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Are formal or informal greetings the secret to fast learn Spanish?

Latin America Spanish people are much more formal than their North American neighbors.

It’s acceptable to greet someone you already know with hola. If you are meeting somebody for the first time, your best bet is to use a more formal greeting.

Buenos dias – Good morning.
Buenas tardes – Good afternoon.
Buenas noches – Good evening.

You could always follow up the greeting with a formal title, that is the politest thing to do and it is something that you’ll hear a lot of in Latin America.

Buenos dias, senor – Good morning, sir.
Buenos dias, senora – Good morning, ma’am.
Buenos dias, senorita – Good morning, miss.

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Are you greeting two or maybe more people?

If by chance you are faced with greeting two or more people at once, in most of Latin America, you will always greet each person individually this is expected of you. This means a lot of double kissing with the opposite sex, and shaking hands quite a lot as well.

To ask people how they are doing is considered to be polite behaviour. The way you would do this is to say; Como estas – how are you? To people you know, and como esta usted, to total strangers. Como translates as how. Estas translates to are you or you are.

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loads of Spanish words you will discover have the double meanings! There are times when 1 word in English, warrants two or even more in Spanish to say the same thing and vice versa. That is why you mustn’t get bogged down with literal translating.

It is completely your choice whether to be familiar or respectful in Spanish so make sure to choose well.
If anyone asks you how you are there are many ways to reply to them.

Estoy muy bien – I am very well.
Estoy cansado – I am tired. (m)
Estoy cansada – I am tired. (f)
Estoy enferma – I am sick. (f)
Estoy enfermo – I am sick (m)
Estoy aburrido – I am bored. (m)
Estoy aburrida – I am bored. (f)

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