A Little Diversión

      Notice that in the title "diversión" has a little accent over the o. That is because "diversión" is the word for fun en español; Nobody  ever said that learning  Spanish had  to be a bunch of  dull  grammatical  exercises, so I decided to include a group of the same songs which I use in my own class to remember things like the ABC's and adverbs of position; I have found that these have aided memory for students who have felt that they were simply incapable of retaining anything they had learned in Spanish class.  What's more, these seem to be just as much fun for the young at heart as for the young! Use these in conjucntion with my "Introductory Spanish" link and links which I have below.



               For alphabet pronunciation:  http://www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/index.htm
                                               
                                                  El  Rap del  Abecedario  by Barbara Garner

                                    A  B   C  Ch                               Hablo español today.

                                    D    E  F   G                                Es muy fácil you might say.

                                    H    I   J    K                               ¿Hablo español mamá?

                                    L   Ll   M N                               ¡ Las palabras, so many!                        
                  ñ   O    P Q                              ¿Hablo yo mejor que tú?
                                   
                                    R    RR  S  T                              Oh sí, we're on our way.
                                    
                                    U      V    W
                                    
                                    X

                                    Y
                                     
                                     Z                                             Hablamos español much better,
                                                                                     ¡Arriba!

                    A little jingle with the days of the week (See part III on the Introductory Spanish  page)

                                 Lunes, martes, miércoles, tres;
                                 jueves viernes sábado, cuatro, cinco seis,
                                 ¡Y el domigo el siete es!

             The months of the year in a song from San Fermín (the running of the bulls in Pamplona)
                                   
                                                Uno de enero, dos de febrero, tres de marzo, cuatro de abril;
                                                Cinco de mayo, seis de junio, siete de julio, San Fermín;
                                              ¡A Pamplona hemos de ir con una media, con una media y un calcetín!

                                                Los otros meses               y       varias fiestas (holidays)
                    agosto
                    septiembre o setiembre          Día de independencia de México (el 16 de septiembre)
                    octubre                                   Día de la Raza (el 12 de octubre)
                    noviembre                               El Día de los Muertos (el primero y el dos de noviembre)
                   diciembre                                La Navidad (el 25 de diciembre)

                         The Prepositions of Position Song (See part VII on the Introductory Spanish page)

                                     Izquierda, derecha,  delante, detrás;
                         
                                     lejos y cerca y algo más.

                                     Abajo arriba, enfrente, encima;

                                     Y ahora muchachos se acaba la rima!


                                   The Question Word Song  (sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells")

                                                 (Coro)
                                         Quién  means who
                                         Qué is what
                                          Cuándo tells us when
                                          A qué hora asks what time
                                          And dónde where you've been

                                          Cómo how
                                           Por qué why
                                           Para qué what for
                                           Cuál is which
                                           Cuánto how much
                                           We've question words galore!

                                            Ooh! A quién means to whom
                                            Or sometimes it's just who
                                            A dónde is to where
                                            We use it most with ir
                                            De dónde is from where
                                            We use it with great care
                                            What color is ¿de qué color?;
                                            We've got them ¡Qué dolor! Ooh!
         
                                                (repeat coro)