Thursday, May 29, 2014

La Bandera The Flag

jueves, 29 de mayo de 2014
Thursday 29th of May 2014

La bandera = the flag.

Los Estados Unidos
The States United or as we say in the U.S. The United States.

La bandera de los Estados Unidos. The flag of the United States.
Bonus word país =country.
los países = the countries

Infographic Los Animales The Animals

Great infographic from donquijote.org. This is los animales or the animals in Spanish. This is a really great list and a beautiful infographic !

Los animales the animals in spanish.

Friday, May 23, 2014

Food and Articles from Spanishdict.

viernes, 23 de mayo de 2014

Hola amigos !
Hello friends !
 Its Memorial Day weekend and I don't think I'm going to be posting here till Tuesday. I've got a lot of stuff I want to get caught up on this weekend and posting Spanish stuff ain't one of them :-) I may try and put together a few surprises for the next week. 

 I really don't have anything planned for today, so I thought I'd just embed the 3rd video from spanishdict.com. This video is about Food and Articles or in Espanol, Comida y Artículos. 
If you missed the last 2 lessons I posted from Spanishdict just click here. Or go to their website and sign up for the free course.

I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend.  Remember those fallen and enjoy your holiday weekend. Till next week.

Chau
Bye :)

Thursday, May 22, 2014

La fecha the date

jueves, 22 de mayo de 2014

Hoy no hay imagen.
Today there is no image.

There is no image today. I had the blog set up in Spanish originally, so the date and everything else was written in Spanish. This seemed like a great idea at the time because the more you use Spanish the easier it becomes. So having a blog that posts the date, categories, and next buttons in Espanol helps you get more comfortable with the language. This is called immersion, or at least its my version of immersion. I also watch a lot of Spanish T.V. and try to read as much Spanish as possible.

This has really helped me learn and understand Spanish. The more I listen and use it the easier it becomes to understand. So, on paper, having the blog set up in Spanish seemed like a good idea, but for search engine reasons and marketing reasons I learned that it would probably be better to have the blog set up in English. So I changed it back to English format to help English speaking people who want to learn Spanish find it easier.

With that said, I want to start each post with the date in proper form. This helps us learn the days and months but also helps us to get use to using Spanish. Por ejemplo - for example:

Hoy es jueves, 22 de mayo de 2014
Today is Thursday, 22 of May of 2014

Hoy es jueves. 
Today is Thursday or Thorsday.

El mes es mayo. 
The month is May.

In Spanish you don't capitalize the day names or month names like you do in English. As in all languages and cultures there are multiple ways to do this. This is just one example and how I'll be doing it on the blog from here on out.

Want to learn more about the date or la fecha in Espanol. Check out these reference links.

http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/189114/how-is-the-date-in-spanish-written

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-the-Date-in-Spanish

http://spanish.about.com/od/writtenspanish/qt/dates.htm

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Un caballo a horse.

Mi palabra del día es un caballo. 
My word of the day is a horse.

Los animales = animals.

Caballo = horse.
A horse caballo pulling an Amish cart. Seen this visiting mi tío my uncle in the country.

tío = uncle

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Las Frutas La Pera pear

Mi palabra del día es pera.
My word of the day is pear.

Las frutas = the fruits
fruta = fruit
la pera = pear
peral = pear tree

fruta = fruits

Monday, May 19, 2014

Took a few days off. Tareas del hogar.

Took off a few days for spring cleaning. Tareas del hogar = housework. I always give the house a good cleaning in the spring = primavera. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming !

Spring = primavera
housework = tareas del hogar