Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Let's learn another letter in the spanish alphabet, the LL, the LL is a letter in it's

  • own right and it's pronounced like a Y in english, it's like a Y sound like when you

  • would say where's like young or yeast, but it can also be pronounced like a sh sound...shh

  • like in shop or shell, that depends on the region, you can pronounce it either way, what's

  • important is that you learn how to differentiate them and hear them and not get confused with

  • other words, meaning if somebody says the word...calle, means street and another person

  • from a different region would say calle, also means street, so pay close attention. Let

  • me give you examples of words that take this LL, the verb...llamar, to call...llamar, the

  • word for street...calle, the word for chicken...pollo and the word for arrive...llegar. Let's learn

  • now how to put these words in a context of phrases. Let's learn how to say...My name

  • is, Me llamo...Me llamo Andrea, I told you my name is Andrea, right? Me llamo Andrea.

  • ¿Cómo te llamas? What's your name? ¿Cómo te llamas? What we are literally saying is...

  • I am called and How are you called, we are not really saying, My name is. Well let's

  • repeat, Me llamo... that means I'm called. ¿Como te llamas? That means, what's your

  • name? How are you called? If we want to be formal or we are in a situation that we want

  • to stablish some distance with somebody we would trick that question a little bit and

  • change it to, ¿Cómo se llama Usted? ¿Cómo se llama Usted? Can you repeat? ¿Cómo se

  • llama Usted?

Let's learn another letter in the spanish alphabet, the LL, the LL is a letter in it's

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it