How To Say "Excuse Me" & "Please" In Spanish | TruFluency Kids

MicahHi everyone, I’m Micah, founder of TruFluency Kids Spanish Immersion Classes for Kids online, here with my buddy Alex. 

AlexHello!

MicahAnd we’re doing our weekly Spanish Phrase to help parents who don’t speak Spanish to incorporate it. So Alex, you told me that one of your kids was telling you to move.

AlexYes, she’s not even three years old, she’s two and she said ‘Mama, move’.

MicahAnd so we’re gonna do, Alex thought it was a good idea to learn polite phrases today. So what do you want to teach us, Alex?

Spanish Phrase #1 – How to Say Excuse Me in Spanish: Con Permiso.

AlexI’m gonna teach you ‘Con permiso’ which is…

Micah‘Con permiso’

AlexCon permiso, it means ‘with your permission.’

MicahAnd so like if I bump into you or like that? Or no?

AlexNo, con permiso is excuse me. Like if you’re walking and you want somebody to move, you say with your permission, move. It’s con permiso.

MicahOkay, so this is the polite way to say ‘move’.

AlexYes.Con permiso.

MicahOkay, so I remember somebody said this to me when I was living in Mexico. They had to reach across me to get something in the grocery store. And they said con permiso because they had to reach in front of where I was. 

AlexYou have to get their permission to go around them.

MicahBe in their space.

AlexYes.Or move them from where they are.

MicahOkay.

AlexNow, this is the tricky one because it’s one word. It’s compermiso not con, it means con permiso with your permission but they made it one word, it has an m so it’s compermiso.

MicahOkay and the next one.

Spanish Phrase #2 – How to Say Please in Spanish: Por Favor.

AlexPor favor.

MicahPlease.Por favor.

AlexPor favor, Please.

MicahSo, you have her saying that?

AlexYes.and Gracias. Thank you.

MicahOkay, alright let’s practice again so you have to reach, oh, you have to pass somebody, they’re standing in the middle of the grocery aisle and you say to them.

AlexCon permiso.

MicahSo that we can pass by them. 

AlexThen afterwards the lady doesn’t give you the receipt so you have to say  “the receipt, por favor.”

MicahPor favor.Please.

AlexAnd after she hands you the receipt you say ‘gracias’.

MicahPerfect. Okay, use that this week guys, make sure your kids are being polite in Spanish.