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When you come into a situation where you have to greet more than one person at a time, do not be naive and think that you can just say , como estas to everyone in the group as a whole !!
It is a fact that in many parts of Latin America you will be expected to greet everyone individually. This entails a lot of handshaking and hugging !

Here are a few key spanish phrases to make a note of wen learning to speak spanish…

- How are You?
It is only socially acceptable to ask how people are doing. In Spanish, the most common way to address this is by saying………..
¿Cómo estás? which means how are you !

As you see that all questions written in Spanish have an upside down question mark at the beginning !

Qué bueno! How great!

Notice the accent marks as well (ó, é, á). In Spanish, these accent marks tell you which syllable or vowel sound to stress. Here is another example.The Spanish words estás and estas are pronounced completely differently. And they are also completely separate words! Estás means “you are,” while estas means “these.” That is why it so very important to almost always include accent marks when you’re writing in Spanish.

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Now, let’s conitue on here with content. The word cómo means how. The word estás means are you (or you are). You may wonder how one word in Spanish can mean the equivalent of two words in English. Let me just put out a little Warning here :This will happen a lot! Sometimes one word in English will require two words or more in Spanish, or vice versa. That’s why it’s important not to get caught up in making literal, or word-by-word, translations. (Which is also why online translators, even those that claim to translate sentences, often return incorrect answers!)

The funny thing and unique thing about Spanish allows you to include the subject of a sentence inside the verb by modifying the verb slightly. It does this through conjugations. Conjugations are too complex to explain here on your very first lesson, but if you plan to learn more than the most basic Spanish, you will become very, very familiar with verb conjugations!

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