Learn, memorize, and practice 40 essential Spanish expressions. Add to your practical and up-to-date Spanish vocabulary. You will listen and repeat these sentences so you improve your Spanish comprehension, increase your Spanish vocabulary, and reinforce your Spanish pronunciation. At the same time, you will learn nuanced ways to ask and give answers in Spanish. You will learn common questions and answers that are used daily. Amongst the many expressions you will learn are: por si acaso, just in case, ya sabía, I knew it, whenever you like, cuando gustes, of course, por supuesto, and many other useful expressions, like "it is made of fantasy". Do you know what this "es de fantasía" means in Spanish? You will learn this and many other idiomatic expressions after watching this class.
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Hola, ¿cómo estás?
Welcome to your Spanish class. I am Ana here at Butterfly Spanish and in your class today, in your Spanish class,
you are going to learn many Spanish expressions that are very
important, that are useful, that are common, and that they are going to improve your Spanish
super fast. So let's go and learn these expressions.
¿A qué hora abren?
This expression is going to be useful when you are calling or
asking somebody at a store or at any place and you want to ask at what time do you open?
¿A qué hora abren?
Abren, we usually use the plural. We don't address the person as abre, but you say ¿A qué hora abren?
Like you people, you guys. ¿A qué hora abren? At what time do you open?
La siguiente es ¿A qué hora cierran?
Instead of open, you want to say close, you will say ¿A qué hora cierran? At what time do you close?
At what time do you close? ¿A qué hora cierran?
Cierran, muy bien. La siguiente es
¿Hasta qué hora está abierto?
¿Hasta qué hora?
What time are you open until? ¿Hasta qué hora está abierto?
What time are you open until? ¿Hasta qué? Until what? ¿Hasta qué hora está abierto?
This is very common, super useful, and native Spanish speakers tend to ask this way.
¿Hasta qué hora está abierto?
Sí, bueno. Oiga, ¿Hasta qué hora está abierto?
It's not my case, but some people have retired.
Congratulations, that's great. ¡Felicidades! And the way you can say that is
Estoy jubilado. If you're a man, estoy jubilada. If you're a woman, jubilado o jubilada.
Jú, jú, as if you had a H-U-U, jú, jubilado.
jú-bi-la-da
Estoy jubilada. Estoy jubilada. I am retired.
You may also want to use
Ya me jubilé.
Instead of this, ya me jubilé.
Literally would be I've already retired, but it's like I'm retired. Same thing. I'm retired.
It's just two different ways to say it. Ya me jubilé. I've already retired. Ya me jubilé.
¡Felicidades! ¡Muchas felicidades!
But maybe you haven't, so then you have to say
No me he jubilado. I am not retired yet.
No me he jubilado.
O the same thing but a different sentence, same thing.
Todavía no me jubilo. Not yet. I'm not retired yet.
Todavía no me jubilo. Todavía no me jubilo.
Or no me he jubilado.
¡Pon atención! ¡Pon atención!
¡Eh! ¡Eh!
Porque la H no suena, mute no, es muda. Todavía no me jubilo.
¡Eh! y ¡Jú! ¿Sí? ¡Muy importante!
Entonces tenemos no me he jubilado y todavía no me jubilo.
Me voy a mudar. I am going to move. Mudar is the verb to move.
When you're changing your address, when you're maybe leaving your parents' house,
when you are moving to a different city, when you are just switching apartments because the rents
are very high and you have to move further or maybe you want the high rent so you're moving
in the city, whatever it is. Me voy a mudar. I am going to move. Mudar.
Me mudé. I moved. No? Like I moved. I moved out from my parents. I moved cities.
I moved apartments. Me mudé. ¿Cuándo te mudas?
¡Oye! ¡Josefina! ¿Cuándo te mudas? ¿Cuándo te mudas? ¡Ah! El próximo mes.
No, next month. El próximo mes me mudo. I am going to move or move out. ¿Sí?
Many people have to move out but in Mexico we don't really move out.
Like you can live with your parents forever, no? But maybe in your culture it's more like,
oh okay, well, see you, no? And you're going but maybe not, maybe it's like in Mexico it's like,
just keep living. Maybe if not in the same house on the same street, like some people I know.
Okay, that's it. Me voy a mudar. Whatever, I knew already. Ya sabía. Ya sabía.
This information you're giving me is not new. Please stay up to date because that I knew already.
Ya sabía. Ya sabía. I didn't know. Oh, really? No sabía. No sabía. No sabía.
Ya sabía. You knew already. Oh, you know, like whatever information I'm giving you
it's not important because ya sabía. A question, question face, remember?
Ya sabía. Ya sabía. I knew already. Ya sabía. You could say, no sabías. You didn't know.
No sabías. Then you will just make a question mark here. Es horrible. It's like Halloween-esque.
No sabías. You didn't know. No sabías. No, no sabía. Ya sabía. I knew already.
When you're in a car, you should really put your seatbelt on. Abróchate el cinturón.
We really say abróchate el cinturón, but it's el cinturón de seguridad, the seatbelt from the car,
the seatbelt. Cinturón is a belt, cinturón, right? Yo me pongo muchos cinturones. I use a lot of
belts. I like them. Cinturón one or cinturones, but cinturón de seguridad is the seatbelt from
the car. So put your seatbelt on. Abróchate el cinturón o ponte el cinturón, like put,
put, ponte, put yourself, ponte el cinturón, meaning el cinturón de seguridad. Hey,
ponte el cinturón. Si no, no arranco. I won't start. You don't put your seatbelt on.
There are two ways to say it. Hay dos maneras. Abróchate, abróchate is like when you button
your shirt, you know, the buttons, abróchate. It's like when you do that thing, right?
How modern the car is, I don't know. You put a rope and like, I don't know.
Abróchate el cinturón, button your belt, ponte, put yourself. Two ways to say the same thing.
Ponte el cinturón o abróchate el cinturón. I was asked this by a student recently, Ana,
I'm going to go out with friends and my Spanish club, but I want to make sure they all know that
we're going to go to this restaurant, but each person has to pay their own bill,
his, her own bill. How can I say this and I don't sound rude? I said, well, there's a way to say it
that is not rude, that is polite and it says cada quien paga lo suyo, like each who pays
like yourself, each who pays yourself, like it like literally is like that, but it's like each
person pays their own bill. Escuchen muchachos, muchachas, jóvenes, escuchen. Cada quien paga lo
suyo, ¿entendido? I don't want to end up paying your bill. Can you hear me? ¿Me escuchan? ¿Sí?
Cada quien paga lo suyo. ¿Ok? ¿Entendieron? Muy bien. Ah, bueno. Aprovecho. Salud. Cada
quien paga lo suyo. Cada quien paga lo suyo, ¿eh? Oigan, me están pagando lo mío. I can't go
tomorrow. I have something important to do. Tengo un compromiso. Literally, it's like I have a
compromise, like I have something important to do. I have a compromise. Tengo un compromiso.
Mañana tengo un compromiso. No puedo, no puedo ir porque tengo un compromiso. I have something
important to do. Maybe you want to ask, is there Wi-Fi? En español you would say,
hay Wi-Fi o hay Wi-Fi. Some people say Wi-Fi and some people say just as in English,
Wi-Fi. Hay is there, hay Wi-Fi, hay Wi-Fi. Hay, no, hay is there. What is the password? ¿Cuál es
la contraseña? Password en español es contraseña. Some people say password too,
but that's an anglicism. So if you want to say it in Spanish, just learn contraseña,
secret password. ¿Cuál es la contraseña? ¿Hay Wi-Fi? Sí. ¿Cuál es la contraseña?
Un momento, por favor. Voy a traerla. I am going to bring it. Un momento, voy a traer la contraseña.
Acuérdate de Acapulco, María bonita María del alma. Sí. Acuérdate. Remember, to remember.
Acordarse, de verdad, acordarse. Yo me acuerdo, tú te acuerdas. Now, here is an important sentence
I am going to teach you. Pon atención. Te acuerdas de, do you remember, maybe, José, ¿no? ¿Te acuerdas
de mi primo José? Sí, tu primo José, claro. ¿Te acuerdas de Acapulco? ¿De aquellas noches? ¿Te
acuerdas de Acapulco? Do you remember Acapulco? Maybe. Do you remember the horses we saw,
maybe, in Acapulco? Sí. ¿Te acuerdas de los caballos que vimos en Acapulco? They were hot,
¿no? Acapulco. ¿Te acuerdas de…? I keep hearing my students say, ¿te recuerdas?
Incorrect. No es, ¿te recuerdas? I put a next mark, it is tache. No, pero es mal. No, ¿te recuerdas?
No, es, ¿te acuerdas? ¿Te acuerdas de Acapulco? ¿Te acuerdas de mi primo José? ¿Te acuerdas de los
caballos que vimos en Acapulco? But no, ¿te recuerdas? ¿Entendiste? No, ¿te recuerdas?
Ya sé. I know. Ya sé lo que voy a pedir. Ya sé lo que voy a pedir. Ya sé lo que voy a pedir.
I already or I know what I'm going to order. Now the person in front of you might ask you,
oh, do you know, do you know what you're going to order? Do you already know what you're going
to order? And you can say, yes, ya sé. I know. Ya sé lo que voy a pedir. Ya sé lo que voy a pedir.
Like this, like that. In Spanish, you can only say así, así. Sometimes my students add words like
así este, así, and they want to say something else. Like this or like that, like, oh, like that,
like that, así, así, okay? Así, that's it, así, simple. I know it sounds too simple, right? Spanish
usually you need like 30 words to say something. Well, in this case, you don't, así. No seas así,
like don't be like that, don't be like this. Somebody is like behaving in a, not inappropriate,
but in an unpleasant way or whatever, like not a pleasant behavior. No seas así, no seas así.
Don't be like that, no seas, don't be, no seas así. You're talking to somebody, no seas así,
qué payaso eres, you're a clown, no seas así. Así está bien, así está bien. I'm going to tell you
when you're going to use it. Así está bien, for example, when you are asking that you want
something at a store, cheese or tomatoes, right, and they are putting them, especially that you
go to a store, they are putting like, así está bien, that's enough, no? When I go and buy queso,
queso de cincho, right, they put the knife like that, and I was like, así, así está bien, and
they cut it there, right? So it's like, it's a language, maybe you need it in that, if you are
in a Spanish-speaking country, maybe you don't have the cheese perfectly cut to the 150 grams
you want, right, you have to talk to the guy, and then you might end up not getting the cheese
because you don't know how to order it, and so I want you to have the cheese, so you're going to
say, así, un poquito más, un poquito más, así, así está bien, así está bien. Así está bien,
also, whenever like, if you're going to give a tip or something, they are giving you change,
you can say, así está bien, no? Así está bien, that's good, no? Así está bien, that's good.
Maybe you are really bad at saying jokes, at telling jokes, that you have to like, make sure
you say, it's a joke, relax, it's a joke, I was joking, right? And then you would say in Spanish,
es broma, es broma, broma, it's a joke, relájate, es broma, no hablo en serio, I'm not speaking
seriously, I was joking, estaba bromeando, estaba, I was, estaba bromeando, joking,
the verb is bromear, to joke, so you are really bad at telling jokes, you may want to use this
one because people then will get upset if they don't get it, that it's a joke, so you'll say,
es broma, relájate, estaba bromeando, estaba bromeando, I was joking, when you are telling
somebody that you can do an action whenever this person wants, whenever they like, for example,
recently I took care of my friend's dog and she said, oh, thank you so much, na, na, na, I said,
whenever you want, cuando gustes, I could have said, cuando quieras, whenever you want,
quieras is more, let's say, want, querer, directly from English, cuando quieras,
it's nicer to say, cuando gustes, but I mean, you can use either, cuando gustes, whenever you like,
I mean, I would say, maybe she says like on Sunday at 5.30, I'll probably say, no, I'll say no,
I was just being nice saying, cuando gustes, I can do it again, you just let me know,
cuando gustes, whenever you like, now from the verb gustar, which is one of my favorite verbs,
uno de mis verbos favoritos, you have it right there, con gusto, with pleasure, a lot of people
say, con gusto, instead of de nada, somebody opened the door and say, oh, gracias, de nada,
they say, con gusto, instead of de nada, con gusto, cuando gustes, whenever you like,
con gusto, with pleasure, I have to say, I have like 1,000 favorite Spanish expressions
and this is one of them, just in case, en español, we say, por si acaso, por si acaso,
just in case, por si acaso, for example, well, first of all, make sure you're pronouncing
the words the right way, listen, por si acaso, acaso, a, ca, acaso, no, aco, aco, acoso,
it's harassment, so you're not gonna say, por si acoso, it's like instead of harass somebody,
don't say that, por si, aca, con a, como ala, wing, ala, por si acaso, just in case,
no, I'm gonna bring my umbrella, no, just in case it rains, por si acaso, por si acaso,
we never know, you're bringing something, just in case something happens, por si acaso,
look at this beautiful sentence, I love it, es de fantasía, literally would be,
it is made of fantasy, it's made of fantasy, is it made of gold or silver, esta, es, es de oro
o de plata, gold, oro, silver, plata, es de oro o plata, no, es de fantasía, it's made of fantasy,
so when you have a piece of jewelry and it's like shiny and it looks like gold,
oh, your rings are so nice, are they made of gold, is it gold, es de oro, and you're like,
no, no, no, mi collar, my necklace, es de fantasía, o mis aretes, my earrings, son de
fantasía, they are made of fantasy, like the fantasy of being gold or silver, I like it, I like it a
lot, todo el mundo tiene perros, everybody has a dog, except me and others, but generally a person
has a dog, so how do you say I'm going to take my dog for a walk, say voy a pasear, voy a pasear a,
and then the name of your dog, you could say voy a pasear al perro, right, but usually you
wouldn't say al perro, it's yours, right, it's kind of taking it like not so important, so you'll
give it, you put the name, voy a pasear a choco, a jupiter, I don't know, whatever the name of your
dog is, voy a pasear a, voy a pasear a, pasear is like to go for a walk, no, como caminar but
with like leisure, voy a pasear lentamente, un paseo, no, en la ciudad de México está Paseo de
la Reforma, a big really nice avenue, closed on Sundays, you can go and see the artisans, take
your walk with your dog, te llama Paseo de la Reforma, it's like a paseo, puedes pasear ahí, caminar lentamente, como felizmente, you could also say voy a sacar un rato a, it's like I'm going to take out
a little bit the dog, voy a sacar un rato a choco, a jupiter, a Neptuno, I don't know, whatever the name, voy a sacar un rato, voy a sacar un rato
al perro, maybe you walk your dog for a long time and you got a heat stroke and in Spanish you would
say me insolé, like I heat stroked myself, my own action, me insolé, I know it's such a horrible
word, right? We have to say it, that's how it is, me insolé, me, no me, me, me, como la vaca, como el borrego, me, me, insolé, insolé, I heat stroked, me dio insolación, it's like
see, there's something good out of it, estás bronceado, broncearse, to tan, no, bronceado, a tan, bronceado, now if it's a woman, you would say bronceada, bronceada, there are people who pay for that, right?
But I don't have to pay for that, I just put myself in the sun under for a minute and I just got a tan already, but some people will pay for it, interesting, estás bronceado o estás bronceada, you have a tan, you are tan, why?
Because I had heat stroke, me insolé, why? Porque llevé a mi perro a pasear.
Oh, me queda lejos, it is far from me.
Now, la siguiente, la siguiente y la última es, nos queda de paso o me queda de paso, me queda de paso, that place is on my way, on my way where I am going, on my way home, on my way to the office, on my way to wherever I am going, me queda de paso.
Quedar de paso, quedar de paso, the expression is on the way, on the way somewhere, so you may want to stop there, visit that place or do whatever, because it is on your way, no, you can visit that place, me queda o nos queda de paso.