Now, in lesson 1 we learnt some basic spanish; the alphabet, expressions, the prounouns, the verb 'To Be' and some differences between spanish and castellano.

In lesson 2 we are going to learn the verb 'to have', more basic expressions and the happy birthday theme song !. The verb 'to have' has differences both in spanish and castellano.

Here it is.

Spanish
Yo tengo
Tu tienes
El tiene
Ella tiene
Nosotros tenemos
Vosotros tenéis*
Ellos tienen

*It only applies to Spain.

Note: Even if in some latin-american countries the people talk castellano, in the schools they teach the conjugations in spanish but the people don't talk like that.

Some basic expressions:

1) How many brothers and sisters do you have?/ Cuántos hermanos y hermanas tienes? (Español) Cuántos hermanos y hermanas tenés? (castellano).

2) I would like to get a hamburger and french fries / Me gustaría tener una hamburguesa y papas fritas (Español and Castellano).

3) Where's the bus stop? / Dónde está la parada del autobús? (Español) /Dónde está la parada de colectivo? (Argentina).

Now, there are certain words that we use that is different in each country but has the same meaning. As you see spanish is a language you need to learn constantly.
I will give you an example:

Bus: Autobús (in some countries) / colectivo (Argentina)
Car: Carro (in some countries) / auto or coche (Argentina)
Discoteque: Discoteca (in some countries), boliche (Argentina)
Beans: Frijoles (in some countries), porotos (Argentina)

There are plenty more examples we can give you. These are only some of them. Would you like to learn to sing the Happy Birthday in Spanish ( El Feliz Cumpleaños) and how its done in Argentina?. Here it is. Enjoy it!

English
Happy Birthday
To you!

In this section we are going to learn something called gender. Unlike english, spanish noun has a particular gender (masculine or feminine). There are specific rules that can help you to distinguish masculine from feminine words.

Masculine words end in: o, l, n, ema and sometimes end in e.
Examples: muchacho, mantel, algodón, problema, parque.

Feminine words end in: a, ción, sión, dad and tad.
Examples: carta, canción, pasión, comunidad, mitad.

If you have a doubt about what gender a word could be, always choose masculine.

Now, having this knowledge, try to put the correct article (feminine or masculine) to each word of the vocabulary you have learnt.
Another thing very important to remember in Spanish are the plurals, for example the word 'Casa 'would be 'Casas' (adding a simple s) if its more than one house. There are some rules that will help you to know how to use plurals in Spanish. If a word ends in a vowel you only have to add an s like the example with Casa / Casas.

Here's another example:

libro becomes libros
amiga becomes amigas
mesa becomes mesas

If a word ends in a consonant then you have to add 'es'.

Examples:

doctor becomes doctores
actividad becomes actividades
papel becomes papeles

The articles el, la, los,las are known as the definite articles because they specify exactly what the noun is. The English equivalent is the. They are placed in front of the noun. For example, el perro (the dog). You can see that we places the masculine article with a masculine word. It is the same if the word is feminine.
The los and las are only the plural forms of the other articles and would be places in front of plural words. For example: las casas, los chicos. Un, una, unos and unas are known as indefinite articles because they don't specify any one particular thing. Their English equivalents are 'a' and 'some'. They work just like the articles we just study by placing them in front of the nouns but with a little difference they will agree in both number and gender.

For example we will have un perro (a dog) or the plural form unas mesas (some tables). We hope you enjoy this lesson and we encourage you to practise every day and refer this lesson as many times as you need.