Spanish Expressions with Gustaría

Spanish Expressions with Gustaría

What are some Spanish expressions with gustaría?

How to translate Spanish expressions with gustaría?. Buenos días o buenas tardes o buenas noches (good morning or good afternoon or good night). ¿Cómo están ustedes?… (How are you all). Today we are going to study “Gustaría” which means “would like”, a handy expression to know.  

Let’s see (Veamos):

Me gustaría Te gustaría Le gustaría Nos gustaría Les gustaría I would like You would like He, She, You (formal) would like We would like They, You (plural) would like   Do you remember gustar from last lesson? Well Gustaría is a form of gustar, therefore we used it with the indirect object pronouns (me, te, le, nos, les). Sometimes we used gustar with a prepositional phrase just to make it clear of whom we are talking about. We Spanish speakers very often use phrases with a (to), such as a Pedro (to Pedro)  Example: A Pedro le gusta estudiar español (To Pedro he likes to study Spanish, or Pedro likes to study Spanish). A Pedro le gustaría estudiar español (To Pedro he would like to study Spanish, or Pedro would like to study Spanish). A María le gusta la lección de español (To Maria She likes the Spanish lesson, or Maria likes the Spanish lesson). A María le gustaría una lección de español (To Maria She would like a Spanish lesson, or Maria would like a Spanish lesson).

 What does gustaría mean?

Note: This probably does not make much sense in English but that is how we say it in Spanish. Remember languages are not logical. ……………….. Ahora vamos a repetir estas frases en voz alta (Now let’s repeat these phrases aloud):   Me gustaría visitar un país hispano (I would like to visit a Hispanic country). Te gustaría viajar a lugares remotos (You would like to travel to remote places). A Juan le gustaría aprender más vocabulario (Juan would like to learn more vocabulary). A Elena le gustaría caminar en el centro de la ciudad (Elena would like to walk downtown). Nos gustaría aprender español en el extranjero (We would like to learn Spanish overseas). A los estudiantes les gustaría escuchar música latina (The students would like to listen to Latin music). ………………..

Spanish Idioms

¡Qué calor! = How hot- more literally ‘what heat!’ ¡Qué feo! =How ugly! ¡Qué ridículo! =How ridiculous! ¡Qué malcriado! W=hat a brat! El burro hablando de orejas =The donkey speaking about ears/The tea pot calling the kettle black No hay mal que por bien no venga =There is nothing bad from which good doesn’t come No todo lo que brilla es oro = Not all/everything that shines/glitters is gold   Note: Spanish uses 2 exclamation marks, one upside down to open a sentence, and one regular one to finish it.   Read more about me gusta in Spanish: Spanish verb gustar practice

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