LESSON NOTES

3-Minute Mexican Spanish S1

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On the phone

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Mexican Spanish
English
Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Grammar
Cultural Insight

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MEXICAN SPANISH
1.

Bueno.

2.

Habla Laura.

3.

Puedo hablar con Jorge?

4.

Hablo al rato.

ENGLISH
1.

Hello. (answering)

2.

This is [name].

3.

May I talk to [name]?

4.

I'll call again later.

VOCABULARY
S panish

English

C lass

Ge nde r

rato (Mexican)

while

noun

masculine

habla (Mexican)

speak

verb

puedo (Mexican)

may I

verb

hablar (Iberian)

talk

verb

bueno (Peruvian)

good

adjective

feminine

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con (Mexican)

with

preposition

hablo (Iberian)

I speak

verb

al (Mexican)

to the

preposition+article

SAMPLE SENTENCES
Siempre descanso por un rato
despus del almuerzo.

Aqu se habla espaol.

"Spanish is spoken here."

"I always rest for a bit after lunc

h."
La operadora habla con un client
Puedo ayudarle?

e.

"May I help you?"

"The operator talks with a custo

mer."

Despus de una tarde fra el

chocolate es muy bueno.

Buenos das.

"After a cold afternoon, hot

"Good morning."

chocolate is great."
Iras al cine conmigo?
"Will you go to the movies with l caminaba con miedo.
me?"
"He was walking with fear."
Si, hablo un poco.

Ella va al cine.

"Yes, I speak a little."

"She goes to the movies."

GRAMMAR
In this lesson you will learn how to understand the basic vocabulary on the ph
one.

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Mexican Spanish

English

Important

Phrase 1

Bueno.

Hello. (answering) informal

Word 1

bueno

good

Phrase 2

Habla Laura.

This is [name].

Notes

Verb "hablar" - t
o
speak, conjugat
ed
Word 1

Jorge?
habla

speak

in the 3rd person

singular (it).

Word 2

Laura

Laura

Phrase 3

Puedo hablar con [name]?

May I talk to

Verb "poder" - may/

can, conjugated in
Word 1

puedo

may I

the 1st person

singular (I).

Word 2

hablar

talk

Word 3

con

with

Word 4

Jorge

Jorge

Phrase 4

Hablo al rato.

I'll call again later.

infinitive verb

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Verb "hablar" - to
Word 1

hablo

I speak

speak, conjugated
in the 1st person
singular (I).

Word 2

al

to the

Word 3

rato

while

*All verbs are conjugated in the Present Tense, unless it is indicated in the Im
portant Notes
Column.

CULTURAL INSIGHT
Even if the expression - bueno, literally doesn't make much sense, it is the mo
st common way
to answer the phone in Mexico.

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