For those of you who intend to get romantically involved with a native Spanish speaker, there are many necessary phrases or lines you should master in order to communicate your feelings and desires.
A number of the words and phrases can be used to meet someone or for after you are already dating.
¿Cómo se llama usted? – What’s
Ordinal numbers are first, second, third, etc.
primero – first
segundo – second
tercero – third
cuarto – fourth
quinto – fifth
sexto – sixth
séptimo – seventh
octavo – eighth
noveno – ninth
décimo – tenth
Beyond tenth cardinal numbers (one, two, three etc.) should be used instead of
As you already know, for the average person full-time as well as part-time domestic help is prohibitively expensive in the United States – this is not the case in Costa Rica. The cost of a full-time maid or gardner usually runs a couple of hundred dollars monthly. The former can do everything from washing clothes to taking care of small
If your goal is to speak Spanish fluently, sooner or later you will have to know the names of all of the parts of a house.
The survival vocabulary below is especially useful if you are currently living or plan to reside in a Spanish speaking country. Undoubtedly, you will have to use some of these phrases in order to communicate with Spanish speaking
In both English and Spanish we use commands or mandatos for giving instructions.
A simple way to form commands in Spanish requires knowledge of the three different action word (verb) endings. The endings are:
“ar” as in comprar – to buy
“er” as in comer – to eat
“ir” as in escribir – to write
To
