[:en]For English speakers, it is well known the struggle of a four year old learning to read at primary school: \u201c There was a big choir in the church that evening…\u201d, wait a minute there was a big \u201c kooir\u201d, \u201ct\u0283oir\u201d \u201ckwair\u201d??? Ahhhh…<\/p>\n
And imagine the dilemma of an English student when he encounters words such as Worcestershire or that, while on holidays, he can\u2019t find his way to Leicester Square… I really hope he doesn\u2019t have to ask for directions!<\/p>\n
In Spanish, you will never encounter this type of problems as it is written the same way as it is pronounced, although English speakers might find the\u201drr\u201d hard to pronounce!!<\/p>\n
You have downloaded the Hello Pal app, you have found a suitable new pal and now, you are just about to press the recording button… but, you have forgotten about the most important part!<\/p>\n
How would you introduce yourself to your new friend?<\/strong><\/p>\n There are several ways you can use to introduce yourself in Spanish, depending on the degree of formality you would like to use, and in Spain, we are very formal.<\/p>\n We use usted if we are addressing a person who we don\u2019t know or an elderly person; however, with the younger generations, friends or family, we tend to be more informal and use t\u00fa.<\/p>\n As I have mentioned in previous articles, usted and t\u00fa are the equivalent to the English \u201cyou\u201d.<\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s make a start! It is really up to you how formal you want to be with your new pal but for this example, I will be less formal.<\/p>\n These are some handy phrases you could use:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [:en]For English speakers, it is well known the struggle of a four year old learning to read at primary school: \u201c There was a big choir in the church that evening…\u201d, wait a minute there was a big \u201c kooir\u201d, \u201ct\u0283oir\u201d \u201ckwair\u201d??? Ahhhh… And imagine the dilemma of an English student when he encounters words […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,50],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-learning-spanish","tag-introduction","tag-learning-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellopal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Now, it\u2019s your turn, how would you introduce yourself to your new pal?<\/h2>\n