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Spanish Phrases
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 10:54 PM

When you're starting off with Spanish you learn the basics such as saying "Hello", "Goodbye", "How are you?" etc. I've posted the starting off phrases below.

Hello - Hola (oh-lah)

Goodbye - ¡Adiós! (a-dhyos)

Good morning - ¡Buenos dias! (bwe-nos di-yahs)

Good Afternoon - ¡Buenas tardes! (bwe-nas tar-des)

Good Evening or Good Night - ¡Buenas noches! (bwe-nas noh-ches)

What is your name? - ¿Como te llamas? (ko-mo teh lya-mas)

My name is... - Me llamo... (me lya-mo)

How are you - ¿Qué tal? / ¿Como estas? (ke tal) / (ko-mo es-tas)

Very Good - Muy bien (m-uy byen)

Very bad - Muy mal (m-uy mal)

Please - Por favor (por fa-vor)

Thank you - Gracias (gra-th-yas)

You're welcome - De nada (de na-dha)

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Sandra said:
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 5:50 PM

Thanks alot for this, Sunrise.
Is 'Gracias' pronounced 'Gra th (pronouncing the 'th' sound as in 'three' or as in thine) yas'? Also can you please clarify the pronunciation of 'muy'?

Sunrise said:
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 7:36 PM

Sorted it Sandra. It's pronounced 'th' as in 'three'. And 'muy' has been clarified.

foxbat said:
Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 12:41 AM

Like the blog but, being a little pedantic here...
Very Good is actually 'muy bueno'
(Muy bien is actually 'very well'

As for the use of 'th' as a pronunciation of the Spanish 'c', it depends on where you are in Spain. In most of Andalucia, the th sound is not used; for example, gracias is definitely, for want of a better word, pronounced grassy-ass...

The double ll as in llamo or Armilla is virtually non existent, so llamo is pronounced yah-mo and Armilla (a district of Granada City) as 'Ar-me-ah.'

We were very quickly corrected by the locals in our village when we tried to use Spanish as taught in England!

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