Spanglish Language Exchange

Spanglish Language Exchange: Hola Amigos! This is a Conversation Club, An after-hour practica and this time the aula would be a local pub (To Be Confirmed ) To receive the latest venue you need to directly contact ABC Spanish Lessons or by sending an email to us: info.abcespanol@gmail.com   It's a very laid-back environment where all levels are very welcome and our main aim is to improve our conversational skills in both languages but also to share bites of our cultures.



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Next Tuesday 8th July 7pm

¡Los esperamos!

Karla Juced

Spanish Teacher and Founder

ABC Spanish Lessons

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Karla Online Spanish tutor Skype abc espanol

¡Hola!

This is a video of me, Some of you already know that I am offering Spanish Lessons in London,
but you might not know yet, that I also work as an Online Spanish tutor with Skype.

Please help me to spread the word with your contacts and friends who might be interested or looking for
Spanish classes either in London (more exactly in Hammersmith and it's surroundings) or Online Spanish tuitios.

Gracias!!
Karla Juced
www.abcspanishlessons.co.uk
info.abcespanol@gmail.com
Skype: abc.espanol

10 Units to Complete Level A1 in Spanish (I.3)

Hola amigos de ABC Spanish Lessons!!!

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We are still on unit 1, of our Begginers Spanish Course. Remember we are following the book: Aula del Sur. (Publising house: Difusión. Level: A1) And today we'll be learning more ways to ask for our personal details.

Imagine you are at a reception of a language school, and on the first day you need to register yourself. The receptionist will kindly ask for your contact details in Spanish of course...!

You will need to know questions like this:

(I'm adding the meaning but it is not always the literal translation)

¿Cómo te llamas? / What's your name?

¿Cuántos años tienes? / How old are you?

¿A qué te dedicas? / What's your job?

¿De dónde eres? / Where are you from?

¿Tienes correo electrónico? / What's your e-mail?

¿Cuál es tu número de teléfono? / What's your phone number?

¿Tienes celular? / What's your mobile?

Would you like to listen a real conversation on this context? Visit ABC Spanish Lessons in London and go to videos and materials there you'll find Audio Aula del Sur A1.1 you will need to download  pista (track) 2, 3 and 4.

On the actual book we have an activity especially for this lesson, Please let me know if you are interested in receiving the full lesson on a private or group class.

At the end of this lesson, students are able complete a card with their own information:

Me llamo____________________ y soy (de)_____________________________. Vivo en ________________________. Tengo ______________________años. Y soy/trabajo en_________________. Mi número de teléfono es el____________________y mi (dirección de) correo electrónico es____________________________________________.

I will be very happy to help you!!! to learn how to complete your own personal detail information card in Spanish. I look forward to teaching you. And please send me an email with your questions and comments about this blog!

Hasta pronto!

Karla Juced

Spanish Teacher

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10 Units to Complete Level A1 in Spanish (I.2)

Hola!!!!

I'm back, just a quick update, after a day being sick, you know the ups and downs of being a self employed, if you get sick no body else do the work...

Anyways, here we are. Day two of our first week in which we are suppose to cover the first unit.

We were talking about famous people from the Spanish speaking world.

And let me ask you, as I ask to my students. ¿Conoces personajes famosos del mundo hispano?

The answers are always very similar: Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Shakira, Chicharito, Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, etc.

And then I ask them: ¿A qué se dedica "..."? to start learning professions and as a complement the next question ¿De dónde es "..." ? So we start learning nationalities.

We practice with other famous characters, their nationalities and professions, have fun, gossip a bit about them and in between some grammar.

Today we spend some time during the lesson practicing a bit with some pronuntiation exercises, I believe that it is very important to get the right pronuntiation at the very beginning so you can have a solid development of your learning with this you will make things much more easier for you afterwards.

I hope you have enjoyed this, that I wanted to share with you, and I'll see you tomorrow!

Ah! and for todays lesson, my student had to do as a homework an exercise to practice nationalities that we will use tomorrow to revisit different rules about the gender of nouns!

And please remember that If you are interested in having Spanish lessons with me just send me an email and we can have a first trial lesson, and you too can try and see if this is for you!

Looking forward to hearing from you

Karla Juced

Spanish Teacher

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10 units to complete level A1 in Spanish (I.1)

Hi there!

I am going to write about this small project of mine, I want to talk about my experience teaching Spanish to one of my students from ABC Spanish Lessons in London 

Let me tell you a bit about his profile, he is english speaker, with some knowledge of french and some exposure to Spanish as he already had some lessons with me last year. He has visited Mexico before and now he moved to Mexico city because he is in love of a very special person.

We are going to have lessons five times a week, from monday to friday. We are following the book Aula Latina as this book has an approach to the vocabulary used in Mexico. The level: A1

I usually send to all of my students a link with a video where they can start learning the alphabet in Spanish.

Today Monday we started with unit 1. We have set up our main goals and by the end of the week my student is suppose to know the following themes:

1. Saludos y despedidas

2. dar y pedir datos personales

3. recursos para preguntar sobre palabras

4.  las 3 conjugaciones -ar, -er, -ir

5. Los verbos: SER, TENER, LLAMARSE

6. Los números del 1 al 100 

7. El abecedario / el alfabeto

8. Las nacionalidades

9. Las profesiones

On our first day we pass through greetings and how to farewell. The numbers from 1 to 20 and then I usually go straight to the key questions that they need for class that are also very useful when they are in any Spanish speaking country.

For example:

Disculpe, ¿dónde está el banco? / Excuse me, where is the bank?

¿cómo se dice " ...." en español? / How do you say "..." in Spanish?

¿cómo se escribe "..." ? / How do you write "..." ? /

Or we pass through other useful phrases like:

No entiendo! / I don't understand

We learn many others but this are just examples of  resources useful suring the lesson and outside of the class when they first arrive to a new city and need to move around with their basic skills.

Please let me share something that I found this are Useful_Spanish_Phrases_for_beginners

After our lesson of one hour, my student has home assignments, this is to complete exercises with numbers, vocabulary with the alphabet and others.

I hope you like this, and that you can continue with me through the process of this new proyect. And of course if you want to have lessons you are always more than welcome to come!

Nos vemos pronto!

Karla Juced

Spanish Teacher

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Día del Amor y la Amistad en México (Clases de Español ELE en Londres)

En México celebramos como en muchas partes del mundo el día de San Valentin, aunque a éste se le conoce también como "El día del amor y la amistad"

Esto quiere decir que, no solo es un día especial para los enamorados sino también para los amigos y porque no, cualquier otro de tus seres amados.

Después de todo, tenemos amor hacia ellos también, ¿no?

Una de las cosas típicas, es hacer regalos especiales y dulces, muy dulces. Eso también incluye chocolates y caramelos.

Es típico que las parejas invitan el uno al otro a cenar para tener una velada romántica.

En la escuela a la que yo iba por ejemplo, cuando estaba en la secundaria, los chicos del último año, vendíamos telegramas para los enamorados y amigos, y los entregábamos personalmente en otras escuelas. Un detalle muy especial y personalizado, que a la vez nos daba la oportunidad de recaudar fondos para nuestro viaje de graduación.

En algunos países, tanto de habla hispana y anglo hablantes, se han formado nuevos grupos de solos y solas, esto es porque muchas veces a estas personas les agarra el día solteritos o simplemente porque así lo han decidido

¿Tú que opinas? ¿Crees que está bueno festejar así el día del amor y la amistad? con regalos comprados y cenas fuera de casa... ¿Como celebran este día en tu país?

En ABC Spanish Lessons in London and On-Line tenemos una actividad complementaria para estudiantes de ELE B2  en nuestro blog. Vamos a presentarte un poema de la poeta mexicana Pita Amor. Sigue el link y participa con tus comentarios.

¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS! En español ...

Sabías que "cumpleaños" es una Palabra compuesta? 

Seguramente ya conoces muchas y no te has dado cuenta todavía. Se llaman palabras compuestas, cuando dos o más palabras, o raíces léxicas, se juntan se producen nuevas piezas denominadas "compuestos", que pueden ser univerbales o pluriverbales

Ejemplos

univerbales: pelirrojo, sabelotodo, hierbabuena, baloncesto, cumpleaños, telaraña, etc.
pluriverbales: piel roja, medio ambiente, hombre rana, etc.

Existen diversas composiciones, según la categoría gramatical de los lexemas, y acá abajo en la siguiente tabla lo podrás apreciar mejor.

CATEGORIAS GRAMATICALES DE LOS LEXEMAS

EJEMPLOS

·         Nombre  +   Nombre ·         Nombre + Adjetivo (o viceversa) ·         Nombre + Verbo ( o viceversa ) ·         Adjetivo + Adjetivo ·         Adjetivo + Adverbio (o viceversa) ·         Verbo +  Verbo ·         Verbo +  Adverbio (o viceversa ) ·         Verbo +  Pronombre (o viceversa) ·         Adverbio + Adverbio ·         Frases enteras

·         Telaraña, Bocacalle, Hojalata. ·         Pelirrojo, Boquiabierto, Mediodía. ·         Rompecabezas, Maniatar, Abrelatas. ·         Agridulce, Agripicante,  Altibajo. ·         Bien-pensante, Asimismo. ·         Vaivén, Tejemaneje, Hazmerreír. ·         Cantamañanas, Menospreciar. ·         Cualquiera, Quehacer, Quienquiera. ·         Anteayer. ·         Correveidile, Porsiacaso, Sabelotodo, Nomeolvides

Ahora podrías reconocer el nombre de las siguientes imágenes?

Y algunos otros ejemplos:

Ahora, ¿puedes pensar tú, en otros ejemplos?

Déjanos tus comentarios, queremos escucharlos!

Karla Juced

Profesora de Español como LE.

info.abcespañol@gmail.com

www.abcspanish.co.uk

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