) or (Half past two)

In Spanish: (las dos y treinta) or (las dos y media)

NoTe: how it goes for the "half past" times: the hour + y + media (meaning half).


So the others follows suit:

3:30
Las tres y media

7:30
Las siete y media

You can form ur own similar time and then translate it as a practice.


Buena suerte! (Goodluck!)