To Be - Present Indicative and Past Imperfect Indicative. Session 1
Channel: ShareLingo
Date: 2023-04-19

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Spanish has two forms of the verb "to be",   Ser and Estar.  When, and how, you use each one is different, and that can be confusing.   This video has a simple explanation for that and it offers a lot of examples to practice speaking.

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These subtitles are computer generated - the typos were made by them :) 

A lot of English speakers have questions about ser and estar 
the (two forms of) to-be in Spanish and that's because  in Spanish there's two different ways to say to be

like I am or you are 
ser is used to describe or talk about things that are more permanent 
also  like the hour of the day a date a place origin occupation uh nationality religion political affiliation those types of things 

whereas estar is used to talk about things that are less permanent things that might change like your position your location or actions or conditions emotions because your emotions might change right 

Anna and I are going to read some examples for you but before we jump into the examples I just want to  kind of Express I mean for example  when we use said Ennis star keep in mind that Ser is more of the permanent stuff like yo soy un ingeniero  I am an engineer that's something to do with me that's pretty permanent okay but estoy in Arizona I am currently in Arizona but tomorrow I might be someplace else but I'll still be an engineer that makes sense right what happens with English speakers is we get confused we start to analyze should I be using Ser or estar and sometimes it does make a difference like if you can say feliz that's kind of a permanent thing that means I'm kind of always happy I'm a happy person but estoy feliz   implies that right now I'm happy I might not be happy tomorrow or maybe I was not happy yesterday but right now estoy Feliz 

the problem is that we tend to over analyze which one should I use and we get stuck so these examples that Anna and I are just about to read for you will help you kind of understand when do you said and when to use a star and the main thing is just don't get stuck if you're not certain just keep on talking use either one said or Star the the Spanish speakers are going to know what you're saying and they might even help you or correct you and pay attention to what they use okay so Anna let's go ahead and read the these first 10 examples for people I'll read the uh English you read the Spanish and then we'll just go through this and then we'll give them the document and they can do the other ones okay soy Professor de la Universidad I am a university Professor or we could say I am a professor at the University of

I am not happy with my co-workers

she was a very good students

it was a good student in her last year all right is

she was happy to leave that job

you are the best player on the team or you are the team's best player estas are you sick it is this is a great example because the verse the difference between estar and ser makes a big difference uh in in what you're asking here foreign

she is tired of doing it

We Are Soldiers for life now something that came up is deportivida is a really useful phrase that everybody should remember uh it means forever like

for the rest of your life or their life right I love that yeah it doesn't sound doesn't sound correct but it sounds wonderful you know what I mean

we are in trouble versus you're going to be in trouble with your mother

so those are the first ten (examples) from this document that we're sharing with you we would love for everybody to do the rest of them 

I think there's 25 here in this document 
do them if you have any questions uh or if you could post your answers and ask any questions 
give it a shot 
and remember that it's great if you make mistakes 
that's fine 
this is the safe place to make mistakes so try and do that without  Google translate or something 
just have a go at it okay 
ciao for now

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