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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!!

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.

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!

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

Thanks for this video, Paul! Wow, you’re amazing! So much useful information packed into a short video, yet explained very clearly.

Thank you Paul for another excellent video. I love your concise and common sense approach.

This is super helpful sir! Thank you!

I love your intelligent approach!👍Thanks a lot for all the great lessons & I will keep going through all your videos daily!🙏❤️

Gracias Paul, otro excelente video.

Thanks for this incredible lesson Paul.

You really dropped some gems today! Muchas gracias por tu ayuda. I cant wait for the video using formal and informal commands.😊

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!!

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.

WONDERFUL lesson as usual. Muchisimas gracias!

Thanks Paul! This is great!

Excellent lesson!

Great to find you!!! Love this so far!! thanks

Awesome thanks!! Very helpful.

I've been studying Spanish for a loooong time and did not know some of these constructions. Thank you, again!

Super interesting, thank you

Good clip, thanks for the valuable tips.

many many thanks!

Thank you. Your teaching style is very useful .

Good advise for learning any language. Grazie mille!

Tienes mucha razon … aprende asi al principio para no andar confundida. Muchas veces tenemos la tendencia de traducir literalmente

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!

Gracias hermano. 🙏🏽😇

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.

Una vez más, muchísimas gracias, Paul. Me siento muy afortunada de haberte encontrado.

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!

Tiene sentido aprender así. Gracias por presentarme este método eficaz.👍

Love your videos dude. At my level these videos are starting get me to turn the corner. Thank you

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.🙌

another great video, thanks paul !

Muchas gracias, me gusta el video 🌻

Excelente...gracias.

Once again, such useful information. Thanks, Paul.

You are literally the best man this is the kind perspective I needed

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!!!

Greatly reliable and useful :)

Excellent. Thanks

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!

Great lesson! thank you

another goldmine of info! You're right, beginning students don't know about echar. Thank you so much for including that & the other examples.

Great video

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!!

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!

Really enjoyed the insight here.

Gracias, me gusta mucho la información muy práctica.

I loved all these verb phrases! I'm over here making notes. :-D

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.

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.

great video. thank you! keep'm coming.

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.

So helpful!! Thanks

Fantastic. Keep it up.

So true-verb usage does not match English word for word !!!!

These videos are great I just found you recently I'm definitely a new subscriber 💪🏾💪🏾

Muchas gracias

Ps - Sr. Paul explains it so well that I thank God every day that I found this teacher! Mary Jean

😅😅 This was a very helpful lesson, thanks1

Always very helpful! Can you do a video on construction of a good word list or make a recommendation?

Yes, please! Do a video with just the verb phrases of dar!

If you ever decide to sell a flash card set with your 'mega verbs', I'm in for a pack.

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 like the way you teach, very informative and fun at the same time. God bless you Paul

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.

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!

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🙂

Siempre brillante

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").

Really helpful. Thank you! Do you have a video on idioms/modismos in Spanish?

Thanks!

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. 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

Gracias a ti, estoy aprendiando Espanol muy rapida! By the way, I didn't look that up, I'm going by memory on the palabras de Espanol 😊

Your lessons are really gems and useful

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.

I am going to say something possibly controversial but please hear me out. With this guy I just realized what I should have known years ago. If you are a native English speaker, this guy is a better teacher than many Native Spanish speakers. Why? Because a basic native Spanish teacher teaches what he instinctively knows and an advanced Spanish speaker teaches the theory that he has mastered but neither one of them KNOW the weak points and stumbling blocks of a native English speaking student. It's almost as if I had a PhD in human biology, teaching a class about childbirth. I know the subject well but only a woman knows FIRSTHAND the practical issues associated with it. I am embarrassed to admit that I have learned so much from this guy even though I am already multilingual and learning languages is nothing knew to me. I am humbled and at the same time invigorated. Thanks to this channel I will be able to polish up my Spanish to a miiror shine. Thank you, deputy, for your contribution to the mankind.

Specific videos for verbs like dar, tener, tomar, poner... would be veeeery helpful.

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.

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.

Poner huevos was an adjustment for me. My puerto rican neighbor helped me out on that.

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!

I've been learning for a month almost. I am impatient but I've noted these verbs and I'm hoping duolingo progresses me where I start to use these.

I vote yes to the "dar" phrases video 👍🏼

First video. Subscribed.

Agree. However, I’m emphatic about visualization with the action in time, the Time Space culture problem. At first, I tried going as far back in time (había) and moving forward and it just wasn’t clicking! Oddly enough, going from The Future and Conditional, the only two + tenses, with only 12 exceptions out of 30,000 and working backward, for me, felt right. I rarely ever use a progressive tense and in fact, have read many, many original novels, at least from Spain, where there are less than 5 occurrences of a progressive tense. Still, back to visualization in time and space. Adding to what you say, it makes the complete motion picture, the snapshot and todo. For me, it's important to practice mouth twisters like corroborar la coartada. Anger is fuel. Any emotion is forcing the brain to RECORD the sound and experience so, go ahead and get frustrated, angry, enraged and then use that energy to remember. The next day, it will come out of a near native mouth! Use emotions to make ingrams in the brain when practicing: Happy, Sad, Fearful, Angry, horny, whatever! If you don’t feel it, you probably won’t remember it.

I assume other verbs are the same "can of worms" like Echar? I just found a page that lists 25 uses for Echar!! I suppose English has its own cans of worms (idiom intended). I like how you approach learning Spanish. I noticed I have a similar tendency to understand better when it's in "chunks" of phrases. Thanks for this video, it's opened my eyes even more to where I feel I could speed up my comprehension! Gonna start making "phrase lists" rather than just words, or verbs, etc.

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.