Aurora Cacciapuoti - Lets Learn Spanish: First Words for Everyone

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Welcome to Lets Learn Spanish! This book will introduce you to some basic Spanish words. Welcome to Lets Learn Spanish! This book will introduce you to some basic Spanish words.

Its the beginning of your language-learning journey! Spanish is the second-most-spoken language in the world. Also known as Castilian from its origins in the Castile region of Spain, Spanish is spoken all over the globe, and it is the mother tongue of around 400450 million people. Even though Spanish is spoken in so many places, there are differences between the Spanish spoken in Spain and the Spanish spoken in each Latin American country. For example: Hello? when answering the phone in Spain is translated as Dgame?, but in Argentina and Bolivia it is Hola?; in Cuba it is Oigo?; in Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, and Venezuela it is Al?; in Mxico it is Bueno?; and in Panama and Puerto Rico it is Hal? While some words are different depending on the country, you can still communicate in different Spanish-speaking countries without difficulty using the Spanish that you know. The Spanish words in this book focus on those spoken in North America and Mxico.

Spanish originated from Latin, and it is a phonetic language, which means that the way the word is written is the way it is pronounced.

Each letter has a precise sound. And Spanish is a gendered language, which means that it has masculine (m) and feminine (f) words and articles. El is masculine singular and los is masculine plural. La is feminine singular and las is feminine plural.
Of course, there are exceptions such as la mano. For example: La sanda (feminine singular) Las sandias (feminine plural) El aguacate (masculine singular) Los aguacates (masculine plural) The definite article has to match the gender and number. If you are talking about a female teacher, you would say la maestra, while a male teacher is el maestro.

More than one female teacher would be las maestras, while more than one male teacher would be los maestros. Indefinite articles are used to talk about something new or something or someone that is part of a group. For example, to say a dogany dogyou would say, un perro. An indefinite article may be used to specify a quantity, such as un beso (a kiss) and to indicate a gender (masculine or feminine).

Masculine singular: Un	Masculine plural: Unos
Feminine singular: Una	Feminine plural: Unas

This is just the beginning of your Spanish adventure. Now, lets learn some words! Sheep La oveja Cat El gato Chicken La gallina Dog El perro Horse El caballo Fish El pez El pescado Deer El venado El ciervo Bear El oso Turtle La tortuga Pig El cerdo Owl El bho El tecolote Bird El pjaro Whale La ballena Cow La vaca Fox El zorro Hair El pelo El cabello Nose La nariz Mouth La boca Neck El cuello Leg La pierna Foot El pie Next page