27 Greetings In Spanish
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Rocky from SpeakSpanishFaster.com explores various formal and informal Spanish greetings that go beyond the common 'hola' and 'como estas'. He breaks down the differences between informal 'tu' and formal 'usted' greetings, offering practical examples for different situations, whether you're meeting friends, family, or authority figures. He also highlights culturally specific phrases from countries like Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. The video aims to help Spanish learners sound more natural and improve their conversational skills in diverse contexts.
Takeaways
- 😀 The video covers both common and uncommon Spanish greetings that can help you sound more native when speaking Spanish.
- 🙂 The video aims to provide alternatives to basic greetings like 'Hola' and '¿Cómo estás?' for both informal and formal situations.
- 😊 Informal greetings typically use the 'tú' form, while formal greetings use the 'usted' form, depending on the relationship or context.
- 😎 Examples of informal greetings include '¿Qué hay de nuevo?' (What's new?), '¿Cómo te va?' (How’s it going?), and '¿Qué pasa?' (What’s up?).
- 😉 Formal greetings such as 'Buenos días' (Good morning) and 'Buenas noches' (Good night) are useful for addressing authority figures or people you don’t know well.
- 😃 Regional greetings include Puerto Rican '¿Qué la que?' and Dominican '¿Qué lo que?', which mean 'What’s up?' in their respective dialects.
- 😁 Be mindful of regional variations, as certain greetings may not be understood universally across different Spanish-speaking countries.
- 😄 When meeting someone for the first time or in formal settings, use greetings like 'Mucho gusto' (Nice to meet you) or 'Es un placer conocerlo' (It’s a pleasure to meet you).
- 🤔 Pay attention to how native speakers greet each other in real life or on TV shows to expand your understanding of greetings used in various contexts.
- 👍 The video encourages viewers to practice these greetings and offers additional resources to improve Spanish-speaking skills, including free training on the website.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The video covers different informal and formal Spanish greetings that can be used to sound more native when meeting people or starting a conversation.
Why did the creator make this video?
-The video was made in response to a question from a member of the creator's 7-day Spanish program, asking for alternatives to basic greetings like 'Hola' and '¿Cómo estás?'.
What is the difference between informal and formal greetings in Spanish?
-Informal greetings use the 'tú' form of verbs, and are used with friends, family, and peers. Formal greetings use the 'usted' form and are appropriate for authority figures, strangers, or in professional settings.
Can 'que hay de nuevo' be used when meeting someone for the first time?
-No, 'que hay de nuevo' (What's new?) is typically used with someone you have a prior relationship with, not for first-time encounters.
What are some common informal Spanish greetings mentioned in the video?
-Some common informal greetings include '¿Qué pasa?' (What's up?), '¿Cómo te va?' (How's it going?), '¿Qué tal?' (How's it going?), and '¡Hola!' (Hello).
What are some popular informal greetings specific to certain Spanish-speaking countries?
-The video mentions '¿Qué la que?' (What's up?) from Puerto Rico, '¿Qué lo que?' from the Dominican Republic, and '¿Qué onda?' from Mexico.
What formal greetings can you use when meeting someone for the first time?
-Formal greetings include 'Buenos días' (Good morning), 'Buenas tardes' (Good afternoon), 'Buenas noches' (Good evening), '¿Cómo está usted?' (How are you?), and 'Mucho gusto' (Nice to meet you).
Why is the 'usted' form used in formal greetings?
-The 'usted' form conveys respect and formality, making it appropriate for authority figures, strangers, or people you are meeting in a professional context.
What is one tip provided by the video for learning more Spanish greetings?
-The video suggests paying attention to how native speakers greet each other in different situations, such as in daily interactions or on TV shows, to expand your vocabulary.
Can the informal and formal greetings be mixed in conversation?
-Mixing informal and formal greetings isn't typically recommended. However, the level of formality can depend on your relationship with the person, and in some cases, informal greetings might be acceptable in a more relaxed setting.
Outlines
🗣️ Introduction and Purpose of the Video
In this video, the speaker introduces himself as Rocky from Speak Spanish Faster and explains the goal of the session: to explore various formal and informal Spanish greetings that go beyond the basics of 'Hola' and '¿Cómo estás?'. He was inspired to create the video by a question from a member of the 7-day Spanish program who wanted more creative ways to greet people in Spanish and sound more like a native speaker.
👥 Informal vs Formal Greetings
The speaker explains the difference between informal and formal greetings in Spanish, focusing on when to use 'tú' versus 'usted'. Informal greetings are used with friends, family, and peers, while formal greetings are appropriate for strangers, authority figures, or in professional settings. He emphasizes the importance of choosing the correct verb conjugation for each situation, as well as understanding cultural norms around formality.
👋 Common Informal Greetings
This section covers basic informal greetings, such as 'Hola' (Hello) and '¿Cómo estás?' (How are you?). It explains the conjugation differences between informal ('tú' form) and formal greetings. Examples like '¿Cómo están?' (How are you all?) and '¿Qué hay de nuevo?' (What's new?) are provided, highlighting how to greet friends or people with whom you have an existing relationship. The speaker also touches on how to greet groups of people.
🙌 Popular Informal Phrases and Expressions
Here, the speaker dives deeper into some informal phrases commonly used among native Spanish speakers. He provides examples such as '¿Cómo te va?' (How’s it going?) and '¿Qué pasa?' (What’s happening?), explaining the use of the verb 'va' to refer to situations or events. He also introduces region-specific greetings like '¿Qué lo que?' from the Dominican Republic and '¿Qué onda?' from Mexico, noting their colloquial usage.
🌍 Regional Variations in Informal Greetings
The speaker highlights how certain informal greetings are specific to regions, such as '¿Qué la que?' (Puerto Rico) or '¿Qué onda?' (Mexico). He advises that while these phrases are common in some countries, they may not be easily understood in others. The section underscores the importance of learning region-specific expressions if you're speaking Spanish in different parts of the world.
🤵 Formal Greetings for Various Situations
The speaker transitions to formal greetings, such as 'Buenos días' (Good morning), 'Buenas noches' (Good evening), and '¿Cómo está usted?' (How are you?). These are suitable for formal interactions, including conversations with authority figures, bosses, or individuals you're meeting for the first time. He also touches on expressions like 'Mucho gusto' (Nice to meet you) and 'Es un placer conocerlo' (It’s a pleasure to meet you), emphasizing the need for respectful language in professional and formal contexts.
📻 Understanding the Nuances of '¿Cómo estamos?'
This section elaborates on the informal phrase '¿Cómo estamos?' (How are we doing?), which is used to create a sense of camaraderie. The speaker mentions how this phrase is often heard in radio shows or casual group settings and serves to address everyone collectively. He compares it to English expressions like 'How are we doing today?' used in a friendly tone.
💬 Unique Informal Phrases in Spanish-speaking Countries
The speaker introduces some lesser-known informal phrases like '¿Qué me dices?' (What do you tell me?), which is more common in the Dominican Republic. He acknowledges that these phrases might not be widely recognized outside certain regions but are important for learners who want to sound more native-like in those specific countries.
🎓 Conclusion and Practical Advice for Learners
The video concludes with the speaker encouraging viewers to actively listen to how native speakers greet each other in different Spanish-speaking regions. He advises learners to incorporate these greetings into their daily interactions. The speaker also promotes additional resources, such as a free Spanish training program available on his website, and invites viewers to provide feedback for future content.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Informal Greetings
💡Formal Greetings
💡Tú vs. Usted
💡¿Qué pasa?
💡¿Cómo te va?
💡¿Qué tal?
💡Regional Greetings
💡Plural Greetings
💡Mucho gusto
💡Listening for Greetings
Highlights
The video aims to provide alternative Spanish greetings beyond 'Hola' or '¿Cómo estás?' to sound more native-like.
Focus on both informal and formal greetings for different situations, such as casual conversations with friends or formal interactions with authority figures.
Informal greetings use the 'tú' form, commonly used with friends, family members, and peers.
Formal greetings utilize the 'usted' form, appropriate for authority figures, unfamiliar people, or formal situations.
'¿Qué hay de nuevo?' is an informal greeting used to ask, 'What's new?' often between friends with an established relationship.
'¿Cómo te va?' is an informal greeting meaning, 'How's it going for you?' emphasizing the use of 'va' for 'it.'
'¿Qué pasa?' is a popular informal greeting meaning 'What's happening?' commonly used in different Spanish-speaking regions.
'Bienvenidos' is a general greeting meaning 'Welcome,' suitable for both informal and formal contexts.
'¿Qué tal?' is a neutral and widely understood greeting across most Spanish-speaking countries.
'¿Qué lo que?' is a Dominican Spanish greeting equivalent to 'What's up?' commonly used in the Dominican Republic.
'¿Qué onda?' is a Mexican Spanish greeting meaning 'What's up?' often used informally.
The formal greeting 'Buenos días' means 'Good morning' and is appropriate for addressing authority figures or unfamiliar people.
'Mucho gusto' translates to 'Nice to meet you,' commonly used in formal introductions.
Encourages active listening to native speakers' greetings to expand one's vocabulary and adapt greetings to different regions and contexts.
Offers a free training resource titled 'Three Secrets to Learn Spanish Faster' to help learners improve their Spanish comprehension and fluency.
Transcripts
hey lucky i'm gente it's rocky here from
speaks spanish faster.com
and in today's video we're going to
cover a few comments
and some uncommon spanish greetings that
you can use
when you are either meeting people or uh
you want to spark up a conversation with
somebody these are some greetings that
can definitely
help you out now the reason i'm doing
this video is because i received a
question in our members area
of our seven day spanish program from
somebody that wanted to know like what
are some other greetings that they can
use when they
are trying to strike up conversation
with somebody other than
hola or comastas or something like that
so what are some other ways that they
can get creative and
sound more native-like when they speak
spanish i mean
obviously spanish speakers say hola
como estas and stuff like that but we
also greet
each other and introduce ourselves in
many other ways for example
in this video i always start off
that is a type of greeting that somebody
could use of course it's more
informal but today we're going to cover
some informal greetings as well as some
formal greetings
that you can use when you're speaking
spanish when you're trying to
communicate with other people
again whether it's you're meeting them
for the first time or
you are just meeting a friend for the
first time of a certain occasion you
guys
show up at the movies together or maybe
not the movies now because of
what's going on in the world today but
you guys
meet at each other's house or something
um what else can you say other than
hola and that's what we're going to be
covering in today's video
so i'm going to be sharing my computer
screen with you i put up a i created a
little
quick presentation for you i'm not going
to spend too long on each term
we're i will try to run through them as
quickly as possible
but yeah definitely add them to your
arsenal so
um first we have to
pretty much break down um informal
and formal okay we have tu versus usted
the reason this is important
is because informal greetings
will be using most likely the form of a
verb
and the formal greetings will be using
the usted
form of a verb so
informal when we use informal greetings
which we will go through first
we are talking to people like our
friends our family members
our peers our kids
i mean i don't really have to explain
what an informal occasion
is but just know in an informal setting
you will be using the
form of a lot of these um words all
right when when they're conjugated
and again you'll see examples of this
and
then for formal you will use
okay usted in a formal situation it's
like if you're talking to somebody you
don't know
uh maybe it's somebody that's addressed
by like a title like uh
a doctor um we have authority figures
authority figures could be like a mayor
a president um
boss of your company things like that
you would want to
greet them with the usted form and then
parents and i put a question mark
by parents because you know i think it
really depends the situation
if it's a kid to their parent they might
talk with the usted form but if you're
an adult talking with your parents
you're probably going to use more of the
form it really depends the relationship
that you have with your parents all
right so first
let's look at some of the informal
greetings
in spanish that we can use now obviously
you can start with the basic
hola obviously that means hello
we have como estas how are you doing
now notice here estas is the tu form
okay and you'll see in the formal
greeting this would be
como esta usted so
it would be the usted form so that's
what i mean when i say
the informal greetings are the tu
form and the formal greetings use the
usted form
all right we have como estan that is how
are you guys doing
um in the plural
form present plural present form
how are y'all doing so if you walk in
and you're talking to like
um your mom and your dad or two friends
then you could say hey como stan
all right we have now you can put them
two together
all right very simple
next we have que de nuevo
que ai de nuevo so this means
what's new this is a cool way that you
can
greet somebody usually you would say
this to a friend
somebody that you've seen before
because obviously it's hey what's new
with you meaning that you have some past
relationship
with them so if you're meeting somebody
for the first time even if it's an
informal um meeting you probably
wouldn't want to use this one
all right next this is one of my
favorites
now i know you're probably going to say
wait a minute va
is the third person form why am i using
it here
so in this sentence
we are really talking about the va
pertains to the
it so it's really like how is it going
to you
or how is it going for you so how's it
going como te va
all right so this is still this is
informal
como les va same thing the va
is going to the it we are doing the lace
is pertaining to
them or you guys okay how are
you doing or how's it going for y'all
como vatodo this is the same exact thing
with va
how's everything going va pertains to
everything
it pertains to todo all right so
that's why you see this it's not como
vas todo
it's como va
is very popular um
a way of saying what's up especially
uh means what's up it's what's happening
hey what's up hey que pasa that's what's
up
uh you can greet people with that
bienvenidos
bien benidos welcome
very common
what's up so this is pretty much the
same as que pasa
i would say que tal is very um neutral
in the sense that it's used pretty much
amongst
all countries i mean you can pretty much
go to any country and say ketai
and they will know what that means you
can say que pasa
and they will know what that means now
this is
how i intro all my videos ke
that means what's up it's a puerto rican
way of saying in
puerto rican spanish which i've done a
video on popular
puerto rican phrases um but que la quei
is a popular puerto rican
phrase to mean that means what's up
we have que lo que que lo que is a
dominican phrase
that means what's up sometimes you might
hear
um que la que in puerto rico but in
dominican republic
que lo que is very very common i
remember when i used to live there
um yeah everybody says
a mexican um
spanish phrase to say what's up que onda
i have mexican friends and um
they say hey keon that way stuff like
that
is like uh hey what happened
so if you're meeting somebody for the
first time um not for the first time but
if you're meeting somebody like if you
show up to their house and they look sad
you could say hey kefwa it's like a
greeting but it's like
hey what happened all right so it's
um that is that's very common
in any situation that seems negative
because if somebody's looking sad you
might want to be like
hey and they look sad right
it's better to maybe approach them like
hey kefwa
so next we have como estamos como
estamos is like
how are we doing i remember a radio show
where i live they used to say at the
beginning of
every episode they would say
that's how like hey how we doing today
that's what komo estamo that's how you
would use it
um because you're probably wondering why
would i say how are we doing it doesn't
really make sense
but when you put it in that essence hey
tamoy like how are we doing today
i'm sure we you've probably used that in
english right hey how we doing today
que medici que medici this is this is in
a very popular way but
i have used this and i have heard it
used um especially when i was living in
the dominican republic hey can
you say it's like hey what do you say
to me pretty much i know it doesn't
sound cool in english but
hey que medici it's a hey
that's how um people will greet each
other sometimes
especially like i said when i was living
in the dominican republic
that was pretty common now let's shift
to the formal greetings now i will say
the last few that i did
those are specific to cultures
in countries so if you go to spain and
you say keonda or
they might not understand you i mean
even if you go to somewhere like
colombia and you say
they might understand you or if you say
que honda they might understand you
but it's not 100 certain if i go to
mexican
mexico and i said okay they might not
understand me if i say
they might not understand me so know
that with those last few that i covered
they might not be understood in all the
the countries that you go to so now like
i said let's go to formal greetings
we'll run through this hola now we have
buenos dias
that's good morning you can't go wrong
with that if you're meeting somebody
for the first time that you don't know
or if you are meeting
um a boss of a company or the boss of
your company or president any
authority figure buenos dias
buenas noches you can't go wrong with
any of these good morning
um good afternoon good night not in
terms of good night going to sleep
but um if you're going to somebody's
house and it's late night you could say
hey buena noche it's like
it's not always used for oh buenas
noches good night like in english
we use good night
very rarely do we use that as a greeting
but in spanish you can use it as a
greeting
now you'll see como esta usted or you
could just say como esta
so how are you but this is the formal
way to say it
mucho gusto nice to meet you mucho
gusto nice to meet you es un placer
in conocerlo i guess you could use this
too for a
informal um greeting you could say it
next we have gusto inverlo this is
another way to say pleasure to meet you
gusto and verlos pleasure to meet y'all
this is the ustedes form you don't have
as much flexibility with the formal
greetings because
you don't want to go too crazy with it
you definitely don't want to walk up to
your boss and say hey
you know unless you and your boss have a
very cool relationship but
if your boss is a real authority like if
you're meeting a boss or a doctor
you want to greet them with something
like buenos dias if you're meeting them
for the first time
gusto verlo gusto and conocerlo
different things like that mucho gusto
eseren conocerlo so
those are the basic informal informal
greetings
that you can use to break the ice if
you're meeting somebody for the first
time
or if you just want to start a
conversation with
anybody now i will say one tip that i
will give you
is now turn on your listening um radar
and when you are um outside
in maybe a spanish-speaking country
around native speakers
listen to how they greet each other how
do they do it and start adding those
i'm sure i definitely missed some
greetings i'm sure in all different
types of countries they're all there's
all different types of greetings
just like where i live we can we may
greet each other differently than
the way people greet each other in new
york or california
it happens but listen
to how people greet each other when you
watch shows on tv
listen to how people greet each other
and you'll find more ways
that you can use for your greetings in
spanish
so i hope you found this video helpful
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