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| INTRODUCTION |
| In today’s lesson, we’ll introduce you to a crucial phrase for travelers who are interested in learning more about the tourist attractions you are going to visit. |
| Learning about the history and cultural significance of places you visit can be just as rewarding as seeing them. |
| GRAMMAR POINT |
| Today, we’ll cover “Do you have an English information guide?” |
| In Spanish, “Do you have an English information guide?” is ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| Let’s break it down by syllable: ¿Tie-ne u-na guí-a en in-glés? |
| And now, let’s hear it once again, ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| The first word, tiene, means “you have.” |
| Let’s break down this word and hear it one more time: tie-ne. |
| And tiene. |
| This is followed by una, which in Spanish is “a” for feminine singular. |
| una |
| Then we have guía, which means “guide.” |
| Let’s break it down by syllable: guí-a. |
| And once again, guía. |
| So, to recap here, we have - Tiene una guía… |
| Literally, this means “Do you have a guide…” |
| Let’s take a look at the next word, en, which means “in.” |
| en |
| And finally, we have inglés, which means “English.” |
| Let’s break down this word and hear it one more time: in-glés. |
| And inglés. |
| So, all together, we have, ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| Literally, this means “You have a guide in English?” |
| Now, to ask for a different language, we can just replace the word for English with any other word for a language and works just fine. Let’s try Japanese. |
| In Spanish, “Do you have a Japanese information guide?” is ¿Tiene una guía en japonés? |
| ¿Tiene una guía en japonés? |
| The only thing that changes is the language that you are asking for. In this case, it’s “Japanese.” |
| Let’s break down this word and hear it one more time: ja-po-nés. |
| And japonés. |
| So, we have already mentioned in previous lessons, nouns in Spanish have a gender; masculine gender, feminine gender or neutral. In Spanish, articles and adjectives of a noun must agree with the gender and number. This is singular-plural of the noun. |
| In this lesson, the word for “guide” guía is a noun that in this context is feminine, so we use the indefinite article una, which is feminine. However, guía can be applied to a man whose work is to guide tourists in his city and in this context, it’s masculine. |
| So, in a phrase contained in this word, you should use a masculine article and would get the phrase like this, ¿Dónde podemos contratar un guía? which means “Where can we hire a guide?” |
| ¿Dónde podemos contratar un guía? |
Outro |
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| Okay, to close out today’s lesson, we'd like for you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you are responsible for saying it aloud. You’ll have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so buena suerte, that means “good luck” in Spanish. |
| Okay, here we go! |
| “Do you have an English information guide?” - ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| ¿Tiene una guía en inglés? |
| “Do you have a Japanese information guide?” - ¿Tiene una guía en japonés? |
| ¿Tiene una guía en japonés? |
| ¿Tiene una guía en japonés? |
| “Where can we hire a guide?” - ¿Dónde podemos contratar un guía? |
| ¿Dónde podemos contratar un guía? |
| ¿Dónde podemos contratar un guía? |
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