「と」connecting nouns. Means "and".
The particle と can be use to connecting two nouns or more than two nouns. Example sentence:
上野さんは英語と日本語が話せます。( Mr.上野 can speak English and Japanese. )
English is a subject-verb-object language. What that means is the average English sentence starts with a subject, then has a verb, then has an object. On the other hand, Japanese is a subject-object-verb language. Example sentence
In grammer 02, we will learn how to say something is something else. ~は~です。
です is a copula which is used to equate two things. It's one of the regular forms in Japanese. です can act like the English "to be" in the sense that です is used to explain who or what something or someone is. Example sentence