Today we are going to practice listening and comprehension, with an intonation for tales.

We will make a few Questions about the tale:
1)	¿Cómo era la primera casa del cerdito?
2)	¿Cuantos cerditos había en el cuento?
3)	¿Quién estaba soplando las casas de los cerditos?
4)	¿Cómo era la segunda casa de los cerditos?
5)	¿El tercer cerdito era perezoso?
6)	¿El primer cerdito era trabajador y precavido?
7)	¿De quien era la casa de madera?
8)	¿Quién cayó en la olla hirviendo?




Podcast Learn Spanish

A Short tale with questions: The three little pigs

The Greetings are the first conversation between two people.
Los saludos son la primera conversación entre dos personas:
We have two ways of making salutations: Formal and Informal.
Tenemos dos formas de hacer saludos: Formal e Informal.
The formal way is used when you meet new people, talk with the oldest person, or converse politely.
Here, we have an example of Greeting:
Good morning Mr. Rodriguez. (in Spanish you say)
Buenos días, señor. Rodriguez.
You start the conversation with: Buenos días (at the morning), Buenas tardes (in the Afternoon) and Buenas noches (at the evening or night)
After that, you need to put the profession or etiquette to show respect to men and women
(Mister = señor, Mistress = Señora, and  Miss = señorita)
(don’t forget to add the surname or First name) like this example: 
Señor. Rodriguez or Profesor. Rodriguez 
The second part of the conversation is making information about the person, situation or what do you want to know?
For example:
¿Cómo te sientes hoy?: How do you feel today?
¿Qué tal? = How are you?
¿Cómo estás? =How are you?
¿Qué estás haciendo? = What are you doing?
¿Como esta el trabajo? How is work?
¿Cómo va todo? = How is everything?
You can include more dialog to keep going the conversation.
And, the third part is the farewell or despedida. 
For example:
Adiós = bye
Hasta luego = See you later
Nos vemos pronto = See you soon
Hasta la vista = See you around
Chao = bye
Te veo luego = See you later
Que te vaya bien = Good luck
The informal way is used when you know well the people for example a friend, partner, brother or coworker.
Epale! = Hey
¿Que mas? = What´s up?
¿Qué tal? = How are you?
¿Qué hay de Nuevo? = What´s new?
Hola, ¿Cómo va todo? =  Hi, How is everything?
This part of the dialog can be more flexible according to the country, age, and social group.


GREETINGS or Saludos en Español

For those who are learning Spanish, the pronunciation of some letters is difficult, such as the letter "r".
In Spanish, the letter "R" has two sounds, one soft and one hard.
The pronunciation of the letter "R" is difficult for English speakers, because you have to vibrate your tongue above the palate.


Pronunciation of letter “R” in Spanish

Good day, Students, today we are going to learn an example of conjugation tense in this short phrase in Spanish.
[First, we are going to hear this Example of the paragraph in Spanish]
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Esta es la historia de Annie, Ella es una niña con ojos azules, cabello largo y dulce sonrisa. Ella estudia en una hermosa escuela con sus amigas. 
Ella tiene muchas amigas en la escuela y los profesores son muy buenos con ella. En la escuela son buenos con ella porque ella es muy especial. 
Los muchachos siempre quieren regalarle rosas y chocolates a ella y todos la admiran 
Sus padres trabajan todo el día y la abuela cuida la casa. La madre tiene una tienda de caramelos cerca de la escuela y su padre trabaja en una famosa empresa de video juegos.
Su casa es la más bonita del vecindario y tiene un hermoso jardín con un gran árbol de manzana. 
En vacaciones, ellos visitan muchos lugares interesantes del país y a veces compran recuerdos del viaje. También ellos traen regalos a los vecinos y familia. 
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 [And now it´s time to hear the English version] 
This is the story of Annie. She is a little girl with blue eyes, long hair and a sweet smile. She studies at a beautiful school with her friends.
She has many friends at school and the teachers are very good to her. At school they are good to her because she is very special.
The boys always want to give her roses and chocolates and everyone admires her.
Her parents work all day and the grandmother takes care of the house. The mother has a candy store near the school and her father works at a famous video game company.
Their house is the prettiest in the neighborhood and has a beautiful garden with a big apple tree.
On vacation, they visit many interesting places in the country and sometimes buy souvenirs from the trip. They also bring gifts to the neighbors and family. 

LISTENING AND COMPREHENSION OF SPANISH PARAGRAPH 

Today we will learn that Spanish is among the most widely spoken languages in the world, and is spoken in Central America, South America, parts of the United States, Spain and the Philippines.