LESSON NOTES

Gengo Spanish S1 #3
Spanish In-Flight Entertainment

CONTENTS
2 Informal Spanish
2 English
3 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
4 Vocabulary Phrase Usage
4 Grammar
6 Cultural Insight

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 INFORMAL SPANISH

1. JIMMY: ¿Y esa canción?

2. SANDRA: ¿Mande?

3. JIMMY: “bruta ciega sordomuda....”

4. SANDRA: Ah sí. Qué pena. Es una canción de Shakira.

5. JIMMY: Ah, bueno. ¿De dónde eres tú?

6. SANDRA: Soy de Cozumel.

7. JIMMY: Ah, sí, Cozumel...

8. SANDRA: ¿Y tú? Eres americano, ¿no?

9. JIMMY: Sí, soy estadounidense.

10. SANDRA: ¿De Nueva York?

11. JIMMY: No, ... angelino.

12. SANDRA: Ah, ¿sí? No manches.

ENGLISH

1. JIMMY: So that song...

2. SANDRA: Excuse me?

CONT'D OVER

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3. JIMMY: "Bruta ciega sordomuda...."

4. SANDRA: Oh yeah. How embarrassing. It's a Shakira song.

5. JIMMY: Oh, okay. Where are you from?

6. SANDRA: I'm from Cozumel.

7. JIMMY: Ah yes, Cozumel...

8. SANDRA: What about you? American, right?

9. JIMMY: Yes, I'm from the United States.

10. SANDRA: New York?

11. JIMMY: Nope, I'm an Angelino.

12. SANDRA: Oh yeah? No kidding.

VOCABULARY

Spanish English Class

¿Y tú? And you? phrase

No manches. No kidding. phrase

Qué pena How embarrassing. phrase

¿Mande? Excuse me? phrase

De dónde Where from. phrase

SAMPLE SENTENCES

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Ahora te llamo. ¿Y tú?

"I'll call you right away." "And you?"

No manches que conseguiste Qué pena haberte levantado.

boletos.
"How embarrassing to have
"No kidding, you got tickets?" woken you up."

¿Mande? ¿Qué me acabas de ¿De dónde es ella?

decir?
"Where is she from?"
"Excuse me? What did you just
say to me?"

VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

¿Y tú? ("And you? What about you?")

No manches. ("Don't kid around.")

This is a colloquial Mexican expression expressing disbelief or skepticism.

Qué pena. ("How embarrassing.")

¿Mande? ("Sorry?")
This is a formal Mexican way of requesting clarification or repetition in conversation.
Standard Spanish speakers might ask ¿cómo?

¿De dónde? ("From where?")

GRAMMAR

The Focus of This Lesson Is Using Ser to Discuss the Place of Origin.
¿De dónde eres tú?
"Where are you from?"

We use the verb ser to discuss identity in Spanish, specifically place of origin, nationality,
and the like. We usually translate it as the English verb "to be."

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Present Tense Conjugation of Ser

As with all Spanish verbs, we must conjugate the verb ser to reflect the gender and number
of its subject in a sentence. Below is the present tense conjugation paradigm of ser.

Ser Present Tense

Conjugation Spanish "English"

Infinitive ser "to be"

First person singular soy "I am"

Second person singular,

familiar eres "you are"

Second person singular,

formal es "you are"

Third person singular es "he is," "she is," "it is"

First person plural somos "we are"

Second person plural,

familiar (Spain only) sois "you all are"

Second person plural,

Latin America son "you all are"

Third person plural son "they are"

Using Ser to Give the Place of Origin

The preposition de corresponds to the English prepositions "from" or "of." To name

someone's place of origin, use the verb ser with the preposition de. This is followed by the
place.

For Example:

1. Soy de Cozumel.
"I'm from Cozumel."

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2. ¿De dónde eres tú?
"Where are you from?" (literally "From where are you?")

Using Ser with Adjectives of Identity

Use the verb ser with an adjective of nationality, ethnicity, place of origin, or other
identifiers. Remember, adjectives must agree in gender and number with the nouns to
which they refer.

For Example:

1. Eres americano, ¿no?

"You are American, right?"
Note that the masculine, singular adjective is referring to a male individual.

2. Soy angelina.
"I'm an Angelino" (i.e., from Los Angeles).
Note that the feminine singular subject refers to a female individual.

3. No somos estadounidenses.
"We are not Americans."

Note that the plural adjective refers to a group of people. Gender is not specified, as the
adjective estadounidense has identical masculine and feminine forms; this adjective does
not explicitly identify the genders of the people in the group.

Using Ser with Nouns

Use the verb ser to identify an object, person, and so forth with a noun. Note that nouns in
Spanish are assigned their own grammatical gender.

For Example:

1. Es una canción de Shakira.

"It's a Shakira song." (literally: "It's a song of Shakira.")

CULTURAL INSIGHT

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How to Refer to an American in Spanish

Estadounidense, as opposed to americano, has two different meanings. While

estadounidense refers specifically to someone from the USA, americano encompasses the
whole American continent. People rarely point out this distinction when considering the
various countries in Central and South America that refer directly to their names (e.g.,
Brazilians for Brazil, Paraguayans for Paraguay, Hondurans for Honduras, etc.)

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