Spanish Skill:Family

Family
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Language	Spanish
Skills	323
Skill No.	5
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Family is the fifth skill (assuming read left to right) and the fifth unit in the Spanish language course. It consists of four lessons teaching some words related to the family and some basic describing adjectives and one review lesson encompassing everything learned in the skill. In the path, this unit is named "Describe your family".

Grammar Notes

Questions

You probably know that, in English, to make a sentence like: "You have a brother." In a question, you put the verb "to do" before the sentence and then end it in a question mark, so it looks like this: "Do you have a brother?" Well, in Spanish, it is much easier. "Tienes un hermano." can be transformed into a question just by adding two question marks; one at the start and one at the end, so it looks like this: "¿Tienes un hermano?"

The Importance of the Tilde

In English, words are written with just the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, no more, no less. But in Spanish, you can add diacritics called tildes over the vowels, that can change the meaning of a word. For example, tu means "your", but tú means "you". Papa means "potato", but papá means "dad". Lastly, se which means "himself / herself", but sé means "I know".

Words

Lesson 1

• el padre = the father
• la madre = the mother
• el carro = the car
• la casa = the house
• inteligente = intelligent
• tiene = (he/she) has
• elegante = elegant

Lesson 2

• el gato = the cat
• el perro = the dog
• muy = very
• grande = big
• la hermana = the sister
• el hermano = the brother
• bonito = pretty/beautiful

Lesson 3

• la familia = the family
• la esposa = the wife
• el esposo = the husband
• la abuela = the grandmother
• el abuelo = the grandfather
• perfecto = perfect
• apartamento = apartment

Lesson 4

• la bicicleta = the bicycle
• vivo = live
• Francia = France
• interesante = interesting
• el hijo = the son
• la hija = the daughter
• y = and

Sentences (W.I.P)

Lesson 1

• Mi padre. = My father.
• Tu madre. = Your mother.
• Mi casa. = My house.
• Él es elegante. = He is elegant.
• Mi madre es elegante. = My mother is elegant.
• Él tiene un carro. = He has a car.
• Ella tiene una casa. = She has a house.
• Ella tiene un carro. = She has a car.
• Mi padre es inteligente. = My father is intelligent.
• Ella es inteligente. = She is intelligent.

References

Duolingo Lesson: www.duolingo.com/skill/es/Family