I was asked this by a language learning website. So I sat down to create a list. Some I got from memories of place names. I had to be careful not to include Italian. Here is my list.
Spanish -
English
1 sombrero - hat
2 manana - tomorrow (morning)
3 adios - goodbye
4 amigo(s) - friend (s)
5 los - the plural is in Los Angeles, and las as in Las Palmas?
6 angeles - angels
7 palmas - palms
8 villa - house
9 holla - hi/hello
10 hermosa- beautiful/sweet?
11 bella - beautiful (Spanish and Italian?)
12 bella - beautiful
13 vista - view
14 pequeno - small
15 grande - large (as in Rio Grande)
16 rio - river
17 la - the
18 mare - sea
19 plaza - square
20 frontera - frontier
21 la - the
22 playa - beach
23 piscina - pool
24 gato - cat
25 perro - dog
26 pesce - fish (Italian)
27 via - way/road
28 uno
29 dos
30 tres
31 quatro
32 cinque
33 hoy - this/today
34 nero - black
35 hola - hello
36 verde green
37 rosa red
38 quinta corner
39 mia my
40 nos our
41 nino boy
42 nina girl
43 copa cup/vase?
44 sopa soup/soap?
45 esta this
46 es is
47 muy very
48 san saint as in San Francisco
49 tia aunt as in tia maria the drink
50 tio uncle
51 torre torres towers
52 lampa -lamp
53 bandera flag
54 acqua water
55 nonos children
56 bebe baby
57 molinos windmills (torremolinos - windmill towers)
58 de of / del of the
59 frontera frontier
60 blanco white
61 vino wine
62 mas much more
63 bonita beautiful
64 senor sir
65 senora lady or madam
66 senorita - miss
67 argenta/argentina - silver
68 costa - coast (Costa del Sol sunny coast)
69 sol sun
70 la the
71 telefona telephone
72 azucar sugar
73 cafe coffee
74 es is
75 no - not
76 elefanta
77 elegante - elegant
78 infanta - daughter, infant
79 castille - castle (castello Italian?)
80 desayuno - breakfast
81 noches - night buenos noches good night
82 real royal
83 morte - dead
84 cava - cave as in cava wine from storage in caves
85 bodega - wine shop/cellar Mdeira ne bar
86 tinto dark red or tinted
87 barca boat
88 siete seven
89 ocho eight
90 nove nine
91 quiero I want
92 gracias thanks (muchas gracias many thanks)
93 jardin garden (the same as the French. Jardim is Portuguese - I learned in Madeira)
94 por - for
95 alto high (same as Italian?)
96 cielo sky
97 montana - mountain, as in the US state
98 bicycleta - bicycle
99 ronda/rondo? - round (as in the town of that name in southern Spain)
100 escola - school (same as Malay/Indonesian?)
The question was, do you know 1000 words of Spanish? So I must have 1001, with a couple of extras in case some of them are Italian.
1 capella cap (as in a capella singing without musical instruments)
2 que what (the Italian song is Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be)
3 bluson blouse
4 la grande - the big one, the Xmas day lottery in Spain
5 felicitas - happy/good wishes/congrats
6 natale/navidad -birth xmas day
7 ave as in ave Maria, our - Italian?
8 chiesa church or cheese quiesa
9 flores flowers
10 vero real
11 cuio - leather (Italian on shoes)
12 citron - lemon
13 balcon - balcony
lucky / good luck
Useful websites
duolingo (free, with ads)
memrise.com (free)
helloChinese (free)
https://1000wordsapp.com/purchase
Spanish speaking Toastmasters International clubs
toastmasters international find a club
About the author
Angela Lansbury is Vice President Public Relations of Braddell Heights Advanced and Tampines Changkat Advancedgual, speakers training club which are part of Toastmasters International. The USA has several Spanish speakings as well as the English speaking clubs. You can pick up Spanish from buying or reading online their Spanish cubs welcome pages and manuals.
In The USA, UK, Singapore and worldwide there are many clubs which are English speaking, as well as Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Tamil, Malay.
The inauguration of Tampines Changkat Advanced is today, Tuesday 29 2021, online on zoom.
You can find the club through their facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/tampineschangkatadvTMC
The meetings are free for visitors. Visitors can watch, and join in speaking by introducing themselves and volunteering to do a 2 minutes impromptu speech in table topics.
If you wish to join for a year, it costs about 190 US dollars, to have monthly meetings online, a mentor, a magazine, and one of the 11 Pathways, consisting of 14 project. Each project starts with 3 speeches of your choice of subject, lasting 4 to 6 minutes, then 5 to 7 minutes. The Pathways include the most popular Presentation Mastery. I chose humorous speaking as my second Pathway, costing 20 dollars. Then my third was a leadership course. Come and see for free.
The club also has meetings in person in Singapore
You can also contact my other club, smaller Braddell Heights Advanced, which is a cosy little club with more chances to speak.
Contact either of these or other clubs through Toastmasters International Find a Club.
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