Lesson 08: Colores! The basic colors

04/20/10 • -1 min

Hola, y bienvenidos a Hey Que tal? Lecciones de español gratuitas. Mi nombre es Pablo Apiolazza y el episodio de hoy va a ser colorido ya que vamos a aprender los colores!
Hi and welcome to Hey Que tal? Free spanish lessons. My name is Pablo Apiolazza and today's episode will be colorful since we're going to learn the colors!
On the last episode we were getting our bearings straight. So since we're going to watch a lot of trafic lights we can learn it's colors:
Red is ROJO
Yellow is AMARILLO
Green is VERDE
The sky is blue.
El cielo es AZUL
The wood is brown
La madera es MARRÓN
The old movies are black and white.
Las películas viejas son BLANCO y NEGRO.
The oranges are orange.
Las naranjas son NARANJA.
I can't think of anything that's violet, except violets
No puedo pensar en nada que sea VIOLETA, excepto las violetas.
Ok, this is a rather short episode, but with very important things to learn, so I'd like to keep it short because of that. Regarding Argentina, since we have the four weathers and the country is so big, we can find in our nature all the possible and most amazing colors. As a matter of fact, we hace some hills called "the seven color hill", or Cerro de Siete Colores, since they have all sorts of shades on its slopes. In Buenos Aires, the most colorful neighbourhoody is La Boca, and mostly Caminito, a strip full of colorful buildings.
Ok, this is it for today, don't forget to rate, share and comment this and other lessons on the blog heyquetal.blogspot.com, or on the facebook site, or even on tweeter.
If you want to know the name of any other color, leave a comment and I'll try to give the answer.
Well, have a nice week, stay tuned and goodbye!

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Lesson 07: Orientándose, getting our bearings straight

Hola y bienvenidos a un nuevo capitulo de Hey Que tal? Lecciones de español gratuitas, mi nombre es Pablo Apiolazza y como veniamos hablando de viajar hoy vamos a hablar de orientación.
Hi and welcome to a new chapter of Hey Que tal? Free spanish lessons. My name is Pablo Apiolazza and since we ́ve been talking about travelling today we ́re going to talk about bearings.
When we get to a new place one of the first things we do is grab a map. Spanish for map is very easy: Mapa.
The map has cardinal points, puntos cardinales.
North is Norte
South is Sur
East is Este
and West is Oeste
When we navigate on a map, the places are either north, south, east or west of other places. For instance, in Buenos Aires, the airport is out of town, south west from the city. The way to say this is the following
En Buenos Aires, el aeropuerto está en las afueras, al sudeste de la ciudad.
In other words, the city is placed at north of the airport.
La ciudad esta al norte del aeropuerto.
If we are on the city, you wouldn ́t be lying if you say "I ́m in the middle of the city" Estoy en el medio de la ciudad.
Today with GPS and the internet maps getting some bearings is much easier, but nevertheless sometimes we need to ask people for directions. And when we do, they don ́t express themselves in terms of north or south, but in terms of position.
The four basic are
Ahead or front, which is adelante
Back or behind, which is atrás
Left, that is Izquierda
and Right, Derecha
So let ́s say we are at the obelisco in Buenos Aires, and we want to know how to go to the lakes in Palermo district. If we face north our nice helper would tell us to go straight ahead for 16 blocks, then turn left where the street ends, then straight and we ́ll see the lakes on our right.
Sounds hard, right? Let ́s see how to say this in spanish.
First the question.
Excuse me, how do I get to the lakes in Palermo?
Disculpá, cómo llego a los lagos de Palermo?
The answer would be
You have to go straight ahead for 16 blocks
Tenés que ir derecho unas 16 cuadras
then turn left where the street ends
después doblar a la izquierda donde termina la calle
then straight and you ́ll see the lakes on your right.
después derecho y vas a ver a los lagos a tu derecha.
There are two more ways we can go besides those, and they are up, and down.
Up is Arriba
Down is Abajo
To go up is subir
and to go down is bajar
Since Buenos Aires is a rather flat city, we cannot subir or bajar that much, but if you go to a place with mountains, like Mendoza, then it makes more sense.
However, one way to give a direction is to say go up street. We use that too, saying "subí por esa calle" (go up street) or "baja por esa calle" (walk down that street).
Well, this is pretty much it for today, on the upcoming episodes we ́ll learn more about specific places of Argentina, to start to learn some other things too. Don ́t forget to comment, rate and share the podcasts on the website heyquetal.blogspot.com, on our facebook fansite hey que tal, or thru our tweeter
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Stay tuned, and goodbye!

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Lesson 09: En mi cuarto. Parts of a house

Hola, y bienvenidos a una nueva lección de Hey Que tal? Lecciones de español gratuitas. Mi nombre es Pablo Apiolazza y hoy estamos un poco vagos asi que nos vamos a quedar en casa.
Hi, and welcome to a new lesson of Hey Que tal? Free spanish lessons. My name is Pablo Apiolazza and today we ́re a little bit lazy so we ́re going to stay home.
On this episode we ́re going to learn the parts of a house or an appartment. The term home is translated as hogar, but when we go home, in Argentina we always say vamos a casa, either we live on a house or a building.
The first thing we do when we get home is to open the door. Door is puerta.
We open the door is
Abrimos la puerta.
If we live on a building (edificio) then we have to take the stairs or the elevator.
To go up the stairs is subir las escaleras.
To go up with the elevator is subir con el ascensor.
Once we get to our floor, in spanish piso, we walk thru a corridor, pasillo, to get to our appartment, departamento.
Once inside, we might go to the kitchen, cocina. to make ourselves a coffe, café. Then maybe we go to the living room, which in spanish is also living, and we watch some tv. But first, a quick shower in the bathroom (baño).
When dinner ́s ready, we eat at the dining room, comedor. And when it ́s time for bed, we go to our bedroom, cuarto. Maybe if we have a balcony (balcón) we can watch the stars for a while.
Let ́s say everything together in spanish, assuming that we live on an appartment.
Cuando llego a casa abro la puerta.Adentro, tomo el ascensor hasta el quinto piso. Cuando bajo del ascensor, camino por el pasillo hasta mi departamento. Allí voy a la cocina y me hago un café. Después voy al living, y miro un rato la televisión, pero antes me doy una ducha en el baño.
Cuando la cena esta lista, como en el comedor. Y cuando es hora de dormir, voy a mi cuarto, y desde el balcón miro las estrellas, antes de irme a dormir.
When I get home I open the door, Once inside, I take the elevator to the 5th floor. When I get off the elevator, I walk thru the corridor until my appartment. There I go to the kitchen and I make myself a coffee. After that I go to the living, and I watch some tv, but before I take a shower at the bathroom. When the dinner ́s ready, I eat at the dining room. And when it ́s time to sleep, I go to my room, and from the balcony I watch the stars before I go to sleep.
All the rooms in the house are called cuartos, besides the bedroom. Cuarto is the same as room. To say bedroom, we can also say dormitorio, as in dorm, but we don ́t really use that word, but plain room, or my room.
Well, this is pretty much all for today. Don ́t forget to watch, rate and comment on the website, heyquetal.blogspot.com, our twitter account, heyquetal, our facebook group Hey Que tal? or at the email: [email protected]
My name is Pablo Apiolazza and this is Hey Que tal? Free spanish lessons.
Have a nice week, stay tuned and goodbye!