#17 - From Friendly to Rude: Spanish Adjectives for Personality
Speaking Spanish for Beginners
Latin ELE
4.8 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
🤫 Want to gossip about your friends in Spanish?
In this episode of Speaking Spanish for Beginners, you’ll learn key personality adjectives to describe friends and family, both the nice and not-so-nice ones.
Through a fun dialogue, discover words like simpática, alegre, perezoso, and descortés, and learn when to use ¿Cómo es…? vs. ¿Cómo está…?.
Perfect for beginners who want to make small talk and describe people with confidence. ¡Vamos!
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https://latinele.com/spanish-adjectives-to-describe-personality/
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| 1:05.0 | experience? More info at latinele.com. It's time to describe your friends' personalities in Spanish, aka gossip. |
| 1:14.9 | More on that in this episode of speaking Spanish for beginners. |
| 1:23.1 | What's tal? |
| 1:24.1 | Me L'Lano Spanish teacher. |
| 1:27.3 | In this episode, you learn how to describe your friends' personalities in Spanish using basic |
| 1:32.3 | personality adjectives, adjectives of personality personality. |
| 1:36.3 | This is a great topic for making small talk in Spanish. |
| 1:40.3 | Ready for this? |
| 1:42.3 | Sir, yes, sir! Let's listen to a short dialogue between two Amigos, Jesse and me, Marco. |
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