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The Basics of Conversation: Learning to Ask “Where are you from?” in Spanish

¡Hola! ¡Buenos días!, ¿Cómo estás?(Hello! Good morning! How are you doing?)Yo estoy muy bien, gracias(I am very well, thank you)Great! Now you know how to generally greet someone and answer that greeting in Spanish, but maybe you'd like to get to know them a bit better!

Vocabulary to Ask "Where are you from?" in Spanish

The Spanish for this is: ¿De dónde eres?

How to answer where you are from

To answer this question we will have to remember how to conjugate the verb “soy”.We already saw this in our first lesson when we learned how to introduce ourselves. For example: Yo soy AndreaIt’s quite simple, actually. We will use the same structure of the phrase and add: “de” Yo soy de PanamaWhat other places can you think of?

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  • Estados Unidos - United States
  • Francia - France
  • Canadá - Canada
  • Inglaterra - England

So, if I wanted to say I am from England;Yo soy de Inglaterra

Ser: the Spanish verb "to be"

As you might have figured out by now “ser” is an irregular verb. In simple terms, this means it will change according to the pronoun and it’s very important to memorize it. You can review with our verb conjugation tool! Once you have that memorized you are off to a great start since it is one of the most important verbs in Spanish.

  • Yo soy de Panama
  • Tú eres de Estados Unidos
  • Usted es de Inglaterra
  • Él es de Francia
  • Ella es de Canadá
  • Nosotros somos de China
  • Ustedes son de Italia
  • Ellos son de Brazil

¡Excelente! ¡muy bien! Now you can ask and say where you are from!Next, we'll learn how to ask and answer the question of how old you are.

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