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Lesson 1
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- 2. TRIVIA How much doyou know about the Spanish language? Vamos a ver! Let’s see!
- 3. Where is Spanishspoken? Spanish is the official language of 20 countries around the world! It is also one of the official languages of the United Nations
- 4. How many peoplespeak Spanish? Between 470,000,000 and 500,000,000 people speak Spanish natively worldwide Only Chinese Mandarin has more native speakers than Spanish! Including non-native speakers, it is the third most widely spoken language in the world after English and Chinese
- 5. Where does Spanishcome from? Spanish comes from Spain! Specifically, it comes from Castille, a region of Spain. For that reason, Spanish is sometimes called “castellano” or Castilean.
- 6. True or False:Spanish borrows many words from Arabic. True! About 8% of Spanish words are Arabic in origin Al-Andalus was a Islamic state that at one time ruled most of Spain.
- 7. True or False:there are 10 million native Spanish speakers in the United States False! As of 2012, there were 38.3 million native Spanish speakers living in the United States!
- 8. El Alfabeto Español ¡Presta atención! Many of these words have cognates in English. Cognates are related words. They have similar sounds and meanings.
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- 11. C cumpleaños We use a“hard c” when the letter c is followed by a, o, or u
- 12. C cielo We use a“soft c” when the letter c is followed by e or i
- 13. Quiz! ¿Cómo se pronunciael nombre de esta ciudad en España?
- 14. Ch Chile Note: This isno longer an official letter in the Spanish alphabet
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- 23. K karate Only foreign wordshave the letter “k”!
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- 30. Quiz! What is thedifference in pronunciation?
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- 34. Rr No Spanish wordsbegin with “rr” Can you think of some words we learned today that have “rr” in them?
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- 39. W Wifi Only foreign wordshave the letter “w”!
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- 43. El Alfabeto (song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OXP92SUBQ
- 44. ¡Vamos a hablar! ¿Cómote llamas? Me llamo…
- 45. Extra Vocabulary Nombre: firstname (이름) Apellido: last name (성) ¿Sabes? In Spain, people have two last names! One from their mother and one from their father.
- 46. Extra Resources http://www.youtube.com/user/ButterflySpanishola/ http://www.spanishpod101.com (These are podcasts that teach the Spanish language) Duolingo (phone app) Find me on Duolingo! My username is “jaclynteacher” If you find something that helps you, let me know about it!