How do you say i like to dance in spanish
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I like to dance(
ay
layk
tuh
dahns
)
A phrase is a group of words commonly used together (e.g once upon a time).
phrase
1. (general)
a. me gusta bailar
Do you like to sing? - No, but I like to dance.¿Te gusta cantar? - No, pero me gusta bailar.
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gustar | |
bailar el baile | |
I like you | me caes bien me gustas |
What do you like to do? | ¿Qué te gusta hacer? |
look like | parecerse a |
do you like | te gusta les gusta |
Do you like me? | ¿Te caigo bien? ¿Les caigo bien? |
I like to read | me gusta leer |
What are you like? | ¿Cómo eres? |
Would you like . | ¿Te gustaría ... ? |
What would you like to drink? | ¿Qué quieres tomar? |
What do you like? | ¿Qué te gusta a ti? |
you like | te gusta les gusta |
like this | |
I like to listen to music | me gusta escuchar música |
I like to eat | me gusta comer |
what is the weather like | cómo es el clima |
I don't like | no me gusta |
just like | igual que |
What would you like? | ¿Qué te gustaría? ¿Qué les gustaría? |
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i%20%20like%20to%20dance
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me gusta bailar
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Phrases
I like to dance(
ay
layk
tuh
dahns
)
A phrase is a group of words commonly used together (e.
g once upon a time).
phrase
1. (general)
a. me gusta bailar
Do you like to sing? - No, but I like to dance.¿Te gusta cantar? - No, pero me gusta bailar.
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Examples
Phrases
gustar | |
bailar el baile | |
I like you | me caes bien me gustas |
What do you like to do? | ¿Qué te gusta hacer? |
look like | parecerse a |
do you like | te gusta les gusta |
Do you like me? | ¿Te caigo bien? ¿Les caigo bien? |
I like to read | me gusta leer |
What are you like? | ¿Cómo eres? |
Would you like . | ¿Te gustaría ... ? |
What would you like to drink? | ¿Qué quieres tomar? |
What do you like? | ¿Qué te gusta a ti? |
you like | te gusta les gusta |
like this | |
I like to listen to music | me gusta escuchar música |
I like to eat | me gusta comer |
what is the weather like | cómo es el clima |
I don't like | no me gusta |
just like | igual que |
What would you like? | ¿Qué te gustaría? ¿Qué les gustaría? |
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"To like" in Spanish, the verbs gustar and encantar
How do you express your preferences in Spanish? Various verbs or expressions will help us with this, among which the most popular is gustar.
Literally, this verb means "like" and, in fact, it is very similar to the Russian verb in its application.
Rule number 1: gustar is conjugated depending on the object you like.
Here are some examples in Russian:
- I like this movie.
What does the word "like" depend on here? From "me" or from "this movie"? Let's do an experiment and replace "me" with other pronouns. Like this movie: who? (to you, you, her, him, them, us)
That is, the pronouns do not affect the conjugation of the Russian verb! The same thing happens in Spanish!
Let's write a similar phrase in Spanish:
| Me | gusta esta pelicula. | i |
| Te | you | |
| Le | her, him, you (sing.) | |
| Nos | US | |
| Os | you (multiple, informal) | |
| Les | im, you (multiple) |
What happens if the word "movie" is (película) plural? Right! We will get:
- Me gustan estas peliculas.
- I like these films.
Since we have films in the plural, then the verb will correspond to the third person of the plural.
Is it possible to use gustar not only in the forms gusta, gustan (3rd person), but also in other forms (on yo, tú, nosotros, vosotros, for example)? Of course, yes! For example sentence "I like you" would look like this: "Me gustas" .
That is, our verb gustar is an absolutely correct and normal verb, but due to the fact that me, te, le, nos, os, les are regularly used before it, people mistakenly take them for personal pronouns in the nominative case and are confused, "adjusting" the verb under them, and not under "object of sympathy" .
So, we present you the verb gustar in the present tense: gusto, gustas, gusta, gustamos, gustais, gustan.
Shapes in bold are the most popular.
It is noteworthy that with gusta the infinitive is also used. For example:
- Me gusta bailar y cantar. - I like to sing and dance.
Spanish has more than just gustar to express preference. His relative encantar also helps us out in this case. It is used in exactly the same way and is also correct.
He means: "like very much" .
- Me encanta esta pelicula. - I really like this movie (I love this movie).
Well, if you wished to say "I don't like" , then there is a slight difference from our language. The negation no will come before me, te, le, nos, os, les and not before the verb.
- No me gusta esta pelicula. - I don't like this movie.
NACHOO DUATO ABOUT FLAMENCO AND ANTONIO HADEZ
Ludmila Mochalova
Nacho Duato.
Interview October 19, 2018, Mikhailovsky Theater Nacho Duato. Photo from the Mikhailovsky Theater website
The remarkable Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato barely managed to find half an hour in his work schedule for a conversation about the upcoming tour of the Antonio Gades troupe in St. Petersburg. At the appointed time, representatives of the three parties interested in this meeting gathered in the office box of the Mikhailovsky Theater: the St. Petersburg TV channel, the Vaganova Academy and the Museum of Theater and Musical Art.
Anticipating any questions, Nacho Duato said: “I don't know much about Hades, but I knew him and met him shortly before his death. I am always ready to talk about Hades and any other Spanish choreographer. Then, of course, we talked about flamenco: this is the word that everyone hears, this is how any Spanish folk dance is often called.
NACHO DUATO: Flamenco is not a Spanish dance at all, it exists mainly in the south, in Andalusia, and it is danced mainly by gypsies.
When flamenco is danced in, say, Barcelona, it's not really the same. Not all Spaniards can dance flamenco. My favorite type of flamenco is danced on small tablados (stages), and no more than 20-25 minutes. It's like voodoo. In other cases, one must speak of the Spanish dance; there you can make large compositions, for an hour and a half, you can put on performances - "Love the Magician", "Bloody Wedding", "Fuente Ovehuna". Then they use the Spanish dance, the dance of the classical Spanish school, to tell the story. But real flamenco is different, it's not a game. It's like a religion. It happens. You get inspired and dance for 20 minutes in a small space where the audience is very close to the artists. That's what flamenco is to me.
The word "flamenco" means "landless". These are people who worked for the rich; they didn't have their own land. They were called "flamenco". This is a dance for the minority, for the poor people, that's how they could express their life and anger and passion - through dance and singing.
Now flamenco has spread all over the world, there are schools everywhere, from Japan to Australia. Everyone is trying to dance flamenco. But this is not quite, or even not at all, what this dance really is. I love flamenco and I love gypsies. About two weeks ago I gave an interview on Spanish television about the independence of Catalonia, about flags, Spanish, Catalan... I have to say, I hate flags. They can be dangerous. But I like the gypsy flag. It is blue on top and green on the bottom. This is heaven and earth. And the cart wheel in which the gypsies travel. Wherever they go, they plant this flag and that place becomes their land. How nice it would be if we didn't have borders or flags. But I understand it's impossible. I love my flag and respect yours.
- Antonio Gades has been called the last romantic of the genre. Do you think they imitate him today or do something modern?
- Don't underestimate other choreographers like Antonio Soler, José Antonio, Mariemma, Cristina Hoyos, and me too.
I don't work with flamenco, but I am a Spanish choreographer. But I think: Antonio was the best. He made flamenco international, through dance he made our music, our literature world-famous, through such ballets as "Blood Wedding", "Fuente Ovehuna", "Carmen". In style, he reminds me of Vicente Escudero. I really like Escudero, his dancing language; and I love Hades. He was elegant, he was a real artist, very stylish.
- Antonio Gades' troupe will tour our city in November. Do you think St. Petersburg and flamenco are compatible?
- Of course! We are very far from each other, but in some way we have the same temperament: in literature, in music, in dance. A couple of glasses of vodka - and you have a Spanish character! You are very kind! And I'll tell you what: you have an incredible folklore! The dance folklore of Russia is something incredible! And Spanish too. We have flamenco, we have jotas - Valencian jota and Aragonese jota, and others, each province has its own, we have buleria .
.. Each province has beautiful dances. The Balearic Islands... There the dance comes from the Jews, from the Sephardim; they have absolutely incredible music, and melodies, and dance... I think you care more about preserving your folklore, for your own reasons. But both of our countries have a load of history.
You were acquainted with Antonio Gades. Tell us about your personal impressions.
- I met Antonio many times. He was a very, very nice person.
I just wanted to ask about your personal impressions of him.
- We worked simultaneously at the National Dance Theater in Madrid. We were both theater choreographers, he in Spanish folk dance, I in modern dance. We worked in the same building and met from time to time. We drank, ate and talked about work. But it wasn't a real dance talk. I just admired them. I was much younger, I am now as old as Antonio then. But again, he was a very charismatic person. I also liked his ideas, I liked that he went to Cuba.
There was a moment when he stopped dancing, sailed to Cuba on his own yacht and lived there for some time. He was friends with Castro, he liked both his politics and life itself on the island. I like it all too. We enjoyed talking about it.
- Have you seen him dance?
- Of course. He was not only a flamenco dancer, he also mastered the technique of classical Spanish dance, and could perform all the movements of classical ballet. He also had a beautiful body, very slender, with elongated proportions.
The troupe also brings his ballet based on Lorca's "Blood Wedding"...
- Wonderful ballet! I saw him with him and with Christina Hoyos. I am well acquainted with Christina Hoyos. I was at her house. Her house is on a hill; we sat, drank manzanilla and ate snails, and under us was the whole of Seville ... She is a wonderful dancer, a wonderful choreographer and a wonderful person. It is impossible to separate a wonderful person from a wonderful choreographer.
Excellent dancers and choreographers are usually excellent people.
What is "duende"? You have a ballet with that name.
- "Duende" in flamenco is... I have already said that flamenco is a kind of voodoo, and here duende is a state of mind and connection with the universe, something like that. This is not given to everyone. But of those to whom it is given, we say: "He has a duende." These are not my words, this explanation is given by Lorca. It comes from the gypsies. But in my ballet, the meaning is completely different - it is about the heroes of Spanish folklore, little gnomes and elves.
It is said that you were one of the best students of Maurice Béjart...
- Really? I was one of very many there. It's funny. When I was with Bejart in Mudra.
.. Maurice really liked Spain, he loved flamenco, he looked like a Spaniard, he spoke Spanish, he saw Antonio, he loved Lorca, he loved Spanish dances, he knew and loved Spanish culture and music. Bejart knew that he had a Spanish dancer at his school. And there were people of about twenty nationalities: Greeks, Germans, Italians, Koreans, Americans and one Spaniard - me. And he was looking for someone who looks like a Spaniard. I don't look like a Spaniard. And he asked everyone: "Are you a Spaniard?" And my appearance is more German or Swedish. I don't look like a Spaniard. But he saw me dancing farruka, and he understood everything: "So you are a Spaniard!"
Do you use the Spanish national dance in your ballets?
- No. But somehow it's in my blood. Although I'm not a gypsy and not even from the south. I feel like a man of the Mediterranean, I feel more like a Venetian than a gypsy from Andalusia. Athens is closer to me than Seville.
What about your Spanish dance in The Nutcracker?
- There's a Spanish theme, but it's not a real Spanish dance.
This is such a stylization, inspired in part by the costumes. Everything is made for classical ballet. This is a more earthy and more folkloric version than the classic pointe version: not pointe shoes, but shoes, a little more shoulder movement, but it's not real flamenco. This is Duato's fantasy.
On the posters of Spanish dance companies, we often see the word "flamenco"...
- Yes, because it attracts a much larger audience.
Flamenco is sometimes combined with classical ballet or something else. But some flamenco dancers are looking for common ground with modern choreography.
- Yes, that too. Lots of. I think even, perhaps, too much.
You don't like it?
- Yes, not really. I was in Berlin, at the Spanish embassy, and there were two women - I don't remember their names, unfortunately - they were dancing something very modern, on the floor, in very strange positions, very modern, and with a bit of flamenco.
.. I was talking already that flamenco is akin to voodoo or katakali, a kind of religious act. It cannot be mixed with anything, it must be respected.
And when Israel Galvan and Akram Khan dance together?
- Yes, it is... They are completely different, but they are both very good choreographers and very good performers. Israel is a wonderful dancer, and very modern. This is modern flamenco. Everything changes with time. When I do my classical productions here, they also say that this is madness, that it is incomprehensible. So what? Everything is changing.
To keep the tradition, perhaps you need to have "duende"?
- Yes, of course. Very few people get it. It certainly was with Antonio Gades. And Christina. And Argentina, Mariemma, Esmeralda and other dancers. But these are special people. Just like in classical ballet.
Flamenco involves the improvisation of dance. How does this compare with the preservation of the legacy of Antonio Gades?
- Hades did not stage flamenco.
He just used his elements. This is a classic Spanish dance, bolero and the like. They have very good assistants in the troupe, and, in addition, there are accurate recordings. Everything is kept very well. His wife - his last wife - works for the Hades Foundation and she is very careful about it. I saw her this summer in Madrid, and she told me how they really take care of everything in Hades' performances: they keep not only the choreography, but also the costumes, scenery, lighting.
I saw Antonio Gades in "Carmen" here in Leningrad 30 years ago and I'm a little afraid to watch the modern version.
- No, no, don't be afraid. Feel free to go look. They have very good dancers. It will be wonderful!
"Carmen" is a common theme for everyone who comes to Spain as a tourist...
- Yes, a common theme. But then again: in "Carmen" Hades - excellent directing. Excellent choreography, excellent dancers and very modern directing.
