| Tomás |  ¿Dónde estás? |
| Victoria | Estoy en la biblioteca.  |
In this lesson, you will learn a variety of different things that will enable you to talk about and to understand more basic themes. The first skill you will learn involves the verb estar, which is another way of expressing “to be” in Spanish. This verb will considerably increase your possible range of conversation topics.
One thing that estar will allow you to do is to talk about location—the location of people, places, and things. As you can imagine, this is very important, especially if you are traveling in the Spanish-speaking world. Estar will enable you to ask where restaurants, parks, museums, bars, beaches, or anything else you might want to visit are located. In terms of everyday life, think about how often you ask or tell someone where something isa bus stop, keys, a book, a friend; in all of these circumstances, you will need the verb estar.
Below, you can listen to a few examples of how estar is used to express the location of people and things.
| Dulce | ¿Dónde está tu restaurante favorito? |
| Isidro | Está en la esquina del Paseo de la Reforma y la Avenida Santa Rosa. |
| Isidro | ¿Dónde están tus hijos? |
| Dulce | Están en el parque con su papá.  |
| Cuando estoy en clase, mis padres están en sus oficinas. |
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| Mis llaves están en la mesa. |
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| El hospital está en el centro de la ciudad, al lado derecho de la plaza. |
Vocabulario útil antes de ver el video…
| Disculpe | La oficina de correos | Estoy confundida |
| La ruta | Vamos a ver | Debe de bajar |
| La parada | Cuadras | Banco |
| Iglesia | Edificio | Antiguo |
| No tengo buena orientación | Quiosco | Fila |
Candela Citations
- Lesson 6: Funciones . Authored by: Open Learning Initiative. Provided by: Carnegie Mellon. Located at: https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/workbook/activity/page?context=0ed72d9e80020ca600ab7e7a902b5384. Project: Spanish1. License: CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
