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Same here bro

Learn phrases and sentences, like QROO Paul says. I would not have put it so eloquently, but I did that as well, sometimes without even thinking about it. For instance, I worked with the public in a gas station. One of the phrases I learned was, "Como puedo ayudar te?" (My apologies for poor spelling; I am sure I misspelled one of those). Another I learned was, "¿Junto o separado?" Together or separate, literally translated. Ask questions targeted to your Spanish learning experience, as best you can. The best sentence I can suggest for learning is. "¿Comó se dice?" Again my apologies. I am unsure whether I spelled(accented) that correctly, but the joyful thing about Spanish accent marks is that they are entirely visual. Missing the accent mark on Como, Se, El, and All does not change the sound in the least! And in the more complicated words, the accent mark always tells you what syllable to stress, so if you do change your accent, you change it toward the correct way. Back to Como se dice, this is How-do-you-say, literally How-you-say. Say that phrase, point to the object in question, and add, "en Español" at the end of it. I daresay that I added a thousand words to my vocabulary with this sentence alone. I even once used it to help learn a Chinese phrase! Long story short, lots of Chinese customers, and I was looking for tidbits. I asked him, " ¿Comó se dice, 'es todo', en Poo-Tong-Wah? " My accent for his response is horrible, and I don't use what little bad Mandarin that I have learned now, but the idea that I could speak to a Chinaman in Spanish to learn a Mandarin phrase--best language mind-trip ever! Comó se dice. Coe-moe say dee-say, phonetically spelt for English natives. Use that regularly, and I guarantee that Español empezará bailar de su lengua. I guarantee that Spanish will begin to dance from your tongue, si este frase es usado regularmente.

I can code switch very well, always could. I just switch to thinking in other languages

You feel like crying when you hear Spanish. When you see a Spanish speaker coming in your direction you feel pain in your head and bowels. Your knees get weak. When Spanish speakers are talking you pray to all of the gods of création that they do not ask you anything and even better yet that you are made invisible. Welcome back into thé club. Welcome back into the fold. Welcome back to your early childhood. What an awful state. I will never leave that age of helplessness, ignorance, and the terror those two states of being create. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idCljdRenba5p2Q.html

The only magic bullet I've found is just practicing everyday. That and learning conjugations. I used to study hours at a time. To me it seems better just to spend maybe 30 minutes a day, everyday.

¡No estás bromeando! No aprendí mucho en mis classes.

Clases.

Good timing. :)

Same LOL! Was just going over some notes I took last night

Glad to hear that. :)

There are other verbs that use the gerund. I am actually working on a video to go through the most common ones. As far as sarcasm, I think it just comes down to tone.

There is a forma of ¿Qué quieres? That is similar to tonal ¿what do you want? Just add the person spoken to up-tonal or a diminutivo up-tonal. ¿Qué quieres Amándá? Què quieres amorcĩta. And the insulto ¿QUÉ (pause) quieres güey? ¿Quieres qué ? "No tu tengas ganas ya." Also changes the focus. Yo quiero que... ¿qué yo quiero! Que tu disfrutes español porque es un idioma bonito y rico.

We use the gerund when we want a verb to behave like an adverb of manner next to another verb. Vine conduciendo (I got here by driving) Aprendí preguntando (I learnt by asking questions) Constructions like 'sigue andando' o 'continúa esforzándote' are not exactly the same but do use the same mechanics, the intended meaning of 'sigue' or 'continúa' is perceived as incomplete until you specify 'doing what'. The what can also be omitted if clear from the context. -¿Qué haces? -Estoy entrenando. -Muy bien, sigue. Btw, we do say 'entrenando' by English influence, though the correct form would be 'entrenándome'. In Spanish (until recently) training means (meant) training someone, thus the team coach is called the 'entrenador'. Beautifully, the national team coach is called the 'seleccionador' instead since his job is to make the player selection for the team.

Thanks. I think I'll do that one next.

@@QrooSpanish agree..lesson on llevar + infinitive and seguir + infinitive would be super helpful.

Infinitive vs. gerund lesson would be great!

De acuerdo. Buena idea. La es bien.

I heard "goma" a lot where I lived in Florida, and thought of that first when he defined llanta.

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@@QrooSpanish I am literally running around yelling at my family 'Halleluja, finally it all makes sense!!! This guy is a fricking genius!!!'. I have learnt more today than I have in months with your method. De verdad amigo! Eres lo mejor! Anoche estaba llorando casi, porque no pude aprender español. Me desperté a las 4:30 de la mañana y....BOOM recomendado QROO PAUL!!!

Gracias :)

Thanks!

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Thanks for watching. You take the time to comment quite often, and I want you to know that I appreciate it. 🙂

Yes, Spanish often leaves off the here or there in sentences like that. Is Juan there? Is often translated as just "¿Está Juan?

I find that I'm always adding in extra words in my Spanish sentences. It's as if every word in the English sentence I'm trying to use in Spanish has to have a counterpart in the Spanish sentence. I have to work on not being so wordy.

Thanks!

Thank you very much!

Muchas gracias. Me alegra mucho que te gusten los videos. :)

De nada😊

That is one I use too. Great suggestion.

Get away with something: salirte con la tuya/salirse con la suya Ha. I think I got away with that: ha. Pienso que me salí con la mía/me salí con la mía! I'm not letting you get away with that: no te voy a dejar salirte con la tuya + (Any subject/topic) No le voy a dejar salirse con la suya (third person/indirect person) Yo me salgo con la mía Tu te sales con la tuya El/ella se sale con la suya. Ellos se salen con la suya Nosotros nos salimos con la nuestra. Hope it helps

For the verb ir, yes ot is yendo. For regular IR and ER verbs it is iendo.

@@QrooSpanish jajaja, okay, I read that too fast and my brain picked up the verbs ir and andar. I now see that you were expressing the -iendo and -ando gerund endings. Thanks for the clarification.

Give me the sentence in English that you are looking for. Does that make sense to you? -- or something to that effect.

@@QrooSpanish thanks for responding! Yes, for instance if I tried to describe an experience, then followed with, "Did that make sense? I'm still learning Spanish."

I hadn't noticed that. In Mexico we hear both so I think she's gotten used to that.

So, it is seguir+gerund (to keep doing something). ¿Por qué sigues...why do you keep...the verb is quejarse (to complain) we just had to change the se to te (quejarte) It is still in the infinitive.

Present participle and gerund are synonyms. In this English and Spanish are the same. In English it's usually --ing, in Spanish --ando/--iendo

Thanks so much. I love your videos. I started watching your course, and was bummed when it ended after 7 sessions. So happy that you have kept up with so many more videos. Thanks.

Hi. In the plural, you can use les instead of te, but a more common way to ask if you can help someone (as in a customer) is ¿En qué le puedo ayudar? or ¿En qué le puedo servir? My wife has moved to the U.S. when she was only 10 so she lost any hint of a Spanish accent long ago. :)

@@QrooSpanish Except when she speaks Spanish... ; ) Thank you, sir. I greatly appreciate your reply. My Spanish has plateau-ed for decades... If I may, what other name would you give the conditional tense? My 501 Spanish Verbs leaves me clueless on that point. Thank you. I love your channel. Y otra vez, gracias por su respuesta.

The conditional is the only name I call that tense by.

@@QrooSpanish Okay. Thanks.

@@QrooSpanish Found ayudaría listed as potencial simple. I wonder, where word you put el futuro?

Ah, I didn't know that.

Yes, they all mean the same. I would say de que sirve is the most commonly used.

I parse the sentence differently from Hispanics. //Veo la estructura de la frase de manera diferente que los hispanos.

You could say ¿cuál es el sentido de + infintive.

What's the time stamp?

​@Spanish with Qroo Paul sorry. First sentence in video. :50

pensar en - means to think about. Pienso en vender - Im thinking about selling. Pienso en ir a la playa. Im thinking about going to the beach.

I've always taught Spanish in phrases. I call many of them plug-and-play. Been doing that about 20+ years now.

¿Qué sentido tiene que lleves puesto ropa bonita si el abrigo la cubrirá de todos modos?

Good point about the tires. The last part made me laugh...lol

Thank you so much! You are very generous. :)

Thank you!