Lesson One

Lesson 1 Hello and welcome to Newbie Spanish small lessons that I hope will help you as a complete beginner of Spanish. I will try to make each lesson as interesting as possible but more importantly I will try to make you be able to form sentences from the very start. I feel that sometimos it easy to give up learning a language because you can only say certain phrases and not be able to form sentences for the things you would like to say.At the time of this first lesson I have only been studying it for just under a year and I am still learning and feel that as a learner I will have a better understanding of your frustration.I have been frústrated by the teachers ourt there who assume that the learner has much more prior knowledge of the spanish language than they actually have.


Rather than do too much grammar at the beginning let us look at being able to form a few sentences, so that when you tell someone that you are learning Spanish you will be able to come back at them with a sentence.Hopefully this will inspire you to continue with your learning. We will touch on the verb conjugations during the lesson but don’t worry too much for now, but as I learner that as you learn more it is good to go back and listen to lessons with explanations of conjugations as like I have already said sometimes too much knowledge can be assumed by the teacher.

Ok enough of the boring stuff lets get started


Pues venga

In all of the first few lessons we are going to base them round a handful of verbs

These Verbs are as follows ;

Querer = To want Ir = To go Tener = To Have
Let us start with Querer = To want
In English we would say ; I want , she wants, they want, we want etc etc
So to say I want in Spanish you say Quiero. We will explain the rest of the conjugations in later episodes, but for now we want to be able to say some sentences in Spanish, as too much grammar to begin with will have you pressing the stop button.
So let’s see; If you want to say I want an apple
Quiero - I want An apple is una manzana
So you say Quiero una manzana

To say you want you would say Quieres and to turn it into a question you simple use an inflection in your voice.

¿Quieres una manzana?
So if I ask you ¿Quieres una manzana? Do you want an apple
You might answer Sí quiero una manzana Yes I want an apple
The verb Tener means to have
To say I have you say Tengo
So to say I have an apple you would say
Tengo una manzana
To say you have, you say Tienes
Tienes una manzana , you have an apple
To turn it into a question you say
Tienes una manzana ? Do you have an apple?

The verb Ir (pronouned ear) means to go

So to say I want to go to Spain you say
Quiero ir a España
Ir is an irregular verb
so to say I am going you say
Voy (pronouned boy with a soft b)
and to make it I am going to it is voy a
So I am going to Spain
is Voy a España
To say you are going you say Vas (pronounced Bas)

So if say Vas a España?
Are you going to Spain you say
Sí, voy a España este año
Yes I am going to spain this year
To say we going we say Vamos
So Vamos a España means we are going to spain

When you arrive at the hotel in Spain you could use the verb Tener again
Tengo as you remember is the how you would say I have
The word for reservation is reserva
So.... Tengo una reserva means I have a reservation

To say we have you say Tenemos
So tenemos una reserva is of course ……We have a reservation


Lets look at the verb conjugation as you will find this useful when you come back
First we will take the verb Querer to want
Quiero I want
Quieres You want
Quiere He wants / she wants/you polite want
Queremos We want
Queréis You all want
Quieren They want/you all polite want (in Latin america they will use this instad of Queréis)


Next the verb Ir to go
Voy I go
Vas You go
Va he goes/she goes/you polite go
Vamos we go
Vais You all go (used in spain)
Van They go/ you all polite go (in Latin america they will use this instad of Vais)


And the last of our three verbs in the present tense which was Tener - to have

Tengo I have
Tienes You have
Tiene He has/she has/you polite have
Tenemos We have
Tenéis You all have
Tienen They have/you all polite have (in Latin america they will use this instad of Tenéis)


A good way to remember them is to learn to recite the conjugation and in time you will find you can remember them like a favourite song.
Further down the line you will see that the language forms patterns like this throughout.For now as a beginner do not get too hung up on learning to conjugate as you will do it without thinking, in time.



Go back and listen to this first lesson a few times and see if you can now remember hot to say I have, You have, I want You want, I am going, You are going, We are going