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Lesson 6 - What do you want to do? (Demo)

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Hello Rosa, how are you? Hola Rosa, ¿cómo estás?	View
I'm fine, and you? Muy bien, gracias, ¿y tú?	View
So-so. Rosa, what do you want to do? Más o menos. Rosa, ¿qué quieres hacer?	View
I'm hungry. I would like to eat something. Tengo hambre. Me gustaría ir a comer algo.	View
Where would you like to go? ¿A dónde quieres ir?	View
I would like to go to a Mexican restaurant. Quisiera ir a un restaurante de comida mexicana.	View
What do you like to eat? ¿Qué te gusta comer?	View
I like rice. Do you like rice? Me gusta el arroz. ¿A ti te gusta el arroz?	View
No, I don't like rice. No, no me gusta.	View

Language Points

Lesson 6

“Más o menos” literally means “more or less”. When responding to “¿cómo estás? it translates as “not bad”.

“Tengo hambre” literally translates as “I have hunger”, although the English equivalent is “I am hungry”. In Spanish it is common to use the verb “tener” (“to have”) when in English the verb “to be” is used. You will come across this frequently; for example “tengo 20 años” literally means “I have 20 years”, but translates as “I am 20 years old.”

The verb “gustar” (“to like”) has a very particular grammatical structure, “Me gusta” is the equivalent of “to like” as far as meaning and common use is concerned, but grammatically it is equivalent to the English verb “to please”, as in “it pleases me”.
For example “me gusta el arroz” should be translated as “I like rice” although grammatically it follows the structure of “rice pleases me”.

When “gustar” is followed by the infinitive as in the case of “me gusta comer” it is translated as “I like to eat”.