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Charleston
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21 April 2010 at 11:41am | IP Logged

Smart wrote:

Wrong order on the Spanish.
It is Hola, Como estas? (informal) or Como estas usted? (formal)
Bien, y tu? (and you not just you)
Bien, tu habla ingles? (literally, you speak English?)
... mostly in Spain or Latin America they will use Que Tal, but my preference is the generic 'Como estas senor?" etc.

The common Spanish of Baja California is not really what Akao should learn. In normal Spanish you'd say:
¿Cómo está usted? (formal, or informal ¿Cómo estás [tú]?
Bien, ¿hablas inglés? (no need for the tú, but definitely -s ending added to the verb showing that it is the informal "you" we're talking to).
And only very little children (or foreigners of course) might use your generic form, which should be:
¿Cómo está usted, señor? as the ending -s is reserved for informal tú. But, as Akao suggested, the more normal form of address for young people is ¿Qué tal?

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