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Hey, Julio here! ¿Cómo van las cosas?
Today, then, I’d like to give you a handful of sentence starters – a simple way of making even the most basic of sentence sound a little more advanced, and your Spanish a little more fluent. The best part is that they are really easy to just bolt on to your normal Spanish, so without further ado…
SEVEN COOL SENTENCE STARTERS:
A lo mejor… – maybe, probably
Me da que… – I get the feeling
Se supone que… – it’s supposed to/ they reckon that
En cambio... – instead
Hazme caso… – Listen to me / Do as I say
Ya sabes que… – as you already know
Resulta que… – as it happens/as it turns out
There are, of course, literally hundreds of them. But these are just a step above the basic level and will brighten up your Spanish no end. Let’s imagine that I am talking to someone and I want to express something like:
Juan va ir a la tienda más tarde.
I could use some of the phrases mentioned above and express slightly different shades of meaning, while sounding super cool with any of them.
Let’s see how easily we can add these phrases to any conversation:
A lo mejor… Juan va a ir a la tienda más tarde. (Chances are he will go to the store, but I am not 100% sure.)
Me da que… Juan va a ir a la tienda más tarde. (I have the feeling he will do this.)
Se supone que… Juan va a ir a la tienda más tarde. (He is supposed to go to the store!)
En cambio… Juan va a ir a la tienda más tarde. (Instead of doing something else, he will go to the store.)
Hazme caso… Juan va ir a la tienda más tarde. (Trust me, he will do it!)
Ya sabes que… Juan va ir a la tienda más tarde. (As you already know, he will go there later. That’s when we can criticize him without any fear of being caught!)
Resulta que… Juan va ir a la tienda más tarde. (He said he had no money, but it so happens that he will go there later and probably spend a fortune!)
And that’s all folks! Seven cool phrases to sound like a Spanish Pro! 🙂
