Spanish

[gothwalk]

Anyone out there speak Spanish? And can you give me some basic tourist phrases?

"Please", "Thank you", "Yes", "No", numbers, "Where is the toilet?", "How much is that?", and "I don't speak Spanish" are probably the essentials.

And if Spanish is one of those languages with lots of dialects and variations, I need the dialect for Malaga, Spain.

Comments

[podling]

'Tienes un batida de fresa?' means 'do you have a strawberry shake?' which I found invaluable. Actually, tienes is invaluable. Being able to say 'do you have' is important.

'No hablas espagnol' is 'I don't speak spanish'

Yes is si (pronounced 'see'). I think no is no, though I could be wrong.

And I think toilet is el bano, but I'm not entirely sure on that either. Where I was there were stick people signs on bathrooms generally, so it was easy to figure on my own.

[podling]

And there's no g in espanol. I mistyped. :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Actually, you just told someone you know well that s/he doesn't speak Spanish. :)

No hablo Español. Lo siento means I'm sorry. Lo siento, pero (but) no hablo Español.

¿Dondé está el baño? is Where is the bathroom (toilet)?

Please is por favor.

Dame (actually two words -- da meaning give in command form and me -- pronounced May for me) una cerveza, por favor is Give me a beer, please. :)

¿Qué más? (What more)My Spanish is rusty, and I learned Latin American Spanish (and have practised it there), with an Argentine accent. Long story. But I probably can help with basics. :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Por favor is pronounced poor fah-vor'.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

This is mostly off-topic, but when asked, in English or Spanish, if they speak Spanish, my children reply, "No hablo Español. Yo hablo Inglés."

I need to pick up Spanish again. My combination of Argentine Spanish and gutter Mexicano has mostly faded. My spanish teacher was raised in Argentina. I learned to curse and trash talk from the migrant kids I lived by and went to school with before I was 12.

[silme.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with a girl who was born in Argentina; her grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the '30s, and Argentina was the only country for which they could get a visa. She left Argentina with her parents for the US when she was 12. Anyway, I picked up her accent. (I remember passing by a pay phone at school one afternoon, and she was fighting with her mother. They started in English, then went to Spanish, then it was all in Hebrew. :)

My AP English teacher was born in Wales but raised in Argentina. I picked up more from her. When I was in college, I took a class my freshman year from a woman from Argentina. She was delighted when she saw my last name on the list since Rawson is the capital of the province just south of Buenos Aires; she thought I was from Argentina, and there's also some big street in Buenos Aires called Rawson. No, soy de Philadelphia was my reply.

I want to get it back. There are cheap flights from here to Spain, and I want to see the Granada one of these days. I keep meaning to buy some tapes or CDs.

My knowledge of curses in Spanish helped in Boulder when my classroom was right down the hall from the main ESL rooms. I'd come out of the room and chide the native-Spanish speakers for their bad language; they were amazed that this gringa understood them. :)

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting to say the least!

Yes, I still know enough Spanish to understand when people are being out of line and say something back to them. This is good. :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

I used to have a book that was just for slang in Spanish -- curses and all sorts of other phrases they don't always teach you in school. :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, I didn't mean to be a pedant, podling. You know I love you dearly; we have that Christmas tree to remember.

Will you be in NJ right before Christmas this year, btw? I don't know what my schedule will be in the US after the wedding...

[podling]

I'll probably be in NJ up to either Christmas eve or the day before that. No firm plans have been made (what with the fact that I'm driving up there). So hopefully I'll see you... :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Basics (though my spelling may be off)

Please - por favor (por fay-vore)
Thank you - gracias
Yes - Si
No - No
Numbers: uno, dos, trez, quatro, cinquo
I don't speak Spanish - No hablo Espanol
Two beers, please - Dos cervezas por favor

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

six: ses
seven: siete
Eight: ocho
nine: Nueve
Ten: Des

Probably misspelled cause I can speak spanish better than type it. *quick double check mentally on nine - yup got that one right, I mix up spanish and portugese counting all the time cause the nine is the kicker - all the rest are the same*

Habla Engles? is a shortform of do you speak english.

Cuando? is how much, using it and pointing should get you places but if you want more:
por esso - for this.

[graylion.livejournal.com]

um, dois, treis, quattro, cinco, seis, sette, otto, nove, deis - not quite the same ;-)

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

Yeah but in Brazilian Portugese they almost sound the same and I learnt them orally rather than written.

[graylion.livejournal.com]

same here and brazilian portuguese too - where were you?

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

Moycullen, Co. Galway

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

comar is the verb to eat so Comidas are edibles
Beber is the verb to drink.

Quiere?: do you want

Quiero: I want

*oh man I've forgotten most of this stuff*

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

From my time in the military, I've discovered that the first three things a soldier overseas learns in the local language are:

How to cuss.

"Two beers, please."

and

"How much for your sister?"

I also had a guy in my unit who'd been a Special Forces medic for several years prior. He said the most useful thing habit he'd ever developed for travelling - either personal or professional - was always learning to say "Do I look like a fucking tourist to you?" as cleanly and accent-less as he possibly could.

[socmot.livejournal.com]

Despite failing Spanish in my Junior Cert, I do remember the basics...

Please

Por favor (pour fahvor)

Thank you

Muchas Gracias (muchas grasias) (muchas means many)

Yes

Sí (see)

No

No (noh)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14

Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatro, Cinco, Seis, Siete, Ocho, Nueve, Diez, Once, Doce, Trece, Quatorce

(oono, duhs, tres, kwatro, sinko, sayhs, see-ete, ucho, noo-eve, dee-es, un-say, doh-say, tre-say, kwator-se)

Where is the toilet

Donde esta la bano?

(Dunde esta la ban-yo?)

I don't speak Spanish

No hablo Espanol

(Noh ablo espanyol)

[bastun-ie.livejournal.com]

"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
"¿Divisas? ¡Nosotros necesidad de don't ningunas divisas que apestan!"

"Have you seen a twenty-sided dice?"
"¿Usted ha visto dados veinte-echados a un lado?"

"There is no spoon."
"No hay cuchara"

Well, that's all according to http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr - use at your own risk :-)

[sshi.livejournal.com]

I think this one should get the prize for the best response, Drew, although not necessarily the most helpful!

[wolfette]

Hey, it depends on why Gothwalk is going to Spain - maybe it's for a gaming convention!

[syleth.livejournal.com]

When I was in spain, everyone spoke English (to me at least!)

All I remember from my short classes were pronounce V like B, and C's before i or e as TH (ie Valencia is actually pronounced Balenthia).

And I think most multi-syllabil words are pronounced with the strongest accent on the second last syllabil

[jadecat9.livejournal.com]

please - por favor ==> por (short o) fahvor (short o)

thank you - gracias ==> grah-see-as

yes -- si
no -- no

Where is the toilet --> Donde esta el bano (banyo)?

How much is that? --> Quantos esta?

I don't speak spanish --> No hablo espanol.

Right (direction) --> Derecha

Left (direction) --> Izquerda

What time is it --> Que hora es? (silent H --> ora)

1 - 14 -- uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, seite, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce, trece, quatorce,

15 - 20 -- diezicinco, dieciséis, diecisiete, dieciocho, diecinueve y veinte

20-21 -- vienteiuno, vienteidos (get the pattern yet?)

30-60 -- trenta, cuarenta, cinccuenta, seiscuenta,


Hope that helps.

[silme.livejournal.com]

A is always pronounced ah. In England, people say nachos and tacos with a short A -- drives me nuts.

E is always pronounced like a long A.

I is always pronounced like a long E.

O is the same.

U is similar, but lighter than our U. It's not you -- not vocal Y there.

How much is that = ¿Cuántos cuesta?

There's a lisp in most of Spain. I remember having a professor at university from Cadiz. They pronounced z and often the letter s as th. Cadith. Ibitha. We thought he was saying ferillo, then he wrote cerillo on the board. Oh, yes, we knew what that was; we didn't know ferillo. :)

Help me is ayuda me. Me is May in Spanish.

[taliesinn.livejournal.com]

Although Spain has a multitude of 'dialects', most of them are seperate almost languages like Catalan, Basque and Andalucien (sp?); as a result most people (if they don't speak English), speak Castellano (sp?) or Spanish as we know it.
Yes: Si- See
No: Non - As the French IIRC
Please: Por Favor - Pour Fah Vore
Thank You: Gracias - Grah(with a 'ah' as in Grab not an 'ay' as in Gray)-see-ass
1: Uno - As in the Fiat Uno
2: Dos - Similar to DOS but with a slightly longer O
3: Tres - Trays
4: Quatro - As in Audi Quatro
5: Cinqo - Sin Quo
How Much is that: wave it and say Cuanto? (kwan-toe)
I don't Speak Spanish: Na Hablo Espanol (Naw hab-low es-pan-yole)`
I've no idea what 'where is the toilets?' is but tolilets are Servicios.
The other word you will need is Beer which is Cerveza (Ser-vay-sah)
None of this comes with any guarentees as to its authenticity as it is a few years since I was in Spain and I never spoke it all taht well even then :-)

[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

I just started teaching myself Spanish from a book in preparation for moving to Spanish Harlem in NYC. This might be the easiest way to learn a little, but here are some phrases that you've probably already gotten.

The trick to pronunciation is this: B sounds like "B" V sounds like "B". "C" sounds like "TH" in Castillian spanish. "L" makes an English L-sound, but "LL" make an English Y-sound. Speak all of these with a corny-sounding Spanish accent and you should be fine. Seriously.

yes = si
no = no
please = por favor
1 = uno
2 = dos
3... This is going to take forever. Uh... Really. Get a little Berlitz guide or a teach yourself Spanish book. You're an intelligent guy. The best way to learn it is to get a little book of vocabulary and dive right in trying to use it. The most important phrases you'll want to know are the following:

Qué significa ...? = What does ... mean?
Cómo dice? = Excuse me? (literally "What did you say?")
Puede repetir, por favor? = Can you repeat that, please?
Pérdon, no entiendo! = Sorry, I don't understand!
Mas despacio, por favor. = More slowly, please.
Habla usted inglés? = Do you speak English?
Soy británico = I'm British. (sorry, I don't know how to say "I'm Irish"...)

Also helpful? Babelfish Translations (http://babelfish.altavista.com/).

[awakedreamer.livejournal.com]

Sorry Drew, I nearly missed this entry. I think most people has answered correctly, but just in case (I'm writing the answers in spanish):

"Please"= Por favor
"Thank you"= Gracias
"Yes"=Sí
"No"=No
numbers= 1.Uno, 2.dos, 3.tres, 4.cuatro, 5.cinco, 6.seis, 7.siete, 8.ocho, 9.nueve, 10.diez
"Where is the toilet?"= Donde esta el baño?
"How much is that?"= Cuánto cuesta eso?
"I don't speak Spanish"=No hablo español.

Anyway, please, do send me any questions or whatever. As you know I live in the canary islands, but I've been in Malaga several times, ok?

[sacristan.livejournal.com]

"Soy Irlandés" is "I am Irish".