11:40 Yes Pleaase do a Se video! 😭🙏🏼

A se quiz would be great!

This is a really helpful explanation! Understanding “se” has been one of my biggest challenges and I can totally relate to the feelings of anxiety that it causes. Glad to know it gets better. Thanks again and would love a SE quiz;) Saludos desde California

The mental imagery of victim is such a great help.

i love your videos. great energy and connection. i’m learning a lot

Try learning Spanish from the Cubans here in Miami they talk so bloody fast with a thick accent you ain't got no time to examine the context. You guys are great helped me alot with my Spanish

Thanks to you both for another great video.

To be fair, I've had these experiences in English too, where I've momentarily struggled to figure out who the subject was. Obviously it happens a lot less frequently in your native language, but it still happens from time to time. It's funny how we beat ourselves up for not understanding every single word in a novel in our target language, yet we just let it go in our native language and don't even think twice about it. I think this has to do with overall understanding, and ease of understanding. Because the overall picture can be vague at times when reading in our target language, it makes you feel like every single word and grammar detail is crucial. However, in our native language, the overall picture is usually very clear, so we find it easier to let go of the minor details, like the odd unknown word, because we're completey understanding the overall message; the unknown word isn't hindering our understanding of the text.

You guys are hilarious 😂. Thanks for the lesson!

Me encanta os videos. Yo quiero aprender espanol, porque voy a viajar a Espana.

13:00 This discussion is probably my biggest take away from genuinely learning to speak a language (rather than just pass an exam like in secondary school). It is a question of repeating something until it becomes 'natural'. I found a lot of Spansh structures felt alien and overly complicated when I started but then with time it just became something normal. It's kind of strange but it seems to happen subconsciously, similar to how the phonetics of a language initially seem like a babel of noise but then slow, subsciously, get recognised as words without you even having to mentally think about it. And strangely I've found that other Romance languages such as Italian or Portugese, simply through familiarity with Spanish, seem far less alien when reading or hearing them even if I don't understand all the words. The grammar and phonetics seem to be picked up and recognised even if the vocabulary isn't clear in a way that it wouldn't be with say Polish or Icelandic. One of my pet subjects is medieval architecture (I recently got back from Burgos for this exact reason) and yet I had never heard of The Pillars of the Earth before, so I really should pick up this book.

Se gets right up my nose. I could send 10 messages a day to my Spanish friend asking, 'what does this se mean, what does that se mean'?....and it looks to me like half the time it's not needed because the verb conjugation does the heavy lifting. Aaaaarrrgghh it's sooooo annoying 🤯

Please do more advanced videos porfi

Hi Gordon and Cynthia. Couldn't se lo puso also mean,- he put it on them. (On them it he put,) where the se is a replacement for les. Or of course, she put it on them or you formal put it on them. But, I know, you can't explain every little nuance and intricacy. Anyway, like you Gordon, se has driven me to despair for more than five years but finally I think I'm there with it. O mejor dicho at least now I've got a fighting chance with it. Thank you both for your great work.

The “sponsor” announcement sounded like an American “midwestern” accent, which is our standard.

Really helpful video but the spelling of the word “celing ” is incorrect. Should be Ceiling. Gracias

Cuándo va a hacerlo

3.30 hahahaha

So not... me puso?