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Newbie S2 #1
How should I cut your hair?
CONTENTS
2 Formal Spanish
2 English
2 Informal Spanish
3 English
3 Vocabulary
4 Sample Sentences
4 Grammar
5 Cultural Insight
# 1
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FORMAL SPANISH
6. ALEJANDRO: De acuerdo.
ENGLISH
3. CLAUDIA: Oh, I understand, you want me to take it all the way down.
INFORMAL SPANISH
CONT'D OVER
6. ALEJANDRO: De acuerdo.
ENGLISH
3. CLAUDIA: Oh, I understand, you want me to take it all the way down.
VOCABULARY
SAMPLE SENTENCES
"I don't want a buzz cut, but just a "It's been a long time since she's cut
trim." her hair."
"I don't want a buzz cut." "I'm just going to cut the ends."
GRAMMAR
In this first installment of Newbie Series Season 2, we are going back to basics. Let's examine
how we use the adverb "no" to form negative expressions.
Notice that the word "no" goes before the noun or verb that it's negating.
"no quiero" (I don't want).
If the subject pronoun is explicit, then the adverb “no” goes between the subject pronoun and
the verb:
"yo NO quiero..."
(I don’t want...)
Let’s look at some examples of both negative and positive statements to clarify the distinction:
POSITIVE
"Yo quiero ir al cine."
(I want to go to the movies.)
NEGATIVE
"Yo no quiero ir al cine."
(I don't want to go to the movies.)
POSITIVE
"Tú quieres comer ahora."
(You want to eat now.)
NEGATIVE
"Tú no quieres comer ahora."
(You don't want to eat now.)
CULTURAL INSIGHT
Something as simple as getting your hair cut could potentially be hazardous to your look! So,
in today's lesson, we learned how to make sure that you don't get a buzz cut, if you don't really
want one. But, what kinds of looks are in? In Latin America, many guys keep their hair rather
short, though, this is not always the case. Short hair for men is the conservative road. So, if
you've been invited to meet someone's family and you want to play it safe, you might take it
down and keep it clean. Long hair, however, is also in style, though, it should be said that if
you keep you hair long, people are likely to think that you're either an artist or a rebel, since