When to Use Ser or Estar | Spanish For Beginners (Ep.2.5)

the Appleton lid Spanish let's start today's class by reviewing what we did last time with the verb said and to do it, you got it, I'm going to put it on the table, so right here I'm going to put the verb sad and we're going to draw our graph again or a line towards down in our two lines, okay, now remember that being sad means being, but as we told you last time, we can't say sad with everyone, we can't say that you're sad or that you're sad. because that would mean I am or you are, so we have to conjugate it, we have to change it a little bit to fit each of those pronouns that we learned in the last episode, so the last time we were together we made them sand shapes on the chart and we talked about what they meant, so let's go over them again.

The first one we wrote was soy and we talked about that man. I'm fine and then we go down here and put an S which means you are if you're talking to someone that you know in a casual and informal way and then down here in this bottom part of our box on the singular side we put the word yes now s like remember it can mean es or R depends on who you are using it with, if I say he is, it would be L s, if I say she is, it would be area s, but if I am talking to someone directly and I want to say you, but I would use that way instead of a more respectful s in this case would mean R, so instead of s it means you are in a respectful way.

Well, here on our plural side we also put three conjugations and at the top right we put we are and like you. Remember that that means that we are and right here we put the word election and again this is that form that is more or less a Spain thing, it is not very common in this part of the world in Central America, South America, Mexico, but it is use and then here on this one. In part we use the word soul and that means that they are so if we wanted to say that they are we could say we could also say soul AES or if we wanted to say you are plural speaking with more than one person we can say who is there soon okay, now that we check the verb said, we have to go a step further today in English to be only has one form, the word to be is also M and R, so we can use those words with any pronoun I am she is we are etc.

The problem in Spanish is that there are two different ways to say ser es, so today in the classroom during our time together we are going to talk about

when

we use this and

when

we use the other way, which I am going to give to you today, so let's start by laying a good foundation of when we use the verb say now to give you a sort of visual thing that you can remember, we usually mean the word pop in P or P I in I. I regularly teach my students the word poppin to help remembering the conditions under which we use the verb said these forms here now poppin is just a small way to remember these conditions the first condition is a permanent condition what do I mean by permanent condition? anything that doesn't change, for example, if I just want to say that the building is very tall, I could use the s to say that because the building is tall, it doesn't change, that's a characteristic of that building, it doesn't change. the way it is like that, therefore, a primitive condition would be an example like that, Bill Hall, now another condition, the O means occupation at any time in Spanish, we are going to say someone's occupation, their job, we will use a form of sale, for example. in Spanish the word lawyer is lawyer so if I wanted to say that he is a lawyer first of all an occupation we don't say uh we just say that he is a lawyer then we would say L is a lawyer and that would be how we say that he is a lawyer, so since that is his occupation , we would use a form of Being to say your M&R.

Well, now the next letter P means place of origin. When you indicate where someone comes from in their country of nationality, you would use a form of sadness. Say that, so if I wanted to say I'm American, I could use your soy because I'm stating my place of origin or I'm from the United States, I could say I'm from the United States since that's where I'm from. use one of these ways to say that and then we have identification identification is any word that really identifies who someone is if you're talking about their characteristics like being tall, funny or serious, those words that we mentioned in the last episode so we could use one of these ways to say F like we did last time, so if I say he's tall, L is outdoors, we would use s to say it's for him because it's his ID and finally the N stands for nationality so it's like the place of origin nationality are a little long the same lines again if I wanted to say that we are from Puerto Rico you could say we are from Puerto Rico nationality we are with recovery we are already Puerto Ricans well then these are the conditions under which we use Okay Let's summarize for a minute.

If I speak Spanish and I want to say the word is AM or son, at any time I will have to choose what our forms have said, sometimes I can say soy. to say I am or it is to say you are and then if I wonder if it is one of these my sentences that I am talking about the topic if I am saying one of these things about the topic then I can use one of These forms of M&R are fine, so make sure you go over them and write them down in that table, so that when you speak Spanish, hopefully, very soon and you need to make that decision, you can make the decision.

Well, now we are. I'll move here for just a minute and we'll learn the other way to say be now again. I'm going to draw another graph because it's a great visual for us okay so draw another graph and it's one line down and one line across now the other way we say being in Spanish is a start so I'm going to write that down here above heystop means to be okay too, now I'm going to start by giving you the state forms, there's an M in the sound of this form of the verb, okay, so up here, at the top of the box, I'm going to write a story that ends very same as I am, but it has a different route, so I am means that I am and in right.

Here in the middle we're going to write these now, some of these have accents, but I'll tell you at the end because I want you to understand the visual and down here, at the bottom left, we are. I'm going to write a pigsty, okay, so this would mean "I am", this would mean that you are talking to a person, then in that casual and informal way and then down here a star that means he is she or you are talking about that respectful way now at the top right. on our plural side we are going to start by writing we are we are means that now we are right here in the middle we are going to write a Stice and at the bottom right we will write that's it, so this would mean that we are speaking in plural. more than one person and they are or you're talking to more than one person again plural okay now four of these have accents the easy way if you're getting that graph by visualizing it in your head if you're starting to imprint it in your mind , the easiest way to remember where these accents go is all you have to remember is that the top two don't have accents, everyone else does, or you want to think differently about the bottom two on each side. we have access and we put them in the a here just like that right there right there so now we have our correct spelling in place and their accents so we have our ways of being here and here we have our ways of being now here comes the challenge The challenge is that when we speak Spanish we have to make a decision just like I said before so for example if I want to say soy I can say tu soy or I can say tu a story the question is how can I know the difference?

Well, then all you have to do is remember two things about a star you already have appearing. The conditions under which you said. Now I will give you the conditions under which. We use one star and there are only two, so this is easy and I want to give it to you in two different ways because some of you may find one easier to remember than the other. Okay, so we'll use your THAAD in two ways, first of all, we'll use it to indicate a temporary condition. Now, a temporary condition is anything that a person is going through that is not permanent.

Now I want to go ahead and tell you that this is mostly about feelings, so if you want to continue. go ahead and just keep in mind that all feelings are temporary conditions all feelings in Spanish are state, we will express them using her data, okay, so if you wanted to say I'm sad in the story, stay well, she's sad, yeah, has died. that every day is okay so we will use these forums to say that we are a man, when is the temporary condition of the subject, now the only other thing we have to remember Forrest odd is the location every time we indicate the location of someone, we will use a star. now if I wanted to say I'm in the mall I would say that you are in the story because that is my location now sometimes it gets confusing because we think of sadness as something permanent and we think of it as something temporary or feelings but the problem comes is that when that location is a permanent location, you have to remember that that location is always a star even if it is a permanent location, so if you say Atlanta is in Georgia, you still have to say Atlanta if it is in Georgia because it is the location of Atlanta , OK? so don't be confused by the fact that any location is Stata.

Now, some of you may find it easier, like me, to remember a little saying or phrase that helps you connect. A lot of times my students like to do it instead of Remembering a temporary condition or location a lot of times they like to just remember this, how you feel and where you are, that's when we use these things, so if that's easier for you, remember , choose that one. Well, let's look at some comparisons here, in case it happens. what I mean, I have to make a decision, as we mentioned a while ago, I can say you are soy or your boy, so I have to ask myself the questions now, some of you may be saying this is a lot to remember. or this is a lot to remember my college Spanish teacher told me to keep it really easy because when I was young and learning Spanish from the beginning I tried to make it really hard and remember all this and all that and she looked at Yo and she said all you have to do is remember this condition or temporary location and everything else is said and when I started applying that rule I started to discover that she was right.

She could always answer the question if she would be sad or if she would be sad. start by simply asking myself those two questions that