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Watch this video to learn some helpful phrases for your online classroom communication. Then use them to improve your experience and to increase your engagement in Spanish.
Congratulations, you’re in an online course. While that means that you can show up to class in your p.J.’s, it also means that you need to be familiar with some terminology and practices related to online class-taking. Otherwise, you may get very lost very quickly.
There are several words that you’ll need to know in Spanish to be able to ask good clarifying questions and to communicate with your teacher.
- Palabra - means “word”
- Repita - means “repeat,” but I bet you guessed that since repita is a cognate of the English word repeat.
- El archivo - means “the file”
- Pregunta - means “question”
- Respuesta - means “answer”
- Sí - means “yes”
- No - means “no,” although the pronunciation of no in Spanish is very short--“No”
- Hacer Clic - means “to click,” as in with a mouse
- Saludos - means “greetings”
- Querido - means “dear,” as in the beginning of a letter. Other forms of this word include queridos, querida, queridas
If you were to write an email to your teacher, you would write something like, “Querido profesor” or “Querido maestro” for the introductory line. Make sure to match the gender of the teacher to the gender of the term.
Now that you know all these important terms, you’ll have no trouble keeping up with your online course!
Question
How should you begin an email to a male teacher?
Querido profesor
