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Speaking Spanish for Beginners

#3 - First Interactions in a More Formal Context 🎩

Speaking Spanish for Beginners

Latin ELE

Education, Language Learning

4.8901 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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Learn how to introduce yourself in a formal way and also basic interactions in a formal setting. 

For this, keep in mind the formal greetings explained in the first episode. We also explain the use of "usted", which means singular "you" in a formal context.

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Marco

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, you're listening to Speaking Spanish for Beginners from Latin L.

0:05.5

Let's see.

0:10.0

What's how?

0:11.9

Welcome to a new episode of Speaking Spanish for Beginners.

0:17.7

Me name Marko, I'm the host of this podcast for English speakers like you who want to have your

0:25.6

first conversations in Spanish with your Latino friends.

0:28.9

In this episode, you will learn how to introduce yourself in formal situations, such as

0:36.7

academic context or when you're meeting an older person.

0:41.2

So, in a way, this episode complements the previous one in which we studied how to introduce

0:47.3

yourself in informal situations. Ready for this?

0:52.3

Vamos!

0:54.9

So first of all, it is very important to remember the formal ways of greeting in Spanish.

1:02.0

Do you remember them?

1:03.6

We have Buenos Dias, which we use when, in the morning, right?

1:08.5

Then we have Buenos Aires, which is good afternoon, and then Buenos Aires, which is basically

1:14.9

in this case, good evening.

1:16.9

You can go back to episode number one if you have questions about this.

1:21.8

The dialogue that you're going to listen to after the explanation takes place happens at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

1:30.3

2 o'clock in the afternoon. So in that case, what would be the formal greeting in that

1:35.7

situation?

1:38.0

Did you say bono-dias? Well, that's not correct because this is the afternoon.

1:47.8

So we say,

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