Decimals numbers and prices in Spanish

Decimals numbers. You’ll find decimals numbers when you look at prices, for examples. But you need take a look to this post, because is different say a price and say a mathematical numbers whith decimals.

Decimals numbers:

1,40 = uno coma cuarenta (,=coma)

But when you go to buy something normally nobody use the mathematical expressions like above. And you’ll use decimals as we have learned in other posts. I’ll show you few examples again:

1,54 € : “1 euro y 54 céntimos”, “1 con 54″, “1 euro con 54 céntimos”, “uno cincuenta y cuatro”.

45,99 €: “45 euros y 99 céntimos”, “45 con 99″. “45 euros con 99 céntimos”, “cuarenta y cinco noventa y nueve”.

More numbers, 100-1000

We are going to learn how to say more numbers, you have a podcast with number from 1 to 100 in Spanish.

100:  Cien

From 101 to 199 we must change “Cien” into “CIENTO” and add the number from 1 to 99. Let me show you few examples and you’ll understand it better.

104 = Ciento cuatro (100 + 4= ciento + cuatro)

145 = Ciento cuarenta y cinco (100 + 45 = ciento + cuarenta y cinco)

199 = Ciento noventa y nueve (100 + 99= Ciento + noventa y nueve)

More numbers:

Precios: Ask and answer about prices

You can use different questions to ask about prices:

¿Cuánto cuesta esto? Esto cuesta 4 EUROS.

¿Cuánto vale esto? Esto vale 4 euros.

¿Qué cuesta esto? Esto cuesta 4 euros.

¿Qué vale esto? Esto vale 4 euros.

¿Cuánto es? Son 4 euros.

¿Cuál es el precio de la mesa? El precio de la mesa es 4 euros.

Remenber:

• EURO is singular, we use only when we have 1€, the rest we need use plural:  EUROS. Cent = Céntimo (singular) and cents = céntimos (plural).
• Esto means “IT” and is the subject. So you can change and say other subject or omit it (¿Cuánto cuesta?).
• We use differents verbs. For example, COSTAR (to cost), VALE (be worh), SER (to be).
• Different ways to answer to
  say prices:

6,50€ = “Seis euros y cincuenta céntimos”

6,50€ = “Seis con cincuenta”  or  “seis euros con cincuenta céntimos”

6,50€ = “seis cincuenta” or “seis euros cincuenta”.

Spanish Easter

Spanish Easter is called Semana Santa. Begin with the Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday) and end with Lunes de Pascua (Easter Monday).

Typical element in Easter celebrations:

Procesiones (processions): Each town and city has different elements for processions. Sevilla and Málaga are two places where you can feel the emotions in streets. Through the streets  carry religious icons over thrones.

Nazareno

Nazarenos: Tradition tells us that in the past people who were “a sinner” could join to processions to expiate their sins and beocme forgiven. They hid their faces with a piece of cloth. Actually It’s different and you can be a “nazareno” only because about your faith.

Costaleros: People who carry  heavy thrones  with their bodys. Sometimes they are under the throne  or in front and behind it. You can see a video to imagine how it’ work, click here.

Imágenes religiosas (religious icons): Icons of the passion and death of Christ, Virgin and other saints of the church. Carry over a throne, and under it there are “costaleros”, people who carry this heavy throne with their bodys.

Pain and suffering: Spanish Easter has both element. This is because Christ had a lot of pain and suffering before his death, and all It’s about empathy, penitents and a public commemoration about last days of Christ.

Foto| Semana Santa de Avila

Schedule (March and April)

Clondalkin Library – Easter week there isn’t class. We’ll finish on the 28 April.

Ballyroan Library- 1 st April there isn’t Spanish Class. On the 29th April we’ll finish Spanish Class.

What are you doing at home?

To practice present continuous we were doing an activity using new verbs.

♦   Imagine that you phone to your friend and this is the conversation:

– Hola María, ¿Dónde estás? (Where are you?)

- Hola Cristina, estoy en la cocina. (I’m in the kitchen)

- Y ¿Qué estás haciendo? (what are you doing?)

- Estoy comiendo (I’m eating)

Now listen what are you doing in each room:

present continuous – Presente continuo

Presente continuo

We use presente continuo:

• to say what is happenig now. Estoy escribiendo (I’m writting)
• or to say an action that is still in progress. Estoy viajando alrededor. (I’m travelling around the world)
• To denote an action that is being repeated over a period of time. ¿Está escribiendo una novela? (Is he writting a novel?)

ESTAR + GERUNDIO (ending -ando, -endo)

To see more examples here. And listen the Infinitive and gerund.

For example: Estoy pensando / I’m thinking

Yo estoy pensando

Tú estás pensando

Él/Ella está pensando

Nosotros estamos pensando

Vosotros estáis pensando

Ellos están pensando

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What is it?

“What is it?” is a basic question and in Spanish you can say “¿Qué es esto?”

I remind you that:

“Qué” is an Interrogative pronoun that mostly means “What”.

“Es” is 3rd person  of verbo SER and means “is”.

“Esto” means “It”.

¿Qué es esto?

Esto es una lámpara

Junto a, delante, debajo

If you want to express some relation between somethings  you’ll use adverbs or preposition. We are going to use only few basic word.

La cuchara está junto al vaso

La cuchara está cerca del vaso

La cuchara está al lado del vaso

La cuchara está delante del vaso

la cuchara está enfrente del vaso

El niño está debajo de la cama

“Abajo” is an advert and we can use with verb of motion. For example:

Mira hacia abajo (Look down)

Voy abajo (I go downstairs)

Está detrás, delante, dentro…

La cuchara está detrás del vaso

And we use “detrás” with verbs as a Estar because they show a location (static).

We use “atrás” with verbs of motion, for example, to go, look to:

Ve a la parte de atrás de la casa (go behind the house)

Mira hacia atrás (Look at behind you)

La cuchara está encima del vaso

We use arriba (up) in the same way that “atrás”. And we use “Encima” with verbs as a Estar because show a location (static).

La cuchara está dentro del vaso

“En” is a preposition and you can traslate as a “in”. “Dentro” show you that something is “into” or “inside”.

Where is…?

Where means in Spanish dónde. We use to ask about the location. To answer we use verbo ESTAR because we want to talk about location or position.

Where are you?  → ¿Dónde estás?

Estoy en la cocina.

Where is the bank? → ¿Dónde está el banco?

El banco está detrás de mi casa.

Usos verbo SER y verbo ESTAR

In Spanish the verb to be change in two differents verbs: SER Y ESTAR

Please, try to learn the differents uses from each one and use in this way. The English speakers usually have a lot of troubles with it. Never  try to translate from English into Spanish because probably you’ll make a mistake.

Actually you know few uses, let me show you few examples. With green color things we’ve learnt, the rest still we doesn’t learn:

En cada habitación…

Room = Habitación/cuarto

See the vocabulary here and listen word by word.

En la entrada

En la cocina

En el salón

En el dormitorio

En el baño

En el jardín

Otros

Vocales y diptongos

I remind you about the sounds of vowels. In Spanish we have only 5 sound and if you find a vowel you need always say it and don’t invent new sounds or omit it.

5 SOUND=5 VOWELS

A – E – I – O – U

Ejemplos:        MAMÁ,  PEPE,  PILI,  COCO, CUCO

Diphthongs

There are 14 diphthongs in Spanish:

ai, ia, au, ua, ei, ie, eu, ue, ou, uo, oi, io, ui, iu

Ejemplos:  AIRE, HIATO, AURORA, GUARIDA, REINO, PIE, HIELO, EUROPA, HUELGA, GOUDA,  CUOTA, ASTEROIDE, CANCIÓN,  CUIDAR, CIUDAD