🇪🇸 Spanish
Español • Latin
Pattern: “Do you speak …?” (questions + politeness)
A reusable question pattern for travel and conversation.
The pattern
Memorize this as a chunk. Then swap one word at a time.
- Swap the language word: English → French → Spanish (etc.).
- Watch formality (formal vs informal ‘you’) — it often changes the verb form too.
¿Hablas inglés?
Do you speak English? (informal)
More examples
These are close patterns you can reuse. Read them aloud, then change one word.
¿Qué es esto?
What is this?
¿Dónde vives?
Where do you live?
¿Cómo estás?
How are you? (tú)
¿Cómo está usted?
How are you? (usted)
Vivo aquí.
I live here. (subject ‘I’ omitted)
Estoy aquí.
I am here.
Drills
Build the pattern
Do you speak English? (informal)
Your sentence
Click tokens below to build the sentence.
Tokens
Mini‑quiz
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