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If you want to greet somebody in Spanish, the most common way to say 'hello' is hola.

You can practise this and other greetings in Spanish with this fun song:

The greeting you use might change depending on the time of day:

¿Cómo está? or ¿Qué tal?

There are lots of other ways to greet people. These can be different depending on who you are talking to. For example, asking someone how they are feeling.

You can use ¿Qué tal? when talking to a friend and ¿Cómo está? when speaking formally to someone like a teacher or a parent.

Here are some answers you could try:

Cognates

Spanish has lots of cognates. Which means that the word in Spanish sounds a lot like the word in English. For example fenomenal sounds like phenomenal.

Asking questions

When you ask a question in Spanish the punctuation is different to English. In Spanish you have to put an upside-down question mark at the start of the question.

Here are some examples of questions you can ask: