curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/es-a1-learn-basic-personal-information/693315faa83d593a624914c7.md
Ángela asks a short follow-up question. The question uses the word ¿cómo?, which is a common way to ask how something is done or expressed. For example:
¿Cómo te llamas? – What is your name?
In this task, pay attention to these words:
y – used to connect ideas or add information.
cómo – means how and is used to ask about the way something happens.
escribe – comes from the verb escribir, which means to write.
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
What is Ángela asking?
She asks about the meaning of Huamán.
She is not asking about the meaning.
She asks about Huamán's origin.
To ask this, she would say ¿De dónde es Huamán?
She asks how to spell Huamán.
She asks who Huamán is.
To ask this, she would say ¿Quién es Huamán?
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Ángela says ¿Y Huamán? ¿Cómo se escribe?
Y connects this question to the previous one.
Cómo is used to ask about the way something is done.
Se escribe means it is written.
The verb escribe comes from escribir, which means to write.
Ángela already knows the last name. Now she asks how to write or spell it correctly.
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