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Hola, so Anna here at Butterfly Spanish, where you can learn all the Spanish you want if you desire to learn Spanish. So here with me at Butterfly Spanish, you don't have any excuses. It's free. So the only thing you need is the desire to learn Spanish.
In today's class, we're going to go over, we're going to learn 100 expressions that you can use every day. 100 expressions in Spanish that will help you face your day, your every day. See, maybe you're one of those people who maybe who doesn't even say good morning, "Buenos días." No, you just don't say it. No, you just keep your your sight away from people. Well, in that case, you may not even want to learn Spanish. But you are not one of those, and and you actually want to be chatty and learn more Spanish to talk more, then be with me because I am going to show you these 100 expressions that will come right, right perfect for your every day. "Eso es." I hope so. "Es, es." I hope so. "Es, es." No, I hope not. I hope not. No. For example, somebody said last time and I said, "No, not at this time." I'm going to get so soaking. [Applause] "Hope said, 'Not yet, not yet.'" If somebody knocks on the door and says, maybe you're not ready. No. Last time I wanted to show my sister a blouse and she said, and I said, "No, not yet."
Remember to pronounce every vowel, every letter. "Not yet." "I can't." "I can't." "I can ask, 'Could you join me? Could you come with me?'" You may say, "No, I can't." Of course, a bit more formal. "Justo." Very nice, very casual. "Justo." These three are for, of course, of course. "Claro." You may say you want to be more formal, you want to be casual. Nice. You may say, "Like literally with pleasure." "Of course." "Voy." "Voy." "I am coming." "Voy." "Wait for me. I'm getting there. I'm on my way. I'm coming." "Yeah, boy." You see, you can say "Voy, voy" exasperated, happy, whatever. "I'm coming." "Yeah, boy." You know what? "J, my boy." "I am leaving." What? What is the difference? "Voy." "Yummy boy." "Yummy boy." No. "J, boy." You know what? "I'm tired of teaching Spanish." "J, boy." "I learn with the board." If you want, well, change my mind. "J, boy." "I am leaving." "J, boy." "I am coming." "Boy." "J, boy." If you want to learn more expressions and more use about these two, you may want to watch my video about the differences between "voy" and "voy." "Moment." "I'm leaving." "I decided to come back after not knowing what to do with myself except teaching Spanish." "Yeah, regress." "I'm back." "Yeah, regress." "I'm back." "Yeah, regress." If you want to announce to anybody, "Hey, she decided she didn't know what else to do with her life except teaching in Spanish." And for me, I would say, "See." With the emphasis at the end, the last syllable. "I'm back." "Rap." "Rap." "Faster." "Anna, you're being you're going too slowly." "Faster." "Más rápido." "Más." Is like literally more rapid. Faster. Okay. Okay. Emphasis. "No hurry up." You want to tell somebody to hurry up, you will tell him or her. "Más." "Isness." So you really are saying with calmness. Last time I was helping my nephew to to do his homework and he was really getting exasperated. I had to tell him, "Calma, con calma." With patience. "Slow down." "Easy." "Take it easy." "Calma." "We're going to get it done. You just have to do it." "Calma." "With gentleness." "Easy." "Slow down." "With patience." Or "No sé." Both are. "I have no idea." "I have no clue." "I don't have any idea." "I don't know." Or a lot of people would use "No sé." I know it might sound strange to you because it ends with "é" and it starts with "n," but you have to say like, for example, imagine you were saying, um, "No English." Long, right? You you might think, "Oh, I sound weird. I sound strange." That's fine. That's how it is in Spanish. You say it's like a very "ei," a very long "ei." "No sé." "No sé." And just make the face too. "No sé." "Okay, I have no idea where I'm teaching." "Lo sé." "I knew it." "Lo sé." "I don't know if you've seen George from Seinfeld. He's often says, 'I knew it.'" If I were to dub, to do the dubbing for George, then I would say, "Don't get scared with too many vowels." "Lo sé." "I knew it." Now, this, this, these two options are quite different, and you often make a mistake with this. So here we're going to make it clear. "Around here." Or "this way." "Around here." Or "this way." "This way." Like, "Follow me that way." "Go that way." "Aquí." "O." "Aquí." So the "h" doesn't have a sound. "This for aquí." "Aquí." "This way." Or "around here." "It was around here. The keys were around here." "Sigue por aquí." "Follow me this way." "That way." When you want to tell somebody, "Don't forget." "Don't forget what I told you to do." Or "what I told you to bring, whatever." "Don't forget." In Spanish, you would say, "No olvides." "Don't forget." I know it's very long, right? Especially when you see it in English, it's so short, and then in Spanish, a whole sentence. But it's very easy to pronounce it. "Don't forget what I'm teaching you today." When you want to say, for example, "I completely forgot about it." "I completely forgot." See, I am very distracted these days. And so what happened? "I forgot about it completely." "I forgot it." "I forgot it." "I completely forgot about it." This "e," this "a" doesn't have an accent, right? Doesn't have one. And this one has. So how do you, how are you going to pronounce each of them? All smooth. All the vowels, all the letters is smooth. And this one, "Mejor." Rough at the end. Soft and nice. "Rough." "Better." "Mejor." See here, this is a "j," right? If you, if that word were in English, you would say "major," something like that. "Major." But because you are speaking Spanish, I don't want to hear any of that. It's "Mejor." As if you had an "h." Imagine. "Mejor." "Better." "Much." "Much better." "Much." Oh, now with this lesson, I am much better. I am much better with this lesson. Now I'm going to teach you something very, very Spanish, very interesting. When, for example, you change your mind for yes or for no. Like, "for better or for worse." Let's say you're going to buy something, or you were going to buy something, and you were looking at something. I was looking at a at a mug to to have my coffee, and it was really pretty. Looked at it, revised it, viewed it, touched it, felt it. See? And I was about to buy it. What did I say to myself? "No, better not." Me. No. Now, maybe I, it didn't happen. But maybe I left the store and I was like, "Better yes." So I go back and buy it. That didn't happen. But if that had happened, I would have said, "Mejor." See? See? "Better yes." "Better not." And it's when you change your mind. Like, "No, you know, going to save my money. I'm not going to buy it." "Mejor no." I come out and I, "Better yes." So, "Better." "Much, much better." "Much better." "Doubt it." "Lo dudo." "I doubt it." Um, just today, somebody was was asking me about a song of, um, Enrique Iglesias. And, um, and then I, and then this person told me, "I think he wrote it." Like, "He wrote this song." And I said, "I doubt it." Not that I have any prejudices against him, but I doubt it. "Can barely [Laughter] sing." Yeah. "Lo dudo." Sometimes when you're learning Spanish, when you're just starting to learn Spanish, you don't know how to say bye to people. Imagine you're talking to some native Spanish native speakers, and you don't know how to naturally say, "See you. Bye. See you later." A good phrase to use in that context would be "Nos vemos." Very casual, yet nice, appropriate, correct, polite. "Nos vemos." "See you." "Nos vemos." If you want to be more specific because you know you're going to see those people or a person somewhere, you could say "en" whatever, "en la esquina." "See you at the corner." "See you at home." "See you at the stop." Maybe at the bus stop or the taxi stop, any stop. "See you at the station." So you could say, "Nos vemos." Actually, to say farewell, to say bye to people. "See you at the corner." "See you at home." "See you at the corner." Or in the place of that where you're going to see that person or those people. "To the right." "To the left." For example, if you want somebody to look at, "To the right." Or "to the left." Tell this person, "Turn to your right." "Turn to your left." "Hace calor." When talking about the weather, you would say, "It's hot." If you want to say, "Oh, how hot it is." "How hot it is." More like expressive, right? "It's just the weather today." "Oh, it's hot." "How hot it is today?" For a drink temperature, you put your fingers. See? So you wouldn't say that for the weather. For example, you would say, "Pero" for your tea or your coffee. "The weather." This is super useful, really. "Que te vaya bien." It's like a wish, like a wish you make to somebody. You're telling this person, "Have fun." "Have a good time." "Have a good trip." "Have a good day." "Have a good experience." Whatever you're doing, right? You can say, "It's like, go like, have fun." "Stay safe." It's like everything together when you're wishing well, uh, good wishes to somebody who's doing, who's about to do something. Some of you have told me, "I love your blouse." Or something. "You love it." "I love it." Some people may want to say, "Me gusta mucho." It's more like, "I like it." "I like it a lot." "Mucho." But if you want to say, "I love it." "I, I completely love it." Remember this. "Te quiero." Just means "a long e." "En serio." "Really." "Seriously." "En serio." "En serio." "Are you serious?" "Really?" "Seriously." "Se acabó." "It's over." "It's finished." "It's over." "Tengo una cita." "I have an appointment." "Are you joking?" "Just arrived." Sometimes people ask you, "You just arrived to some somewhere and people ask you, 'Oh, have you done this? Have you seen this?'" And you can say, "Just arrived." "Es de moda." "It's trendy." Literally, "It's of mode." No, "It's in the mode." "Is that the moda?" "It's trendy." A friend of mine was just telling me how certain clothes that is trendy right now reminds her of the 90s, of the clothes she wore in the 90s. And she told me, "Is it's trendy again?" "From all these, which one do you like?" "Cuál te gusta?" "Which one do you like?" "Which one?" "Cuál." When something bothers you, in Spanish, you would say, "Me molesta." "It bothers me." "Me molesta mucho." "It bothers me a lot." "Mucho." "En español." When you introduce somebody from your family, you would say, "Es mi mamá." "For this is my mother." Or "She is my mother." "Es mi mamá." "Es mi papá." "He is my father." Or "This is my father." "Es mi papá." "Es mi hija." "She is my daughter." Or "This is my daughter." "Es mi hija." "Es mi hijo." "This is my son." "He is my son." "Es mi tía." "She is my aunt." "This is my aunt." "Es mi tío." "He is my uncle." "This is my uncle." "Es mi mamá." Sounds redundant, right? "It's my mom." But we say it like that. "It's my mother." No, not yours. "It's my mom." "You have to try this." Well, first of all, let me tell you, I don't generally like when people say, "You have to try this." I don't have to do anything for all I know. But that's just when I'm angry. Generally, it's very useful to say this. "Sígueme." "See me." "See me." "Follow me." "See." "Follow me." "See." "What's your stand on whatever topic?" Well, you could say like, "I am in favor." Or "I'm all for it." Or "I am against it." Please notice here that "por favor" is written separately. It's two words, not one. "Por favor." Obviously, you think it's one because you say "por favor," so it sounds like one. But if you write it, you have to make sure you use the two words. "Excuse me." When you're asking a question. "Excuse me, sir." "Excuse me." "Squeeze me." "Squeeze me." "I'm sorry." You will use this phrase to ask somebody, "What's going on?" "What's going on?" Casually. But also to say, "What happened?" "I hope you are well." "I hope." "I hope you are well." Now, many of you make a mistake here and say, "Espero que tú estás bien." You see the difference? "I hope you are well." No. When you are saying "Espero," your desire. "I hope." No, you're expressing your hope. You're not stating a fact. "You are well." "You are well." Yeah, sure. "I hope." "I hope." "I hope you are well." You want more redundancy so you get it clear. "Don't worry." "Don't worry about it." "Pregúntale." "Ask him." "Ask her." If you are telling somebody to ask a question to him or to her, you would say in Spanish, you say, "Pregúntale." "Buen provecho." When somebody is eating, when people are eating, and you walk by and you tell them, "Buen provecho." Or when you are eating with somebody and you tell him or her, "Buen provecho." "Enjoy." "Enjoy the food." Really. So you would say to express to that person, "Enjoy the food." "It's fun." "Where like you're at a place and the activity, what's going on? It's fun." "Es aburrido." "It's boring." Now, for example, if somebody calls you and you're like, "At this event." And you say, "Ven." "Come." "No vengas." "Don't come." "No vengas." You would say, "Casi." "Almost." "Casi." "Almost." "I am almost finished." "Wake up." "I am almost finished." "Next one." "I'm almost there." When you went to ask somebody in Spanish, "Since when?" You would say, "How are you?" "How have you been?" "How are you?" "How have you been?" "I hadn't seen you in a long time." "Estoy en eso." "I'm working on it." "Un momento, por favor." "A moment, please." "Moment." You could also say, though, really doesn't make sense if you think about it. Some people say, "Just a second." You want to be a bit more polite. Let's say we would say to somebody, "Un segundo." But in a more formal context, you would say, "Una pausa." "And speaking of a break, I need a break." "Think about it." "You still have time." "I don't think so." "No." "You want to watch my lesson about all the uses for the verb?" "Watch my video about that." "Did you like it?" "Poquitos." "Not so muchos." "What did you say?" "Sorry, I didn't hear." "I was thinking about something else." "No, you were distracted." "I was thinking about something else." "How funny." "This is." "Look at this three dots like a three dot smile." "H." "Say it." "Or I am not sure." "Are you sure?" "I hope you get well." Or if you want to shorten it, "Get well." "I can't hear you." "I can't hear you." "It's very noisy." Or "I heard a noise." "I'll come to pick you up." "I'll come to get you." Or even better, "Then for me." "Come and get me." Or "come to pick me up." "Me." "Don't leave." Like, "Don't leave this place." "Different." "Then." "No vayas." "Don't go." Like, "Don't go to that place." "There is a coro." "No, coro is a type of music." Um, that says the Simon Blanco. And one of the verses it says, "Don't go to the dance." The mother is saying, "Don't go to the dance." But he goes. And you don't want to know what happened. Typical of the coros. But the difference is not the "vayas." Is "don't leave." "No te vayas." "Stay." "Don't leave this place." "Don't go." Generally, "I am in a good mood." "No." "Broadly speaking." Unless you upset me. "Sometimes I am in a bad mood." "Good mood." "Mal." "Bad mood." You could also say to maybe not be so negative because I don't like negativity. You could say, "No, esto." "My marker is going badly." No. "The." "Make it so negative." Well, or you could say, "More." "I'm not in such a good mood." So, you know. "Cuidado." "Don't bother me too much." That's that's simply negative. "It's cold." "The weather is cold." As when you're when you're you're shaking, trembling. "Get it." "It's like as if you were saying, 'How cold it is.'" Maybe you don't say it like that, but implies that meaning. "Oh, it's very cold." "It's so cold." "Now I am cold." When something, when maybe a drink, really. Or "No importa." "It's not important." "Who cares?" "No importa." "Who cares?" "It's not important." What you can not do is "No, no importa." "No importa." "No." "Never." "It's either." "What are you doing?" "Do something." Then usually it's more general like, "What are you up to?" "What are you doing?" It implies a little bit more like, "Right now, what are you doing?" Oh, well, "I'm reading." "I am cleaning." "I am cooking." See? So when you want to say more specific like, "In this moment." Same thing. If you see just the word like this, "Me." Is here. And then here we put it together with the verb. Meaning, "I'm going to say bye to these people." "I'm going to to say farewell." "See." "Wait a second." "I'm going to say bye to everybody." "Hasta mañana." "See you tomorrow." "Until tomorrow." "Hasta mañana." And speaking of tomorrow, well, tomorrow you're going to keep learning Spanish. I hope. And having said that, I am done with this video. I hope you found, you found these 100, a little bit over 100 phrases, um, in Spanish useful. They are going to prove very effective when you're speaking, when you're learning, and to improve your Spanish and to speak like a native speaker. Before saying bye, before leaving, I want to thank you for watching my videos. I really want to thank you for watching my videos, especially to those of you who have donated. You are actually making possible for me to keep teaching Spanish, which is the thing I love from my profession, life. And I'm very fortunate to keep teaching Spanish for a living. And it's thanks to you who have donated. Your donations are very important to me to make more videos, to prepare more videos, to my family, to the thing, um, to to live, really. Uh, so I want to thank you for all that. I also want to invite you to go to ButterflySpanish.com and subscribe to get my newsletter. 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