Spanish - Lesson 2 - Dialog with Easy Vocabulary
A Dialog Showing the Use of the Easy Vocabulary Words
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This next lesson involves a simple dialog demonstrating the use of the easy vocabulary words introduced in the previous lesson. Here is a suggestion on how to practice with this dialog:
- First, familiarize yourself with the vocabulary words. They are presented below, or you can go back to the Lesson 1 activities.
- Next, read through the whole dialog in Spanish. Try to guess the meaning, but go ahead and look at the English translations if you need to.
- For further in-depth study, you can try to memorize the dialog in Spanish. You can take small sections of the dialog and see if you can come up with the Spanish while only looking at the English.
- You can also try the game or learning quiz to practice the dialog.
Tim Visits Fernando
Tim, from the U.S., is visiting his friend Fernando who lives in Spain.
| bueno (m.) / buena (f.) | good |
| un día | a day |
| buenos días | good day / hello |
| TIM: Buenos días, Fernando! | TIM: Good day, Fernando! |
| FERNANDO: Buenos días, Tim! | FERNANDO: Good day, Tim! |
| este (m.) / esta (f.) | this |
| muy | very |
| hermoso (m.) / hermosa (f.) | beautiful |
| una casa | a house |
| gracias | thank you |
| TIM: Esta es una casa muy hermosa. | TIM: This is a very beautiful house. |
| FERNANDO: Gracias. | FERNANDO: Thank you. |
| hay | there is / there are |
| un gato | a cat |
| en | on, in |
| el (m. sing.) / la (f. sing.) / los (m. pl.) / las (f. pl.) | the |
| una mesa | a table |
| pues | well, um, then |
| TIM: Pues ... hay un gato en la mesa. | TIM: Um ... there is a cat on the table. |
| FERNANDO: ¡Por supuesto! | FERNANDO: Of course! |
| pero | but |
| por qué | why |
| TIM: ¿Pero por qué? | TIM: But why? |
| porque | because |
| un perro | a dog |
| debajo de | under |
| un escritorio | a desk |
| FERNANDO: Porque hay un perro debajo del escritorio. | FERNANDO: Because there is a dog under the desk. |
| Sometime later... | |
| voy | I go / I'm going |
| a | to |
| mi (sing.) / mis (pl.) | my |
| un hotel | a hotel |
| ahora | now |
| TIM: Ahora voy a mi hotel. | TIM: I'm going to my hotel now. |
| eso (m.) / esa (f.) | that |
| es (3rd person singular) | is |
| adiós | goodbye |
| buen (before masc. sing. noun) | good |
| TIM: Eso es un buen gato. Y un buen perro. Adiós! | TIM: That's a good cat. And a good dog. Goodbye. |
| FERNANDO: Adiós. | FERNANDO: Goodbye. |
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