This video is absolutely phenomenal but I have to pause after every five minutes and clear my head, because it feels like I’m running a mental marathon!
8:18 Never say Unas Minutas (this is completely wrong). Minutos is exclusively in masculine, el minuto, un minuto. I have no idea where he came up with this.
Chamo relajate, todo se aprende poco a poco, no hay apuro, este video puede ser bastante util, pero recomendaria transformar todo tu entorno hacia el español para acelerar el proceso de aprendizaje. For example: listening, watching, and reading spanish content. 👍
Suerte!!! I hope you can learn our language and like it 👍 Don't forget to have patience because everything requires practice and dedication. Éxitos brother.
A message for the intermediate learners: You have stumbled upon your best new reference video for Spanish. Aside from the usual listening podcasts (Slow News, Chill Spanish Listening, etc.), speaking practice a la Tandem, etc. (a must), and daily reading (do it!), this video is the only reference you will ever need. Why? Because the intermediate threshold is where your Spanish isn’t perfect, BUT you can know what it is you need to learn, even without a teacher. With this video, you can now teach yourself, build sentences, and practice speaking with your language partners. You’ll make mistakes, understand the nuances of the language, and revisit this video as needed. Of course, you’ll find helpful tips and advice in other videos (and you should use them as needed to further understand the concepts), but the creator of this video accomplished the singular task of stripping out all the unnecessary fat from the information, providing you with a virtual audio/visual dictionary of Spanish concepts. This video is a GOLD MINE of daily lessons. So, start from the beginning, practice making sentences with every topic, and when you find difficulty in a particular topic, spend a few days there. Ride that pause button. Don’t get overwhelmed by the speed - it’s a feature, not a bug. Rewatch troubling topics over and over while using your other tools (see the first paragraph), and NEVER GIVE UP. Thank you to the creator. We owe you one.
@@SpanishWithWes Hi, so I am learning Spanish properly for the first time. It is day 2 and am up to the 20th minute of this video. Before I can continue I will probably revise through his explanation on how to apply "ser", as well as familiarizing and learning how to conjugate regular and irregular verbs whilst expanding my vocabulary on verbs I will mostly use. I will most likely focus on this aspect for the next 2 days to make sure I really have a strong and wide understanding of these topics. I am estimating that it might take me 4-6 months to proficiently absorb all of the contents in this video while building my vocabulary. To become a confident Spanish speaker to my standard, it might take me years...
One correction (i'm a spanish speaker): Conduzco, traduzco and conozco are not irregular conjugations of conducir, traducir and concer. It happens to ALL of the regular verb that end in -cir or -cer Nacer Nazco Crecer Crezco Parecer Parezco Carecer Carezco Reducir Reduzco Producir Produzco Merecer Merezco Aparecer Aparezco Envejecer Envejezco Abastecer Abastezco It's not that they're irregular, that's just another rule
@@elcanaldelucas6187 klio sapo, eta wea es chileno flaite, soloh lohs xoros del ampa y del pantano entienden esta perfecta sintonía de choreza, puros wnes toos estos qlios. De puerta negra hmno, pasa pa aca y 3 plomazos enlohocico perkinazo
Just finished watching the 4-hour, and I can read and understand a lot of Spanish now. Incredible! Thank you for the amazing video. Looking forward to your A Complete Guide To Every Fundamental In German.
@@stephenchan5866 two days is realll dedication wow. may i know your language background (if it has anything similar w spanish that may have helped you grasp it easier or smth)
I changed the playback speed to 0.75 and it is perfect, gives time to think and reflect and jot down without feeling frustrated. This is a great, high-yield video.
As a Spanish student myself with many beginner courses having been taken to solidify my understanding of the basic fundamentals, this is VERY well put together. Highly recommended that you watch this video to learn spanish- because this is the content that we learn in spanish class, with the BS cut out.
@@philswiftreligioussect9619 give more examples then please, i've heard minuta used for both, and especially used for minutes although yes minuto used more for minute but minuta also for document just really rarely.
@@johnpachkoski4637 I am Colombian and I have lived in Colombia for 13 years out of 20. My first language is Spanish, I've written essays for Spanish and gotten 95% to even 100% scores in Spanish language and literature in Colombia, I even enrolled in an AP class here in the US and got the highest grade (for obvious reasons). I have more friends who speak in Spanish than English and my whole family (other than some gringo cousins) speaks to me in Spanish. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAS ANYONE EVER USED MINUTA for minutes. You NEVER use minuta or Minutas for minutes or a minute. They are two completely different concepts all together. Here are a few examples for minutos and minuto. "Deme un minutico/ deme un minuto/ porfavor dame un solo minuto/ ¿Me podría dar un minuto porfavor?" "Faltan seis minutos para que empiece la final del mundial" / "En ocho minutos se irá mi hijo a Nueva Zelanda y nunca volverá" As for minuta, a minuta can be either a document used as an outline for taking decisions (in business contexts) or to pass a judicial act (serving a similar purpose to a business context, it is known as a minuta judicial). Examples: "El presidente Petro formuló una serie de cláusulas para la minuta a pesar de, según la constitución, ser limitado por sus poderes ejecutivos". "Todavía no hemos terminado la minuta de la última reunión, pero la vamos a finalizar hoy ya que solo falta arreglar el tema del contrato que firmamos con Ecopetrol".
@@johnpachkoski4637 Second and minute it's just "segundo" y "minuto". "Segunda" it's like "my second week" or "i finished in 2nd place" wich would be: terminé segunda.
I'm an intermediate Spanish learner, Id say I'm around low B2. Ive been learning since I was in middle school (10 years) but I just started self studying and immersion. I plan to use this video over the next few weeks and I'm hoping with immersion, itll be enough to push me to C1. Good luck and happy language learning everyone ! 🎉
hi im from a country that doesnt really use these metrics like a123-d, where does one usually find out their level? do you regularly take tests to find out?
I just started Spanish less than a week ago, like 4 days or so, I watched like half of it and it feels like I already understand a lot. What would you say my level would be if I practice thoroughly all the topics mentioned in this video?
This video took me about a month to fully watch through because I had to pause and take notes every step of the way. I feel so well equipped to learn spanish after this video. Thank you so so so much for making easily digestable information and including so many examples. This has been the most helpful resource that I've found!
I'm not taking notes, I think I'll later but I'm half the way through and it took me like 2 days, an hour a day maybe. It feels like a know a lot and can understand a sentence to quite a huge extent reading it considering I haven't dedicated a lot of time yet.
Great guide, I just wanted to point out 3 things: 1. As far as I know "vosotros" is only used in Spain. In Latin America we don't use "vosotros" at all, we use "ustedes" for you in plural regardless of if we are speaking formally or informally. So if you go with "vosotros" or "ustedes" just depends on which variant you would like to speak. If you decide to use "ustedes", then just need to remember that the conjugation for verbs for "ustedes" is the same that is used for "ellos". For example, "y'all eat a lot" would be "ustedes comen mucho". 2. The amount of times that we use "nosotros", "ustedes/vosotros" and "ellos" is about the same as in English for "we", "y'all" and "they", so it is important to remember well the right conjugation for those pronouns. 3. I don't think I've ever heard in any variant someone say "segunda" and "minuta" to mean "second" and "minute". I recommend you to use "segundo" and "minuto" in masculine.
but when you use ustedes, since you say that you use it instead of vosotros, do you use ustedes equally meaning/with equal meaning to "you all"/ya'll? just trying to understand since my school doesnt teach how people who naturally speak spanish on the street in lets say latin american may conjugate depending on if their speak more formally or more casually (not because they're trying because thats how spanish is a school course) but because of how they're used to speaking it, or how their life has taught them to speak. also i have heard seguna and minuta, and segundo and minuta, just depends on where they were from and if they were female or male, but i've always heard women use the masculine and men use minuta so so idk if that would really impact it, but thats what i've heard.
@@johnpachkoski4637 I'll give a long answer to try to be as clear as possible. In both Mexico and Spain (I will talk mainly about these two countries because other countries have more little differences, although it is true that Spain is the only one that uses "vosotros"), "tú" (you in singular) is used for people you are close with or that are young (family, friends, teenagers, children, classmates, etc.) and we use "usted" (you in singular, but this one shows respect or courtesy) for adults who you are not close with (an adult stranger, a teacher, your boss, etc.). In Spain, "vosotros" = "tú" in plural; and "ustedes" = "usted" in plural. In Mexico we don't use "vosotros", so we use "ustedes" whenever we want to say you in plural. Like this: Spain México tú -> vosotros tú -> ustedes usted -> ustedes usted -> ustedes This is not like a street way of speaking and it is not that we are uneducated or something like that, it just means that the way we speak is different from theirs. If you watch a movie, or read a book, or listen to a government speech that uses our variant of Spanish you will hear "ustedes" and never "vosotros". Finally, to answer the question "y'all" is similar to "ustedes" in the sense that both mean you in plural, but it's not an exact equivalent because "y'all" is very casual, whereas "ustedes" (in Latin American Spanish) is used in casual and formal speaking, with courtesy and without courtesy, with respect and without respect.
Ustedes means you in plural. The OP forgot that y'all is an informal contraction unique to Texan English. Ustedes is used when you speak to any group of people, just like when you use "You" in plural. In Spain, "vosotros" is used as an informal way to speak to a group of people and "Ustedes" is the formal way. We don't have that in Mexico and in many other latinamerican countries@@johnpachkoski4637
@@Diego-lt4wmya'll is used across almost every southern state in america pretty consistently as well as across all us states in AAVE. It just wouldn't be used in a formal email/interview probably but is used more commonly than u might think.
THIS IS GENUINELY AN AMAZING VIDEO im only an hour in but ive retained so many notes and information 😭 thank u for helping a mexican who can fluently understand spanish but cant speak it bc of grammar 😍
soy boricua y crecí oyendo español pero todavía no soy fluida pq hablo mas en ingles, así que este video me ayudó mucho y ahora tengo la clase de español ap en la escuela, estoy lentamente aprendiendo la idioma de mis gentes
Muchas gracias amigo! soy de Argentina, nativo del español. Estudio ruso por mi cuenta hace tres años, ahora estoy en Rusia. Me gano la vida enseñando español. Tu video me ayuda mucho para enseñar mejor)
@@ShonePizza Я три года назад примерно, решил учить язык. И в основном решил чтобы было бы круто учить русский потому что звучит очень хорошо и ещё много людей говорят на нем. Потом появилась возможность приехать и учиться. Я в Москве и я прям влюблен. (Зато конечно сложности бывают всегда). Спасибо что вы спрашивали. А вы как в это видео попали?
@@leanrepetitor Не знаю почему, но у меня несколько раз в год возникает желание начать изучать какой-нибудь язык, вот в этот раз выбор пал на испанский, но уже хочется начать изучать все романские языки параллельно, на пару с латынью 😅
@@leanrepetitorвы не поверите XD По прошествии недели я взялся за изучение всех популярных ныне романских языков (Испанского, Португальского, Французского, Итальянского и Румынского) и плюс к этому классической латыни
Thank you for this video! I'm from Pakistan, I can speak Arabic, Pashto, and Urdu... All of these languages are similar, now I want to learn a completely different language... I find this as a very helpful resource to learn Spanish. Today is my first day learning Spanish... It's similar to English! I am very happy
This video is AMAZING!!! But we MUST address a small mistake: “infinitives” are NOT -ando -iendo words; that’s the present progressive tense! Infinitives are the most basic form of a word: to eat, to write, comer, escribir
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U r incorrect. he did not say infinitives are iendo ando words. he stated them as ing forms which are present progressive
Thank God I speak French to an intermediate level...this is so easy to understand. All grammatical concepts are almost the same. No need to compare with English whatsoever. Even most of the basic vocab is so similar to French.
I’m trying to do the reverse as you and knowing a romance language makes picking up a new one so much easier! do you plan to learn spanish through french?
i’m trying to learn french and wonder if u know if any resources this detailed and comprehensive for french. i’m struggling a lot to get past a very basic level.
@@hypn0tic38 i don’t have one AS comprehensive as this but the video “Learn French Verbs and Tenses in 10 minutes” by learn french with alexa is very good imo!
This is a wonderful video. I taken many years of Spanish both in public school and at UCLA. And, for the last two years I did Duolingo. This is a great refresher and so easily deals with everything I have learned over these many years. Great video.
I have never told a stranger this, but I love you. I made a bunch of Argentinian friends, and I desperately desire to learn how to speak their language. Being a Minnesotan, it seems especially difficult because our speech patterns are so slow. Not to mention our pronunciation of O’s seems polar opposite to the rolling of the R’s. But thank you for this, I shall be revisiting it often on my pursuit to be able to converse in Spanish Muchas gracias amigo 👏🏼
I'm a native Spanish and fluent in English. I guess I came across this video since I am currently studying Japanese, and I'm having a pretty rough time with it, but when I found this video I couldn't avoid looking at how interestingly similar this seems like to how I'm learning Japanese. Helps so much with motivation to think that, since Spanish is not impossible to learn, Japanese shouldn't be neither! I've never had an experience like this one before, since I never really studied for English, just consumed a bunch of native content until I eventually became fluent somehow, took a long time tho (5 YEARS) but even with that much time, it was only possible because of how relatively "easy" it is to learn English as a Spanish native speaker, but trying to do the same thing with Japanese would be, straight up, borderline imposible, so I got forced to actually study for this one. It is nice to see videos like this one sometimes! Luck with you guys Spanish journey too! It's even tough for most natives, super cool to know there's actual people learning it 😅
Did you use increasing levels of difficulty in your English content or did you just sit there and consume content not understanding.. until you eventually did? I sometimes wonder if I’m trying to hard to understand everything and wonder if I would be better off just letting go and just consume consume consume.
@@troybrahful Nah, I went straight up to stuff like PewDiePie's Minecraft series, Jacksepticeye's vids or Smallant's.... just as some examples. Pretty much things a normal, casual, native person would see, with the exception that I wasn't getting a thing. I basically did sit until I was actually understanding. Somewhere around 2 years after I first started, I begun having conversations with natives tho, I had some friends on discord which I used to talk to, but it's not like it was doing anything, I was translating everything they were saying and everything I wanted to respond to them. I was also occasionally translating words from the videos I saw, for example, I remember watching a Splatoon youtuber back then, and there was a video so good that I re-watched it multiple times, and remember translating and learning words such like "us", "fear" and "fur" from that specific one. But that way of learning is the whole reason of why it took me literally half a decade to learn the language, and it did somehow work by some sort of miracle too, so I wouldn't recommend it to you at all. Since I'm actually STUDYING japanese I can already tell how many years I'm saving lol
@@deowi2 thats how one of my spanish speaking friends learned english and I was like soo confused how but I guess it makes sense if you put a lot of time into it. goodluck with learning japanese!
I have studied 5 languages seriously and many more casually. I played with Japanese a little, but I have a friend who ONLY spoke English until age 30 and decided he wanted to learn Japanese. He was 100% self taught and became B2’ish fluent. He used: - Pimsleur - Michel Thomas - Some grammar books - iTalki - He lives in Dallas, TX (not a huge Japanese community), but he would regularly go to sushi restaurants and one Japanese market to try to practice with random people. I was blown away at how good he got on his own in just 24 months of self study, maybe 1-2 hours a day. That inspired me to get back into language learning. I’m wanting to improve my Spanish and I started Persian/Farsi from scratch. Any language with a different alphabet is inherently harder, but there are so many great tools and resources now. I think Rocket Languages is the best app I have found. I think they have Japanese too. They don’t have Persian, so I am using Pimsleur for that, which I think is a VERY close second. Both are excellent tools. Good luck.
I worked with a guy who learned English by watching cartoons (before the internet was what it is today). I think I need to try your method with Spanish because the formal learning isn’t working haha
@@autumnleaves7907What’s a Reddit Atheist? Anyway I believe the actual person who put in the extreme amount of time and effort is to whom you should be grateful.
@rlud304 Reddit atheists are the type of guys who get upset whenever God is mentioned in any situation or context. So for example, someone might say "oh my God, that car nearly hit us!!" and the reddit athiest would say "ummmm actually did you know God is fake? Please say Oh my goodness next time 🤓". The reddit atheist doesn't take context into account. He simply sees any mention of God or religion as a personal attack on his own worldview, and thus he must insert himself into any situation where it is mentioned
@rlud304 a reddit atheist is someone who feels the need to insert themselves in any discussion where God is mentioned to remind people that God doesn't exist. This is even in contexts where the person mentioning God is not being literal, or is simply using it as a common turn of phrase, such as "God, that was close!" or "thank God I made it to work on time" etc. Anyway, I DID express my gratitude to the person who created the video, as I called him "God" which is perhaps the highest form of praise one human can give to another.
You are an excellent teacher! But about 30:23... In Spanish is very common to say "soy feliz ". Native speakers will understand the following: Soy feliz = normally, in general I am happy (let's forget the bad times). Estoy feliz = for the moment, I feel happy now, after having had a bad time, or without taking into account whether tomorrow I will still be just as happy
Not really, it is kinda rare. It is very common in portuguese or catalan. But in spanish you'd use estar or soy "determinant+noun" then the adj. In some cases you can use soy, for example if the noun comes first "yo soy feliz" as it rewards a general statement. Or in certain centexts in which you omit the noun.
Soy Feliz means that you are in a state of happiness related to a sense of fullfilment. For example, if you say you have a nice family or are happy about your life in general, you can say "Soy Feliz". Meanwhile, "Estoy feliz" means a temporary state of happiness, usually related to having won a contest or have a good time with your friends @@sergiogarpla2902
@@facundoibarra9339 soy feliz es decir que estas pleno y satisfecho con tu vida, es como un termino mas permanente a diferencia de estar que es mas temporal
My native lenguage is the spanish ,it was interesting to wach this Video knowing both lenguages , english and spanish jajaja , i am learning German now, i wish luck for everyone who wants to learn spanish
Spanish is my 2nd language and I was always able to understand it from my mom speaking it to me, but when I finally got comfortable speaking Spanish, I always had trouble with "ser" and "estar". I've had so many Spanish teachers and they have never explained it as well as you did!
8:21 I'm a Spanish speaker and I have never heard about "unas minutas",we just use "unos minutos", same case with "segunda"; we just use it for "second place" but in femenine. Thanks to all the people who want learn Spanish, such a cute languaje! It's very difficult, I know :'D
Creo que lo más difícil del español son las variaciones regionales JAJAJAJA, la lengua “estándar” no es tan difícil si hablas inglés como primera lengua, al menos en comparación a otros idiomas europeos.
Things like -abamos, -abais, -aban, etc that he repeatedly says are unimportant around 2:20.... he is wrong and's i dont know why he would imply they're unimportant
I am so overwhelmed and happy at the end of this video. So I am grateful to you that teaching the entire basis in a long video comprised with short rapid sessions with enough examples within like 4 hours of time. But believe me I watched this video time to time rewinding and taking notes on to a book. Literally it took me like a week to completely understand and adequately practice things as you said. I finished like writing things on a book with almost 320 pages.I found each and every word you said is important. And I totally agree with you as a polyglot too and this is my second attempt to a western language after English. Knowing fundamentals brings about the self confidence to revisit things. You are an amazing teacher. Would love to see you someday. I ll come up with some good Spanish someday and put you a message as a reward to your this meritorious occupation.
@@SpanishWithWes You are right it was almost a week, because understanding, trying and taking notes of a one minute of this video is equal like like 5-10 minutes. 😬😌 Truly speaking, since I have a clearly understood note, it is all enough to check back the note without jumping back in to the video. 🙆 Anyhow now I can watch other learning videos much easier to find new stuff as further learning.😃
Phenomenal video. I’ve been learning Spanish for 9 months but I feel I’ve been regressing of late. Watching your vid has helped me consolidate all the basics I had learnt in the first 6 months of my Spanish journey. Also, your lesson on the use of “Le” as an indirect object is the best out there on you tube.
Keep with it. I've been speaking it every day for 4 and a half, almost 5 years now and I'm in a stage where I feel like I'm regressing again. I'm clearly not, cuz I can watch shows on Netflix in Spanish with Spanish subs and understand most of it, but there are still waves where it feels like I'm forgetting things. Just keep using it and stay consistent even through the waves of regression. It will feel more and more natural
@@SpanishWithWesWell I don't have anything I can recommend you to watch but I recommend you to try to watch everything in Spanish, change your phone's language to Spanish, write in Spanish, read in Spanish, try to think in Spanish, do everything you normally do in a daily basis in Spanish or at least try to, that's what I did to learn English being Spanish
شكرا على تعبك معانا لقد استفدت منك الكثير والكثير من الاسبانية! Thank you for your troubles, we benefited a lot of Spanish from you! Gracias por tus problemas con nosotros, nosotros beneficiamos mucho de ti
This is an amazing resource. The constant over complication of stem changing verbs really frustrates me. The way teachers would have you believe, it's just a long set of verbs that you have to memorise that change for some reason, when in fact the explanation is so simple. It isn't just that the Yo, Tu, El/Ella/Usted and Ellos forms have to do it, it's because in those forms, you're stressing the O sound. Every word has one stress in Spanish. So you'd think you'd say Yo pOdo. But in spanish they don't like the stressed O for some reason, so it changes into UE. Podo -> Puedo. Pode -> Puede. The same with the other ones. Empezar. You'd think EmpEzo. But spanish doesn't like the stressed E, so you change it to IE. Empiezo. The Nosotros and Vosotros forms never stressed that syllable, so it didn't change. They're not just random exceptions to the rule. EmpezAmos. PodEmos. I hope that helps someone.
I rember when he gave the reason for the irregular verbs, and I said "WOW", wouldn't it have been good to explain why they are conjugated as they are? It would demystify things so much. After teaching myself Spanish for 5 years, this was very useful, but frustrating because there was so much fear of getting it!!!
Just binged all four hours this morning / afternoon. Everything made great sense. About 40% was new. I’m excited to go back through slowly and master it. This is surely the best video about Spanish on YT that I have found 🙏
Wow thank you very much for such a long and insightful video! No puedo pagar por las leccionas con mi tutora más y este video es un bendición Also, we need such videos for every existing language!!
Hello! Argentine here, the Present Perfect tense (3:01:52) isn't commonly used in South America. It is used in Central America and Spain. If you use it people might think your spanish is weird :) Edit: I read some of the comments and it seems that I was wrong, I apologize, the present perfect tense is commonly used in South America except Argentina, again, my bad ^^
It is used commonly in Colombia. I hear it rather frequently. Every time I tell my fiancé (native Colombian) my stomach hurts or my head hurts, he asks "y qué has tomado") In Argentina, is it normal then to say something like: Alguna vez comiste sushi? Instead of: Alguna vez has comido sushi?
Hands down the BEST video on Spanish I have seen, I literally feel like a veil has been lifted from my eyes! I watched a 15 min video yesterday on Este, Ese and Esos, yours was 60 seconds and clearer.. I am only a month in to learning Spanish but you have probably saved me YEARS! Absolute LEGEND.
As a spanish speaker who dont see the full video, this video is for a formal talk, ussualy we dont speak like that. But ik making a video for informal, unformal desformal or idk talk will be so hard and long for make & see. I hope you guys can learn spanish propperly! Salutes from argentina
Wow I am learning Spanish from past 2 years and I tried all the methods and I also followed many youtubers nobody was helpful, but I would like to thank you and I can say that you are a genius now I feel so confident and I can talk now all my doubts are cleared thank you for this wonderful video hermano...
I am watching this with playback speed 0.75x and it does not make me feel like I am chasing after car anymore. Great content and damn useful. Your work is very much appreciated here . ❤❤
I love the way you teach I love how fast you go all of it is so great I love it I can’t help but to keep saying how much I enjoy it fast and all I love it I love fast paste it helps me so much slow is good for some things but this is magnificent ❤❤❤❤❤love it
This is perfect. As someone who took spanish in high school, you structured this in a way that is easier to grasp. I'll try my best to commit to one chapter a day.
Every mistake, correction or small help i've found as a spanish speaker: Since it wasn't mentioned, here's how to read a spanish word: A, E and O are open vowels I and U are closed vowels two open vowels cannot be in the same syllable, so if you see two together, that means it's a separation (this applies even for two of the same open vowels together). A closed vowel can go in the same syllable as an open vowel or another closed vowel. If a word doesn't have an accent mark, check the last leter: If it's N, S or a vowel, then the penulimate syllable is stressed If it's not, then the last syllable is stressed. (The question words are exceptions to this rule) If there's a closed and an open vowel together and the closed vowel has an accent, then both vowels are in different syllables. If the open one has an accent, that means that they are both part of the same syllable and that that syllable is stressed. CA, CO and CU make the /ka/ /ko/ and /ku/ sounds CE and CI make the /se/ and /si/ sounds to make the sounds /ke/ and /ki/ you need to use QUE and QUI to make the sound /kue/ and /kui/ you need to use QÜE and QÜI. GA, GO and GU make the /ga/ /go/ and /gu/ sounds GE and GI make the /xe/ and /xi/ sounds to make the sounds /ge/ and /gi/ we need to use: GUE and GUI to make the sounds /gue/ and /gui/ we need to use: GÜE and GÜI. SO basically the sounds charts are: CA QUE QUI CO CU ZA CE CI ZO ZU CUA QÜE QÜI CUO GA GUE GUI GO GU JA GE GI JO JU GUA GÜE GÜI GUO HUA, HUE and HUI make the /wa/ /we/ and /wi/ sounds If you see an accent mark on a 1 syllable word, it means that that word is stressed in the sentence as a whole. 4:00 cuánto, cuántos, cuánta and cúantas also have accents (if they are questions) 5:08 to avoid confusion, "quienes" is two syllables (quie - nes), not three (qui - e - nes). As said before, a closed and an open vowel can be in the same syllables (and the U is silent) 5:32 "ni" can also mean "not even". If you ever see "ni siquiera" then it definetly means "not even", just with more emphasys. 5:32 "por" can also mean "because of" 6:08 "en" can also mean "at" This list is very useful but keep in mind that it doesn't show the whole picture. Many of these words have even more meanings, especially if you put them together. I recommend that if you ever see one of these words used in a way doesn't make sense, research other meanings, uses, and specific phrases of these words. 6:55 even though "usted/es" is a second person pronoun, i think he included it where he did because all of the second person formal and third person conjugations are the same. 6:55 almost no regions outside of spain use "vosotros/as" or any of its conjugations. We just use "ustedes" and its conjugations regardless of formality. 7:16 7:59 "segundo" as a unite of time can only be masculine, but as an adjective it can change gender. 7:59 "minuto" can only be masculine, i don't know where he got that, although the word "minuta" does exist but it has nothing to do with time. 8:25 i'll emphasize this "do NOT forget to write the Ñ in año" 9:16 just in case. "One hundred", and "one thousand" are not "un cien" and "un mil", it's simply "cien" and "mil". Although "a million" is "un millón" 9:16 also, "(any number bigger than uno) + millón" makes it plural, for example: "dos millones" (two million) 9:48 "un cuarto" means a quarter in general, not just for time. 11:04 another (and i think more important) reason not to focus on the plurals is because all conjugations of nostros/as end in "mos" and all ellos/as/ustedes conjugations end in "n". No conjugations of any singular pronoun end in "mos" or "n". (There are exactly 4 exceptions which i'll mention later) The point is that plural conjugations are very easy to spot. 16:51 i'd say you're better off memorizing which nouns are masculine and which ones are femenine. 18:35 the word "agua" is actually femenine, but femenine words that start whit a stressed A switch pronouns to avoid weird sound combinations. This does not happen in plural though "las aguas". And speaking of that, the way to identify an object only by an adjective is (pronoun + adjective) For example: "the happy one" would be translated as "el felíz" or "la felíz", but the pronoun switching doesn't apply here, "the tall one" (femenine) is not "el alta", it's "la alta" 20:44 just in case someone gets confused, the "no article" rule applies ONLY to occupations. 22:54 keep in mind that the "factual statements" rule was established a long time ago, so things like hair color and gender also fall in that category. 26:11 not really, the conjugations of estar in the present are not regular because the stress is on the last syllable, unlike regular verbs where the stress is on the penultimate syllable. 28:35 i think a better translation would be "i am to the side of the house" 30:16 false. "Yo soy feliz" is a completely correct sentence and it means "i'm generally happy" or "i'm a happy person" 31:48 another way of thinking it is that it's describing the current state of something, hence the words being so similar 33:48 the "noun before adjective" rule isn't 100% consistant. There are adjectives like "buen/a"(good), "primer/a"(first), "tercer/a"(third) and "ultimo/a"(last) that go before the noun. "El buen chico" (the good boy), "la primera ronda" (the first round), "el tercer día" (the third day), "la ultima vez" (the last time) 41:25 some speaker say "buen día" insteas of "buenos días". Also when speaking casually, all of these greetings can just be reduces to "buenas" 44:46 another way to remember it is that, at least in this conjugation, the stem only changes when the stress falls on it, which isn't the case for nosotros/as and vosotros/as 46:11 the phrase is not granatically incorrect. But in spanish "i can speak spanish" would be said as "yo sé hablar español"(i know to speak spanish) 49:36 just so you don't get confused, there's only one monosyllabic verb whose present singular first person conjugation doesn't end in -oy, and that is "ver"(to see) which ends in -eo, "yo veo"(i see) 1:19:31 please be aware of not using sentences where the DOP could be d*** or b***s, regardless of context. Spanish speakers are very dirty minded, and there's both femenine and masculine nouns for both of them. In this case, the phrase sounds like "you are showing us your d***" 1:24:41 i say you do what works for you, but i don't think you liking something and that pleasing you are not the same thing. The best way i can explain "me gusta" is that "me gusta X" literally means the exact same thing as "I like X", absolutely no difference, but in spanish, "I" or "yo" is not the subject, it's the indirect object. "What I like" is performing an action against me. even if the two phrases mean the same thing, spanish structures it a bit differently. This means that the verb "gustar" is actually conjugated based on what you like. This might actually make it simpler for you beacuse the part you're modifying is in the exact same place as in english. Another way of thinking it is simply as a throwaway phrase, like most spanish speakers do. Just know that "me gusta" means i like it, how to conjugate it and where it goes. It always goes before the direct subject noun, for example: "te gustan las manzanas" (you like apples), the indirect object goes before it for example "a tí te gustan las manzanas"(you like apples) and verbs go between both words, for example: "te van a gustar las manzanas"(you're going to like apples). It totally works. 1:27:41 he forgot to add the article, it should be "me gustan los gatos". Subjects always have articles unless they're pronouns or proper nouns. 1:29:08 "les gusta escuchar a música" is incorrect, it should be "les gusta escuchar música". Some spanish verbs do always have an A after them but "escuchar" is not one of them. 1:30:54 this is incorrect, all verbs ending in -cer and -cir change to -zco. it's not an irregularity, it's just an extra rule which comes from the fact that in spanish C makes the same sound as Z, and spanish prefers to keep sounds over letter. 1:32:00 "proteger" is also not an irregular verb. The "yo" conjugation is "protejo" because G makes two different sounds when it's before an E and an O, and so it changes to J because a J before an O makes the same sound as a G before an E. I also wouldn't consider "traer" an irregular verb (in this conjugation) since the only other verb in spanish that ends in -aer has the same "yo" conjugation i'd say it's just another rule. 1:32:59 one way to remember what conjugations change the stems and which don't, is that the stem only changes when the stress falls on it 1:38:28 "tú sabes el tiempo" is a literal and incorrect tranlation. The correct way is "tú sabes la hora"(you know the hour) 2:04:48 "tú viste mi madre en la casa" is incorrect. The correct sentence is "tú viste a mi madre en la casa". Some nouns always have an A before them when they're direct objects, one of those nouns is for "people", in the sense that when a person is a direct object, it always has an A before it. 2:07:51 these verbs aren't irregular. The reason they change is because C and G make a different sound when their befora an E or an I and when they're before any other vowel. To make them have the same sound as with the other vowels you have to put an U after it, and in the case of C, change it to a Q. Again: GA GUE GUI GO GU CA QUE QUI CO CU 2:13:04 THIS is what got me to do this whole thing. The sentece "A él se lavó" is completely incorrect. Saying "se lavó" or "él se lavó" is correct, but saying "a él se lavó" is like saying "he washed himself up", it's repeating the object twice. 2:14:06 again, it's "él se despertó" or "se despertó"
1:45:00 keep in mind that "ahora" or "ya" used as an indicator of when you're gonna do things doesn't really mean "now", it means "as soon as i can" or "as soon as possible". Which can range from right now to whoever said thinks is reasonable. If you want to tell a spanish speaker to do something now, you can clarify it by saying (pero + ahora/ya + ahora/ya)
2:49:14 "venme" doesn't mean "come to me", in fact it doesn't mean anything, it's like saying "come me" in english; i don't know where he got it. Come to me in spanish would be "ven a mí" or "ven comigo"(come with me) or ven "ven aquí"(come over here)
I've only watched 30 minutes so far, but really appreciate the gathering of clear information in such bite size packages. It's a source of reference for a novice like myself.
This video with beginner spanish textbook pdf and some random videos will help me a lot I am truly lucky this time since im always unlucky since this video is worth atleast 3 years according to some comments ive found
Hello, sir! I've stumbled upon your video and I'm saying this as someone who learned some Spanish by only watching Telenovelas as a kid: it is perfect! However, after reading your channel information and realizing any video on how to learn German by my own (especially a video like this one) would be perfect.
I can't believe that I actually have finished this video. Even as an ESL, I still find it quite amusing to learn a new language through a language that is not my mother tongue. I started watching this video several times: one with the longest record being about 2 hours without taking notes (which does not avail obviously). This time I paused and took notes so that the total time was about 9 hours in total. I broke the process in two days with 10 days of hiatus in between. This video is definitely helpful and I would recommend all beginners to watch it.
This was great for me, because I know grammar and I have studied all that is in this video, this means I can keep up with the fast pace, and for me he puts all my past lessons into a simply explained whole. Brilliant !
My brain freezes every time I see indirect and direct object pronouns in sentences when I'm reading or speaking, despite learning for 4 years. Thank you for this explanation, you've saved me from a lifetime of headaches!
I'm still working my way through this video. Very well presented especially if you adjust the playback speed or take notes. This is mostly reinforcement after months of using Duolingo. It's interesting to see what things I picked up naturally and which things I absolutely needed an explanation for such as the various uses of este/estos, which I didn't understand even when I was well into my course. Interestingly, Duolingo doesn't teach the Vosotros form at all. I think this entire video, when watched enough times can replace a grammar book. Hopefully after finishing this, I can go straight to reading books in Spanish and increasing my comprehension. One of the positive things about Duolingo is it taught me enough basic vocabulary.
I just use this as a reinforcement tool and don’t need notes. If I ever approach something like this while reading a book, I will understand why that is, not just what it means.
in some latin american countries they use ustedes instead of vosotros. You are probably not learning european spanish with this app. I don't get why the guy in the video always says to not focus on this form. It is very important. You'll need it as soon as you speak to more than one person, which happens all the time. Even in english, although english has no word for it, you will use phrases like "y'all" or "you guys". In spanish thats vosotros.
@@cleantube8014I didn't get this as well, although I'm still trying to learn Spanish and don't know it well I still hear nosotros often. Does he expect us to keep our conversation to one on one only? Lol Vosotros is only used in Spain if I'm correct. And in the USA especially down south we use "y'all" and "you all" so I'm pretty sure it's a word 😂 But otherwise so far I still think he does a good job in this video although I still have over 3 hours to go 😂😂
for everyone who said it is too fast, I would propose just to pause at every point he makes and write it down. this makes it o easy to learn. I myself am often to comfy but with this, there is minimal text, just the things necessary, you can copy it one to one into your folder and into your brain. Thanks for sharing and a good day to everyone reading
Wow. Dude, I'm so freaking speechless. I only watched an hour and a half of the video and I've learned more than those five terrible school years of taking spanish. I'm really just speachless. Thank you sir; have a good night.
When I tell you that this video has been the reason on why I get compliments on my Spanish I am super grateful to God that he showed me this video because one problem that I’ve noticed learning Spanish on an organized platform for example Duolingo or Babbel for example, Babbel is to expensive and Duolingo. There isn’t a lot of useful phrases that you’re practicing every day but in this video, he shows you how to use it and also, what’s sounds normal I watch the full video throughout and I think this is the best video on Spanish, I’ve watched a lot of videos with grammar but the way he explains it I can understand when to use the different conjugations and words I would 100% recommend watching the entire video. He goes over pretty much everything.
I just started learning Spanish and I was so annoyed that I couldn't find a better big-picture-kind-of-overview for the language anywhere!! And then I found this video! ❤❤❤ This is absolutamente perfecto! Muchas muchas gracias! Now I have a very nice understanding about the language and I'm ready to immerse myself in the language! (I also wish to be a polyglot one day and I'm secretly wishing if you knew French too)
Dude. You made a very straight-to-point video that covered everything I needed for my studies. Thank you so much for spending your time to make this video.
This video is so fantastic! I am a semi-beginner and am so astonished of the breadth of information that is so beneficial to a beginner like me! What is amazing, is to have it all in one place. It saves me from jumping from one resource to another. I applaud your teaching method and will use this video as a main push to accelerate my Spanish learning! Thank you!
Wow, this is the best tool to learn Spanish basics I have found so far. Thank you so much for that content! It might not be suitable as a starter, but definitely very useful for those who are already familiar with some basics.
15 years of studying Spanish on and off and this is by far the best source I've come across. Thank you! I think the fact that you yourself had to learn Spanish makes a world of difference in how you present the material. Especially the fact that you present multiple ways to actually say a phrase helps the definitions and meanings stick. Edit: Any beginner/novice should start with this guy's videos. Tl
Idk if someone mentioned this alresdy but there is a mistake in 8:15 , "minute" cannot be translated to minutA in any circumstance. The correct word is minuTO/minutOS The word minutA does exist but it has nothing to do with time haha
Estoy un avanzada estudiante. ¿Donde fue esta contenido cinco años antes? He estado uasando este material comó una revision, y gracias por todo ❤️ Bien hecho!!!! Uso a 1,25 por ciento.
Fácil and difícil need to retain the accents in the plural forms - fáciles, difíciles. Words that end in a consonant (except n or s) are stressed on the last syllable. Words that end in a vowel or n or s are stressed on the second to the last syllable. Accents are used if the stressed syllable is something other than those two definitions.
So glad I stumbled upon this video!!!! Your simple explanations of difficult concepts is amazing! I appreciate your efforts on this, and I am enjoying dissecting Spanish with you as my guide! Thank you so very much Alex!!!! Blessings!😇
This video is being a big help. I’m working my way through pimsleur and although I like the repetition and it’s helping me learn phrases, it’s not explaining why. As in why the al and del etc. it’s putting what I’m learning into actual logic and patterns that I can. Because before this, at point i was screaming to myself - why is it different???!!
This video is outstanding. However, I did want to point out at 1:24:21, there is a mistake. You cannot use the verb Amar unless you are referring to love as to love someone or something (living thing). To instead express your love for something, it would be "me encanto bailar" or "me encanto cantar". This video is outstanding as someone learning spanish for about 7-8 months consistently. Thank you for this.
This just might be the greatest Spanish video ever uploaded known to man kind , how efficient and effective this video is is astronomical, your the GOAT man 💯
This video is absolutely phenomenal but I have to pause after every five minutes and clear my head, because it feels like I’m running a mental marathon!
😂😂😂
You caught the point 😂😂😂 congrats 👏👏👏
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good thing it’s a youtube video and not a live class lol, I love it as you can control so much
Well you are ahead of me I got to clear my head after every sentence
as a new Spanish beginner learner, I am absolutely lucky to find this video
8:18
Never say Unas Minutas (this is completely wrong). Minutos is exclusively in masculine, el minuto, un minuto. I have no idea where he came up with this.
@@philswiftreligioussect9619yea I agree, an a doesn’t make sense to me, it’s always been masc
@@philswiftreligioussect9619 gracias
Chamo relajate, todo se aprende poco a poco, no hay apuro, este video puede ser bastante util, pero recomendaria transformar todo tu entorno hacia el español para acelerar el proceso de aprendizaje. For example: listening, watching, and reading spanish content. 👍
Suerte!!! I hope you can learn our language and like it 👍
Don't forget to have patience because everything requires practice and dedication. Éxitos brother.
This summarize 10 years of Spanish leaning, bravo 🙌
4 years of high school learning or 2-3 years of college
@@edwardhill3410this is great. I’m happy I found this video.
Stupid stupid stupid.I I don't like ai created script
maybe very very casual learning, even with
10 years? That's a lot
A message for the intermediate learners:
You have stumbled upon your best new reference video for Spanish. Aside from the usual listening podcasts (Slow News, Chill Spanish Listening, etc.), speaking practice a la Tandem, etc. (a must), and daily reading (do it!), this video is the only reference you will ever need. Why?
Because the intermediate threshold is where your Spanish isn’t perfect, BUT you can know what it is you need to learn, even without a teacher. With this video, you can now teach yourself, build sentences, and practice speaking with your language partners. You’ll make mistakes, understand the nuances of the language, and revisit this video as needed.
Of course, you’ll find helpful tips and advice in other videos (and you should use them as needed to further understand the concepts), but the creator of this video accomplished the singular task of stripping out all the unnecessary fat from the information, providing you with a virtual audio/visual dictionary of Spanish concepts. This video is a GOLD MINE of daily lessons.
So, start from the beginning, practice making sentences with every topic, and when you find difficulty in a particular topic, spend a few days there. Ride that pause button. Don’t get overwhelmed by the speed - it’s a feature, not a bug. Rewatch troubling topics over and over while using your other tools (see the first paragraph), and NEVER GIVE UP.
Thank you to the creator. We owe you one.
I'm not sure why nobody has commented on this because it is so thoughtful. Thanks so much!
Thank you 🙏
Tysm
Thank you💗
I don't think I could agree more.
i dont think people understand how good this video is. This is the best video in existence for learning spanish right now.
Did you finish the whole video? If so, how long did it take you?
You couldn't be more correct!!
@@SpanishWithWes4 hours
@@lsk7606 But you didn’t watch it all in one go right?
@@SpanishWithWes Hi, so I am learning Spanish properly for the first time. It is day 2 and am up to the 20th minute of this video. Before I can continue I will probably revise through his explanation on how to apply "ser", as well as familiarizing and learning how to conjugate regular and irregular verbs whilst expanding my vocabulary on verbs I will mostly use.
I will most likely focus on this aspect for the next 2 days to make sure I really have a strong and wide understanding of these topics.
I am estimating that it might take me 4-6 months to proficiently absorb all of the contents in this video while building my vocabulary. To become a confident Spanish speaker to my standard, it might take me years...
I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW THANKFULL I AM
did it helped you tho?
(0:00) - The Introduction
(1:04) - Spanish Fundamentals
(10:32) - Conjugating Verbs (Present)
(16:23) - Articles
(18:54) - The Verb “Ser”
(23:19) - The Present Progressive
(26:08) - The Verb “Estar”
(32:28) - Descriptive Adjectives
(35:52) - Possessive Adjectives
(38:32) - Demonstrative Adjectives
(40:50) - Useful Greetings & Farewells
(43:53) - The Verb “Poder”
(47:03) - The Verb “Ir”
(52:38) - The Verb “Tener”
(59:03) - “al” & “del”
(1:00:34) - Prepositional Pronouns
(1:03:26) - Direct Object Pronouns
(1:09:18) - Indirect Object Pronouns
(1:16:10) - Combining DOPs & IOPs
(1:23:54) - The Verb “Gustar”
(1:29:48) - Irregular “Yo” Verbs
(1:32:59) - Stem-Changing Verbs
(1:36:52) - The Verb “Saber”
(1:39:51) - The Verb “Conocer”
(1:43:05) - Past Tense For Regular Verbs
(1:48:08) - Past Tense of “Ser” and “Ir”
(1:54:32) - Irregular Verbs in the Past - Part 1
(2:01:56) - Irregular Verbs in the Past - Part 2
(2:09:40) - Reflexive Verbs
(2:15:49) - Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs
(2:18:31) - Imperfect Tense
(2:25:22) - Stressed Possessive Adjectives
(2:27:59) - “Por” & “Para”
(2:34:12) - Comparatives & Superlatives
(2:39:27) - How Negatives Work
(2:43:50) - Familiar Tú Commands
(2:50:50) - Nosotros Commands
(2:57:26) - Past Participles As Adjectives
(3:01:52) - Present Perfect Tense
(3:06:10) - Past Perfect Tense
(3:09:41) - Future Tense
(3:14:07) - Future Perfect Tense
(3:16:45) - Conditional Tense
(3:20:51) - Conditional Perfect Tense
(3:22:48) - “Que” & “Lo que”
(3:27:32) - Understanding the Subjunctive
(3:35:21) - Verbs in the Present Subjunctive
(3:44:33) - Examples in the Present Subjunctive
(3:51:07) - Past Subjunctive
(3:58:33) - Present Perfect Subjunctive
(4:02:29) - Past Perfect Subjunctive
(4:05:30) - The Conclusion
I'm a spanish speaker and this video is useful for me as well 😂😂😂😂😂 to learn English.
Una manera creativa de aprender Inglés! 👍😁
I’m a native English speaker and I had a hard time understanding the English.
@@nathankeboku4792 That's funny because as a German I could understand him perfectly
@@maskedlearningfr
@@nathankeboku4792seriously!!!
One correction (i'm a spanish speaker):
Conduzco, traduzco and conozco are not irregular conjugations of conducir, traducir and concer.
It happens to ALL of the regular verb that end in -cir or -cer
Nacer Nazco
Crecer Crezco
Parecer Parezco
Carecer Carezco
Reducir Reduzco
Producir Produzco
Merecer Merezco
Aparecer Aparezco
Envejecer Envejezco
Abastecer Abastezco
It's not that they're irregular, that's just another rule
Mi maestro los llamó "verbos de car gar zar"
Regardless if there’s a pattern that still considered irregular
?? nadie te preguntó aw30na0 re klio pao
@@gav5709 dear spanish learners, this is not spanish, this is chilean, which is a completely different language /j
@@elcanaldelucas6187 klio sapo, eta wea es chileno flaite, soloh lohs xoros del ampa y del pantano entienden esta perfecta sintonía de choreza, puros wnes toos estos qlios. De puerta negra hmno, pasa pa aca y 3 plomazos enlohocico perkinazo
I want this type of video for every language ever!
This would be so helpful in French 😮
@@DeserieDrew ikr!!!
Every subject in the world for that matter.
@@jackstratif6937 yup lol
@@DeserieDrewand Dutch
Just finished watching the 4-hour, and I can read and understand a lot of Spanish now. Incredible! Thank you for the amazing video. Looking forward to your A Complete Guide To Every Fundamental In German.
Wow, that’s crazy! How long did it take you in total to go through everything?
@@SpanishWithWes I spent two days watching it and some parts I watched multiple times.
❤❤ Im looking for that too, German is so difficult
@@stephenchan5866 two days is realll dedication wow. may i know your language background (if it has anything similar w spanish that may have helped you grasp it easier or smth)
@stephenchan5866
That's amazing but why not understand Spanish 100%
Is it because you don't the name of the objects?
I changed the playback speed to 0.75 and it is perfect, gives time to think and reflect and jot down without feeling frustrated. This is a great, high-yield video.
Now do it again
Lol
lol Same ! 0.75x
Same 😅
and when you meet an spanish speaker they turn it up to 5x and you understand nothing. This language is fast.
As a Spanish student myself with many beginner courses having been taken to solidify my understanding of the basic fundamentals, this is VERY well put together. Highly recommended that you watch this video to learn spanish- because this is the content that we learn in spanish class, with the BS cut out.
La verdad es q se equivocó varias veces.
Unas Minutas 8:18 está mal dicho, es más, una minuta es un documento, no tiene nada que ver con minutos.
@@philswiftreligioussect9619 give more examples then please, i've heard minuta used for both, and especially used for minutes although yes minuto used more for minute but minuta also for document just really rarely.
@@johnpachkoski4637 I am Colombian and I have lived in Colombia for 13 years out of 20. My first language is Spanish, I've written essays for Spanish and gotten 95% to even 100% scores in Spanish language and literature in Colombia, I even enrolled in an AP class here in the US and got the highest grade (for obvious reasons). I have more friends who speak in Spanish than English and my whole family (other than some gringo cousins) speaks to me in Spanish. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAS ANYONE EVER USED MINUTA for minutes. You NEVER use minuta or Minutas for minutes or a minute. They are two completely different concepts all together. Here are a few examples for minutos and minuto.
"Deme un minutico/ deme un minuto/ porfavor dame un solo minuto/ ¿Me podría dar un minuto porfavor?"
"Faltan seis minutos para que empiece la final del mundial" / "En ocho minutos se irá mi hijo a Nueva Zelanda y nunca volverá"
As for minuta, a minuta can be either a document used as an outline for taking decisions (in business contexts) or to pass a judicial act (serving a similar purpose to a business context, it is known as a minuta judicial).
Examples: "El presidente Petro formuló una serie de cláusulas para la minuta a pesar de, según la constitución, ser limitado por sus poderes ejecutivos". "Todavía no hemos terminado la minuta de la última reunión, pero la vamos a finalizar hoy ya que solo falta arreglar el tema del contrato que firmamos con Ecopetrol".
@@johnpachkoski4637 Second and minute it's just "segundo" y "minuto". "Segunda" it's like "my second week" or "i finished in 2nd place" wich would be: terminé segunda.
I'm an intermediate Spanish learner, Id say I'm around low B2. Ive been learning since I was in middle school (10 years) but I just started self studying and immersion. I plan to use this video over the next few weeks and I'm hoping with immersion, itll be enough to push me to C1. Good luck and happy language learning everyone ! 🎉
¿Y cómo te ha ido hasta ahora?
hi im from a country that doesnt really use these metrics like a123-d, where does one usually find out their level? do you regularly take tests to find out?
@@cay6578 online test
Y Como vas con el español
I just started Spanish less than a week ago, like 4 days or so, I watched like half of it and it feels like I already understand a lot. What would you say my level would be if I practice thoroughly all the topics mentioned in this video?
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5:00
5:30 | Prepositions and Adverbs |
6:08 |Adverbs|
6:29 | Pronouns |
7:23 | Days of the week |
7:40 |Months|
7:53 |Seasons|
7:58 | Time words |
8:39 | Numbers |
9:36 | Numbers ( Position ) |
I went from 0 to conversationally fluent in 3 months. Great video, very well made.
How
For how many hours of Comprehensible input and which is your native language? I achieved the same results in Italian being hispanic myself
Wait, explain to us the process. How many hours did you study each day? What did it take for you to get to that level ?
A ver xD
@@Optimalwellbeingway no way can someone be fluent in 3 months. I don’t buy it. Impossible
This video took me about a month to fully watch through because I had to pause and take notes every step of the way. I feel so well equipped to learn spanish after this video. Thank you so so so much for making easily digestable information and including so many examples. This has been the most helpful resource that I've found!
I'm not taking notes, I think I'll later but I'm half the way through and it took me like 2 days, an hour a day maybe. It feels like a know a lot and can understand a sentence to quite a huge extent reading it considering I haven't dedicated a lot of time yet.
Great guide, I just wanted to point out 3 things:
1. As far as I know "vosotros" is only used in Spain. In Latin America we don't use "vosotros" at all, we use "ustedes" for you in plural regardless of if we are speaking formally or informally. So if you go with "vosotros" or "ustedes" just depends on which variant you would like to speak. If you decide to use "ustedes", then just need to remember that the conjugation for verbs for "ustedes" is the same that is used for "ellos". For example, "y'all eat a lot" would be "ustedes comen mucho".
2. The amount of times that we use "nosotros", "ustedes/vosotros" and "ellos" is about the same as in English for "we", "y'all" and "they", so it is important to remember well the right conjugation for those pronouns.
3. I don't think I've ever heard in any variant someone say "segunda" and "minuta" to mean "second" and "minute". I recommend you to use "segundo" and "minuto" in masculine.
but when you use ustedes, since you say that you use it instead of vosotros, do you use ustedes equally meaning/with equal meaning to "you all"/ya'll? just trying to understand since my school doesnt teach how people who naturally speak spanish on the street in lets say latin american may conjugate depending on if their speak more formally or more casually (not because they're trying because thats how spanish is a school course) but because of how they're used to speaking it, or how their life has taught them to speak. also i have heard seguna and minuta, and segundo and minuta, just depends on where they were from and if they were female or male, but i've always heard women use the masculine and men use minuta so so idk if that would really impact it, but thats what i've heard.
That's true, how hispan speaker I never did hear somebody saying "minuta" or "segunda"
@@johnpachkoski4637 I'll give a long answer to try to be as clear as possible. In both Mexico and Spain (I will talk mainly about these two countries because other countries have more little differences, although it is true that Spain is the only one that uses "vosotros"), "tú" (you in singular) is used for people you are close with or that are young (family, friends, teenagers, children, classmates, etc.) and we use "usted" (you in singular, but this one shows respect or courtesy) for adults who you are not close with (an adult stranger, a teacher, your boss, etc.). In Spain, "vosotros" = "tú" in plural; and "ustedes" = "usted" in plural. In Mexico we don't use "vosotros", so we use "ustedes" whenever we want to say you in plural. Like this:
Spain México
tú -> vosotros tú -> ustedes
usted -> ustedes usted -> ustedes
This is not like a street way of speaking and it is not that we are uneducated or something like that, it just means that the way we speak is different from theirs. If you watch a movie, or read a book, or listen to a government speech that uses our variant of Spanish you will hear "ustedes" and never "vosotros". Finally, to answer the question "y'all" is similar to "ustedes" in the sense that both mean you in plural, but it's not an exact equivalent because "y'all" is very casual, whereas "ustedes" (in Latin American Spanish) is used in casual and formal speaking, with courtesy and without courtesy, with respect and without respect.
Ustedes means you in plural. The OP forgot that y'all is an informal contraction unique to Texan English.
Ustedes is used when you speak to any group of people, just like when you use "You" in plural.
In Spain, "vosotros" is used as an informal way to speak to a group of people and "Ustedes" is the formal way.
We don't have that in Mexico and in many other latinamerican countries@@johnpachkoski4637
@@Diego-lt4wmya'll is used across almost every southern state in america pretty consistently as well as across all us states in AAVE. It just wouldn't be used in a formal email/interview probably but is used more commonly than u might think.
THIS IS GENUINELY AN AMAZING VIDEO im only an hour in but ive retained so many notes and information 😭 thank u for helping a mexican who can fluently understand spanish but cant speak it bc of grammar 😍
We might need to get together because I can speak with semi proper grammer, but can not fluently understand the spoken conversations.
Same 😢, it's a struggle
soy boricua y crecí oyendo español pero todavía no soy fluida pq hablo mas en ingles, así que este video me ayudó mucho y ahora tengo la clase de español ap en la escuela, estoy lentamente aprendiendo la idioma de mis gentes
Muchas gracias amigo! soy de Argentina, nativo del español. Estudio ruso por mi cuenta hace tres años, ahora estoy en Rusia. Me gano la vida enseñando español. Tu video me ayuda mucho para enseñar mejor)
Интересно чем вас Россия завлекла?
@@ShonePizza Я три года назад примерно, решил учить язык. И в основном решил чтобы было бы круто учить русский потому что звучит очень хорошо и ещё много людей говорят на нем. Потом появилась возможность приехать и учиться. Я в Москве и я прям влюблен. (Зато конечно сложности бывают всегда). Спасибо что вы спрашивали. А вы как в это видео попали?
@@leanrepetitor Не знаю почему, но у меня несколько раз в год возникает желание начать изучать какой-нибудь язык, вот в этот раз выбор пал на испанский, но уже хочется начать изучать все романские языки параллельно, на пару с латынью 😅
@@ShonePizza хахаха это очень круто! Испанский очень хороший выбор. Есть много акцентов в зависимости от страны, но мы все понимаем друг друга
@@leanrepetitorвы не поверите XD
По прошествии недели я взялся за изучение всех популярных ныне романских языков (Испанского, Португальского, Французского, Итальянского и Румынского) и плюс к этому классической латыни
and the fact that this is for free is absolutely incredible I'm so grateful
Thank you for this video! I'm from Pakistan, I can speak Arabic, Pashto, and Urdu... All of these languages are similar, now I want to learn a completely different language... I find this as a very helpful resource to learn Spanish. Today is my first day learning Spanish... It's similar to English! I am very happy
Keep going!
Spanish asaan zuban he. Insan jaldi Sikh Jata he
How is going your Spanish.?
@@easylearning9290 Aasaan hai agar English aati hai, aur bhi aasaan agar French ya Portuguese ya Italian aati hai toh.
This video is AMAZING!!! But we MUST address a small mistake: “infinitives” are NOT -ando -iendo words; that’s the present progressive tense! Infinitives are the most basic form of a word: to eat, to write, comer, escribir
U r incorrect. he did not say infinitives are iendo ando words. he stated them as ing forms which are present progressive
Thank God I speak French to an intermediate level...this is so easy to understand. All grammatical concepts are almost the same. No need to compare with English whatsoever. Even most of the basic vocab is so similar to French.
I’m trying to do the reverse as you and knowing a romance language makes picking up a new one so much easier! do you plan to learn spanish through french?
i’m trying to learn french and wonder if u know if any resources this detailed and comprehensive for french. i’m struggling a lot to get past a very basic level.
@@hypn0tic38 i don’t have one AS comprehensive as this but the video “Learn French Verbs and Tenses in 10 minutes” by learn french with alexa is very good imo!
This is a wonderful video. I taken many years of Spanish both in public school and at UCLA. And, for the last two years I did Duolingo. This is a great refresher and so easily deals with everything I have learned over these many years. Great video.
I dont think you can find a better, more efficient, well explained, all round video explaining the foundations of Spanish!
I've learned Spanish in 4 hours than all 4 years of high school. Well done sir. Thank you so much 🎉
I have never told a stranger this, but I love you.
I made a bunch of Argentinian friends, and I desperately desire to learn how to speak their language. Being a Minnesotan, it seems especially difficult because our speech patterns are so slow. Not to mention our pronunciation of O’s seems polar opposite to the rolling of the R’s.
But thank you for this, I shall be revisiting it often on my pursuit to be able to converse in Spanish
Muchas gracias amigo 👏🏼
how r u now?
How r u going with the Spanish?
This man deserves a nothing but the best this life has to offer. Man is single handedly doing what many of people combined couldn't
I'm a native Spanish and fluent in English. I guess I came across this video since I am currently studying Japanese, and I'm having a pretty rough time with it, but when I found this video I couldn't avoid looking at how interestingly similar this seems like to how I'm learning Japanese. Helps so much with motivation to think that, since Spanish is not impossible to learn, Japanese shouldn't be neither!
I've never had an experience like this one before, since I never really studied for English, just consumed a bunch of native content until I eventually became fluent somehow, took a long time tho (5 YEARS) but even with that much time, it was only possible because of how relatively "easy" it is to learn English as a Spanish native speaker, but trying to do the same thing with Japanese would be, straight up, borderline imposible, so I got forced to actually study for this one. It is nice to see videos like this one sometimes! Luck with you guys Spanish journey too! It's even tough for most natives, super cool to know there's actual people learning it 😅
Did you use increasing levels of difficulty in your English content or did you just sit there and consume content not understanding.. until you eventually did? I sometimes wonder if I’m trying to hard to understand everything and wonder if I would be better off just letting go and just consume consume consume.
@@troybrahful Nah, I went straight up to stuff like PewDiePie's Minecraft series, Jacksepticeye's vids or Smallant's.... just as some examples. Pretty much things a normal, casual, native person would see, with the exception that I wasn't getting a thing. I basically did sit until I was actually understanding. Somewhere around 2 years after I first started, I begun having conversations with natives tho, I had some friends on discord which I used to talk to, but it's not like it was doing anything, I was translating everything they were saying and everything I wanted to respond to them. I was also occasionally translating words from the videos I saw, for example, I remember watching a Splatoon youtuber back then, and there was a video so good that I re-watched it multiple times, and remember translating and learning words such like "us", "fear" and "fur" from that specific one.
But that way of learning is the whole reason of why it took me literally half a decade to learn the language, and it did somehow work by some sort of miracle too, so I wouldn't recommend it to you at all. Since I'm actually STUDYING japanese I can already tell how many years I'm saving lol
@@deowi2 thats how one of my spanish speaking friends learned english and I was like soo confused how but I guess it makes sense if you put a lot of time into it. goodluck with learning japanese!
I have studied 5 languages seriously and many more casually.
I played with Japanese a little, but I have a friend who ONLY spoke English until age 30 and decided he wanted to learn Japanese.
He was 100% self taught and became B2’ish fluent.
He used:
- Pimsleur
- Michel Thomas
- Some grammar books
- iTalki
- He lives in Dallas, TX (not a huge Japanese community), but he would regularly go to sushi restaurants and one Japanese market to try to practice with random people.
I was blown away at how good he got on his own in just 24 months of self study, maybe 1-2 hours a day.
That inspired me to get back into language learning.
I’m wanting to improve my Spanish and I started Persian/Farsi from scratch.
Any language with a different alphabet is inherently harder, but there are so many great tools and resources now.
I think Rocket Languages is the best app I have found. I think they have Japanese too.
They don’t have Persian, so I am using Pimsleur for that, which I think is a VERY close second.
Both are excellent tools.
Good luck.
I worked with a guy who learned English by watching cartoons (before the internet was what it is today). I think I need to try your method with Spanish because the formal learning isn’t working haha
Even he speak too fast, his explanation is very accurate and easy to learn! Thank God I saw this video
I am a uni student and my whole year got combined into one video. Someone cooked here! Thank you random bro!
AND there's time stamps? This video is truly a gift from God 🙏
No it’s from the human who created it
@rlud304 may Carl Sagan bless you, Mr Reddit Atheist
@@autumnleaves7907What’s a Reddit Atheist? Anyway I believe the actual person who put in the extreme amount of time and effort is to whom you should be grateful.
@rlud304 Reddit atheists are the type of guys who get upset whenever God is mentioned in any situation or context. So for example, someone might say "oh my God, that car nearly hit us!!" and the reddit athiest would say "ummmm actually did you know God is fake? Please say Oh my goodness next time 🤓".
The reddit atheist doesn't take context into account. He simply sees any mention of God or religion as a personal attack on his own worldview, and thus he must insert himself into any situation where it is mentioned
@rlud304 a reddit atheist is someone who feels the need to insert themselves in any discussion where God is mentioned to remind people that God doesn't exist. This is even in contexts where the person mentioning God is not being literal, or is simply using it as a common turn of phrase, such as "God, that was close!" or "thank God I made it to work on time" etc.
Anyway, I DID express my gratitude to the person who created the video, as I called him "God" which is perhaps the highest form of praise one human can give to another.
You are an excellent teacher! But about 30:23... In Spanish is very common to say "soy feliz ". Native speakers will understand the following:
Soy feliz = normally, in general I am happy (let's forget the bad times).
Estoy feliz = for the moment, I feel happy now, after having had a bad time, or without taking into account whether tomorrow I will still be just as happy
Not really, it is kinda rare. It is very common in portuguese or catalan.
But in spanish you'd use estar or soy "determinant+noun" then the adj.
In some cases you can use soy, for example if the noun comes first "yo soy feliz" as it rewards a general statement. Or in certain centexts in which you omit the noun.
Soy Feliz means that you are in a state of happiness related to a sense of fullfilment. For example, if you say you have a nice family or are happy about your life in general, you can say "Soy Feliz".
Meanwhile, "Estoy feliz" means a temporary state of happiness, usually related to having won a contest or have a good time with your friends @@sergiogarpla2902
Never in my life I have heard soy feliz. I am Spanish speaking native
@@facundoibarra9339 Yo sí, en charlas motivacionales de mier** jajajajaja
@@facundoibarra9339 soy feliz es decir que estas pleno y satisfecho con tu vida, es como un termino mas permanente a diferencia de estar que es mas temporal
As a spanish learning beginner I found this video very helpful and easy to understand. I will be using this to help me in my spanish learning journey.
My native lenguage is the spanish ,it was interesting to wach this Video knowing both lenguages , english and spanish jajaja , i am learning German now, i wish luck for everyone who wants to learn spanish
i wish you luck with german. i took 5 years in school, i never understood anything.
Thank you bro, this is the video i needed to advance past basic spanish with confidence ❤
“‘Y’all’s’ - English doesn’t have this adjective, but I am still including it because Spanish does”
laughs in Texan
NO FR THO
Spanish is my 2nd language and I was always able to understand it from my mom speaking it to me, but when I finally got comfortable speaking Spanish, I always had trouble with "ser" and "estar". I've had so many Spanish teachers and they have never explained it as well as you did!
8:21 I'm a Spanish speaker and I have never heard about "unas minutas",we just use "unos minutos", same case with "segunda"; we just use it for "second place" but in femenine.
Thanks to all the people who want learn Spanish, such a cute languaje! It's very difficult, I know :'D
Creo que lo más difícil del español son las variaciones regionales JAJAJAJA, la lengua “estándar” no es tan difícil si hablas inglés como primera lengua, al menos en comparación a otros idiomas europeos.
as a professor in spanish, this is excellent organized, has lots of holes to cover but overall good work
what topics should i go over after watching this video?
Things like -abamos, -abais, -aban, etc that he repeatedly says are unimportant around 2:20.... he is wrong and's i dont know why he would imply they're unimportant
I am so overwhelmed and happy at the end of this video. So I am grateful to you that teaching the entire basis in a long video comprised with short rapid sessions with enough examples within like 4 hours of time. But believe me I watched this video time to time rewinding and taking notes on to a book. Literally it took me like a week to completely understand and adequately practice things as you said. I finished like writing things on a book with almost 320 pages.I found each and every word you said is important. And I totally agree with you as a polyglot too and this is my second attempt to a western language after English. Knowing fundamentals brings about the self confidence to revisit things. You are an amazing teacher. Would love to see you someday. I ll come up with some good Spanish someday and put you a message as a reward to your this meritorious occupation.
That’s crazy! How long did it take you to finish everything??
@@SpanishWithWes You are right it was almost a week, because understanding, trying and taking notes of a one minute of this video is equal like like 5-10 minutes. 😬😌 Truly speaking, since I have a clearly understood note, it is all enough to check back the note without jumping back in to the video. 🙆 Anyhow now I can watch other learning videos much easier to find new stuff as further learning.😃
How did you take notes? Did you write them, type them
Styles
This is the best video for people learning Spanish.
Now I just wish there was a video like this for languages I don't already know and want to learn!!
There‘s a video for russian if you don’t already know this language
Phenomenal video. I’ve been learning Spanish for 9 months but I feel I’ve been regressing of late. Watching your vid has helped me consolidate all the basics I had learnt in the first 6 months of my Spanish journey. Also, your lesson on the use of “Le” as an indirect object is the best out there on you tube.
Keep with it. I've been speaking it every day for 4 and a half, almost 5 years now and I'm in a stage where I feel like I'm regressing again. I'm clearly not, cuz I can watch shows on Netflix in Spanish with Spanish subs and understand most of it, but there are still waves where it feels like I'm forgetting things. Just keep using it and stay consistent even through the waves of regression. It will feel more and more natural
I’m also stuck at the point now where I pretty much know all the basics but it gets harder to level up. Do you have anything you recommend to watch?
@@SpanishWithWesWell I don't have anything I can recommend you to watch but I recommend you to try to watch everything in Spanish, change your phone's language to Spanish, write in Spanish, read in Spanish, try to think in Spanish, do everything you normally do in a daily basis in Spanish or at least try to, that's what I did to learn English being Spanish
شكرا على تعبك معانا لقد استفدت منك الكثير والكثير من الاسبانية!
Thank you for your troubles, we benefited a lot of Spanish from you!
Gracias por tus problemas con nosotros, nosotros beneficiamos mucho de ti
This is an amazing resource.
The constant over complication of stem changing verbs really frustrates me. The way teachers would have you believe, it's just a long set of verbs that you have to memorise that change for some reason, when in fact the explanation is so simple. It isn't just that the Yo, Tu, El/Ella/Usted and Ellos forms have to do it, it's because in those forms, you're stressing the O sound. Every word has one stress in Spanish. So you'd think you'd say Yo pOdo. But in spanish they don't like the stressed O for some reason, so it changes into UE. Podo -> Puedo. Pode -> Puede. The same with the other ones. Empezar. You'd think EmpEzo. But spanish doesn't like the stressed E, so you change it to IE. Empiezo. The Nosotros and Vosotros forms never stressed that syllable, so it didn't change. They're not just random exceptions to the rule. EmpezAmos. PodEmos.
I hope that helps someone.
I rember when he gave the reason for the irregular verbs, and I said "WOW", wouldn't it have been good to explain why they are conjugated as they are? It would demystify things so much. After teaching myself Spanish for 5 years, this was very useful, but frustrating because there was so much fear of getting it!!!
Just binged all four hours this morning / afternoon. Everything made great sense. About 40% was new. I’m excited to go back through slowly and master it. This is surely the best video about Spanish on YT that I have found 🙏
Just went through a second time and took extensive notes! Gonna make an Anki deck now
@@mattbabb. Can you share your notes if u don't mind?
I am currently learning Spanish and when I tell you este video is really helpful,it is really helpful and amazing!! Thank you so much
Wow thank you very much for such a long and insightful video! No puedo pagar por las leccionas con mi tutora más y este video es un bendición
Also, we need such videos for every existing language!!
Not learning spanish, but I am amazed at the effort you have put in this. Would be happy to see one for german too
I was thinking the same! Imagine recording and editing for 4 hours 🤯
Guten Tag
@@SpanishWithWes late but his channel has loads of spanish grammar tutorials, and i think he just put them all together and added/altered some
this video is exactly what I look for in every language; incredible job piling all your work into one big video, you are a savior
Hello! Argentine here, the Present Perfect tense (3:01:52) isn't commonly used in South America. It is used in Central America and Spain. If you use it people might think your spanish is weird :)
Edit: I read some of the comments and it seems that I was wrong, I apologize, the present perfect tense is commonly used in South America except Argentina, again, my bad ^^
Great comment...I lived in Rio Negro for two years...and you are absolutely correct!!
Then how would you express the same idea that is conveyed through present perfect?
It is used commonly in Colombia. I hear it rather frequently.
Every time I tell my fiancé (native Colombian) my stomach hurts or my head hurts, he asks "y qué has tomado")
In Argentina, is it normal then to say something like:
Alguna vez comiste sushi?
Instead of:
Alguna vez has comido sushi?
Good thing we don't care about Argentina
We love all of Latin America 🇪🇸🇦🇷🇨🇴
Hands down the BEST video on Spanish I have seen, I literally feel like a veil has been lifted from my eyes! I watched a 15 min video yesterday on Este, Ese and Esos, yours was 60 seconds and clearer.. I am only a month in to learning Spanish but you have probably saved me YEARS!
Absolute LEGEND.
As a spanish speaker who dont see the full video, this video is for a formal talk, ussualy we dont speak like that. But ik making a video for informal, unformal desformal or idk talk will be so hard and long for make & see. I hope you guys can learn spanish propperly!
Salutes from argentina
Wow I am learning Spanish from past 2 years and I tried all the methods and I also followed many youtubers nobody was helpful, but I would like to thank you and I can say that you are a genius now I feel so confident and I can talk now all my doubts are cleared thank you for this wonderful video hermano...
I started German 3 months ago and it’s going great, but damn I’m so tempted to learn Spanish too pol
What your current level? B1 ?
I am watching this with playback speed 0.75x and it does not make me feel like I am chasing after car anymore. Great content and damn useful. Your work is very much appreciated here . ❤❤
Funny, but 👍
I love the way you teach I love how fast you go all of it is so great I love it I can’t help but to keep saying how much I enjoy it fast and all I love it I love fast paste it helps me so much slow is good for some things but this is magnificent ❤❤❤❤❤love it
Yes!!! I’m going to work through this with my kids! I am advanced beginner and they are beginners. Muchísimas gracias!
I've been struggling to learn Spanish for over a month now, however this video suddenly moved my Spanish skills to another level. Thanks LanguageBro.
mucha suerte familia aprendiendo español, alomejor os parece muy dificil pero a que es muy bonito poder hablar fluido en español? Ánimo!
todo lo bueno lleva tiempo 💪🏼
@@SpanishWithWes tu lo has dicho👌🏼disciplina y constancia ❤️
This is perfect. As someone who took spanish in high school, you structured this in a way that is easier to grasp.
I'll try my best to commit to one chapter a day.
Every mistake, correction or small help i've found as a spanish speaker:
Since it wasn't mentioned, here's how to read a spanish word:
A, E and O are open vowels
I and U are closed vowels
two open vowels cannot be in the same syllable, so if you see two together, that means it's a separation (this applies even for two of the same open vowels together). A closed vowel can go in the same syllable as an open vowel or another closed vowel.
If a word doesn't have an accent mark, check the last leter:
If it's N, S or a vowel, then the penulimate syllable is stressed
If it's not, then the last syllable is stressed.
(The question words are exceptions to this rule)
If there's a closed and an open vowel together and the closed vowel has an accent, then both vowels are in different syllables. If the open one has an accent, that means that they are both part of the same syllable and that that syllable is stressed.
CA, CO and CU make the /ka/ /ko/ and /ku/ sounds
CE and CI make the /se/ and /si/ sounds
to make the sounds /ke/ and /ki/ you need to use QUE and QUI
to make the sound /kue/ and /kui/ you need to use QÜE and QÜI.
GA, GO and GU make the /ga/ /go/ and /gu/ sounds
GE and GI make the /xe/ and /xi/ sounds
to make the sounds /ge/ and /gi/ we need to use: GUE and GUI
to make the sounds /gue/ and /gui/ we need to use: GÜE and GÜI.
SO basically the sounds charts are:
CA QUE QUI CO CU
ZA CE CI ZO ZU
CUA QÜE QÜI CUO
GA GUE GUI GO GU
JA GE GI JO JU
GUA GÜE GÜI GUO
HUA, HUE and HUI make the /wa/ /we/ and /wi/ sounds
If you see an accent mark on a 1 syllable word, it means that that word is stressed in the sentence as a whole.
4:00 cuánto, cuántos, cuánta and cúantas also have accents (if they are questions)
5:08 to avoid confusion, "quienes" is two syllables (quie - nes), not three (qui - e - nes). As said before, a closed and an open vowel can be in the same syllables (and the U is silent)
5:32 "ni" can also mean "not even". If you ever see "ni siquiera" then it definetly means "not even", just with more emphasys.
5:32 "por" can also mean "because of"
6:08 "en" can also mean "at"
This list is very useful but keep in mind that it doesn't show the whole picture. Many of these words have even more meanings, especially if you put them together. I recommend that if you ever see one of these words used in a way doesn't make sense, research other meanings, uses, and specific phrases of these words.
6:55 even though "usted/es" is a second person pronoun, i think he included it where he did because all of the second person formal and third person conjugations are the same.
6:55 almost no regions outside of spain use "vosotros/as" or any of its conjugations. We just use "ustedes" and its conjugations regardless of formality.
7:16
7:59 "segundo" as a unite of time can only be masculine, but as an adjective it can change gender.
7:59 "minuto" can only be masculine, i don't know where he got that, although the word "minuta" does exist but it has nothing to do with time.
8:25 i'll emphasize this "do NOT forget to write the Ñ in año"
9:16 just in case. "One hundred", and "one thousand" are not "un cien" and "un mil", it's simply "cien" and "mil". Although "a million" is "un millón"
9:16 also, "(any number bigger than uno) + millón" makes it plural, for example: "dos millones" (two million)
9:48 "un cuarto" means a quarter in general, not just for time.
11:04 another (and i think more important) reason not to focus on the plurals is because all conjugations of nostros/as end in "mos" and all ellos/as/ustedes conjugations end in "n". No conjugations of any singular pronoun end in "mos" or "n". (There are exactly 4 exceptions which i'll mention later)
The point is that plural conjugations are very easy to spot.
16:51 i'd say you're better off memorizing which nouns are masculine and which ones are femenine.
18:35 the word "agua" is actually femenine, but femenine words that start whit a stressed A switch pronouns to avoid weird sound combinations. This does not happen in plural though "las aguas".
And speaking of that, the way to identify an object only by an adjective is (pronoun + adjective) For example: "the happy one" would be translated as "el felíz" or "la felíz", but the pronoun switching doesn't apply here, "the tall one" (femenine) is not "el alta", it's "la alta"
20:44 just in case someone gets confused, the "no article" rule applies ONLY to occupations.
22:54 keep in mind that the "factual statements" rule was established a long time ago, so things like hair color and gender also fall in that category.
26:11 not really, the conjugations of estar in the present are not regular because the stress is on the last syllable, unlike regular verbs where the stress is on the penultimate syllable.
28:35 i think a better translation would be "i am to the side of the house"
30:16 false. "Yo soy feliz" is a completely correct sentence and it means "i'm generally happy" or "i'm a happy person"
31:48 another way of thinking it is that it's describing the current state of something, hence the words being so similar
33:48 the "noun before adjective" rule isn't 100% consistant. There are adjectives like "buen/a"(good), "primer/a"(first), "tercer/a"(third) and "ultimo/a"(last) that go before the noun. "El buen chico" (the good boy), "la primera ronda" (the first round), "el tercer día" (the third day), "la ultima vez" (the last time)
41:25 some speaker say "buen día" insteas of "buenos días". Also when speaking casually, all of these greetings can just be reduces to "buenas"
44:46 another way to remember it is that, at least in this conjugation, the stem only changes when the stress falls on it, which isn't the case for nosotros/as and vosotros/as
46:11 the phrase is not granatically incorrect. But in spanish "i can speak spanish" would be said as "yo sé hablar español"(i know to speak spanish)
49:36 just so you don't get confused, there's only one monosyllabic verb whose present singular first person conjugation doesn't end in -oy, and that is "ver"(to see) which ends in -eo, "yo veo"(i see)
1:19:31 please be aware of not using sentences where the DOP could be d*** or b***s, regardless of context. Spanish speakers are very dirty minded, and there's both femenine and masculine nouns for both of them. In this case, the phrase sounds like "you are showing us your d***"
1:24:41 i say you do what works for you, but i don't think you liking something and that pleasing you are not the same thing.
The best way i can explain "me gusta" is that "me gusta X" literally means the exact same thing as "I like X", absolutely no difference, but in spanish, "I" or "yo" is not the subject, it's the indirect object. "What I like" is performing an action against me. even if the two phrases mean the same thing, spanish structures it a bit differently. This means that the verb "gustar" is actually conjugated based on what you like.
This might actually make it simpler for you beacuse the part you're modifying is in the exact same place as in english.
Another way of thinking it is simply as a throwaway phrase, like most spanish speakers do. Just know that "me gusta" means i like it, how to conjugate it and where it goes. It always goes before the direct subject noun, for example: "te gustan las manzanas" (you like apples), the indirect object goes before it for example "a tí te gustan las manzanas"(you like apples) and verbs go between both words, for example: "te van a gustar las manzanas"(you're going to like apples). It totally works.
1:27:41 he forgot to add the article, it should be "me gustan los gatos". Subjects always have articles unless they're pronouns or proper nouns.
1:29:08 "les gusta escuchar a música" is incorrect, it should be "les gusta escuchar música". Some spanish verbs do always have an A after them but "escuchar" is not one of them.
1:30:54 this is incorrect, all verbs ending in -cer and -cir change to -zco. it's not an irregularity, it's just an extra rule which comes from the fact that in spanish C makes the same sound as Z, and spanish prefers to keep sounds over letter.
1:32:00 "proteger" is also not an irregular verb. The "yo" conjugation is "protejo" because G makes two different sounds when it's before an E and an O, and so it changes to J because a J before an O makes the same sound as a G before an E.
I also wouldn't consider "traer" an irregular verb (in this conjugation) since the only other verb in spanish that ends in -aer has the same "yo" conjugation i'd say it's just another rule.
1:32:59 one way to remember what conjugations change the stems and which don't, is that the stem only changes when the stress falls on it
1:38:28 "tú sabes el tiempo" is a literal and incorrect tranlation. The correct way is "tú sabes la hora"(you know the hour)
2:04:48 "tú viste mi madre en la casa" is incorrect. The correct sentence is "tú viste a mi madre en la casa". Some nouns always have an A before them when they're direct objects, one of those nouns is for "people", in the sense that when a person is a direct object, it always has an A before it.
2:07:51 these verbs aren't irregular. The reason they change is because C and G make a different sound when their befora an E or an I and when they're before any other vowel. To make them have the same sound as with the other vowels you have to put an U after it, and in the case of C, change it to a Q.
Again: GA GUE GUI GO GU
CA QUE QUI CO CU
2:13:04 THIS is what got me to do this whole thing. The sentece "A él se lavó" is completely incorrect. Saying "se lavó" or "él se lavó" is correct, but saying "a él se lavó" is like saying "he washed himself up", it's repeating the object twice.
2:14:06 again, it's "él se despertó" or "se despertó"
1:45:00 keep in mind that "ahora" or "ya" used as an indicator of when you're gonna do things doesn't really mean "now", it means "as soon as i can" or "as soon as possible". Which can range from right now to whoever said thinks is reasonable. If you want to tell a spanish speaker to do something now, you can clarify it by saying (pero + ahora/ya + ahora/ya)
2:17:25 "John y yo nos conocimos" actually means "John and I met eachother". To say "John and I knew each other" it's "John y yo nos conocíamos"
2:45:01 here are 3 of the 4 exception to the "no singular conjugations end in N"
2:49:14 "venme" doesn't mean "come to me", in fact it doesn't mean anything, it's like saying "come me" in english; i don't know where he got it. Come to me in spanish would be "ven a mí" or "ven comigo"(come with me) or ven "ven aquí"(come over here)
Thank you so much
I've only watched 30 minutes so far, but really appreciate the gathering of clear information in such bite size packages. It's a source of reference for a novice like myself.
This video with beginner spanish textbook pdf and some random videos will help me a lot
I am truly lucky this time since im always unlucky since this video is worth atleast 3 years according to some comments ive found
What a language lesson that actually shows amd explains the direct translation and the reason why... wow. You sir are highly intelligent
Got to say this pure no- nonsense information . The best I have found in this language .well done!
This summarize 10 years of Spanish leaning, bravo
Hello, sir! I've stumbled upon your video and I'm saying this as someone who learned some Spanish by only watching Telenovelas as a kid: it is perfect! However, after reading your channel information and realizing any video on how to learn German by my own (especially a video like this one) would be perfect.
I can't believe that I actually have finished this video. Even as an ESL, I still find it quite amusing to learn a new language through a language that is not my mother tongue. I started watching this video several times: one with the longest record being about 2 hours without taking notes (which does not avail obviously). This time I paused and took notes so that the total time was about 9 hours in total. I broke the process in two days with 10 days of hiatus in between. This video is definitely helpful and I would recommend all beginners to watch it.
This was great for me, because I know grammar and I have studied all that is in this video, this means I can keep up with the fast pace, and for me he puts all my past lessons into a simply explained whole. Brilliant !
My brain freezes every time I see indirect and direct object pronouns in sentences when I'm reading or speaking, despite learning for 4 years. Thank you for this explanation, you've saved me from a lifetime of headaches!
I'm still working my way through this video. Very well presented especially if you adjust the playback speed or take notes. This is mostly reinforcement after months of using Duolingo. It's interesting to see what things I picked up naturally and which things I absolutely needed an explanation for such as the various uses of este/estos, which I didn't understand even when I was well into my course. Interestingly, Duolingo doesn't teach the Vosotros form at all.
I think this entire video, when watched enough times can replace a grammar book. Hopefully after finishing this, I can go straight to reading books in Spanish and increasing my comprehension. One of the positive things about Duolingo is it taught me enough basic vocabulary.
Nobody needs to learn vosotros!
I just use this as a reinforcement tool and don’t need notes. If I ever approach something like this while reading a book, I will understand why that is, not just what it means.
I find that Duolingo works great for learning some basic words, but for grammar it’s horrible
in some latin american countries they use ustedes instead of vosotros. You are probably not learning european spanish with this app.
I don't get why the guy in the video always says to not focus on this form. It is very important. You'll need it as soon as you speak to more than one person, which happens all the time. Even in english, although english has no word for it, you will use phrases like "y'all" or "you guys". In spanish thats vosotros.
@@cleantube8014I didn't get this as well, although I'm still trying to learn Spanish and don't know it well I still hear nosotros often. Does he expect us to keep our conversation to one on one only? Lol
Vosotros is only used in Spain if I'm correct.
And in the USA especially down south we use "y'all" and "you all" so I'm pretty sure it's a word 😂
But otherwise so far I still think he does a good job in this video although I still have over 3 hours to go 😂😂
for everyone who said it is too fast, I would propose just to pause at every point he makes and write it down. this makes it o easy to learn. I myself am often to comfy but with this, there is minimal text, just the things necessary, you can copy it one to one into your folder and into your brain.
Thanks for sharing and a good day to everyone reading
This is great! I seem to have a short attention span for learning Spanish but this works for me. Thank you!
Did you watch it in one go? 😁
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@@garyelcaracol🤯 did you learn a lot by watching it in one go?
Wow. Dude, I'm so freaking speechless. I only watched an hour and a half of the video and I've learned more than those five terrible school years of taking spanish. I'm really just speachless. Thank you sir; have a good night.
When I tell you that this video has been the reason on why I get compliments on my Spanish I am super grateful to God that he showed me this video because one problem that I’ve noticed learning Spanish on an organized platform for example Duolingo or Babbel for example, Babbel is to expensive and Duolingo. There isn’t a lot of useful phrases that you’re practicing every day but in this video, he shows you how to use it and also, what’s sounds normal I watch the full video throughout and I think this is the best video on Spanish, I’ve watched a lot of videos with grammar but the way he explains it I can understand when to use the different conjugations and words I would 100% recommend watching the entire video. He goes over pretty much everything.
Your usage of etymologies makes this video golden.
My God, I didn't know Spanish was so hard for other people to learn, I see now why people struggle when I try to teach them some words
I just started learning Spanish and I was so annoyed that I couldn't find a better big-picture-kind-of-overview for the language anywhere!! And then I found this video! ❤❤❤ This is absolutamente perfecto! Muchas muchas gracias! Now I have a very nice understanding about the language and I'm ready to immerse myself in the language! (I also wish to be a polyglot one day and I'm secretly wishing if you knew French too)
You are the best teacher in the world. Thanks so much
Dude. You made a very straight-to-point video that covered everything I needed for my studies. Thank you so much for spending your time to make this video.
This video is so fantastic! I am a semi-beginner and am so astonished of the breadth of information that is so beneficial to a beginner like me! What is amazing, is to have it all in one place. It saves me from jumping from one resource to another. I applaud your teaching method and will use this video as a main push to accelerate my Spanish learning! Thank you!
Wow, this is the best tool to learn Spanish basics I have found so far. Thank you so much for that content! It might not be suitable as a starter, but definitely very useful for those who are already familiar with some basics.
15 years of studying Spanish on and off and this is by far the best source I've come across. Thank you! I think the fact that you yourself had to learn Spanish makes a world of difference in how you present the material. Especially the fact that you present multiple ways to actually say a phrase helps the definitions and meanings stick.
Edit: Any beginner/novice should start with this guy's videos. Tl
Idk if someone mentioned this alresdy but there is a mistake in 8:15 , "minute" cannot be translated to minutA in any circumstance. The correct word is minuTO/minutOS The word minutA does exist but it has nothing to do with time haha
Estoy un avanzada estudiante. ¿Donde fue esta contenido cinco años antes? He estado uasando este material comó una revision, y gracias por todo ❤️ Bien hecho!!!! Uso a 1,25 por ciento.
One thing: as a native Spanish speaker I can notice that you have quite a few grammatical errors
@Caja_4444 can you indicate the errors. I would be helpful.
SE dice Soy un estudiante...
Donde estaba este contenido...
The vosotros conjugation is definitely worth knowing too.
I thought it is not used that much
@@lemondrop8203 consider: Spain (here's where it's used, en ESPAÑAAAAAA)
It’s mainly used in Spain
@@lemondrop8203 it's used every day in Spain.
@@darrendin2050 How about in mexico
I'm Argentinian trying to learn English jejeje, this video is pure GOLD
Keep it up! Good luck friend
Muchas gracias por el video. Es increíble. Muchas reglas.
Fácil and difícil need to retain the accents in the plural forms - fáciles, difíciles. Words that end in a consonant (except n or s) are stressed on the last syllable. Words that end in a vowel or n or s are stressed on the second to the last syllable. Accents are used if the stressed syllable is something other than those two definitions.
I really hope you do videos like this in other languages. Hopefully Hebrew one day it's difficult to find resources for that language.
You the goat💯 he literally taught us Spanish just off 1 video now it’s all just a remembering thing .
So glad I stumbled upon this video!!!! Your simple explanations of difficult concepts is amazing! I appreciate your efforts on this, and I am enjoying dissecting Spanish with you as my guide! Thank you so very much Alex!!!! Blessings!😇
This video is being a big help. I’m working my way through pimsleur and although I like the repetition and it’s helping me learn phrases, it’s not explaining why. As in why the al and del etc. it’s putting what I’m learning into actual logic and patterns that I can. Because before this, at point i was screaming to myself - why is it different???!!
This video is outstanding. However, I did want to point out at 1:24:21, there is a mistake. You cannot use the verb Amar unless you are referring to love as to love someone or something (living thing). To instead express your love for something, it would be "me encanto bailar" or "me encanto cantar". This video is outstanding as someone learning spanish for about 7-8 months consistently. Thank you for this.
I’m also trying to level up my Spanish, do you have anything you recommend me to read or watch?
@ #3:26:00, I've found that "lo que" translates in my head better as "that which". This translation avoids some confusion.
does anyone know if there's a french variation for a video like this
This just might be the greatest Spanish video ever uploaded known to man kind , how efficient and effective this video is is astronomical, your the GOAT man 💯