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imagine you're in a Spanish speaking country and you want to order food ask for directions or just make friends but all you know how to say is Ola what if I told you that by the end of this video you could confidently speak using over a 100 everyday sentences in Spanish no born grammar lessons no memorizing random words also I'd like to let you know that we have a free pdf in the description of this lesson with these phrases and all their translations into English so check that
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out by clicking the link in the video description first I want to say I didn't even want to to learn Spanish in the first place so if you are here watching this video you at a big Advantage because I was 14 when I started learning I've been learning for 10 years now I'm currently 24 and before I started taking lessons I didn't think about Spanish I didn't care about Spanish I didn't want to learn Spanish everyone had told me how horrible Spanish classes were but now here I am 10
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years later teaching you how to speak Spanish so there is hope and you can do this let's get into it first we have EST the most important thing you could know in Spanish Holo Hi how are you now I underlined here because I want you to understand the reason we put an accent mark over this a is because in Spanish typically the natural emphasis on a word comes on the second to last vowel which
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technically in this case would be e okay but if I say estas it means these it completely changes the meaning so estas versus estas EST I'd also like to say that EST is informal if it were EST it would be formal coming from thead form now in this video we're not going to go over it but I have other lessons on this channel covering that and you can also learn more about how to use Ed versus to in my fluent Spanish speaker Academy on my website spanish.com next we have buenos di good
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morning buos Das now I underlined this because notice how it's not buas dasas it's buenos why is this it's just because El or Los in Spanish are masculine why it's just the way it is next buas bues okay now notice how this one is feminine Buenas okay good afternoon bues bues also feminine the night is feminine bues next I have a pH one here for you okay now this is more informal this means what's up for example this morning I went climbing at a climbing gym here in Mexico City
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and I saw my friend Migel I and the first thing I said to him was Miguel all right now on literally means wave like a microwave which is why I put The Little Wave there okay may my name is or literally translated to I call myself me now you could also put the subject pronoun there yo me J but you don't need to because we understand you're talking about you when we see the May and the O here Jam
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the present tense conjugation we won't go into conjugation rules in this lesson but like I said you can find more lessons like this on my YouTube channel and also my website span.com mucho gusto literally meaning much pleasure but it means nice to meet you mucho gusto now this is pretty much what I always say but if you want to be a little bit more formal you could say something like in
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which literally means Enchanted okay but I always say much nice to meet [Music] you okay where are you from literally translating to of where are you now I underlined this here because notice the little accent mark on the o okay now you might be wondering why is there an accent mark because technically this all is the second to last vow in the word so the natural emphas should already be there why are we putting an accent there the reason
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is because when we ask questions we will put accent marks on words like for example okay so that's just letting us know that it's a question now the only difference there there's no change in pronunciation okay the only difference is that little accent mark and it just lets us know in writing hey we're asking a question can you help me me representing me which is an object pronoun we won't get into it in this lesson but these are very very important to know so I recommend you look
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these up direct and indirect object pronouns these are awesome very fun Concept in Spanish D where is the bathroom one of the most important phrases to know in Spanish okay once again it's not going to be it'll be whereas with the accent it will be is I don't understand sometimes my dad when he would try to practice fashionally he would say okay no and that's fine you can say it however that means I don't comprehend and it's more common to hear no I don't
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understand can you repeat that now if we want to be more formal we can cut off the S and just say boy it okay now I underlined the little question mark here because while technically you are supposed to put this here often times when native Spanish speakers text each other for example because nowadays people often times don't write letters when you're texting someone in Spanish it's very common they won't put the question mark here okay so
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of course it's good that you learn this but for example when I text with my girlfriend who's from Mexico I never will send send her a a question like this I will only put this little question mark here okay it's just a little bit more formal casual informal way and Casual way of speaking now esel means that don't get this confused with the masculine word because it's not this is the neuter okay so we have ESS meaning that which is masculine Essa
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which is feminine okay meaning that and ESO which is the neuter in Spanish we won't get into the details but the idea is what is that it's the general thing we don't know what specifically it is but it's the general that okay versus that bottle AAS do you speak englishas now once again notice how we have the accent mark here and this is important because here if there was no accent then naturally it would fall on here the second
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to last vowel which is technically the e in this case or I okay so it would be English which sounds weird so we say okay that accent changing the pronunciation I'm losto now I underlined AO because this is coming from the verb meaning to be now please understand that this is temporary we wouldn't say Soo soyo would also literally translate to I am lost but that would mean you are lost as a person you are lost in life for example
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but in here here this is a temporary thing okay it's we're talking about location I am lost very good one to know quanta how much does it cost quoa how much does it cost how much is it for example I need a tax so what time does it open and what time does it close close notice how we have a at at what time does it close next we have emeria now I underlined these little vowels here because the vowels will have the biggest impact on your pronunciation in
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Spanish I just released a video about this so I recommend you go check it out we have it's an emergency so it's that emergencia emergencia okay it's emeria okay really focus on the vowel sounds okay it's going to make your accent sound much better next we have literally transl to for favor okay please graas thank you little fun fact for you graas actually literally translates to Graces very interesting okay so graia would be Grace you're
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welcome literally of nothing the okay we also have the phrase no no to say you're welcome or don't mention it okay notice how there's an accent over the O so it's noton it's okay because normally that natural emphasis Falls here on the second to last vow okay so this can mean sorry this can mean pardon okay excuse me now this is when you're trying to get around someone for example and you know they might be in the way and you're saying compare me excuse me okay I literally said
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that to someone this morning okay okay you can also just say per as well okay disa now this one means excuse me as well but now you're asking for someone's attention so you're saying hey excuse me loo okay loo I'm sorry this one is more like a a really profound way to say I'm so sorry Lo much I'm sorry loo literally translated to I feel it okay sento meaning I feel feel l meaning it this is the masculine okay this is a direct object pronoun now when I say it
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like this means can I or may I for example let's say there's a cute dog and you want to pet it say okay now notice how the meaning can change just because now it's a question so if I were to cut these off and now it's just that means I can okay okay I can read read Esten okay Esten is an awesome phrase I use it all the time this means it's okay or okay so hey do you want to go to the park with me see Esten yeah okay sure Esten okay or hey do you want to try this pizza
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no it's no that's okay thanks or it's okay thanks okay noada okay noan means literally nothing is happening okay but the idea here is hey like all good no wor noas all good my good friend Jacob who plays Hawk on the Netflix show Cobra Kai came down to Mexico City uh and hung out with me last year and we went to Formula 1 and I remember after the event we went and we got tacos and for some reason this kind of came up and I ended up teaching him the phrase noas and he proceeded to
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say this phrase 10 million more times okay it's a really fun one noas hey all goodas notice how in this first R we're rolling it okay so even though it's a singular R when a word starts with a singular R we roll it okay K I want now I underlined the O here because notice how I don't have to put the subject pronoun I don't have to say Jo I want I can just say k because based off of my understanding of conjugation rules in Spanish I know that when this word which is the
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infinitive ER verb meaning to want when it ends in o that means all right I want okay so if I change it to then it would be you want would be want for example I want okay this is a similar idea this means I would like now gustar can be a confusing verb for us in Spanish so I recommend you check out the lessons I have on that and this is what we call the conditional tense okay so for example
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if I were rich I would like to travel the world okay the idea is it's a conditional thing I would like a table for two now here in Mexico City if you go to a restaurant often times they'll ask you person but a Quant meaning how many of there are you and then you can say something like or
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okay the bill please okay you can also say when we say okay that is a way to command someone in a more polite way and finally we havean which is good for me if you didn't know I've been vegetarian for a long time now so this is a really good thing to know this phrase is very very important sin pante especially if you're here in Mexico sin pante meaning without spice or no spicy please simp it is very probable that they will say to you no no
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Pika no Pika meaning it's not spicy which is not true it is always spicy so be very careful Mas now this can mean more water this could also mean which is very popular here in Mexico so something so they might understand that as okay if you order H they'll give you more Kika for example now I put a little underline here on the a because if we take the accent off of M it can mean yet or um but but it's not super common so you almost
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always see the word m with an accent meaning more okay M okay if you're eating something and someone asks you do you like it you say okay it's tasty literally translating to it is Rich now we have this idea here in Mexico that when we talk about food it's a temporary thing so often times we use okayo it's tasty but you know it's not going to be tasty after I eat it because it won't exist anymore esto okay once again this is temporary esto I am full okay so you eat a lot you say
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oh you can say I'm very full or you say okay do you take credit cards now I underline this and because we're talking about the people or the store in general saying hey do you guys do you guys accept credit cards I I is there another color now I is a very interesting word because it can mean is there or are there okay so it can be singular or plural depending on the context now the word I actually comes from the infinitive
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verb a meaning to have or to be okay I'm looking bu or I searching okay now this idea of the and is what we call the present progressive in Spanish and that is the English equivalent of ing verbs okay looking eating laughing crying okay I'm looking you can also say okay I want to try this on or I want to try this okay damb do you have change D okay it's very expensive okay so depending on what we're talking about if it's masculine
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we'll say but if it's feminine we'll say okay don't get that confused with LA the face okay you can have both of those definitions depending on the context
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meaning cash can I pay with cash and the answer is of course because here in Mexico we all it's very common that everyone accepts cash and it's always a good idea to have cash whenever you're traveling in Mexico solo I'm only looking soloo okay I'm only looking once again we have this idea of the ing verb okay coming from the infinitive verb be meaning to see which in this case could translate as I'm only seeing or better in English I'm only looking now solo is the idea of
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only or just okay I'm only looking or I'm just looking me okay I'll take it I will take it okay yo meaning I take and then we have these two object pronouns playing together this is the indirect object pronoun and this is the direct object pronoun the indirect object pronoun always comes before the direct object pronoun we're not going to get into it in this because it's going to be too long but I have lessons about that on this YouTube channel and also my website span.com
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where is the Metro how do I get to how do I arrive to how do I arrive to wherever you're trying to Goos I say this all the time is it far no it's close Okay Leos far close next we have to the right okay to the left notice how the Z is not e okay like a normal z sound like we have in English it's an S sound in English Okay okay not
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[Music] keep going straight or go straight notice how D is almost the same as D the literal only difference is the O now we could also say something like REO for example okay keep going straight but most often times I hear people say Uber drivers here in Mexico City are awesome and I have learned so much about life from from Uber drivers and I realized that there are two ways we can go about life we can worry and choose to suffer or we can say hey I'm going to suffer but
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it's okay and I can make the best of my situation because I've seen drivers who they're all in the same situation they're all in the traffic and the honking and all that but there are those who are positive and nice listening to music talking with customers and there are the others who are complaining about the weather and the traffic and ultimately they have a bad time whereas these guys have a good time so I just want to mention that because it's true good reminder
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okay how much longer till we arrive okay this could also mean how much longer until he arrives she arrives you arrive in when is the next bus leave autobuses in Mexico are amazing we have ad then we have amazing buses here in [Music] Mexico okay so I am going to the station of the train or the train station now notice these are separate okay we're going to see how these can end up being together uh in a little bit literally meaning what
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do you do but what we're really saying is what are you doing hey what are you doing
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I'm working okay remember that is the idea of in in English I am working or I'm studying super notice is it's not why because super is masculine so we don't say a super we combine a and L into I okay so that is a plus L put together boy Al super now I also underlined super because it's very common that we won't even say Merc we you say hey I'm going to the supermarket boy super boa I'm going home boa what plans you have for today
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okay once again we're seeing the there so I have to go to the bank okay and this idea of T can confuse students I recommend you look that up alio I'm going to the gym or the gymnasium Bo alasio sometimes I hear in Mexico City people say gimio
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I need to rest I'm occupied or I'm busy okay don't that don't get that confused with PR would mean I'm worried or I'm preoccupied whereas is I'm occupied or I am busy next we have what time is it or what what hour is it what is the hour typically you should say s but you can also say son and people understand you son it's 3 in the afternoon son okay coming from the verb said meaning to be and it's s because
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it's plural now we put de to clarify we're talking about in the afternoon and not in the morning because if I just say it's 3 it's 3:00 okay but is it 3:00 a.m. or 3 p.m. so that's why you put okay it's 1 in the morning notice how now this is singular it's not son it's s why because okay that is singular the only time that we ever say s when talking about time is when we use La that is it so for all the other numbers 2 3 4 5 6 and so on it will be so on what day is it
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today okay what day is it today no how s can take on the translation of is it or it is okay it's not just is okay lunus o is lunus now lunus okay is never capitalized okay along with the days of the week and the months in Spanish okay why it's just the way it is and actually the days of the week almost all of them have to do with planets it's very interesting so El mares for example means Mars it is also Tuesday okay but it's actually Mars or Elis for example
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which is actually talking about Jupiter a what time does it start at what time does it start at okay tomorrow Manana okay notice how La Manana can mean the morning but it can also mean tomorrow okay it just depends on context okay last week bada in this case meaning last or the past week literally okay so we're talking about time very common to use B orim next month elim mes now notice how we have the little accent over the O why
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because like I've been saying the emphasis naturally falls on a word on the second to last vowel unless we put an accent on it to change that so this without an accent mean El proximo okay but now we have the accent okay the emphasis falling on that first o okay okay I'll see you later or yeah I'll see you later on now this can have two meanings depending on how you look at it if I were say this to a woman
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okay and I say hey do you want to go out with me like on a date salig or if I'm saying to a friend you want to go out with me like hey you want to go walk around or that kind of idea we are going to a party or I can say to you hey let's go to a party okay we can all say BOS okay which is actually a command in the noos form so if I sayos that actually means let's talk about that okay let's talk about that AOS okay it's
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a noos command they're not common but we do use them okay so BOS okay we can't say b no because the S kind of interrupts the no so we actually just cut it out and it becomes okay do you want to go to the movie theater Okay C being movie theater and once again notice how is masculine so instead of saying or we say okay I love this phrase I had a great time Lally I passed it really well okay but it means
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I had a great time okay me is the indirect object pronoun representing me La is representing the idea of it could be laes or an for example for what whatever reason whenever we want to say this like oh I had a great time we always use La instead of people will understand you but it's better say okay also noce how this is the predate tense okay this is I passed okay so we have meaning I pass or I spend or I spent or I had okay I had a great time do you like music
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now notice how this is not uh plural it's singular why because we're talking about La mus when it comes to the verb gustan it is conjugated based off of the object so in this case it's singular so we say gustan okay the idea here is that is music pleasing to you okay that's kind of the idea gust can be a tricky verb for us to understand as English speakers take care I literally said that to someone today
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now once again notice how the accent is here why because normally the natural emphasis would fall here because the second to last vow so it's not okay which in Argentina that actually might sound correct it's a okay the emphasis changes and next we have meaning good luck or luck you can also say but let's say you meet someone you probably aren't going to see them again it's normal to say hey
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like see you later good luck with everything all right we are almost done I am happy you can also say okay I am happy I'm sad I am hungry okay so in Spanish we say I have hunger okay so in English we we would say I am hungry but in Spanish we would not say I I am hungry okay you don't say or you say I have hunger just like you would say I am thirsty I have thirst okay I am cold not I have cold and you can also say I am hot I have heat
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I'm tired okay okay I'm excited now don't get this confused with exit because that means you are sexually aroused and are two very different things I feel bad okay me okay now the me here can kind of be considered like it's adding extra emphasis oh I really don't feel good and that this action of feeling bad is happening to me now this could mean I don't feel good like my stomach hurts or like oh I feel bad you know that they did this for me for example
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okay I'm angry and if you're female you say okay okay I am bored so hopefully you're not [ __ ] right now now I underlined this because if we were to say s [ __ ] you can still say it but the meaning changes if I were to say Sor [ __ ] that means I am a boring person whereas if I say a story a that means I am bored right now okay well thank you very much for watching if you want to learn more Spanish
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you can do so at my website span.com and don't forget look I made a little Smiley there that you have a free pdf in the description uh so you can get access to all of these words and phrases with their translations and we also will be including some bonus resources for you as well ASO
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