Spanish – Manners

modales(moh-dah-lehs) = manners

por favor(pohr fah-bohr) = please

[Muchas] Gracisas (moo-chahs grah-syahs) = Thank you [very much]

de nada(deh nah-dah) = You’re welcome

lo siento(loh syehn-toh) = I am sorry

disculpe(dees-kool-peh) = I am sorry = Execuse me

perdón(pehr-dohn) = = I am sorry = Execuse me

Spanish – Greeting continue

adiós – ‘ah-dyohs’ = Good bye

hasta luego – ‘ahs-tah lweh-goh’ = See you later

Review

Hola = Hello

Soy [nombre] = I am [name]

Me llamo [nombre] = My name is [name]

Como te llamas? = What is your name?

Mucho gusto = Nice to meet you

Bueno dias = Good morning

Buenas tardes = Good afternoon

Buenas noches = Good evening/Good night

Como estas? = How are you?

Estoy [muy] bien = I am [very] well

y tu? = And you? And yourself?

Adios = Good bye

Hasta luego = See you later

Practica

A: Hola

B: Hola

A: Me llamo Vic. Como te llamas?

B: Me llamo Hellene. Mucho gusto

A: Mucho gusto. Como estas?

B: Estoy bien, y tu?

A: Estoy bien.

B: Hasta luego

A: Adios

Felicidades! – ‘feh-lee-see-dah-dehs’ = Congratulation!

We concluded the Greeting lesson.

Python’s saga continue

I have to agree that it is one of the powerful feature of this language. In C#, it has similiar feature but less power since you can only assign ‘same value’ to multiple variables within the same line. But with this powerful feature of python, you can assign multiple values to multiple variables within the same line. As of this writing, in C# it also now has this feature but still less powerful than this since we are required to use var keyword and install additional NuGet package called “System.ValueTuple”.

Anyways, I gave this powerful python’s feature a test and voila I like it:

Here is the practical example: we have a file name called fn which is assigned with string “Abi-10-50m-Back.txt” where Abi is the swimmer name, 10 is her age, 50m is her swimming distance and last but not least Back is her swimming style. Below example is to extract these information from the file name vairable fn into its own separate variable. I am happy with python as it can accomplish this task with mimal code than if using C# for the split string in C# items would be returned as an array. And to access each of them requires using arrary with its index and have to declare each of variable per arrary index for code readibility but with python, less code and it is easy to read.

Spanish – Greeting continue

Buenos días – ‘bweh-nohs dee-ahs’ = Good morning.

Buenas tardes – ‘bweh-nahs tahr-dehs’ = Good afternoon.

Did you notice Buenos and Buenas?

due to dias is a masculine so that is why the ‘O’, Buenos whereas tardes is a faminine that is why the ‘A’, Buenas.

Buenas noches – ‘bweh-nahs noh-chehs’ = Good evening or Good night.

¿Cómo estás? – ‘koh-moh ehs-tahs’ = How are you?

Estoy [muy] bien – ‘ehs-toy [mwee] byehn’ = I am [very] well.

¿Y tú? – ‘ee too’ = And you? or And yourself?

Práctica – Practice

A: Hola, buenas tardes! (Hello, good afternoon!)

B: Hola, buenas tardes! (Hello, good afternoon!)

A: ¿Cómo estás? (How are you?)

B: Estoy bien, ¿Y tú? (I am fine. And you?)

A: Estoy muy bien. Gracias! (I am very well. Thank you!)

Ok before we end this session today let’s have a quiz from last session here: https://quizlet.com/866928055/spanish-greeting-flash-cards/?i=3ejwy2&x=1qqt

Spanish – Greeting

Hola – “ola” where H is alwasys silent. It means Hello.

Nombre – “Nombrei”. It means Name

Soy [Nombre] = I am [Name]. Ex: Soy Vic = I am Vic. (less common in greeting)

Me llamo [Nombre] = My name is [Name]. Ex: Me llamo Vic = My name is Vic (more common/formal greeting than Soy). Note that e in Spanish is always pronounced as ei and ll is pronounced as Y so it is actually sounded like Mei yamo Vic.

¿Cómo te llamas? = What is your name? where ¿Cómo means How in this context so it also means How do you call yourself?

Mucho gusto – “moo-choh goos-toh” = Nice to meet you. Individually Mucho means a lots whereas gusto means pleasure. All combined means Nice to meet you.

Práctica = Practice

A: Hola (Hello)

B: Hola (Hello)

A: ¿Cómo te llamas? (What is your name?)

B: Me llamo Vic (My name is Vic).

¿Cómo te llamas? (What is your name?)

A: Me llamo Hellene (My name is Hellene).

Mucho gusto (Nice to meet you)

B: Mucho gusto (Nice to meet you)

Python’s saga continue

print dir combo mambo is very handy as other have said. We can see attributes/methods associated with any object in python. here now I can see all the methods I can use against my string object variable fn. And string in python is immutable which is the same thing in C#.

Now if I want to know; for instance, what the method zfill actually would do on the string object I can use print with help BIF which will print the documentation of zfill telling me all about zfill method’s fuctionality. (It might be equivalent C# String.padleft(…))

Colonizing Space

Just when demographers are ringing alarm bells about overpopulation, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says we need to populate our solar system. Mr Bezos was asked for his thoughts on humanity living in outer space in a thousand years’ time. He replied: “I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins.…Space would be full of life and intelligence and energy.” He added that he wants to help “build heavy infrastructure that will be used by the space entrepreneurs of future generations…so that ingenuity and imagination can really be unleashed”.

Mr Bezos’ thoughts are echoed by fellow multi-billionaire Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly known as Twitter). In 2021, he said of the human race: “We don’t want to be one of those single-planet species; we want to be a multi-planet species.” Earlier this year, Mr Musk warned that: “Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming…mark these words.” Mr Bezos conceives of people living in giant space stations. He said most inhabitants of these would visit Earth for vacations. He envisions our planet returning to its pristine environment, as factories would be built in space. He said they would exploit resources on the moon or on asteroids instead of using up Earth’s.


demographer noun an expert in the study of statistics relating to the changing structure of human populations.

ingenuity noun the quality of being clever,

conceives verb

  1. become pregnant with (a child). e.g “she was conceived when her father was 49”
  2. form or devise (a plan or idea) in the mind. e.g “the dam project was originally conceived in 1977” Similar: think up, think of, come up with, dream up, draw up, devise

envisions verb = conceives

pristine adjective new or almost new, and in very good condition:
e.g pristine new offices
e.g Washing machine for sale – only two months old and in pristine condition.