Learning To Speak Spanish Greetings
When you initially begin to pick up Spanish, Spanish greetings are usually the first things that you pick up. What do you know if you don’t know how to say “hello?” Learning Spanish greetings will help you to learn Spanish quick in its simplest form because you don’t need to juggle with all the verb agreements or word orders. Spanish greetings are taught in simple phrases. No complex words need to be looked up or added. As I mentioned before, as you learn Spanish, the first phrase you should know is “hello.” When you say that in Spanish, you would say, “Hola.”
“Hola” can be used either formally or casually to say hello to anyone you may meet. If you want to say hello on the phone, you might use “bueno” or “diga.”
If you want to say “goodbye” in Spanish, you would say, “Adiós.”
If you want to say, “How are you?” you would say, “Cómo estás?” If you want to say, “Good afternoon.” you would say, ” Buenas tardes.”. If you want to say, “Good morning” or “Good day,” you would say, “Buenos días.” “Good night” in Spanish is buenos noches, and to ask for somebody’s name, you would say, “Cómo te llamas?”
Once you get these down, you will find that it’s a breeze to learn the language, but you are in for some more complex terms a bit later on down the road. Other fundamentals that you can start learning are numbers, the alphabet, telling time, asking directions, gender, color, body parts, and family.
Picking up these kinds of common terms will help you learn Spanish quickly as you will able to practice these words daily. It is normal to hello and good night all of the time so you will be comfortable practicing your Spanish often.
Later on, you can learn to form more sophisticated greetings such as, “Hello, how are you are you doing?” or “Hi, the weather is pleasant today, isn’t it?”
You can start to get a little more advanced by asking “What’s up?” or “What’s new?” To say that in Spanish, you would say “Qué hay?” If you would like to say, “How’s it going?” you would say, “Qué pasa?” If you wantto say “nice to meet you” you would say “Mucho gusto.”
These are just a couple of the more intermediate level greetings that can help you to learn Spanish while getting to meet many different people.
In Spain, it’s often a common thing for people to kiss each other on both cheeks when they meet. However, men will normally just give each other a hand shake. Even though people kiss each other often when they meet, they don’t do it all of the time. For instance, in during a business meeting, you would not catch people giving each other kisses on the cheeks.
If you are in America, you may not want to try kissing anyone as you learn Spanish, even if it’s another Spanish person. Most Spanish people in the States have gotten used to the American culture, and Americans don’t usually kiss each other when they first meet. Nevertheless, if you visit Spain, you may want to try it. It will add to the fun as you learn Spanish.