Spanish Lesson. Ser or Estar? 1 LightSpeed Spanish.
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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You have a gift, my friend. Thank you for your amazing insight. It has helped me tremendously.
Thank you SO much for this video! I've been taking Spanish for the first time....about 6 weeks now, and I have been struggling. Nobody explained Ser and Estar as well as you did! I am so looking forward to watching all your videos! Muchas gracias! MiF
¡Gracias! :)
Norm/plan and always and outside the norm/plan is an excellent explanation.
Wow. Looking for n1 for new friends. Found this. Love it. Always something to learn.
I think I must have watched all your videos by now :D Thank you so much for making them. They've been a massive help and made the first few months in Barcelona so much easier. Now I just need to get myself to speak Spanish as often as possible. Still got Catalan to learn haha
Nikki Newman Thanks, Nikki. I'm glad we've helped. :) Good luck in Barcelona.
Muy buena explicación, me ha hecho pensar como hablante nativo, es un placer oírte.
¡Gracias! :)
Thanx again that was brilliant. Fascinating how different languages work. It's so much more than learning vocabulary.
Eugene Lange I agree. The subtleties can be the most fascinating. :)
Gordon hermano , you are a genius ! I have learnt so much from you and Cynthia .Thank you !
Muchas gracias, Gordon! Que lo util! Voy a verlo muchas veces!
Brian Ford Gracias. :)
No pensaba que el español fuera tan difícil , yo creía que era mas fácil. Cada vez me alegro más de haber nacido en un país hispanohablante.
Grettings from PERU!
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reni barbaran Reni. Yes you are very fortunate. Jeje. We have to learn the hard way. Thanks for the message. :)
reni barbaran Greetings from California!
You have explained the differences so well. I have been learning Spanish since two years and most of the teachers are 'go by the book types'
This was AWESOME!!!!!!! Suddenly it all makes so much sense!!!
It always remembered the saying "for how you feel and where you are, always use the verb estar" but this was a much better explanation thank you very much 😊😊
That's a nice way to remember it., too.
I´ve evaluated, compressed, reallocated and data anal-ized all the grammar concerning Estar/Ser/Quedarse and, by the time you throw in the unclassified alterations with rico, bueno, vivo, muerto, and a serious list of 25 more...it´s just better to buy your book, learn the rules and then? Create a phrase list with your favorite one liners. Like this: Ay, estaré el papi chulo tuyo. Soy rico. Estás rico. Será bueno porque estamos buenos juntos. Estás vivo. Estoy vivo. Así que, ¿quieres ser vivo conmigo? Like that. Play with them, contrasting them together in the same sentence. Just...don´t do it in church or in a crowd. I love your book, by the way. You put so much into them!!!
jajajaja practica, pero en la soledad de tu hogar o en voz baja :P Por ciero, sería ¿quieres estar vivo conmigo? Instead of learning the rules it's best to understand why, Once you understand, then they'll make sense in most cases :)
"shared belief" -- this was an epiphany for me. Brilliant.
I swear- you have to be the best spanish teacher on here! Im a junior in highschool and im getting my but kicked on spanish... but ur videos help me a lot! thanks! I have a quiz 2marrow! wish me goodluck (: keep up the vids sir! :D
Gracias. Buena suuerte con el examen.
Your English needs work too.
V nice..i enjoy and learnt spanish..its a great feeling
Thank you soon much love your lessons
Good teaching Bro!
Thank you👍👍
Hi from Aus!
Awesome video Gordon! very helpful.
By the way, I've just bought your book, Victor's Adventures. It's REALLY good. I can already feel my learning accelerating!...
cheers
Harry
You're welcome, Harry. We are glad you like it!
Your a good teacher.
Gracias :)
I love your videos!
Run by Fruiting Thank you:)
is a good method that one of the "plan or unplanned" to tell ser or estar.. but i would describe it more like something that you perceive as something "natural" or "normal" because thats the way your mind was excepting that to be... i would use that words...
Of course. Whatever works for you :) Cx
Events are also estuvo
Me ayudo mucho....graciad
De nada. :)
Hola Gordon!
Me gustan tus vídeos porque tienes un punto de vista diferente.
Tengo una pregunta sobre ser y estar y espero que tu puedas ayudarme.
A:Ya desde el siglo XIX la economía cubana ha ESTADO estrechamente ligada al azúcar..
B:La planificación ha SIDO mucho más importante que el mercado...
Por qué es ESTADO en A y SIDO en B?
Excellent video. Some of the situations or conditions that you mentioned I had not thought of but did recognize immediately. There are some cases where ser is used that confuse me. For example, a line from a song on an album by IL DIVO says, "Tu lugar es a mi lado" and I would have thought it would have been "Tu lugar está a mi lado¨ because I thought it indicated location. Also when talking about a person's civil status should we say "Ël es casado" or "Él está casado"? I would think "El es un hombre casado" or "Ël está casado" would both be appropriate. I do have a couple of other questions about Spanish usage but those questions would not relate to this particular video.
Clarenece, are you part of our Ser Socio? If you are you could post all the questions you have on this topic and we could do a segment in video on it or on other subject you may have questions. :)
Dear Gordon, would you please make a video on the use of the verb "andar"? I heard such expressions used by the Colombians as "en donde andas?" instead of "donde estás?" ; or "yo andaba limpiando el cuarto". I was wondering if it is used in Spain in the same sense. Pardon me if you have already referred to this before and I just missed it. Thank you!
Yes. We use andar in that context to mean "up to/ doing" We use it in Spain too. We did a video on this for our VIP members. If you a member you'll be able to watch it :) Cynthia xx
I'm an American who used to live in Mexico. I am fluent in Spanish, but I am always trying to get a clearer understanding how Spanish works so that I get really get a better feel for the language.
My one question for you about SER/ESTAR concerns the expression TO BE MARRIED (ESTAR CASADO/SER CASADO). I've seen and heard both SER/ESTAR used and I wanted to know your thoughts. What do they use in Spain? Is one more correct than the other? Thanks
+ESUSAMEX A great question. When I explain this I use English as my example. When we fill out a form we often get asked: Marital Status. In Spanish that is Estado Civil. Both of these allude to ESTAR and it's true that ESTAR is a state.
Many people say that it's funny to use ESTAR to talk about marraige when it is temporary yet that's not really true. More accurate would be to describe it as a state of being. Thus, in Spain they use ESTAR casado. I hope that explains why it is used.
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I understand what you are saying. Personally, I use ESTAR way more than SER but I know people who only use ser. I used to think using ESTAR in this question was really weird, but then I learned TO BE DEAD is always ESTAR MUERTO. DEAD is a state that is very permanent.
I just have come to realize that languages are strange (living) things. And English is the strangest one of them all. British and American spelling rules and slang drive my foreign friends nuts. And I am not going to get into pronunciation. READ can be pronounced as RED or REED. I thank God everyday I learned English from birth.
este es perfecto! o está perfecto! (perhaps better than I expected) :)
Hola gordon. Me agradezco mucho tus videos y tengo una pregunta (por desgracia tengo que preguntarla en inglés). When I ask "Como ESTA tu hermana" I am apparently asking about her general, more temporary condition of TODAY (but that could change at any moment: 'ella esta bien" HOY/generalmente); and when I ask "Como ES tu hermana" I am asking about her more permanent conditions (bonita; feo; rubia; alta) that I may not know, if I've not met her? Am I close??
When asking "Como ESTÁ tu Hermana" you are asking for how she is: Angry, happy, sad, busy, pregnant etc... while "Como ES tu hermana" you are asking how she looks like on the outside or inside (how is her personality): Blond, Tall, Smart, hardworking, nice, kind etc..
The first one implies that you seem to already know the sister and want to know how she is doing. The second one implies you dont know her and you are curious about how she is. Obviously is not always the case like this. Its like that most of the time but not always. Hope I helped.
what about "que tal tu hermana?"
got it!thanks!
¡Gracias! :)
Me alegro de que lo tengas. jeje.
What about the location of spontaneous events no tickets or planning like "Where was the accident?" "Where was the robbery?" is it still ser?
SER :) ¿Dónde fue/ocurrió el accidente? ¿Dónde fue/ocurrió el robo? Cx
Plátanos son amarillo. Mío ya están negros.
Thank you so much.
Im confused at the order of your videos, can you help please?
Luanna. Check out our playlists. Everything is there in order. Each level. For even more clarity, go to www.lightspeedspanish.co.uk. Then go to episodes. Ypu'll see every level there for you. Let me know if you manage to find what you want. You want to start at beginners then early intermediate then advanced intermediate then advanced. (Big journey!) Buena suerte.
gracias( I think) lol
Is because he is a mess.
So, you call uses of “ser” expectations and uses of “estar” references to whatever happens out of nowhere. I think of uses of “ser” as those that have to do with sitting (because part of the etymology of “ser” comes from the Latin word “sedere” which means “to sit”) and uses of “estar” as what have to do with standing (because “estar” comes from the Latin word “stare” which means “to stand”). I guess a way to merge our perspectives about those verbs would be to say expectations sort of sit around you, and what you see out of nowhere stands in front of you.
Dude thk you
:)
The background noise is very loud and distracting.
"A bit of slap-on" lol, Como se dice en espanol, eh? After you teach us all Spanish, how about British idioms? That was really cute, thank you Gordon!
cellgrrl jajaja. A lo mejor diría, Después de ponerte guapa. No sé. Es una expresión muy inglesa, ¿verdad?
Claro es inglesa, nunca he oido esta expresion exactamente en EEUU. Pues, alugnas veces decimos "slap some makeup on", por eso no es tan diferente.
cellgrrl haha! I was thinking the same thing!
El platano es amarillo, pero éste al este ahora está negro!
Fuck yeah! Bueno!
Gordon is God
Un poco exagerado. No mucho, pero un poco sí ;D
this is not 100% accurate, spanish is my mother tongue, 'El platano esta verde, el platano esta negro' but you will also say 'los platanos ya estan amarillos' when you are talking about those particular ones...... 'ser' is just a general concept in this case and 'estar' is for a particular case 'los platanos son amarillos, pero estos estan verdes'
or 'los platanos son amarillos y los del supermercado estan amarillos' cause you are talking about those particular ones in the supermarket
Estar is referring to a state and one that changes. Look at what you wrote in your second comment: Los platanos YA están amarillos. You are not talking about particular ones, but rather you are showing with the use of YA that they have passed from being green to being yellow. ESTAR is a state, hence the word ESTADO means state. Just as we say marital status or estado civil....This is a state of being. Rather than saying "a particular case" I believe it would be more helpful to say: "A particular state" don't you think?