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Originally Posted by Slykaz1
So mannerism, is slave talk? Ok.....then what do you say to be polite? when talking to your elders? Or talking to someone you don't know? I'm curious to know from you...  |
Well, if you were talking to the King then yeah you'd probably use this term xD and politicians also refer to each other in courteous terms like these, but that's about the only situation in which you'll hear it.
So what we do in order to show politeness is use the 3rd person singular form instead of the 2nd one when talking to someone:
Informal, most used form -->
¿Cómo te encuentras? [How are you feeling?]
Formal form -->
¿Cómo se encuentra? [same meaning, the 'se' makes it formal]
And if you wanted to make it EXTRA-polite then you'd say --> ¿Cómo
se encuentra
usted?
But for reals, you can talk to an unknown person and use the formal form and it won't make you sound rude or anything.
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Originally Posted by heden
wow! wow! wow!
i really wanna learn spanish from all of you!
i understand nothing about spanish. i only know this word 'hola a todos  ' and if you ask me 'como estas?', i dont have an idea how to answer it. mm.. maybe like this 'bien,gracias' 
lol i dont speak spanish but i want to learn. would you care to teach me spanish? |
As you may already know '¿
Cómo estás?' means 'How are you?'. There're many possible answers, the most common one would be:
'Bien, gracias' (Good, thank you) or
'Mejor que nunca' (Never better) xD!
Oh and don't expect to learn Spanish on here, I can teach you some expressions or random vocabulary if you want though.