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Three small conversations you can finish today
Listen to a greeting, work through three everyday situations and check nine different answers. Finish by saying the complete exchange in your own voice. Repeat as often as you want.
1. Greet someone and introduce yourself
Understand a short greeting, then say a name, an origin and a home city.
Listen before reading
Play the short greeting. What do you recognise at the start and at the end?
Open the full recording transcript and translation
Hola, buenos días. ¿Qué tal? —Muy bien, gracias. Hasta luego.
Hello, good morning. How are you? —Very well, thank you. See you later.
Buenos días opens the greeting; hasta luego closes the exchange.
Read a new example and understand the pattern
Hola, me llamo Alex. Soy de Inglaterra y vivo en Valencia. ¿Y tú?
Hello, my name is Alex. I am from England and I live in Valencia. And you?
Me llamo means “my name is”. Use soy de for where you are from and vivo en for where you live. Spanish does not need an extra yo before each of these verbs.
2. Order a drink and ask for the bill
Read a complete café exchange and practise your two turns.
Read, understand and rehearse
—Buenos días. Un café con leche, por favor. —Aquí tiene. —Gracias. ¿Me trae la cuenta?
—Good morning. A coffee with milk, please. —Here you are. —Thank you. Could you bring me the bill?
A short request can be a noun phrase followed by por favor. When you are ready to pay, ¿Me trae la cuenta? is a polite way to ask for the bill. Cuenta here means the bill, not your bank account.
3. Ask where the nearest pharmacy is
Choose the right place question and build it yourself.
Read, understand and rehearse
—Perdone, ¿dónde está la farmacia más cercana? —Está al final de esta calle. —Gracias.
—Excuse me, where is the nearest pharmacy? —It is at the end of this street. —Thank you.
Use dónde for “where”, está for the location of a particular place, and más cercana for “nearest” with the feminine noun farmacia. Perdone is a polite way to get an unfamiliar person’s attention.
Use what you have learned
Cover each English translation and say the Spanish exchange aloud. Then change the fictitious name or city, or order a different drink you already know. Compare your words with the model. This sample does not record you or assess pronunciation.
You now have models for a greeting, a café request and a place question. Repeat any part until you can finish the exchange without reading.
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