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¡Hola! Soy Brenda Romaniello, tu profesora de español.
Hello and welcome! My name is Brenda Romaniello and I’m your Spanish teacher.
Today, we’re going to have a look at some essential social expressions in Spanish and we’re going to learn how to apologize, how to thank someone and what to reply when someone says thank you.
Let’s start with some vocabulary and I want you to repeat after me.
So, to say excuse me in Spanish we’re going to say…
Un momento.
Un momento.
Or we can say disculpe.
Disculpe.
¡Fantástico!
So, the difference is that un momento, it means “a moment please.”
Disculpe.“Excuse me.”
This is what they literally mean, but we can use them both to say excuse me in Spanish.
Un momento.
Disculpe.
Let’s move on now. How to say “Yes? What is it?”
You can say in Spanish - ¿Sí? Dígame.
¿Sí? Dígame.
¿Sí? ¿Qué pasa?
¿Sí? ¿Qué pasa?
O simplemente, just simply - ¿Sí?
¿Sí?
Now, let’s have a look how we say “Thank you” in Spanish.
We say - Gracias.
Muchas gracias.
Gracias means “thank you.”
Muchas gracias. “Thank you very much.”
“You’re welcome.” We’re going to say in spanish - De nada.
De nada.
Or the other option - No hay de qué.
No hay de qué.
No hay de qué.
De nada means “It’s nothing.”
No hay de qué. “Nothing to worry about.”
That’s what it literally means. That’s pretty much what we’re actually saying in Spanish, but we’re trying to say “You’re welcome.” We’re not trying to say, we’re actually saying “You’re welcome.”
So, how do we say “I’m sorry” or “Sorry”?
We can say - Perdón.
Perdón.
Perdón.
And we can also say - Disculpe.
Disculpe.
Hang on Brenda, didn’t you say that disculpe means “excuse me”?
That’s right. So, disculpe, we can say that it means two things. We can use it as to call someone’s attention, excuse me, disculpe, or we can also use it to apologize, for example, if we bumped into someone, we can also say disculpe, yes, for an apology. Perdón cannot be used as excuse me. That means “I’m sorry.”
Perdón.
Disculpe.
And the last one we’re going to learn, “No problem.”
No problem.
And I don’t want to hear you say no problemo. That is not correct Spanish. How do we say it? In Spanish, we’re going to say - No hay problema.
No hay problema.
No hay problema.
Or the other option - No pasa nada.
No pasa nada.
No pasa nada.
So, what do I mean?
No hay problema means “No problem.”
No pasa nada. “Nothing is happening.” It’s okay.
So that’s what it means. It means no problem.
Now, we’re going to have a look at some examples when we can use these expressions and these phrases. So, the first thing that we’re going to see is when we want to call for someone’s attention. If you want to call for someone’s attention, after for example they dropped something or if someone wants to call for your attention because maybe you dropped something, then they will say - Disculpe. And you can reply or they can reply - ¿Sí? Dígame.
¿Sí? Dígame.
Disculpe.
¿Sí? Dígame.
So remember, disculpe means “excuse me.”
“¿Sí? Dígame” means “Yes. What is it?”
But it literally means- dígame literally means “tell me.” Yes, tell me, but we want to say “What is it?
The second scenario that we can use is expressions with is when you want to apologize after bumping into someone, for example, on a train, or if you are in the street or anywhere. If you’re bumping into someone and you want to apologize, this is a scenario, this is an example that we can use.
Disculpe.
Disculpe.
And the other person can reply:
No hay problema.
No hay problema.
Disculpe. Yes, “excuse me” or “sorry” in this case because we’re apologizing, right?
Perdon. We can also say perdon, remember?
So we can say disculpe, perdon to apologize and the person can reply:
No hay problema.
No pasa nada.
The last scenario, the last example that we have here, if you want to thank a friend who’s just giving you a souvenir. That is so thoughtful. They went on a holiday, they thought of you, they bought you a little something and then, wow, you want to be grateful, you can say muchas gracias, muchas gracias, to which they can reply de nada, de nada, or what is the other option? No hay de qué.
No hay de qué.
So remember, now you know how to call someone’s attention:
Un momento.
Disculpe.
To apologize, for example, you can bump into someone:
Perdón.
Disculpe.
And if you want to thank someone, you can say:
Gracias.
Muchas gracias.
Or if you want to say you’re welcome:
De nada. (You're welcome.)
No hay de qué. (You're welcome.)

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