Gracias Qroo Paul. 1:35 🎯 Esta lección fue hecha para ayudarnos a aprender como usar el pasivo correctamente.👍 El vídeo hecho por Qroo Paul me ayudó muchísimo.🎯
You are a wonderful teacher. Your lessons are pragmatic and fun at the same time. Please make more videos ‘cos I’d like to learn more about everyday Spanish. Actually, I’ve learnt more from your videos than in class. ¡Muchas gracias!
Hey I just watched this video for the first time. Its 11 months old now so it just goes to show that this channel is slowly catching on. I love these classic old animation based videos, but then again the fresh stuff shows video of the instructor live which indicates that this channel is getting more technically sophistacated.
you have a natural knack for teaching in a way that makes it fun and easy for viewers to learn everything from foundational to more complex and unique topics that usually aren’t covered in school. I really enjoy the animations and would love to see them make a comeback, even if only every now and then :) thanks for all you do, you’re making a difference and helping so many reach their goals! keep up the great work Paul 😊
A topic I associate with the gender part of your discussion here is use of "el" before feminine nouns beginning with "a" or "ha". I will probably run into your coverage of that as I work through the videos.
Hi Paul, I'm pretty clear on forming the passive voice using SER + the Past Participle. But, I ran into something interesting when writing down your incomplete sentence examples demonstrating past participles. I decided to turn those examples into complete sentences by inserting the properly conjugated form of SER. Well, Google Drive flagged one or the other of my changes, so, to find out what was going on, I started plugging the English sentences into Span¡shD!ct to see what translation they provided. In all of the sentences except for one the three robo-translators used the conjugated form of SER. But, in "The cars were parked near the beach" the translation for all three robo-translators was "Los carros estaban estacionados cerca de la playa". I changed the sentence to "The cars are parked near the beach". and all three translators came back with "Los carros están estacionados cerca de la playa" Google translate comes back with the same thing using ESTAR. I can't figure out why.
The translators are not detecting that this is the passive voice because you did not include "by whom" they were parked. The cars were parked near the beach by the workers. That is not how I would generally say that, but it does use the construction. The passive voice is useful with SER is useful here and there, but in many cases, where we would use the passive voice in English but not say who did it, "The tickets are sold near the beach, " in Spanish, is more often expressed with the reflexive: Se venden los boletos cerca de la playa. Still, I use the passive with SER when saying things like, Mexico fue conquistado por los españoles. My advice would be to use the passive with ser sparingly and most often with POR and who performed the action.
@@QrooSpanish Thanks. Other sources of information I came across pointed out the same thing about this passive voice construction not being used as much in Spanish as it is in English. Before writing my comment, I compared the other phrases to see if the "parked cars" one was different in its construction or in some other significant way, and three of them don't have a "by whom" prepositional phrase. At the time, I couldn't see any difference, but now, after taking a second look, I see that all of the other examples have a prepositional phrase immediately after the past participle, but the "parked cars" example is different because it has the past participle followed by "cerca". I guess "cerca" is an adverb here?! Still, why would that fake out the robo-translators?! Those are rhetorical questions...I don't expect an answer. Oh well, another glitch to keep us on our toes. Thanks again.
Thanks for this vid! It was a nice challenge doing the exercise for irregular and regular pp - what do you call it when you translate from infinitive verb to past adjective? Is there a name for it, maybe I missed it?
Hello. I have a question. I have already understood the cognate trick, but how will I know whether to make certain words into "-ar", "-er"", or "-ir" verbs?
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Gracias Qroo Paul. 1:35 🎯 Esta lección fue hecha para ayudarnos a aprender como usar el pasivo correctamente.👍 El vídeo hecho por Qroo Paul me ayudó muchísimo.🎯
You are a wonderful teacher. Your lessons are pragmatic and fun at the same time. Please make more videos ‘cos I’d like to learn more about everyday Spanish. Actually, I’ve learnt more from your videos than in class. ¡Muchas gracias!
Thanks, Timothy. I have several more videos planned for this channel. :)
Aplasté el botón de pulgar arriba. Me encantó éste contenido. Aunque sea fácil, todavía aprendí unas cosas.
Hey I just watched this video for the first time. Its 11 months old now so it just goes to show that this channel is slowly catching on. I love these classic old animation based videos, but then again the fresh stuff shows video of the instructor live which indicates that this channel is getting more technically sophistacated.
This channel has never been as popular as my main channel but I keep at it because I enjoy helping those few folks who find the videos useful..
You have a very simple way of teaching. It is great!
Thanks! I'm glad you like it.
you have a natural knack for teaching in a way that makes it fun and easy for viewers to learn everything from foundational to more complex and unique topics that usually aren’t covered in school. I really enjoy the animations and would love to see them make a comeback, even if only every now and then :) thanks for all you do, you’re making a difference and helping so many reach their goals! keep up the great work Paul 😊
Thank you for the feedback. :)
you're a great teacher.
I appreciate that!
Thanks!
Thank you so much, Paul. You are always so generous. I really appreciate it.
Your lessons are a great help! Thank you so much for your time and effort.
Glad you like them!
Great lesson, thanks- as you move along you answer questions I am wondering about. Keep these going!
I'm glad you find them useful. :)
Super helpful, need to watch and practice again. Thanks. Loving this channel.
Thanks!
Nice,I liked the rhythm of this lesson. Thank you.
¡Muchas gracias Paul!
Buen trabajo!
A topic I associate with the gender part of your discussion here is use of "el" before feminine nouns beginning with "a" or "ha". I will probably run into your coverage of that as I work through the videos.
Amazing lesson .
Hi Paul, I'm pretty clear on forming the passive voice using SER + the Past Participle. But, I ran into something interesting when writing down your incomplete sentence examples demonstrating past participles. I decided to turn those examples into complete sentences by inserting the properly conjugated form of SER. Well, Google Drive flagged one or the other of my changes, so, to find out what was going on, I started plugging the English sentences into Span¡shD!ct to see what translation they provided. In all of the sentences except for one the three robo-translators used the conjugated form of SER. But, in "The cars were parked near the beach" the translation for all three robo-translators was "Los carros estaban estacionados cerca de la playa". I changed the sentence to "The cars are parked near the beach". and all three translators came back with "Los carros están estacionados cerca de la playa" Google translate comes back with the same thing using ESTAR. I can't figure out why.
The translators are not detecting that this is the passive voice because you did not include "by whom" they were parked. The cars were parked near the beach by the workers. That is not how I would generally say that, but it does use the construction. The passive voice is useful with SER is useful here and there, but in many cases, where we would use the passive voice in English but not say who did it, "The tickets are sold near the beach, " in Spanish, is more often expressed with the reflexive: Se venden los boletos cerca de la playa. Still, I use the passive with SER when saying things like, Mexico fue conquistado por los españoles. My advice would be to use the passive with ser sparingly and most often with POR and who performed the action.
@@QrooSpanish Thanks. Other sources of information I came across pointed out the same thing about this passive voice construction not being used as much in Spanish as it is in English. Before writing my comment, I compared the other phrases to see if the "parked cars" one was different in its construction or in some other significant way, and three of them don't have a "by whom" prepositional phrase. At the time, I couldn't see any difference, but now, after taking a second look, I see that all of the other examples have a prepositional phrase immediately after the past participle, but the "parked cars" example is different because it has the past participle followed by "cerca". I guess "cerca" is an adverb here?! Still, why would that fake out the robo-translators?! Those are rhetorical questions...I don't expect an answer. Oh well, another glitch to keep us on our toes. Thanks again.
Thanks for this vid! It was a nice challenge doing the exercise for irregular and regular pp - what do you call it when you translate from infinitive verb to past adjective? Is there a name for it, maybe I missed it?
Liked it but not quite there yet. Need to get a grip on the PRESENT first.
Hello. I have a question. I have already understood the cognate trick, but how will I know whether to make certain words into "-ar", "-er"", or "-ir" verbs?
If you are converting from the cognate trick TION-CION and then making verbs, they will always be AR verbs.
@@QrooSpanish That really helps out a lot. Thank you so much, Mr. Paul
Love the animation! You some skinny legs!! Lol 😆 🤣 😃🤪🤓
I need to work harder on leg day at the gym...lol.
Wakenontsitanon:waks! - i have a headache!
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