Kilo Lingo

Spanish · Chapter 7 · Lesson 16 · Phrase session

When you have not understood

The phrases that keep a conversation alive when you have lost it. Learn these before you need them.

Why these go together

Every learner reaches the moment where the other person is still talking and you stopped following two sentences ago. What rescues it is not more vocabulary, it is having these six ready without having to build them.

  • No entiendo.

    I do not understand.

  • No lo sé.

    I do not know.

  • ¿Puede ayudarme?

    Can you help me?

  • ¿Cómo se dice?

    How do you say it?

    Literally: how does one say it

  • ¿Qué significa?

    What does that mean?

  • Otra vez, por favor.

    Again, please.

    Literally: another time, please

Matching

0/6

Match each phrase to what it means.

Fill in the blank

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Put the missing word back.

  1. No . (I do not understand.)

  2. No lo . (I do not know.)

  3. ¿Puede ? (Can you help me?)

  4. ¿Cómo se ? (How do you say it?)

  5. ¿Qué ? (What does that mean?)

  6. Otra , por favor. (Again, please.)