How to say in Spanish: Do you speak English?
¿Cómo se dice en español: ´Do you speak English´?
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¡Hola! Soy Romina Romaniello, tu profesora de español de Hola Spanish.
Hi! It’s Romina Romaniello, your Spanish teacher from Hola Spanish.
¡En menos de diez días me voy de vacaciones! Voy a pasar la Navidad con mi familia en Argentina y después continuaré mi viaje por Italia. ¡No veo las horas! Me muero de ganas de viajar.
In less than 10 days I’ll go away on holidays! I’ll spend Christmas with my family in Argentina. After that I’ll continue travelling to Italy. I can’t wait! I’m dying to travel.
¿Y tú? ¿Qué harás para las fiestas? ¿Tienes planes de viajar también?
What about you? What will you do for Christmas and New Year? Are you planning to travel too?
If you’re planning to travel to Spain or/and Latin-America but you don’t a word, DO NOT DESPAIR my amigos, we’re here coming to your rescue! In today’s lesson we’ll teach you how to ask people in Spanish if they know English.
Here are the phrases that you’ll be learning today:
Lo siento = I’m sorry
No hablo español = I don’t speak Spanish
porque soy de Australia / Irlanda / Canadá… = because I’m from Australia / Irland / Canada…
¿Hablas inglés? = Do you speak English?
When speaking to elderly people or someone that you’d show respect and speak in a formal and appropriate manner, you can use all these sentences except for the last one: ¿Hablas inglés?. But don’t worry, all you’ve to do to be polite is drop the ending -S in hablaS: ¿Habla inglés?
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I’ll see you next week on your Hola Tuesday lesson! ¡Adiós! ¡Hasta la próxima clase!