This deck will help you make conversations in Spanish clearer. You'll learn how to make sure you understand others, and how to help them understand you, by asking for clarification and explaining your ideas.

Let's start with what to do when you don't hear or understand something. As you already know the formal ¿Puede repetir, por favor?, with a friend you can use the informal form ¿Puedes repetir, por favor?.

For a quicker, more informal way to ask for repetition, you can simply use a rising intonation and say '¿Perdón?' or '¿Cómo?'. Both are very common in everyday speech.

Sometimes you hear the words but don't understand the meaning. To ask for clarification, you can use phrases like '¿Qué quieres decir exactamente?' meaning 'What do you mean exactly?', or '¿A qué te refieres?' meaning 'What are you referring to?'.