First date dinner: Asking about hobbies and family
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Key Phrases
¿Qué haces en tu tiempo libre?
What do you do in your free time?
Me gusta mucho / Me encanta
I really like / I love
Echar de menos
To miss (someone)
Skills You'll Learn
Talking about hobbies and preferences
Hablar sobre pasatiempos y preferencias
Talking about family and siblings
Hablar sobre la familia y hermanos
Expressing feelings and thanking someone at the end of a conversation
Expresar sentimientos y agradecer al final de una conversación
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're at a social evening in Spain, chatting with a new friend. You want to talk about your hobbies and your family.
¡Hola, Emily ! ¿Qué tal estás?
Hi, Emily! How are you?
¡Hola! Muy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú?
Hi! Very well, thanks. And you?
Genial. Oye, ¿qué haces en tu tiempo libre?
Great. Hey, what do you do in your free time?
Me gusta mucho leer y correr. ¿Y a ti?
I really like reading and running. What about you?
A mí me encanta bailar salsa.
I love dancing salsa.
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
¿Qué tal estás?
keh tahl es-TAHS
How are you?
Muy bien, gracias.
mwee byehn GRAH-syahs
Very well, thanks.
¿Y tú?
ee too
And you?
💬 The accent matters: tú means "you", while tu without it means "your", as in tu tiempo libre. They sound the same, so only the spelling tells them apart.
See breakdown →Genial.
heh-NYAHL
Great.
¿Qué haces?
keh AH-thehs
What do you do?
💬 ¿Qué haces? can also mean "What are you doing?" right now. To ask about someone's job, Spaniards say ¿A qué te dedicas? "What do you do for a living?"
See breakdown →En tu tiempo libre
ehn too TYEM-poh LEE-breh
In your free time
💬 tiempo means both "time" and "weather". Context sorts it out: ¿Qué tiempo hace? "What's the weather like?"
See breakdown →Oye, ¿qué haces en tu tiempo libre?
OH-yeh keh AH-thehs ehn too TYEM-poh LEE-breh
Hey, what do you do in your free time?
🇪🇸 Oye is a friendly, casual way to start a new topic, perfectly normal across a dinner table. It doesn't come across as abrupt the way "hey" sometimes can in English.
See breakdown →El tiempo libre
ehl TYEM-poh LEE-breh
Free time
Me gusta mucho
meh GOOS-tah MOO-choh
I really like
💬 gusta stays the same before activities, but changes to gustan before more than one thing: me gustan los libros "I like books".
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