VERBS!

What verb is the most useful to you?

Are there any other verbs you would like to learn that aren't on your list?

What phrases are the most useful to you? Did you come up with any new or favorite phrases?

- Favor de ___
- Favor de no ___
- Se permite ___
- No se permite ___

Another cool resource!

This useful website was suggested to me by one of our former Spanish students. It's called Word Champ, and had a wide array of helpful content! For some of it, you'll need to start an account with them. However, some of it is available to access even without an account. Click around and explore! I personally found the items in the "Flashcard" tab really useful.

Keep this in mind when you finish the course, as well. As I'm sure you can imagine, we can only cover so much in eight classes. After completing our course, you'll want to continue learning more Spanish on your own. This will be a wonderful resource for you to learn new vocabulary and to practice!

¡Vocabulario de la comida! Food vocab!

¡Hola clase!

Since our next class will be held at a restaurant (TBD - I'll e-mail you by the end of the week), some of you requested some basic food vocabulary so you know what you're ordering. :-) I've listed some that I think are common and useful words. But please post comments about any other food words that you would like to learn! Also, I tried to put a pronunciation guide in parenthesis, but I am terrible at writing out how to pronounce things, so forgive me if it's confusing.

Foods:

*Comida (coh MEE thah) - Food

*Pollo (POH yoh) - Chicken

*Carne de res (KAHR neh theh REHS) - General word for beef

*Puerco (PWEHR koh) - Pork

*Chorizo (choh REE soh) - Sausage

*Arroz (ah ROHS) - Rice

*Queso (KEH so) - Cheese

*Tomate (toh MAH teh) - Tomato

*Ensalada (ehn sahl LAH thah) - Salad

*Maís (mah EES) - Corn

*Frijol (free HOHL) - Bean (more commonly, you'll see the plural of "Frijoles")

*Habichuela (ah bee choo EH lah) - Another word for bean

*Huevo (hoo EH voh) - Egg

*Bocadillo (bo kah DEE yoh) - sandwich

*Sandwiche (sahnd WEE cheh) - another word for sandwich

*Guisado (gwee SAH thoh) - Stew
*Salsa (SAHL sah) - Sauce - although we know "Salsa" to be that delicious tomato based yumminess, the word literally means just any kind of sauce, and then more words are added to say what kind of sauce it is (i.e. "salsa verde" is "green sauce," "salsa de tomate" is tomato sauce, etc.)

Beverages:

*Agua (AH gwah) - Water

*Té (Teh) - Tea

*Café (cah FEH) - Coffee

*Gaseoso (gah see OH soh) - One way to say pop

*Soda (SOH thah) - Another way to say pop - Just like in English, some people say pop, some people say soda, down south everything is Coke - you can also say "Coca Cola" or "Pepsi" and people know these brand names because they're all over the world. :-)

*Limonada (lee moh NAH thah) - Lemonade

*Jugo (HOO goh) - Juice - then describe your juice with the following:

*... de naranja (theh nah RAHN hah) - orange (put together "jugo de naranja" for orange juice)

*... de manzana (theh mahn SAH nah) - apple ("jugo de manzana" is apple juice)

*... de uva (theh OOH vah) - grape ("jugo de uva" is grape juice)

Words to describe foods:

*Asada (ah SAH thah) - Grilled (may also be "asado" if it's describing a masculine food, as it's an adjective and so must be masculine or feminine)

*Frito (FREE toh) - Fried (may also be "frita" if it's describing a feminine food)

*Milanesa (mee lahn EH sah) - A way of cooking meat where you bread then fry thin strips of it

*Barbacoa (bahr bah KOH ah) - Barbecued

*Picadillo (pee kah THEE yoh) - Chopped up really small or ground

*Deshebrada (dehs eh BRAH thah) - A way to cut meat - kind of shredded - i.e. "bocadillo de puerco deshebrada" would be a pulled pork sandwich

*De trizas (theh TREE sahs) - Shreds - i.e. "queso de trizas" is shredded cheese

Okay, that's all I can think of for now. There are also a lot of food words that are originally Spanish that we have adopted into the English language that you'll already know (i.e. taco, burrito, fajita, tostada, avocado, etc), so those are one's you'll already understand on the menu.

And remember, please post a comment with any other words you would like to learn!

Additional Family Vocabulary!

¡Hola clase!

This past class, we went over some very basic family vocabulary. The last group to do these classes was interested in more family words, so I created a post for them last year. If you are interested in learning more words for family, scroll down and check it out. Post a comment on this post and let me know if there are any other family words that you would like to learn about.

Thanks! ¡Gracias!

¡Bienvenidos a la clase nueva! Welcome, new class!

¡Hola!  ¡Bienvenidos a la "blog" de la clase de español de KDL!

Congratulations, you've found the KDL Spanish Class Blog!  Feel free to take a look below at what we did in the last class!  I'm sure we'll come up with all sorts of new uses for the blog for this session!

Periodically throughout the class I'll post things up here that I think might be useful to you.  I may also ask you all to post comments with questions for me or new ideas to share with each other.

For now, just take a quick look around and bookmark this page if you'd like (or you could use Delicious - remember the 23 Things?).

Thanks!  ¡Hasta luego!