Hi, I am a 64 years old man and I am learning spanish for 12 weeks. The past tenses and the subjonctif are very complicated and confiusing. Sometimes I want to give up because of the verbs. Thank you very much for this video
You bet! We will try to make the verbs clearer and more step-by-step! Make sure to check out the LearnCraft Spanish Podcast if you haven't yet - it breaks down every essential verb into simple lessons :)
Learning Spanish is a journey of discovery. With any journey, there's highs and lows. Just make sure you're having fun along the way. I learned that "me mola" is i love it. I would have said --me encanta. Just like that organically, i've added to my spanish knowledge.
Great lesson. I like how you focus on the top conjugations that are used. Thanks for your fantastic vids, flash cards and also your podcast that I listen to on my daily walks.
Learning Spanish is a journey of discovery. With any journey, there's highs and lows. Just make sure you're having fun along the way. I learned that "me mola" is i love it. I would have said --me encanta.
Thanks for your input! We’re still trying to figure out the right way to approach music in our TH-cam editing. I agree that background music doesn’t make sense for serious, focused learning (we never include music behind the lessons in our courses). But for these TH-cam videos, which are more focused on grabbing learners’ attention, we’re taking a more lighthearted, entertaining approach, because the TH-cam audience seems to like it… as far as we can tell. We’ll consider removing the music altogether for future videos if it makes sense. Meanwhile you can access our entire free course which doesn’t include background music here: lcspodcast.com/1
I love that section towards the end where you clarify the common usage of putting estar in the future. Seeing conjugations of ir used that way was a quick lightbulb moment for me. I've seen it used that way many times and didn't know what to make of it. I'm pretty excited for that lesson now.
Yes in Spain the vosotros is used a lot, but not nearly as much as the other five forms! It's definitely worth practicing if you are focused on European Spanish.
It makes sense to give verb conjugations the structure that the video is lacking: going from the first person singular (I) = (yo) estoy passing on to the second person singular (you) for referring to a second person in the dialogue context = (tú) estás, and getting to the third person context he/she/it referring to a third person = él/ella está and usted (formal second person context) = él/ella/usted está. The same in the plural with we, you, they = estamos, estáis, están (formal ustedes plural as well: ustedes están). Distinguishing between first second and third person in this order is the most basic concept in learning languages.
This is common, and standard in traditional textbook teaching, but we choose not to encourage list-based memorization for our students. If you know the conjugations individually, rather than in a list, it prevents the wasted time of having to run through a list of 5 or 6 items every time you need a verb conjugation. We instead encourage spatially-based memorization, e.g. via memory palaces laid out in two dimensions.
Yes, I agree with your methodology, and it seems to be envogue over the past few years. It's a personal choice. Like the new math I don't like, the traditional teaching works for me.
Depends on the verb! For Ser and Estar, the imperfect is much more rare. But for action verbs like Ir and Hacer, the preterite is much more common than the imperfect.
Hahaha and why is "thERe" pronounced "Thehh" in UK pronunciation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fortunately Spanish pronunciation is MUCH more standardized than English pronunciation!
Great vids! Thanks!
Glad you like them!
Just found your channel and I'm loving it. Thanks!
I'm so glad to hear that!
Thank you
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Hi, I am a 64 years old man and I am learning spanish for 12 weeks. The past tenses and the subjonctif are very complicated and confiusing. Sometimes I want to give up because of the verbs. Thank you very much for this video
You bet! We will try to make the verbs clearer and more step-by-step! Make sure to check out the LearnCraft Spanish Podcast if you haven't yet - it breaks down every essential verb into simple lessons :)
Keep going, they get easier just dont give up.
@incognito96 I'm 66 odd and learning. Don't give up, it's worth the effort. Good luck. ¡BuenAs suerte!
Learning Spanish is a journey of discovery. With any journey, there's highs and lows. Just make sure you're having fun along the way. I learned that "me mola" is i love it. I would have said --me encanta. Just like that organically, i've added to my spanish knowledge.
Don’t try to learn them all at same time. Thoroughly learn each in turn but be aware the others exist. Despacito prro con buena letra.
Great lesson. I like how you focus on the top conjugations that are used. Thanks for your fantastic vids, flash cards and also your podcast that I listen to on my daily walks.
Thanks so much for watching and for your feedback!
Thanks for making it easy.
Very good video. Gracias. I'm subscribing.
Thank you for watching!
Gracias por el vídeo, me mola!
Gracias por ver el video!
Learning Spanish is a journey of discovery. With any journey, there's highs and lows. Just make sure you're having fun along the way. I learned that "me mola" is i love it. I would have said --me encanta.
THANK YOU, AGAIN, TIMOTHY!
Thanks for watching!
Muy buen Gracias para los ejemplos, nos dijiste muchas para español en la vida real
Thank you great video!
Thanks so much for watching it!
Thanks for the good lesson. However, I find the background music distracting.
Thanks for your input! We’re still trying to figure out the right way to approach music in our TH-cam editing.
I agree that background music doesn’t make sense for serious, focused learning (we never include music behind the lessons in our courses). But for these TH-cam videos, which are more focused on grabbing learners’ attention, we’re taking a more lighthearted, entertaining approach, because the TH-cam audience seems to like it… as far as we can tell. We’ll consider removing the music altogether for future videos if it makes sense.
Meanwhile you can access our entire free course which doesn’t include background music here: lcspodcast.com/1
I love that section towards the end where you clarify the common usage of putting estar in the future. Seeing conjugations of ir used that way was a quick lightbulb moment for me. I've seen it used that way many times and didn't know what to make of it. I'm pretty excited for that lesson now.
I'm glad you liked it! We'll post that video soon!
I hear "estais" all the time from native speakers. This analysis gets the 🤔
Yes in Spain the vosotros is used a lot, but not nearly as much as the other five forms! It's definitely worth practicing if you are focused on European Spanish.
"Native speakers use only ten of them" Like really?
Native speakers use all 51 forms! (48 conjugated and 3 unconjugated.) These are just the 10 best to start practicing right away :)
So just the verb to be
Hi! Thanks for watching! Well, one of the uses of verb to be!
It makes sense to give verb conjugations the structure that the video is lacking: going from the first person singular (I) = (yo) estoy passing on to the second person singular (you) for referring to a second person in the dialogue context = (tú) estás, and getting to the third person context he/she/it referring to a third person = él/ella está and usted (formal second person context) = él/ella/usted está. The same in the plural with we, you, they = estamos, estáis, están (formal ustedes plural as well: ustedes están). Distinguishing between first second and third person in this order is the most basic concept in learning languages.
This is common, and standard in traditional textbook teaching, but we choose not to encourage list-based memorization for our students. If you know the conjugations individually, rather than in a list, it prevents the wasted time of having to run through a list of 5 or 6 items every time you need a verb conjugation. We instead encourage spatially-based memorization, e.g. via memory palaces laid out in two dimensions.
Yes, I agree with your methodology, and it seems to be envogue over the past few years. It's a personal choice. Like the new math I don't like, the traditional teaching works for me.
The preterite form (indefinido) is one of the most crucial forms and basically ignored within the supposedly most important verb forms.
Depends on the verb! For Ser and Estar, the imperfect is much more rare. But for action verbs like Ir and Hacer, the preterite is much more common than the imperfect.
great video but being from UK find American pronunciation of English strange. Why is bEEn pronounced as bIn?
Hahaha and why is "thERe" pronounced "Thehh" in UK pronunciation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fortunately Spanish pronunciation is MUCH more standardized than English pronunciation!
@@learncraftspanish And why is letter T in middle of word not pronounced? innernet not inTernet
Music is unnecessary. Good lesson though
I like the music in the background. It's not obnoxiously loud.
I didn’t even notice it until you mentioned it lol
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