The preferred way is: "(Yo) Me lavo la cara." Different languages have different "correct" ways of saying something. Would it sound ok to say, "I wash myself the face" in English? No. But it sounds great in Spanish. They're different languages. ;-)
@@meredy770 Sorry, there used to be annotations, which RUclips discontinued! In the present tense, for ar verbs... os [verb - ar]+ áis examples: os cepilláis os laváis In the present tense, for ar verbs... os [verb - er] + éis examples: os ponéis In the present tense, for ar verbs... os [verb - ir] + ís os dormís os vestís Hope that helps!
Stephan Manucharian I don't know what it is about schools (most of them, at least) that makes learning a second language there so difficult-but I do agree, online learning is much faster somehow.
Señor Jordan, hats off to you for the wonderful and brilliant work that you do for anyone and everyone learning Spanish! These videos not only help hundreds and thousands of people with any Spanish help, but also show how passionate and appreciative you are towards Spanish, a beautiful language! I remember when I first started learned Spanish (officially) and our teacher used to play your videos in class or sometimes we would watch them for homework. They were and are awesome! May GOD bless you abundantly Señor for everything that you do! Once again, you and your videos are amazing!!
You are a really good teacher. I have tried so many online programs and have learned more from you in a few episodes than trying to figure it out without classes. Thanks a lot. I understand Spanish well just have a hell of a time trying to write it or speak it. Please keep the videos coming. I would love to see one on why a personal A has to go at the beginning of some sentences when it does seem like it should would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks. You are great.
Right. Good question. The way we do that is the reflexive pronoun is 'os' in front: -ar verbs os [verb - ar + áis] ex: (cepillarse) os cepilláis -er verbs os [verb - er + éis] -ir verbs os [verb - ir + ís] Ex: (vestirse) os vestís
much love from Trinidad! am a secondary school Spanish teacher and I refer my students to view your grammar videos all the time, keep up the great work
Awesome video Senor Jordon! I am learning Spanish at 34 years of age, living in Colombia and your teaching style is excellent, thought out and articulate!
Literally you are the only Spanish teacher that I can actually gain knowledge from on RUclips. My Spanish teacher I have right now is alright, but sometimes I have a hard time paying attention in class because I don't feel engaged in her classroom. Señor jordan on the other hand actually helped me learn reflexive verbs, and I thank him for that! Best Spanish tutor on RUclips ever hands down.
this guy is awesome, my Mexican teacher in Costa Rica, and my Venezuelan teacher in Venezuela both used his links as refreshers. Dude, you're the best!
+MusicIsMyLife Well if it makes you less sad, check out this more recent song video simplifying reflexive verbs: ruclips.net/video/aYFCwIfZ-s4/видео.html ;-)
Bro your teaching is simplistic yet efficient. I watch this video one time and now I have a complete understanding of reflexive verbs.thankyou.im subscribing 💯
Your spanish lessons are very educational. My little sister came home from school and logged on to her computer immediately, without even a "hello". When I asked her what she was doing, she told me to shut up because she was trying to listen to your videos to review for her test... We watch at least five every day, now that I'm in Spanish as well. Thank you for all these lessons, you are very helpful!
Hola, me llamo Cristian, soy argentino, y le pasé el video a una amiga china que quiere aprender español, fue el que más me convenció para que ella pueda aprender bastante parecido a lo que es nuestra pronunciación. Hablás bastante bien, no debe ser muy fácil para un estadounidense hablar en castellano, asi que te felicito por tus tutoriales y seguí asi que debe ser una GRAN GRAN ayuda para muchos. Saludos y good lucky! :)
I’m a native Spanish speaker and I must say your accent is AMAZING. Very genuine. Gracias Señor, voy a estudiar! (Yes I know I need the ! Upside down in front😅I’m just lazy)
in Spanish, we don't attach the 'me' to the verb when it is changed... thus...: 'me llamo' there are sometimes songs and things from ages ago that attach them to the end... however, it is not common or standard practice to do so anymore. for 'llámame'... which is a command meaning "call me!".... we place the accent mark because of the pronunciation rules of Spanish so we know to emphasize that first 'a' like we would in the pronunciation of 'llama' where the emphasis is on the first a.
I think you're on the right track! :-) by itself: me levanto = I lift myself (I get up) te levantas = you lift yourself (you get up) after another verb: Puedo levantarme (I can get myself up) Puedo levantarte (I can lift you up) I'm not sure if that clarifies.
Hola, Señor Jordan! Estoy muy alegre que estás poniendo estos videos en RUclips! Estoy aprendiendo español! Te doy mis gracias! Espero que tengas una vida gran!
Gracias, gracias! Los verbos reflexivos have stumped me for years, and have been responsible for me hitting a virtual learning wall when it comes to the Spanish language. In the first minute of this video I was able to begin tearing down that wall. You are a savior!!
I have been using your videos along side my spainsh collage course. My professor doesnt explain as in depth as you do! I'm grateful for your videos. I do wish you would include the Vosotros form since some people want to go to Spain. But besides this good work and keep making videos !
The reflexives are only when the action is done to the person who is acting. ex: Te levantas. (you get [yourself] up) You could say "levántate" to order someone. Or "despiértate" In the affirmative 'tú' commands you attach the pronoun (me, te, se, nos, se) to the end.
I pay $40,000 grand a year to go to a private college for my degree, and your teaching has been a million times better than my Spanish teacher at my school, and I got to learn for free from here as well as help a good teacher make an income doing something they're GOOD AT. THANK YOU.
I am learning sooooo much from your videos (you + butterfly spanish have helped me understand how to speak spanish better than anything/anyone else ever!). Please keep these vids live....
I truly love the way you make your videos. I use them all th time to teach my fifth graders. You have everything to catch their attention and to make the concepts more understandable.
First one of your vids I've seen. As I'm a beginning level Spanish student, I find your lesson here to be very clear & concise. Good job! I look forward to exploring more of your lessons.
Actually neither. 'Him' is a direct object. We'll use 'lo' for him. We will place that before the whole verb phrase or after the infinitive (if there are multiple verbs) So: 1) Lo quiero encontrar. or 2) Quiero encontrarlo. Hope that made sense!
@@SeñorJordan thank you for your quick reply. I will try to watch spanish movies with esp sub on netflix, it helped me a lot after my english classes,and also spanish people never make bad movies :)
You are amazing, I learned in just a few minutes what I struggled to learn in class last week for 2 hours. I can't wait to watch all of your Spanish videos.
Hola Jordan, soy argentino and you teach spanish very good, yo estoy estudiando ingles y esta muy bien que mas personas sean bilingues asi podremos entendernos mucho mejor. guys learn with jordan, he teachs spanish very good.
Thank you so much, when you put the list of reflexives on screen that really helped it click in my brain because as simple as it looks I just couldn't get it completely till today.
Thank you, this helped me understand the concept where my Spanish II class could not. I don't understand why a class must be spoken 100 percent in Spanish, its the English with the Spanish that allows me to understand the concept. I get lost the other way.
yo ive been using this guys videos for like my whole highschool and now college career. love this man he is my man. if only i wasnt required to take spanish for school for 5 years going on 6. fin.
Thx man this helped a lot. Its hard to understand my spanish teacher sometimes cuz she talks so fast and has a huge accent. U r the man. Thx u so much!
@cshett 'me lavo las manos' is the preferred way to say it. 'lavo mis manos' would be a direct translation from English. Please keep in mind the structures we have are different in other languages. Just because something is different doesn't make it wrong. ;-)
Thanks! We just started reflexive verbs in Spanish class yesterday. I was confused since it was the first day of a new unit, so I wound up here! Gracias
Thanks Jordan, I taking Spanish II and my teacher explained little to none on how to conjugate this verbs. I'm checking out your other videos too. Just wish I had something in writing to supplement this.
In Spanish, when any person does an action to them self, they reflect the action. Thus we will use 'reflexive verbs'. So yes, but not necessarily to your body. Just to them self. Ex: He wakes (himself) up. = Él se despierta. We shave (ourselves). = Nosotros nos afeitamos. I dry my hair. => I dry myself the hair = Yo me seco el pelo. Et cetera. Hopefully that made sense! :-)
sentir - to feel (noun) sentirse - to feel (description; adjective) Sentir: Siento la mesa. - I feel the table ¿Sientes la brisa? -Do you feel the breeze? Sentirse: Nos sentimos bien. - We feel fine/good/well. ¿Cómo te sientes hoy? - How do you feel? (requires adjective/description in answer) Me siento triste. - I feel sad. Hope that helps!
Hello, in this case the "se" is the conjugation of the verb "saber". For example, in the lyrics it could also say "(Yo) no se quien eres tu". Hope this helped.
I get myself up = Yo me levanto. yo = I me = myself levanto = get up Tú me levantas = you get me up tú = you me = myself / me levantas = get up These are reflexives so we'll use: 'me' with yo form, 'te' with tú form, 'se' with él / ella / usted form 'nos' with nosotros/nosotras form 'se' with ellos / ellas / ustedes form
@MarchingMac04 Actually, we don't use "se" because that generally means 'himself"; "herself", "yourself" (formal), "themselves" or "yourselves"... it would be: (yo) La levanto. (she's the direct object of my action of waking... so 'la') (yo) Lo levanto. (I wake him up) (yo) Las levanto (I wake them (girls) up) (yo) Los levanto (I wake them up)
Estimado Sr. Jordan, gracias por los muy completos videos y la ayuda a quienes desean aprender este bello idioma. Solamente una observación que me viene a la mente al respecto de este video en particular: algunas formas relacionadas al reflexivo "hablar[se]" son, de hecho, muy poco comunes. Es inusual decir, por ejemplo, "Yo me hablo" o "La niña se habla". Creo que se podría partir de una mejor plataforma con el verbo "bañar[se]" para evitar confusión. Muchas gracias nuevamente por los valiosos aportes. Saludos desde México.
Thanks for the feedback. This was one of the early videos I did and now that I watched it again, it does seem rather long compared to the newer ones and has some typos (oops!). I might re-do this one in the future or at least shorten it a smidge.
Something that is necessary to do when learning a new language is to remember that structures between languages are different. In this case, it's better to accept that Spanish is different in that we say: "me lavo la cara" instead of "(me) lavo mi cara". The "me" before the verb is telling us who we are doing the action... which functions similarly to the "my" in English in this case.
Extremely helpful. Production values were great. After the first example conjugating, you could have skipped the subsequent examples to make the video zip along a little more. I really liked the written examples and questions. Thanks!
Do you have a video on the pronunciation of the sounds with the letter? I'm trying to study this week on the sounds and can't find a video in it in your library. Thanks so much!
Gladys, thank you for the help. I do understand it now. Thank you. One of the problems was that the lyrics did not have accent marks, and this was causing problems. Best wishes to you.
SPECTACULAR VIDEO!! thank you very much!!
crazy how this guy made this video in 2008, and i'm watching it for Spanish at Quarantine University.
same but im in high school
bruh im watching this in highschool lol
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I’m watching for 8’th finals
Caught it 2023. Content is excellent
who eles is watching this in 2020??
(for online school due to corona)
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I literally would not pass spanish without you. Gracias Señor Jordan. You're the real MYP
Thanks, Isabella! You're too kind. ;-)
omg did u pass
I could not understand what is so special about reflexive verbs until you dissected it. it took you 5 seconds - many thanks.
Thank you so much; my Spanish teacher sucks at teaching, so thank you.
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Muchas Gracias, Señor
The preferred way is: "(Yo) Me lavo la cara."
Different languages have different "correct" ways of saying something.
Would it sound ok to say, "I wash myself the face" in English?
No. But it sounds great in Spanish. They're different languages. ;-)
i don't know if you're still online, but what about the vosotros form?
@@meredy770 Sorry, there used to be annotations, which RUclips discontinued!
In the present tense, for ar verbs... os [verb - ar]+ áis
examples:
os cepilláis
os laváis
In the present tense, for ar verbs... os [verb - er] + éis
examples:
os ponéis
In the present tense, for ar verbs... os [verb - ir] + ís
os dormís
os vestís
Hope that helps!
"10 minutes of this is more helpful than 3 days in school... " said my son.
Stephan Manucharian I don't know what it is about schools (most of them, at least) that makes learning a second language there so difficult-but I do agree, online learning is much faster somehow.
I mean he ain’t wrong
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He’s not wrong
Señor Jordan, hats off to you for the wonderful and brilliant work that you do for anyone and everyone learning Spanish! These videos not only help hundreds and thousands of people with any Spanish help, but also show how passionate and appreciative you are towards Spanish, a beautiful language! I remember when I first started learned Spanish (officially) and our teacher used to play your videos in class or sometimes we would watch them for homework. They were and are awesome! May GOD bless you abundantly Señor for everything that you do! Once again, you and your videos are amazing!!
I'm only a few months older than this video, it's now helping me test out of Spanish 2 to make room for my electives. That's actually awesome.
THANK YOU!!! I learned nothing last year in Spanish; now I have a teacher who doesn't speak very good English. This is a lifesaver!
Literally my Spanish hero. This channel is amazing. Thanks
You are a really good teacher. I have tried so many online programs and have learned more from you in a few episodes than trying to figure it out without classes. Thanks a lot. I understand Spanish well just have a hell of a time trying to write it or speak it. Please keep the videos coming. I would love to see one on why a personal A has to go at the beginning of some sentences when it does seem like it should would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks. You are great.
Right. Good question.
The way we do that is the reflexive pronoun is 'os' in front:
-ar verbs
os [verb - ar + áis]
ex: (cepillarse) os cepilláis
-er verbs
os [verb - er + éis]
-ir verbs
os [verb - ir + ís]
Ex: (vestirse) os vestís
much love from Trinidad! am a secondary school Spanish teacher and I refer my students to view your grammar videos all the time, keep up the great work
Awesome video Senor Jordon! I am learning Spanish at 34 years of age, living in Colombia and your teaching style is excellent, thought out and articulate!
STUPENDO best online teacher so far........ayayayay
Literally you are the only Spanish teacher that I can actually gain knowledge from on RUclips. My Spanish teacher I have right now is alright, but sometimes I have a hard time paying attention in class because I don't feel engaged in her classroom. Señor jordan on the other hand actually helped me learn reflexive verbs, and I thank him for that! Best Spanish tutor on RUclips ever hands down.
glad you like them! thanks for the encouragement!
this guy is awesome, my Mexican teacher in Costa Rica, and my Venezuelan teacher in Venezuela both used his links as refreshers. Dude, you're the best!
Nearly 10 years later and this video is helping me! I really enjoy your videos, thanks senor!~
So glad that the video is still useful! Thanks for watching. :-)
why does he look like someone has him there at gunpoint lmao
Bruh he sounds so scared lol
It's sad I have to watch this when I'm already in Spanish III! But thanks for the help. I actually understand now.
+MusicIsMyLife Well if it makes you less sad, check out this more recent song video simplifying reflexive verbs:
ruclips.net/video/aYFCwIfZ-s4/видео.html ;-)
Same Nena xD
Me too
My spanish teacher is making me teach this topic in Spanish class and this video was very helpful........... THANK YOU
Bro your teaching is simplistic yet efficient. I watch this video one time and now I have a complete understanding of reflexive verbs.thankyou.im subscribing 💯
Glad to hear that! ¡Gracias!
Your spanish lessons are very educational. My little sister came home from school and logged on to her computer immediately, without even a "hello". When I asked her what she was doing, she told me to shut up because she was trying to listen to your videos to review for her test... We watch at least five every day, now that I'm in Spanish as well. Thank you for all these lessons, you are very helpful!
So far, the best explanation I ever watched, gracias señor 🙏 Buenos días desde Filipinas 🇵🇭
Si glad it was helpful! ¡Gracias!
Hola, me llamo Cristian, soy argentino, y le pasé el video a una amiga china que quiere aprender español, fue el que más me convenció para que ella pueda aprender bastante parecido a lo que es nuestra pronunciación. Hablás bastante bien, no debe ser muy fácil para un estadounidense hablar en castellano, asi que te felicito por tus tutoriales y seguí asi que debe ser una GRAN GRAN ayuda para muchos. Saludos y good lucky! :)
I’m a native Spanish speaker and I must say your accent is AMAZING. Very genuine. Gracias Señor, voy a estudiar! (Yes I know I need the ! Upside down in front😅I’m just lazy)
in Spanish, we don't attach the 'me' to the verb when it is changed... thus...: 'me llamo'
there are sometimes songs and things from ages ago that attach them to the end... however, it is not common or standard practice to do so anymore.
for 'llámame'... which is a command meaning "call me!".... we place the accent mark because of the pronunciation rules of Spanish so we know to emphasize that first 'a' like we would in the pronunciation of 'llama' where the emphasis is on the first a.
I think you're on the right track! :-)
by itself:
me levanto = I lift myself (I get up)
te levantas = you lift yourself (you get up)
after another verb:
Puedo levantarme (I can get myself up)
Puedo levantarte (I can lift you up)
I'm not sure if that clarifies.
Hola, Señor Jordan! Estoy muy alegre que estás poniendo estos videos en RUclips! Estoy aprendiendo español! Te doy mis gracias! Espero que tengas una vida gran!
Gracias, gracias! Los verbos reflexivos have stumped me for years, and have been responsible for me hitting a virtual learning wall when it comes to the Spanish language. In the first minute of this video I was able to begin tearing down that wall. You are a savior!!
I have been using your videos along side my spainsh collage course. My professor doesnt explain as in depth as you do! I'm grateful for your videos. I do wish you would include the Vosotros form since some people want to go to Spain. But besides this good work and keep making videos !
The reflexives are only when the action is done to the person who is acting.
ex:
Te levantas. (you get [yourself] up)
You could say "levántate" to order someone.
Or "despiértate"
In the affirmative 'tú' commands you attach the pronoun (me, te, se, nos, se) to the end.
I pay $40,000 grand a year to go to a private college for my degree, and your teaching has been a million times better than my Spanish teacher at my school, and I got to learn for free from here as well as help a good teacher make an income doing something they're GOOD AT.
THANK YOU.
Glad to be of assistance! Let me know if there's something you specifically are having trouble with.
This video is the only one that didn't leave me more confused at the end. 13 years later, thanks a million.
my spanish teacher talks in spanish the whole time so no one in my class can understand him ,including me .So this is very helpful for me
I am learning sooooo much from your videos (you + butterfly spanish have helped me understand how to speak spanish better than anything/anyone else ever!). Please keep these vids live....
I truly love the way you make your videos. I use them all th time to teach my fifth graders. You have everything to catch their attention and to make the concepts more understandable.
This is sooooo clear and awesome! Thanks Jordan. If I had a dollar for every other (bad) explanation of reflexive verbs I'd send the $$$s to you.
Señor Jordan, your videos only got better and better over the years. Thank you so much!
Sr Jordan! I play your videos in my Spanish classes, so helpful, love them all! MUCHAS GRACIAS
Wow. This took my Spanish teacher a week to do. RUclips is a great way to review for a test since a lot of times videos do better than the teacher.
IT SEEMS LIKE YOU PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO THIS THOUGH, SO FOR THAT CONGRATULATIONS!
First one of your vids I've seen. As I'm a beginning level Spanish student, I find your lesson here to be very clear & concise. Good job! I look forward to exploring more of your lessons.
Actually neither. 'Him' is a direct object. We'll use 'lo' for him. We will place that before the whole verb phrase or after the infinitive (if there are multiple verbs)
So:
1) Lo quiero encontrar.
or
2) Quiero encontrarlo.
Hope that made sense!
You are amazingly talented in teaching. You make lessons interactive and easy to follow. Thank you so much!!!
If I had a dollar for every pixel in this video, I could buy something at McDonald's.
That Cathedral Guy it's from 2008
Jule Campmann I know
+Zachary Van horn If I were you, I'd spend $1,000 on an English grammar education.
Ungrateful.
Whoosh
Hey Señor Jordan! I wanna ask you something. I wonder what will my spanish level will be when i finish this playlist?
It just depends on how much of it you're able to absorb and put into practice. You might also find other resources in conjunction with the lessons.
@@SeñorJordan thank you for your quick reply. I will try to watch spanish movies with esp sub on netflix, it helped me a lot after my english classes,and also spanish people never make bad movies :)
You are amazing, I learned in just a few minutes what I struggled to learn in class last week for 2 hours. I can't wait to watch all of your Spanish videos.
Hola Jordan, soy argentino and you teach spanish very good,
yo estoy estudiando ingles y esta muy bien que mas personas sean bilingues asi podremos entendernos mucho mejor.
guys learn with jordan, he teachs spanish very good.
I was having so much trouble with reflexives in class, but this helped me so much. Gracias Señor.
I was going to fail a quiz tomorrow until I stumbled upon this video and it saved my life.
+Diana Ghazzawi Girrrlll me too!
HAHAHA you and I together! I actually did so good.
+Diana Ghazzawi Good job! I'm gonna do well too thanks to this guy. I should be paying him my tuition money.
are you in high school or college?
+Diana Ghazzawi Girl college, almost free!!!! Grad school actually. Ecuador
Thank you so much, when you put the list of reflexives on screen that really helped it click in my brain because as simple as it looks I just couldn't get it completely till today.
Hey im home educated at the moment so I dont have a teacher you're like my Spanish teacher it's amazing thanks :)
Thank you, this helped me understand the concept where my Spanish II class could not. I don't understand why a class must be spoken 100 percent in Spanish, its the English with the Spanish that allows me to understand the concept. I get lost the other way.
yo ive been using this guys videos for like my whole highschool and now college career. love this man he is my man. if only i wasnt required to take spanish for school for 5 years going on 6.
fin.
That was really helpful. I used this because the video link my teacher gave me to watch was unavailable, and I'm glad I found this. Nice job!
I dont know if you active BUT YOU HELPED ME SOOO MUCH!!
I am grateful
Thank you ! I could never understand reflexives until you explained it SO well. Thank you again.
Easy and practical way of grammar teaching 🙂🍁
THANK U SO MUCH I’ve been trying to understand the purpose of reflexive verbs for some time now. This video did just that in 10 minutes
Thx man this helped a lot. Its hard to understand my spanish teacher sometimes cuz she talks so fast and has a huge accent. U r the man. Thx u so much!
@cshett
'me lavo las manos' is the preferred way to say it.
'lavo mis manos' would be a direct translation from English. Please keep in mind the structures we have are different in other languages. Just because something is different doesn't make it wrong. ;-)
Thanks! We just started reflexive verbs in Spanish class yesterday. I was confused since it was the first day of a new unit, so I wound up here! Gracias
You are great! Better than going to a classroom
You are so clear! Great teacher!
Thank you sooooooooooo much for sharing this video Mr. Jordan. I will be sharing it with my students today. May God bless you immensely for this.
thank you so much señor jordan i have a test tomorrow and i didn't understand reflexive verbs but now i do :D
Senor Jordan, I love your videos on Spanish grammar. May I share them with my students?
Thanks Jordan, I taking Spanish II and my teacher explained little to none on how to conjugate this verbs. I'm checking out your other videos too. Just wish I had something in writing to supplement this.
I find it helps reinforce the learning when I write it down myself.
In Spanish, when any person does an action to them self, they reflect the action. Thus we will use 'reflexive verbs'. So yes, but not necessarily to your body. Just to them self.
Ex:
He wakes (himself) up. = Él se despierta.
We shave (ourselves). = Nosotros nos afeitamos.
I dry my hair. => I dry myself the hair = Yo me seco el pelo.
Et cetera. Hopefully that made sense! :-)
Please explain why there needs to be a se or te with sientes?
sentir - to feel (noun)
sentirse - to feel (description; adjective)
Sentir:
Siento la mesa. - I feel the table
¿Sientes la brisa? -Do you feel the breeze?
Sentirse:
Nos sentimos bien. - We feel fine/good/well.
¿Cómo te sientes hoy? - How do you feel? (requires adjective/description in answer)
Me siento triste. - I feel sad.
Hope that helps!
Hello, in this case the "se" is the conjugation of the verb "saber". For example, in the lyrics it could also say "(Yo) no se quien eres tu". Hope this helped.
I get myself up = Yo me levanto.
yo = I
me = myself
levanto = get up
Tú me levantas = you get me up
tú = you
me = myself / me
levantas = get up
These are reflexives so we'll use:
'me' with yo form,
'te' with tú form,
'se' with él / ella / usted form
'nos' with nosotros/nosotras form
'se' with ellos / ellas / ustedes form
WOW!!! This is simply amazing. I'm trying to learn spanish and this helps sooooo much. You make it so easy to understand. Muchas Gracias! :)
@MarchingMac04
Actually, we don't use "se" because that generally means 'himself"; "herself", "yourself" (formal), "themselves" or "yourselves"... it would be:
(yo) La levanto. (she's the direct object of my action of waking... so 'la')
(yo) Lo levanto. (I wake him up)
(yo) Las levanto (I wake them (girls) up)
(yo) Los levanto (I wake them up)
Estimado Sr. Jordan, gracias por los muy completos videos y la ayuda a quienes desean aprender este bello idioma.
Solamente una observación que me viene a la mente al respecto de este video en particular: algunas formas relacionadas al reflexivo "hablar[se]" son, de hecho, muy poco comunes. Es inusual decir, por ejemplo, "Yo me hablo" o "La niña se habla". Creo que se podría partir de una mejor plataforma con el verbo "bañar[se]" para evitar confusión. Muchas gracias nuevamente por los valiosos aportes.
Saludos desde México.
Thanks for the feedback. This was one of the early videos I did and now that I watched it again, it does seem rather long compared to the newer ones and has some typos (oops!). I might re-do this one in the future or at least shorten it a smidge.
Something that is necessary to do when learning a new language is to remember that structures between languages are different. In this case, it's better to accept that Spanish is different in that we say: "me lavo la cara" instead of "(me) lavo mi cara". The "me" before the verb is telling us who we are doing the action... which functions similarly to the "my" in English in this case.
Extremely helpful. Production values were great. After the first example conjugating, you could have skipped the subsequent examples to make the video zip along a little more. I really liked the written examples and questions. Thanks!
I must say, your Spanish is better than that of many other non-native people
Do you have a video on the pronunciation of the sounds with the letter? I'm trying to study this week on the sounds and can't find a video in it in your library. Thanks so much!
Its ridiculous how many of your videos I watch.
Gladys, thank you for the help. I do understand it now. Thank you. One of the problems was that the lyrics did not have accent marks, and this was causing problems.
Best wishes to you.
Thank you I have been studying Spanish and spent a few months in Madrid but never really understood se I just knew when to use it.
these videos are great . I especially like how you incorperate the pause, so I can practice along with he video. Thanks
your videos just make everything clearer. gracias for being muy paciente!
Thanks so much. I'm having a Spanish final next week and really needed this
This helps so much! I have a test today and it helped me study!!! Thank you!
I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THIS UNTIL NOW! Thank you so much, this was a wonderful video; you are better than most of my professors at my university
This video helped me so much, I understood all the concepts that I need for my test and quizzes. Muchos gracias Senor Jordan!!!!!
FINALLY FOUND IT AFTER LISTENING TO YOUR REFLEXIVE VERBS IN SPANISH :D
that is how the verb changes...
dormirse (o changes to ue)
acostarse (o changes to ue)
vestire (e changes to i)
despertarse (e changes to ie)
Gracias, Senor Jordan. Eres lo mejor todavia
Thank you for creating these videos. They are the best ones I have found and the most understandable.
Me encantó la lección!
This video made so much sense.