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Bienvenidos al idioma espaol

A little bit of trivia about the language and the country from which it originated.

La peninsula Iberica

Mapa de Europa

La bandera espaola

 Capital: Madrid Populacin: 46,661,950 Moneda: Euro Deporte favorito: Football (Balompie) Danza folklorica: Flamenco

Espaa

Aficionados del balompie

Carrera de toros

Bailarines espaoles

Baile Flamenco

Spain is a democracy organized in the form of a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy.

El Rey de Espaa

King Juan Carlos I

Presidente de Espaa

Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero

Spain is the second largest country

in Western Europe and the European Union after France.

It is a developed country with

the ninth largest economy by nominal GDP.

Origin of the Language

Latin, which comprises about 95% of Spanish, was introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by Romans around 210 BC.

Spanish or Castilian (espaol or castellano) is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula.

During the century the peninsula was invaded by several different ethnic groups such as the Germanic vandals, the Alens and the Visigoths among others, resulting in many dialects of the Vulgar Latin.

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After the Moorish Conquest in the 8th century, Arabic became a powerful influence in the evolution of Iberian languages, of which Castilian is thought to have evolved on the northern fringes of the Iberian Peninsula in the Christian Kingdom of Castile during the 10th century.

Modern Spanish developed with the readjustment of the consonants which began in 15th-century in Castile. The language continues to be a dynamic and evolving one adopting foreign words from a variety of other languages, as well as developing new words.

Spain became a global empire that has left a legacy of over 400 million Spanish speakers today.

Spanish is the second most widely

spoken language in the world after Chinese Mandarin.

Spanish is the official language of 21 countries

Spanish is one the five official languages of the United Nations.

THE ALPHABET
Spanish: 29 letters English: 26 letters

El alfabeto espaol

A B C CH D E F G H I J K L Ll M N O P Q R STUVWXYZ

C: followed by

a, o, u sounds like K. Caf (coffe)

Comida (food) colcha (blanket) Cuerpo (body)

caf

comida

colcha

cuerpo

C: followed by
Cena

e, i sounds like S .

Cinta

cena

cinta

CH: sounds the same as the ch

in cheese. chaleco mochila

coche

chaleco

mochila

coche

G: followed by a, o, u takes the g

sound of goat. Gato

Gorra Gusano

gato

gorra

gusano

H : is always silent!!!
Hoja
Helado Hombre

hoja

helado

hombre

J : sounds like the H in English.

As in home, horse, etc.
Jabn habn Jirafa hirafa

Jazmin hazmin

jabn

jirafa

jugo

Ll: sounds like a Ya.

llama

lluvia

llave

llama

lluvia

llave

: sounds like a blend of NY

nio mueca

puo

nio

mueca

puo

R: It has two sounds. A

hard rolled sound when it appears at the beginning of a word and when it is a double consonant rr. A softer sound when it is a single r or appears in any syllable other than the first.

Hard: rosa, arroz

Soft: orar, bailarina

rosa

arroz

orar

bailarina

Y: It has two sounds like in English.

Y as in Yoyo and I as in ink Y: yema, yegua
I: rey

yema

yegua

(mare)

rey

VOWELS
a: apple e: egg

i: ink
o: over u: book

El final de la leccin