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In this lesson, you will learn a very important and useful skill, one that will help you to have more analytical conversations in Spanish\u2014y<\/span>ou will learn to make comparisons. Being able make comparisons between people, classes, objects, places, and ideas, is one very basic way that enables you to express your opinions to other people. Through comparison, you can add shades of subtlety to a conversation.<\/p>\nFurther, it is also useful in a very practical, hands-on way if you are traveling. If you are able to make comparisons, you will be able to get vital information, such as which train route is the fastest to a certain destination, and how much more expensive the ticket is than the slower routes.<\/p>\nListen to Felix and Sabina as they make some comparisons.<\/p>\n<\/audio><\/p>\n\n\n\nFelix<\/td>\n\u00bfQu\u00e9 piensas de los nuevos estudiantes?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSabina<\/td>\nTodav\u00eda no lo s\u00e9. Son simp\u00e1ticos, pero un poco serios, \u00bfno te parece?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFelix<\/td>\nHmm. El chico alto es un poco serio.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSabina<\/td>\n\u00c9l se llama Rafael, \u00bfno?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFelix<\/td>\nNo, Rafael es m\u00e1s bajo que \u00e9l; se llama Pablo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSabina<\/td>\n\u00bfY Rafael es tan serio como Pablo?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFelix<\/td>\nNo, me parece que Rafael es m\u00e1s divertido que Pablo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSabina<\/td>\nY, \u00bfqu\u00e9 piensas de las chicas nuevas?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFelix<\/td>\nPienso que Sandra es un poco m\u00e1s inteligente que Adriana, pero Adriana es \u2028mucho m\u00e1s simp\u00e1tica que ella. \u00bfY t\u00fa?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSabina<\/td>\nEstoy de acuerdo, Sandra no es tan simp\u00e1tica como Adriana, pero las dos son muy bonitas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFelix<\/td>\nS\u00ed, \u00a1pero t\u00fa eres la m\u00e1s bonita de todas!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSabina<\/td>\nJa ja ja, y t\u00fa eres el m\u00e1s coqueto de todos.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-662\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Lesson 9: Funciones . <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Open Learning Initiative. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Carnegie Mellon. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/lms\/students\/syllabus.do?section=037856eb80020ca6007833f93f06cd13\">https:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/lms\/students\/syllabus.do?section=037856eb80020ca6007833f93f06cd13<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Spanish1. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives <\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":9,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Lesson 9: Funciones \",\"author\":\"Open Learning Initiative\",\"organization\":\"Carnegie Mellon\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/oli.cmu.edu\/jcourse\/lms\/students\/syllabus.do?section=037856eb80020ca6007833f93f06cd13\",\"project\":\"Spanish1\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-nd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-662","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1762,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/662\/revisions\/2270"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1762"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/662\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Further, it is also useful in a very practical, hands-on way if you are traveling. If you are able to make comparisons, you will be able to get vital information, such as which train route is the fastest to a certain destination, and how much more expensive the ticket is than the slower routes.<\/p>\n
Listen to Felix and Sabina as they make some comparisons.<\/p>\n
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\u00bfQui\u00e9n es mayor, t\u00fa o tu hermano?<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n