Asking about someones family: Asking about someone's kids and their ages

💬 Swapping the final o for a makes the word female: niño becomes niña. Same with hijo "son" and hija "daughter".

💬 qué plus a describing word makes an exclamation: ¡Qué bonito! "How nice!", ¡Qué pena! "What a shame!".

💬 Spanish says how many years someone 'has', using tener, not 'is'. So 'I'm thirty' is tengo treinta años.

💬 Once age is the topic, años "years" can be dropped and the number alone is enough.

💬 The comma stands in for a repeated tiene: la niña, cinco means 'the girl has five'. It's a natural way to avoid saying the verb twice.

💬 Spanish asks 'how do they call themselves' rather than 'what are their names'. For one person it's ¿Cómo se llama?.

💬 hijos covers sons and daughters together, so it simply means 'children'. A group with even one boy takes the -os form.

💬 de plus an age describes someone: una hija de tres años. Swap in un hijo de diez años "a ten-year-old son".

💬 se llama works for 'his/her name is'. Use me llamo "my name is" for yourself.

💬 mona literally means a female monkey, but here it means 'cute'. For a boy it's ¡Qué mono!.

🇪🇸 Starting with bueno is the usual soft signal that you're wrapping up a chat. Saying it lets the other person say goodbye without feeling cut off.

🇪🇸 In Spain this is the everyday goodbye, even if you won't see the person again that day. It doesn't promise a later meeting.

🇪🇸 vale "okay" is constant in Spain but sounds distinctly Spanish in Latin America, where está bien or ok is more usual.

🇪🇸 Sending a kiss to someone's kids is a warm, normal goodbye in Spain, even among neighbours who aren't close. It's like 'say hi to the kids for me'.