📖LearnModule 1 · Lesson 5 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, first halfUnit 1 · ¡Hola! Sounds and greetings
Me llamo… — introduce yourself
Module 1 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, first half), lesson 5 of 30: Your first conversation, four lines: ¡Hola! On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
me llamo
my name is
meh YAH-moh
¿cómo te llamas?
what is your name?
KOH-moh teh YAH-mahs
¿cómo estás?
how are you?
KOH-moh ehs-TAHS
bien, gracias
well, thank you
byehn, GRAH-syahs
¿y tú?
and you?
ee TOO
mucho gusto
pleased to meet you
MOO-choh GOOS-toh
señora
ma'am
seh-NYOH-rah
señor
sir
seh-NYOHR
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La regla · The rule
Your first conversation, four lines: ¡Hola! Me llamo Leo. ¿Cómo te llamas? — Me llamo Emma. ¿Cómo estás? — Bien, gracias. ¿Y tú? — ¡Bien! Read it aloud twice, then swap roles.
Y también · And also
Spanish has a friend-form and a polite form of "you": tú with friends, family and children; usted with adults you do not know. This book drills the tú forms first and flags usted wherever it changes the sentence.
Ojo · Watch out
¿cómo te llamas? is the friend-form; to an adult you do not know it is ¿cómo se llama? And the accent on tú (you) tells it apart from tu (your).
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with me llamo.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 5 in Module 1 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.