Basic Spanish Conversation
Conversación Básica en español
¡Hola! It’s Brenda Romaniello, your Spanish teacher from Hola Spanish.
The most important thing to do when you’re a beginner of Spanish and you’d like to learn and practice conversation is to relax and go with the flow. Feeling stressed or anxious because you fear you won’t be able to understand anything, will only make things worse. The good news is that Spanish and Latin American people are very friendly and patient. We truly appreciate when people to try to learn and Speak our language, so we’ll make an effort to help you out.
CONVERACIÓN BÁSICA – BASIC SPANISH CONVERSATION KEY QUESTIONS
Today I’m going to teach you the key basic conversation questions in Spanish. Let’s stat by saying:
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? [hello! How are you?]
To which you can reply:
Estoy bien, gracias. [I’m well, thank you]
Then, you can ask:
¿y tú? [How about you?]
You can use this question to avoid repetition and to basically ask the same question. To ask for someone’s name you have 2 options:
- ¿Como te llamas? [What are you called?]
- ¿Cuál es tu nombre? [what’s your name?]
The answer to any of these questions, you can use the following 3 options:
- Mi nombre es… [My name is…]
- Me llamo… [I’m called…]
- Soy… [I’m…]
If you’d like to ask someone where they’re from you can say:
¿De dónde eres? [Where are you from?]
And the answer to that question is
Soy de… [I’m from…]
The next question can be used to ask where they live:
¿Donde vives? [Where do you live?]
If they ask you, then the answer is:
Vivo en… [I live in…?]
The next question is to ask about people’s age:
¿Cuántos años tienes? [How old are you?]
Respuesta/Answer:
Tengo xx años [I’m XX years old]
You can then move the conversation into a more personal aspect and find out more about who they are and what they do.
¿Dónde trabajas? [Where do you work?]
Respuesta:
Yo trabajo en … [I work in…]
You can also ask:
¿Cuál es tu profesión? [What’s your occupation?]
Respuesta:
Soy… [I’m…]
When you’re ready to end the conversation, and be polite you can say:
Mucho gusto [Nice to meet you]
Un placer [It’s been a pleasure]
Adiós [Goodbye]
I really hope you can put these basic questions to good use and have fun with it 😊