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Buenos días o buenas tardes o buenas noches (good morning or good afternoon or good night). ¿Cómo están ustedes?... (How are you all).
Today we are going to study "Gustaría" which means "would like", a handy expression to know.
Let's see (Veamos):
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Me gustaría Te gustaría Le gustaría Nos gustaría Les gustaría |
I would like You would like He, She, You (formal) would like We would like They, You (plural) would like |
Do you remember gustar ? Well Gustaría is a form of gustar, therefore we used it with the indirect object pronouns (me, te, le, nos, les).
Sometimes we used gustar and gustaría with a prepositional phrase just to make it clear of whom we are talking about. We Spanish speakers very often use phrases with a (to), such as a Pedro (to Pedro) Example:
A Pedro
le gusta estudiar español (To Pedro he likes to study
Spanish, or Pedro likes to study Spanish).
A Pedro le gustaría estudiar español (To
Pedro he would like to study Spanish, or Pedro would like to
study Spanish).
A María le
gusta la lección de español (To Maria She likes
the Spanish lesson, or Maria likes the Spanish lesson).
A María le gustaría una lección de
español (To Maria She would like a Spanish lesson, or
Maria would like a Spanish lesson).
Note: This probably does not make much sense in English but that is how we say it in Spanish. Remember languages are not logical.
Ahora vamos a repetir estas frases en voz alta (Now let's repeat these phrases aloud):
Me gustaría visitar
un país hispano. (I
would like to visit a Hispanic country).
Te gustaría viajar a lugares remotos. (You would like
to travel to remote places).
A Juan le gustaría aprender más vocabulario. (Juan
would like to learn more vocabulary).
A Elena le gustaría caminar en el centro de la ciudad.
(Elena would like to walk downtown).
Nos gustaría aprender español en el extranjero.
(We would like to learn Spanish overseas).
A los estudiantes les gustaría escuchar música latina. (The students would like to listen to Latin music).
¡Qué calor! (How hot- more literally 'what heat!')
¡Qué feo! (How ugly!)
¡Qué ridículo! (How ridiculous!)
¡Qué malcriado! (What a brat!)
El burro hablando de orejas (The donkey speaking about ears - The tea pot calling the kettle black)
No hay mal que por bien no venga (There is nothing bad from which good doesn't come)
No todo lo que brilla es oro (Not all that shines is gold) (Not everything that glitters is gold)
Note: Spanish uses 2 exclamation marks, one upside down to open a sentence, and one regular one to finish it.