Episode 35: The Alphabet

To greet people we say: Hola or ¿Qué tal? (Informal), Buenos días (in the mornings), Buenas tardes (in the afternoon), Buenas noches (at night time), To say goodbye we say: ¡Hasta la vista!, hasta luego or adiós. 

To ask someone’s name we say: ¿Cómo te llamas? or ¿Cómo se llama usted? (formal), Me llamo Craig - My name is Craig, ¿Y tú? - And you? ¡Encantado! - Pleased to meet you (for a boy) or ¡Encantada! (if you’re a girl). 

The Alphabet

a = a

b = be

c = ce

d = de

e = e

f = ef

g = ge

h = ha

i = i

j = jot

k = ka

l = el

m = em

n = en

o = o

p = pe

q = ku

r = e ...

Lying awake one night, I pulled out my Japanese grammar dictionary, as you do. And I suddenly realized some of the stuff in there--i.e., in Japanese, a language the Ancient Greeks had never heard of--could have been taken right out of Plato's Cratylus. What the heck is that about ...  Show more

Andreas, Hanna, Madame Berger, les personnages se présentent. Grammaire : conjugaison du verbe sein (2). 

Andreas, Hanna, Frau Berger: the characters introduce themselves. Grammar units: conjugation of the verb sein (II)