Greetings in Spanish - Hello & Goodbye in Spanish

Ready to learn some different greetings in Spanish? This free lesson will add tons of useful phrases to your Spanish language survival kit.
 

You’ll learn how to say hello and goodbye at different times of day, and ask people how they are and what they’ve been up to. Just as importantly, you’ll practice some ways to reply when people ask you!

Listen carefully to the audio, and the way the native Spanish speakers pronounce each Spanish word or phrase. Practice these aloud until you feel confident, and then try them out on your friends!

Because it is SO important to hear Spanish being spoken, audio links are provided for each conversation and table. Listen and listen again. Your ability to recognize the sounds of words is even MORE important than your ability to recognize written words (unless you’re planning to write things down on a sheet of paper and show them to people)!

Are you ready? Here is a brief Spanish conversation. Listen to Esteban and Estela as they greet one another.

So spend some time learning how to greet people in Spanish.

Here are some common greetings. Listen to them as you read along.

Now, listen to Esteban and Estela’s conversation again. Try to understand everything they say.

Here’s another conversation. This one is much more casual. You’re likely to hear this kind of conversation among young people.

Others disagree. They say that there are THREE important phrases that you absolutely must know in any language. They are:

You can say goodbye with one of the following phrases.

Mauricio Evlampieff
Rocket Spanish

P.S If you’d like to improve your learning, practice makes perfect!

Here are some exercises to practice what you have learned.

Exercise 1 - Pretend that you are meeting a friend of yours named Pamela. Print this exercise out, or use another sheet of paper to write your response in Spanish to the questions below. (There’s not a single right answer.)

Pamela: ¡Buenas tardes!

You: _________________________________________________

Pamela: ¿Cómo estás?

You: _________________________________________________

Pamela: Muy bien, gracias. ¡Bueno, hasta luego!

 You: _________________________________________________

Now, can YOU tell me what they said?