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Lesson
1 of the Week: Masculine/Feminine
One big change
from English is that Spanish gives a gender to many words. Although
neutral words also exist, most words are either masculine or feminine,
especially nouns (words for things) and articles (little words that
mean a, an, or the). The general rule is that words ending in A
are feminine, and words ending in O are masculine.
Look at these examples. Click here 
to listen to
an mp3 of these words
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la persona
el carro
una persona
un carro
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(lah
pehr-SOH-nah)
(ehl KAH-rro)
(OO-nah pehr-SOH-nah)
(oon KAH-rro) |
the
person
the car
a person
a car |
Quiz: Masculine
& Feminine
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Complete Musical Spanish. All rights reserved
Lessons 2 of
the Week: Plural
In Spanish the word for
“the” changes with the noun. Plural is formed by adding
“s ” to the end of words ending in a vowel.
Listen to an
mp3
| la tienda |
the
store |
el carro |
the
car |
| las tiendas |
the
stores |
los carros |
the
cars |
| una tienda |
a
store |
un carro |
a
car |
| unas tiendas |
some
stores |
unos carros |
some
cars |
But what about words that end in a consonant? That is easy. You
add “ES ”to the end. Look at the examples below:
| el capitán |
los capitanes |
(los
kah-pee-TAH-nays) |
the captains |
| el país |
los países |
(los
pye-EE-says) |
the countries |
| la ciudad |
las ciudades |
(lahs
see-oo-DAH-days) |
the cities |
| la nación
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las naciones |
(lahs
nah-SYO-nays) |
the nations |
Quiz: Plural
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Complete Musical Spanish. All rights reserved
Travel Phrases
of the Week: Getting to know somebody
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me llamo
¿cómo se llama Ud.?
soy de
vivo en
¿de donde es Ud.?
¿cómo está Ud.?
¿cómo le va ?
estoy bien
¿que pasa ?
¡nos vemos !
hasta luego
hasta pronto
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my name is
what’s your name?
I am from
I live in
where are you from?
how are you?
how is it going?
I am fine
what's happenin’?
be seein’ you!
see you later
see you soon
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