What are some common spanish phrases used in like starting a conversation? like saying "what's up" in english or something like that? I speak spanish pretty well, but i have never actually been to a spanish speaking country for very long, so i dont know much "slang". I am now teaching this spanish child english in my community and i just want to know any terms or phrases that are informal and might make him feel more confortable or at home, ya know? thanks sooo much!
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What's up = ¿qué tal?/ ¿cómo andas?/ ¿qué onda?\n\ngreat! = !buenísimo!\n\nthat's awful = que mala onda
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Is your SAP option on?  It changes the language you hear to Spanish.\n\nWow, people get mean.  The same thing happened to us (we have a two year old boy).  We were watching the Simpsons (only show that was doing it) and thought it was a joke, until it did it the next time.  Aren't they cute?
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Fixing some typos and adding accents:\n\n¿Ya te vas?\n¿Hasta que hora te vas a quedar?\n¿Quieres algo para tomar?\n¿Estás cansado?  (cansada if you're talking to a female)\n¿Sabes como hacer esto?\n¿Me puedes mostrar en donde está la (equis)?\n¿Necesitas ayuda?
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"Anoche te vi bailando en my cuarto/habitacón" "Cuarto" and "habitacóon" means room.\n\n"Mary no se puede comprar zapatos nuevos"\n\n"¿Cómo se dice?" = How do you say?\n\nIsn't goes "como te dices", may be you mean "¿Cómo te llamas?" =  What is your name? or How do you say?= "¿Cómo tu dices?"\n\nTranslations made only becayse you asked, hope I will help you.\n\nCan somebody explain me, Why I was 2 times thumbs down when my 1st language is Spanish? Perhaps I'm still leaving in the very same island were I'd born and down here we speak Spanish, that's our main language, even when we are part of the U.S.A.
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El profe de español me dio una tarea.  \n(My professor in Spanish gave me an assignment.) \n\nMe puse a estudiar los pretéritos de español para esa tarea.\n(I started studying the past tenses of Spanish for that assignment.)\n\nYo sabía nada así que vine a Yahoo Answers en busca de respuestas. \n(I didn't know a thing so I went to Yahoo Answers to look for answers).
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Is it supposed to sound like "Mee-liodex" or "Mell-liodex"? I automatically pronounced it the second way, and it made me think of "Rolodex".   \n\nCan't think of any word it sounds like in Spanish (my second language).  But there are some Latin men named "Elio" so ppl may associate it with that if they know someone with that name.  \n\nBut this would be a good name for a product that needs to be pronounced in both languages, beacuse it is easy to say in Spanish as well as English.
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In Latin America we have different ways to do it, but in Mexico we usually say "Bueno" (good) or "¿Diga?" (Talk?)... it also depends on your situation, if you are working then you'll answer "Gracias por llamar a xxxx" (Thanks for calling to xxxx)... it also changes from country to country, in some places they say "Aló" or "Hola"
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As a spanish speaker, I think you should learn the standard formal Spanish 1st and then learn how to speak the slang.  There's a lot of Spanish slang on www.wordreference.com and www.urbandictionary.com
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OK, I'm a native spanish speaker and here's my experience:\n\nWe admire the effort that non-spanish people do to communicate with us. Latin-americans are usually afraid to speak in English for the same reason... they don't have a nice accent. And most of the time they prefer to remain silent or ask someone else to speak for them. It's our culture. So when we hear a non-spanish speaker trying to communicate with us in spanish, even if their spanish isn't very good... we don't laugh!\n\nOK, that works for most of the people... but there would only be mean people... that's for sure!!!
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The Spanish expression "Que te pasa?" is roughly equivalent to English "What's wrong?" when you see someone sad or upset. It's a kind way of giving support.
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LOL! I always find it funny when someone who doesn't speak spanish tries to find out what we say or even better, tries to speak it. I don't mean it in a rude way, but more like in a cool/funny way. It made me laugh when I read "Que way" and "calmate way" hahaha.\n\nAnyway, "güey" (which is the correct way to write it) means "dude". It is used especially by young people but anyone can say it, depending on the person. It normally refers to a male, but it can also refer to a female in some cases. Until a few years ago, it was only a slang word, but due to the word being widely used, it was added to the dictionary.\n\nOh I forgot to say. It can also be used to call someone dumb. You can say "Que güey!" ("How dumb!") to someone who did something stupid. On the other example you wrote, "Calmate way", it just means "Calm down dude!".\n\nNo matter what meaning you're giving to the word, it is not insulting. When you're using it to call someone dumb, it is *a little* insulting, but nothing to worry about, I just mean you can't tell it to your boss for example haha, but between friends you can be sure nobody would get mad if you told them that.
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Todos los que piensen que el Espanol es feo, coman M*erda!\n        Your Ignorance truly amazes me, the only reason that comes to my head of what it is that makes Spanish sound bad is when stupid Gringos pronounce Spanish words wrong... Or maybe when people mix it up with English to say "Parkiadero" instead of "Estacionamiento" for Parking space or "Mapiar" instead of "Trapear" for mopping. Just like the Anglo culture corrupts the Hispanic cultures, so does the English language corrupt the Spanish tongue. Try it, you just might like it...
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Totally agree with smm.. There could have been many other things for you to have recited like: poems, great quotes, speeches, how about something that has to do with Spanish history... Why the pledge?  I pledge that I will not say the pledge in Spanish or any other language, but English........ Tell you teacher refer to Yahoo Answers if they don't like yours.
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I have noticed this frequently among my spanish speaking friends. I never felt it was impolite but I speak or understand enough spanish that I could follow the conversation. An intelligent person would ask you about anything they didn't understand rather than look at you funny. You, on  the other hand,are being very polite worrying about it.
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He sido su amante, el esposo, el compañero y todo ésos han fallado. Yo me quedo todavía su amigo. Yo siempre le adoraré\n\nGood luck!
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Ignore it. Some folks think it's not your right to speak your native language because it means they can't understand what you say - even when it's none of their business!\n\nAnother solution would be to abruptly switch into English and say something (indirectly) that will startle them into more appropriate behavior. I've been in the reverse of this situation - people speaking badly about me in Spanish when they don't know I speak it (not fluently, but well enough to make myself understood), but if I say something in Spanish during a pause in the conversation, they'll usually apologize or stop treating me like I'm dumb. \n\nMy suggestion would be to switch into English and say something like "look at that woman's dress, I love that color." That shows that 1) you're not speaking badly about them, 2) you ARE aware that there are other people around you, and 3) you're not stupid (this is an unfortunate but true assumption of many Americans who don't speak Spanish and hear someone else speaking it). It almost always works for me when going in reverse (switching from English to Spanish)!
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(I'm assuming that by asking how you spell "my name" is Spanish, you want to be able to say "My name is Tiana.")\n\nMy name is... : Mi nombre es...\n\nWhat is your name? (formal): ¿Cuál es su nombre?\n\nWhat is your name? (informal): ¿Cuál es tu nombre?