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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Do you speak 100 words of Spanish?



 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.


more later

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