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Nota gramatical. Spanish I Non-native Cap ítulo 1. Spanish punctuation. Questions begin with and upside down question mark ¿ and an upside down exclamation mark ¡ Accent markings sometimes go over the vowels: á,é,í,ó,ú , The mark on the ñ is called the tilde . Example mañ ana ,
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Nota gramatical Spanish I Non-native Capítulo 1
Spanish punctuation • Questions begin with and upside down question mark ¿ • and an upside down exclamation mark ¡ • Accent markings sometimes go over the vowels: á,é,í,ó,ú, • The mark on the ñ is called the tilde. • Example mañana, • Sounds like ny as in canyon
Práctica • Pg. 38, Act 1
Tú y yo • Yo me, is used to describe yourself. • Yo (I), is not capitalized like in english unless it begins the sentence. • Tú you, refers to someone that you are talking to. • Notice that it carries an accent.
Soy, eres, and es are all forms of the word ser. • Ser means to be. • In Spanish the word ser is used when talking about someone is from.
Used these words to in front of a sentence when asking a question: • ¿Como estás? • How are you? • ¿Cómo te llamas? • What’s your name? • ¿Cuántos años tienes? • How old are you? • ¿De dónde eres? • Where are you from? • The word ¿Cómo? can mean either how? or what? depending how you use it in context.
Nouns are words used to name people, places, and things. • All nouns in the Spanish language have a el and la (the) before them. • el is used before masculine nouns • la is used for femine nouns