It’s well worth your while to memorize these phrases if you plan to travel or reside in a Spanish-speaking country. Knowing these expressons will help you keep appointments, make schedules, buy plane tickets, etc.
mediodía – noon
medianoche – midnight
a principios de (mayo) – at the
As you probably know by now, to ask someone how they are in Spanish you say, “¿Cómo está?” It is customary to answer this question by saying “muy bien” (very well) or “mal” (bad). However, just as in English there are other ways to tell people how you feel.
When someone asks
For those of you who intend to get romantically involved with a native Spanish speaker, there are many necessary phrases or lines you should master in order to communicate your feelings and desires.
A number of the words and phrases can be used to meet someone or for after you are already dating.
¿Cómo se llama usted? – What’s
Ordinal numbers are first, second, third, etc.
primero – first
segundo – second
tercero – third
cuarto – fourth
quinto – fifth
sexto – sixth
séptimo – seventh
octavo – eighth
noveno – ninth
décimo – tenth
Beyond tenth cardinal numbers (one, two, three etc.) should be used instead of
As you already know, for the average person full-time as well as part-time domestic help is prohibitively expensive in the United States – this is not the case in Costa Rica. The cost of a full-time maid or gardner usually runs a couple of hundred dollars monthly. The former can do everything from washing clothes to taking care of small
