You Should Be Learning Spanish Verbs Like This
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I really like the idea of learning the literal English translations - i.e., “I have heat.” It makes it a lot easier to learn to speak like a native. I wish there was a book in English that told the story in a literal translation way, so I could learn how Spanish speakers form sentences.
I find that having the literal English stored "in parallel" with the Spanish phrases really helps me remember them, and also make better guesses at related or similar phrases. And there's no danger of confusing myself as to what the correct English is... I hope!
I hate how in my audio programs they won't just say the literal translation of what they want me to say . Why won't the program just say ...... "how do you say 'No is romantic" ? Instead ....
No .... the program says ..... how do you say "it's not romantic"
"No est romantico ....."
See.... the instructor set me up! They asked me to say "est no romantico" .... then Said I was wrong because I translated literally what they asked.
"I have heat" is a bit less weird than German's "Mir ist heiß" ("Me is hot").
Hello mate. Could you PLEASE please please make a complete guide video to ‘was’ in Spanish? Fue vs Era vs Estaba vs Estuvo… I’ve been trying to get this concept down now for a little while but I can’t seem to find someone who explains it as concisely as you explain things in your videos, and I’m sure a video from you on the topic would really help!
Yes, please!
Great video topic idea.
Yes i need this
I will find that useful as well.
@@rowanmulvey8632 I’m still hoping lol
When I first moved to Spain I would always say 'Puedo hacer una cita' in the barbers or the dentist, until I was told that it sounds weird to them and it sounds like I'm asking them out on a date. 😅
A natural way to ask here is 'me puedes dar una cita.
Another good one is 'me pones' when asking for something in a cafe. 'Can you PUT me a coffee', for example. It's a great 'in the middle' way of asking for things because it's not as formal as quisiera/me gustaria, nor is it as informal as dame. I think a lot of these things you can really only learn by living in a Spanish speaking country. And so much of it will change between regions and countries. The more Spanish I learn, the more I realise that you can never learn it naturally unless you stop thinking in English.
This is very helpful. I find myself trying to speak in phrases in Spanish that are literal to English instead of how they should be.
This clicked perfectly in my head! Instead of memorizing countless conjugations. Memorizing phrases indirectly teaches you how to conjugate, while increasing your conversation at the same time! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Something that’s really helped me along the way was to always keep in mind that Spanish (or any other language) isn’t just English coded word for word. It has its own syntax, set phrases, rules, patterns etc. The faster you accept this the better.
That's a good way to look at it. I often compare languages to musical instruments. They all share similarities but you cant expect a piano to fit in a violin case.
I've been studying Spanish for 2 years (counting in massive breaks i took) but this channel gave me so much new information and so many 'shortcuts'. I am so surprised no one out of all the people that I watch talked about this
Tienes mucha razon … aprende asi al principio para no andar confundida. Muchas veces tenemos la tendencia de traducir literalmente
Wow, I'm blown away by your approach to Spanish, and absolutely love it. You've referred to your word lists, and since you seem like a very organized guy, I'm wondering if you can share very concrete ways of how you organize word lists and notes. I've accumulated a mountain of notes, very disorganized, and therefore not easy to access. Thanks for any info you can share.
If you ever decide to sell a flash card set with your 'mega verbs', I'm in for a pack.
Thanks for the idea. I'll give that some thought.
@@QrooSpanishI would absolutely buy this is a great idea
You really dropped some gems today! Muchas gracias por tu ayuda. I cant wait for the video using formal and informal commands.😊
For DAR I have two favorite. "Me DA igual", I don't care, and "No DA igual", it doesn't matter. But I am finding not used in all areas of Mexico. But I like them, even if I am still only a rookie Spanish speaker after all these years.
Super valuable video.
Also, me di cuenta.
@@wardm4 thanks much
Una vez más, muchísimas gracias, Paul. Me siento muy afortunada de haberte encontrado.
Me alegra que te gusten los videos. Gracias por seguir el canal. :)
Great video. You're right, English is not a direct translation of Spanish.
Thanks, Paul! I'm really glad I found your channel. Your videos are super helpful, especially since I just started learning Spanish last week. Appreciate you sharing all this useful content!
so I've gotten fluent in Russian learning it since i was 15 and going to russia 9 times. now I decided to learn spanish and have been getting confused on some things. (learning on my own). this video helped a lot so just wanted to express my appreciation. I'll be checking out your channel now for sure as this is the first video I've seen from you. muchas gracias!
Hola.
Puedes usar era o fue (interchangeably) para describir algo que ya ocurrió en el pasado. Por ejemplo ella fue /era una buena amiga.
Ten cuidado porque fue también es del verbo ir (ella fue al supermercado ayer .She went to the super market yesterday).
La palabra "estaba" por su parte, la puedes usar para describir una situación de un momento puntual del pasado (ella estaba muy triste esa noche).
"Estuvo" en cambio,se refiere más a algo que pasó during a period of time.Por ejemplo:Ella estuvo triste por muchos días y lloró mucho.
I hope it helps mate .
Regards from Chile.
Once again, such useful information. Thanks, Paul.
Thanks for continuing to follow the channel.
These videos are really helpful. I speak Spanish as a second language quite fluently I think, but going back and reviewing this stuff is very helpful because I still slip up.
Thanks for this video, Paul!
Wow, you’re amazing!
So much useful information packed into a short video, yet explained very clearly.
I really appreciate your unique approach to learning Spanish. Very helpful and useful to adult English speaker trying to learn to speak sentences, not just know vocabulary. Please keep it up! Also, would love to see those word phrases with the MEGA verbs. Much thanks! Cheers!!
Oh My Gosh another excellent video with great tips on organizing my verb lists. I’m off to work on those lists! I am definitely sharing with my Spanish Homework group. Thank you Paul!
I love your intelligent approach!👍Thanks a lot for all the great lessons & I will keep going through all your videos daily!🙏❤️
Thank you Paul for another excellent video. I love your concise and common sense approach.
Thanks for this incredible lesson Paul.
I've been studying Spanish for a loooong time and did not know some of these constructions. Thank you, again!
Definitely ignored echar (the only one I knew was "echar de menos") & definitely need to learn those. Great tips! Tiene sentido aprender así nuevos vocabularios.🙌
Thank you. Your teaching style is very useful .
WONDERFUL lesson as usual. Muchisimas gracias!
So true-verb usage does not match English word for word !!!!
I'm taking a Spanish class at college and I'm really enjoying it. I love your videos man. You have an awesome skill said that people can benefit from.
This is super helpful sir! Thank you!
Good advise for learning any language. Grazie mille!
Great to find you!!! Love this so far!! thanks
Awesome! Thank you!
OMG another fantastic video Paul. I am taking copious notes and reviewing them. You are an amazing teacher! You seem to be the only Spanish teacher whose videos I look forward to. Thank you so much Paul!
Thanks for continuing to follow the channel. I appreciate it. :)
Awesome thanks!! Very helpful.
Wow I spent some time trying to actually mirror the English translation in Spanish and this video helped so much in trying to study mainly phrases instead of verbs and vocabulary only. Thank you
Love your videos dude. At my level these videos are starting get me to turn the corner. Thank you
That's great to hear!
Good clip, thanks for the valuable tips.
You are literally the best man this is the kind perspective I needed
Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
Hola Many thanks for this, the word lists are great. I went through quite a spell of trying to relate some strange Spanish verb usages to English, like these. My experience is that sometimes you can see a correlation between English and Spanish e.g. Echar to 'throw (say) take a look' and liken it to the English 'cast (throw) a view / glance' but that doesn't get you passed "to miss / spoil" etc. So your advice on creating specific word lists for study is the absolute answer to ensure permanent recall. Thanks again. Steve
Another great video. Your teaching style makes so much sense to me. TY!
Thanks!
Gracias Paul, otro excelente video.
As a linguist, that knows five languages and a language, teacher, myself, I find your approach really refreshing and practical and super helpful with Spanish, which, after several other Romance languages, fills my head with language soup, but I am persevering, and now working at an Apple store in New York with many Spanish-speaking customers. My next hurdle? Possibly Brazilian Portuguese! Wish me luck!
Do you think that I could learn French by practicing 30 minutes everyday by writing down the translation of songs for 10 minutes and trying to sing along, read a children’s book and translate it for 10, and review past translations for another 10 ?. I already know how to speak Spanish, and I have some basic knowledge of French
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Thank you so much! You have helped me so much! This one is one of my top 20! There have been so many good ones!!!
Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I am a beginner working my way through your videos. You're a fantastic teacher!! I'd love more on verb phrases and in some kind of order to really nail a full understanding of the most common verbs and how they are used and not used. Very difficult to gather comprehensive information. It's all piecemeal and will for sure leave many holes in my learning. I'd buy a program if you offered one!!
Thanks Paul! This is great!
Excellent lesson!
Yes, please! Do a video with just the verb phrases of dar!
another goldmine of info! You're right, beginning students don't know about echar. Thank you so much for including that & the other examples.
You are so welcome!
Ps - Sr. Paul explains it so well that I thank God every day that I found this teacher! Mary Jean
Great video
Yeah I’ve been running into these a lot since I’ve been studying the B level. I never really thought about it but we do it too. Like “Take a walk” for example, the verb changes its original meaning.
Excellent. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
another great video, thanks paul !
Thanks!
Great lesson! thank you
Poner huevos was an adjustment for me. My puerto rican neighbor helped me out on that.
Gracias hermano. 🙏🏽😇
Muy disfruta Muchas Gracias.
I did it twice today. You’ll see two partial watches. I put it on landscape and I got to watch your wonderful video without further interruption🙂
Thank you. :)
Gracias, me gusta mucho la información muy práctica.
Tiene sentido aprender así. Gracias por presentarme este método eficaz.👍
Really enjoyed the insight here.
Glad it was helpful!
Always very helpful! Can you do a video on construction of a good word list or make a recommendation?
many many thanks!
You are welcome!
I like the way you teach, very informative and fun at the same time. God bless you Paul
Thank you.
I loved all these verb phrases! I'm over here making notes. :-D
Excelente...gracias.
Great info! More please! It seems to me that learning verb PHRASES is more efficient and reduces the frustration of hearing native speakers who don't (of course) use English syntax/constructions. Any more on your list will be greatly appreciated.
So helpful!! Thanks
Super interesting, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
These videos are great I just found you recently I'm definitely a new subscriber 💪🏾💪🏾
Welcome to the channel. I appreciate the sub.
Greatly reliable and useful :)
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
Yoooo I found you 100k ago! I am bacckkkkk…😂😂 So happy for your growth! You deserve it! 🙏 IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME…….
Welcome back!
Imagine yourself pausing the video at 0:35 and coming up with your own translated responses to these statements. You then pause again at 1:06 to cope with the fact that your responses were all wrong.. 😂 Well done sir.... you have earned your subscription... I must learn the correct way...
Excelente video. Can you make a video on the Spanish R? Your R’s are perfect. Many of us struggle with the Spanish R.
I vote yes to the "dar" phrases video 👍🏼
😅😅 This was a very helpful lesson, thanks1
I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.
Se te da muy bien enseñar. There is a 'dar' phrase that is quite different that the english was of thinking. "Teaching, It gives itself to you well" something like that literally.
great video. thank you! keep'm coming.
Thanks, will do!
Really helpful. Thank you! Do you have a video on idioms/modismos in Spanish?
Muchas gracias
Yeah, I need to be learning verbs usages like "echar de menos" or "echar una siesta", not the Spanish words for "carburetor" or "marionette".
Well Qroo Paul I hope this makes you happy. Most of today's verb sentence were new to me. I am still working on and reviewing your very fine and well put together lessons 1-7 for beginners, but I get kinda excited and sneak previews of your other fine videos. This one, I feel compelled to take detailed notes and review, before going on to lesson 6 of 7. Thank you for your help, I don't mind long well-arranged lessons.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I'm glad that you find the videos useful. That does make me happy. :)
Muchas gracias, me gusta el video 🌻
Me alegra que te guste el video. Un saludo.
LOVE your videos. Would you consider slowing down and spending more time on new things with many examples so we can work on it in real time?
I have noticed something odd to me as a Spaniard. The use of words like "afuera"/"adentro". Let me explain: I don't know how do they work in American Spanish but in European Spanish I think we use the words combined with the preposition "a" when there is movement and their counterparts without "a" for situations whith no movement. Thus, I would say: "He dejado la comida fuera" = "I've left the food outside" as it is the place where the food happens to be (without movement). However, I would say "He sacado la comida afuera" = "I've taken the food outside" (the food has been moved up until that position). The same would apply to other pairs of words:
Fuera/afuera
Dentro/adentro
Delante/alante
Detrás/atrás
Debajo/abajo
Encima/arriba
Spanish has the most complicated verb system of any language I've studied; on the rare occasion that I'm writing something in Spanish, I generally have to look up the verb conjugation (instead of just instinctively knowing how to conjugate a verb). Even Turkish is easier. So in Turkish: "gelmek" ("to come"), "gelirim" ("I come"), "gelirsin" ("you come"), "geldim" ("I came"), "geldin" ("you came"), "geleceğim" ("I will come"), "geleceksin" ("you will come"), etc.
Of course, in Turkish, there's really no way to say "to have"; instead of saying "I have something", the Turkish construct is "My something exists" ("Bir şeyim var"). There's also no equivalent to "to be"; the closest is "olmak" ("to become").
Fantastic. Keep it up.
Specific videos for verbs like dar, tener, tomar, poner... would be veeeery helpful.
One I remember with tener is "how old are you?" is like saying how many years you have "cuántos años tienes?"
Your lessons are really gems and useful
Thank you rose and thanks for continuing to follow the channel.
All you say is quite true and important. The same happens conversely. It is convenient to learn the English verbs at their use in sentences, like the decisions: in English, they are made.
At 6:25, in Spain we say "quitar la mesa". As "levantar" is an opposite to "poner", "quitar" is also an opposite.
"Echar" has many many uses. I will comment a few more: "¡échale ganas!" (make more effort!), or "echar a alguien" = to kick out someone.
You will probably know this already, and this is a very common fault among the spanish speakers, but "para ti" carries no tilde (3:56). Monosyllabic words don't carry it unless it's diacritical. We have "mi" (my) and "mí" (me), so we use it to distinguish them, but there are not two "ti"; the possesive one is "tu".
Thank you for your video.
También ponemos la tele (televisión), ponemos una película, ponemos música, ponemos la radio, quitamos la tele, quitamos la música, quitamos la radio.
El sol se pone. La puesta de sol (the sunset).
Thanks Paul. Please keep teaching more lessons like these. H-o-w they say things in Mexican Spanish is almost as important as the subjunctive! (bet that got your attention)
I heard someone say 'le pone........' and they were talking about the words on a sign!? We say 'it says', they say "it puts'. No way a native English speaker would come up with that intuitively.
True. Those ways of phrasing things are somehting you learn as you go because you are not likely to guess them correctly.
Thanks!
Thank ypu very much!
@@QrooSpanish I really appreciate your videos. Thank you so much. I’m currently in Nicaragua and I’m studying here at a school for the next 11 weeks. Supplementing school with your videos has been tremendously helpful. Thank you.
That sounds like an awesome experience!
May I suggest that when you put the English translation on screen, you also put the literal translation there? You're saying it, but I think there's something about reading "to take a decision" or "to have heat" that would help internalize it. I'm experiencing a bit of a disconnect reading just the English way while knowing and hearing that that's not what they're using in Spanish.
Thanks for the feedback.
I enjoy your videos. Have been learning with Duolingo a little over three months. The big thing I've learned is: el español es muy difícil.
I have a very hard time understanding Spanish. I also tried Duolingo Spanish and honestly, I understand the spoken samples in Duolingo Spanish less well than I understand spoken samples in Duolingo Turkish (despite being able to passively read Spanish so much better). İspanyolca çok zor, ama Türkçe çok kolay :)
Thank you. Again, your short comments about your own learning, did not get in the way. Rather, they were helpful because they were short and very on point. Very helpful. Also, I especially appreciate you explaining and demonstrating how many times translating word-for-word does not really express the thought properly. This would apply to any language! We are still figuring out all the implications of the Tower of Babel Edict!
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The book, 501 Spanish Verbs, not only shows conjugations, but usually it shows different uses like Sr. Paul is teaching. Mary Jean
That is a great book! Here is a link if anyone is interested: amzn.to/46NsYcC