lo que me parece más interesante es ver que ellos tienen los mismos problemas que nosotros al aprender el inglés jajaja

Just _Juan le dió el libro a María_

@@himalayosí 😂 pero al menos el español se escribe como se dice

@@_loaf0 Learning English is possible through tough thorough thought 😂🙃

Thank you! 😃

Haha

I never thought grammar was very important until I started learning a second language.

Thank you!

That's great to hear! I'm glad you liked it.

Haha, my apologies. ;)

Thanks great to hear! Thanks for watching. :)

Creo que depende de la región. Yo por ejemplo esa conjugación imagino que se usaria en una region especifica de mi pais con una entonación muy específica, mientras que con la entonacion de otras regiones sonaria bastante raro. Lo digo porque soy de la region que si diría "A Maria le dio Juan el libro". Lo que no estoy seguro es si es correcta gramaticalmente la frase o no.

Thanks for sharing the page with your Lake Chapala friends. It seems like most expats are content to just "get by" in Spanish. At least that has been my experience in Quintana Roo. Take care and have a great Sunday!

In Spanish we say "eaten bread" instead of "a piece of cake," "Pan comido."

To know expressions like that are helpful as well.

​@@marilynpeoples5099 In Spain we say " Esto es pan comido" , " Esto es coser y cantar" , or " Esto está chupado" , or " chupa'o" ,

Glad it was helpful!

@@QrooSpanishI was an adult trainer for 30 years. Your teaching style ticks all the boxes for this type of learning. Clear, well presented, great examples. 😊

Thanks!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

It agree it wouldn't be the most common, but I have seen/heard it used in Mexico. A very similar example to the one in the video is in this article from Mexico, "Los impuestos los pagamos todas las personas, ya sea como parte de nuestros ingresos, nuestros bienes o en la compra de servicios o productos para la vida diaria." www.tiendanube.com/mx/blog/tipos-de-impuestos/

Glad you liked it!

That's the passive voice!

"A María de fue dado un anillo " " A María se le dio un anillo "

That's an interesting way to translate it. We have the following: A María: Indirect object se: Impersonal mark le: Pronominal form of infirect object dio: verb in past perfect simple un anillo: direct object The first translation would be: A María le fue dado un anillo A María: Indirect object le: pronominal form of indirect object fue dado: passive verb in past perfect simple form un anillo: subject

Thanks! That's a good observation on the whole personal a thing. :)

A typo around the 9 minute mark. It was confusing some folks.

SVO is the default. The translators don't know what info you want to stress so they default to SVO.

In Spanish, we truly do what the video said: we arrange the parts of a sentence in a hierarchy of relevance. We don't do it all the time, as it would be mentally exhausting, but it's not correct that reordering is 'optional'. A sentence like 'Juan le dio el libro a María' can be made into a sentence about Juan, about the book, about María, or about the act of giving, depending on how the parts are ordered. Thus SVO, depending on the context, can be non-neutral just like any other ordering. For example: -¿Dónde está el libro? No lo encuentro. -Juan se lo dio a María. (where 'lo'='the book') If the book isn't Juan's, this is an unspoken accusation that he took the book and gave it to someone else. It is in SVO but the ordering is not neutral because a question *about the book* is given a reply *about Juan*. In this case, a more neutral reply would be: -¿Dónde está el libro? No lo encuentro. -El libro se lo dio Juan a María. Or, to emphasize where the book is now and de-emphasize Juan's role: -El libro, se lo dio a María Juan. Whereas if Juan gave presents to several people, we would say: -A María, Juan le dio el libro. A Alberto, un jersey. It would even be possible to find a context in which the verb itself is emphasized. Imagine we're at María's place now. -¿Dónde está el libro? No lo encuentro. -En casa de Alberto. -Creía que Juan se lo había dado a María. (I thought Juan gave it to María) -Dárselo, Juan se lo dio a María, pero ella se deshizo del libro en cuanto pudo. (He did give it to María, but she got rid of the book as soon as she could.) This verbal duplication may look quite weird but it's occasionally used (Venir vino, pero no trabajó nada: He did come but he didn't do any work at all). An alternative would be "Sí se lo dio" or "Sí que se lo dio". I wish 'He yes gave it to her' existed in English, honestly.

I think it helps to think of it as a pattern. A pattern you can learn and repeat -- even if the end result seems "odd" -- you know what you are saying is 100% correct. In other words, try not to overthink it.

Hi! Spanish speaker here. Some of these ideas or constructions may involve some rare subjunctive tenses, like pluperfects or composed pluperfects -past or future- because they're pretty specific but can be replaced with other tenses, and doesn't have any -or almost any- direct translation in English.

I agree subjunctive+pluperfect may possibly feel like drowning in the ocean for a native English speaker.

Bad song example, by the way

most adjectives just go after the word they are describing. There are several exceptions that go in the beginning though, for extra emphasis. you just have to learn the words

In spanish adjectives goes after noums, you can see the abjective first in a poem for example, without those exception the normal use: NOUM-ADJECTIVE

I wonder the same thing.

Some adjetives (very few) have a different meaning depending on their order. "¡Menuda gente!" expresses surprise: "What people!". "Gente menuda" means "slight peeple".

Adjectives almost always come after nouns, otherwise it sounds cheesy and pretentious. That's a romance feature. The same happens in French. There a few exceptions, such as "buen": un buen libro, una buena taza de café. If you would invert the order, you would say "un libro bueno", but for sone reason it sounds weird. Two adjectives can sandwich the noun, in which case the emphasis falls in the first adjective: una horrible ciudad gris, "a horrible gray city". An alternative is the use of "y": una ciudad horrible y gris. On the other hand, "una horrible y gris ciudad" sounds like something a bad emo teen would write.

Gracias por ver el video. Lo digo así en broma. :)

Juan is the subject of the sentence there so no personal a is used. The personal a is only used when the person is the object of the sentence: Juan vio a María. Juan saw Maria. Juan is the subject and Maria is the object.

@@QrooSpanish Thanks!

Thanks for joining and welcome to The Crew! The only videos that run in order are the ones fro CERO to Conversational and the subjunctive playlist. Otherwise, you can skip around and fill in different parts of your Spanish. Language learning is not a linear process. People learn these things in different orders.

Yes, you could. Spanish offers quite a bit of flexibility.

That "sepan" there is imperative (3rd person plural), not subjunctive. Imperative and present subjunctive tend to be very similar (many times, as in this case, share part of the conjugation) so you have to be careful to not confuse an imperative as a subjunctive. 3rd person is used instead of 2nd person ("sabed") because it's the formal form: the subject of that sentence is "ustedes", not "vosotros". You could convert that sentence to the informal version as: "Pero sabed (vosotros) que dentro de estas paredes...".

I think ( I might be wrong ) that the " se" in " Juan se encontró el dinero en la calle " ,seams to mean that the finding of the money happened by chance without looking for it. Without the " se " and without further context Juand could have been searching for some money he had been looking for.

Now that you mention it, I think you are right. 🤔 My apologies! I might have chosen a wrong example for the "dativo ético". A better example would be: "He eats his food" = "Se come la comida" = "Come la comida". Thank you for having pointed that out. I think that native speakers can miss grammatical nuances regarding our own language. 😅

So "encontrar" is "to find (after looking for something)" whereas the pronominal verb "encontrarse" is "to run into someone" or "to find (something by chance)". Something similar happens with the verb "ir". "ir" means "to go" whereas "irse" means "to leave"

Here's the video in it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbFgaLl1vpmWe2Q.html There is a link to the book in the descrption section of every video.

Thank you so much. Do you also recommend the accompanying workbook?

I haven't looked at the workbook. I really don't think it is necessary. The reference guide is something you can use throughout your Spanish learning journey. All the way from beginner to advanced. I still refer to it from time to time after all of these years.

Awesome thank you!@@QrooSpanish

No, just once. That refers to any third party: El dinero se lo encontró en la calle. You could fill in any third party after the verb: 1. El dinero se lo encontró los hombres. 2. El dinero se lo encontró mi amigo. 3. El dinero se lo encontró él (he)

@@QrooSpanishOK, Thanks a lot. I have got it, I hope 🙂. It is not a situation when I use a direct and indirect object with a pronominal verb but only a direct object and a pronominal verb.

Don't get dscouraged by this. You can work around it on your end. :)

@@QrooSpanish gracias a ti 😍

Whether the verb is truly reflexive or not, the pronouns used with the verb (me,te,se,nos,se) are commonly called reflexive pronouns. Most students call all of the verbs reflexive even if the action does not reflect back on the subject. That's fine, really. The important thing is that you can use the verbs correctly.

@@QrooSpanish Thank you for the clarification. If I want to say "Se me olvidó las llaves" in different word order, I would say "Las llaves se me las olvidó"?

Las llaves se me olvidaron -- Yes, you can say it that way. The verb belongs to the item forgotten with that construction so it is plural (las llaves).

@@QrooSpanish Ah, yes, the verb has to be in plural, " Se me olvidaron las llaves". There are a few expressions that I have been stretching my head about: "Se le acabó la leche", A Gabriela se le acabó la leche. And this is interesting: " Como se te ocurra decirselo a algien" I hear this often "en las telenovelas":) I guess these expressions just belong to category 3.

Yes, the emphasis is on who paid them.

You have to think of it differently. This one does not fit your English paradigm so neatly. In Spanish, they are literally saying this: To Juan, the strawberries are enchanting. To Maria, skiing is pleasing. In those examples, Juan and Maria are objects. We just don't typically speak that way in English so we "interpret" these sentences as Juan loves strawberries and Maria likes skiing.

@@QrooSpanish, thanks. That helps. I was initially interpreting that you meant that Maria and Juan were the objects in the English version as well. But is see now how strawberries and skiing are the subjects in the Spanish version. Thanks again!