If you don’t know Spanish and are interested in learning it, the first step is to be able to say who you are talking about. In other words, you need to know the subject pronouns. There are 9 commonly used subject pronouns in Latin America and Spain will add an extra one usually.

Singular Pronouns	Plural Pronouns
Yo	Nosotros
Tu’	(Vosotros)
E’l, Ella, Ud.	Ellos, Ellas, Uds.

When you are talking about yourself, you use the singular pronoun, “yo.” If you’re talking about yourself and someone else, that would be the plural form we, which is “nosotros.” The “tu’” form is the familiar form for you. In other words, the person is younger than you or you know them pretty well.

The plural form of the familiar you, as in you all, would be “vosotros,” but it is mostly used in Spain, the Bible and other older literature. “E’l” is the third person singular pronoun for he, “ella” for she, and “Ud.” (which is pronounced usted) is the more formal way to say you. To make those plural, you say “ellos” for them, “ellas” for a group of girls and “Uds.” (ustedes) for you all.

Once you have learned the subject pronouns, it is easier to conjugate various verbs in their correct form. One way to practice this is pointing to whoever you are talking about and saying the correct Spanish pronoun. Point to yourself and say, “Yo.” Point to yourself and another person and say, “Nosotros.” You get the idea! You can also do this by looking at pictures of friends and family and act like you are talking to them (tu’, Uds.) or about them (ellos, ellas).

Check out the video from YouTube where they discuss personal pronouns and even have a song to help you learn them!

Panama Trivia

Did you know that we use the US dollar here? It was adopted in 1903 when they gained their independence. They also have a national currency called the Balboa which is a coin, but everywhere takes the US currency and Balboas. The Balboa and dollar are at a fixed rate of 1:1. Panama was the first Latin American country to adopt the US dollar as their currency. It sure makes credit card purchases easy – no conversion fees!

I'm sorry that I couldn't get my computer to correctly do the accent marks. I put them after the letter they should be over. e'l, tu'.

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