Learn Spanish: Lesson 2
In this lesson I will cover three areas: numbers, vocabulary, and basic verb conjugation. Let’s learn spanish!
Basic Numbers
In Lesson 1 you learned the basics of counting from one to ten; now we’ll cover eleven through twenty and finish up the basic numbers.
Follow along with this audio file: Learn Spanish - Lesson 2 - Basic Numbers
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- once
- doce
- trece
- catorce
- quince
- dieciséis
- diecisiete
- dieciocho
- diecinueve
- veinte
Basic Vocabulary
In this lesson we will learn some words for things around the house!
el libro
la silla
la sofá
la chimenea
el refrigerador
el fregadero
el teléfono
la televisión
la tabla
Basic Verbs
If you’re new to foreign language, you may want to have a look this post: What Is Conjugation?
If you understand conjugation and you’re ready to dive in, let’s do that! Consider the verb estudiar; estudiar is called a regular -ar verb and it means “to study”. The fact that it is regular means we can follow a simple pattern to conjugate it. In the following table estudiar is conjugated for each possible subject; ‘I’ is yo, ‘You’ is tú, He/She/It is él/ella/usted, ‘We’ is nosotros, ‘You’ (plural) is vosotros, ‘They’ is ellos/ustedes estudian. We will revisit these later, but for now, let’s look at estudiar:
- yo estudio
- tú esutdias
- él/usted estudia
- nosotros esutidiamos
- vosotros estudiàis
- ellos/ustedes estudian
- I study, I do study, I am studying
- you study, you do study, you are studying
- he/she studies, he/she does study, he/she is studying
- we study, we do study, we are studying
- you-all study, you-all do study, you-all are studying
- they study, they do study, they are studying
As you can see, most of the word is the same as the infinitive form of the verb: estudiar. Only the ending has changed when the verb was conjugated for each form. Let’s look at another regular -ar verb, cocinar; cocinar means “to cook”.
- yo cocino
- tú cocinas
- él/usted cocina
- nosotros cocinamos
- vosotros cocinàis
- ellos/ustedes cocinan
- I cook, I do cook, I am cooking
- you cook, you do cook, you are cooking
- he/she cooks, he/she does cook, he/she is cooking
- we cook, we do cook, we are cooking
- you-all cook, you-all do cook, you-all are cooking
- they cook, they do cook, they are cooking
Just as with estudiar, only the endings change as we conjugate the verb for each subject. In the next lesson, we will cover more regular verbs and revisit the meaning of each of the subjects.
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- Kambrie Balser: images.
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