I learned German to fluency in about 3yrs. It went very well and that is a hard language. My Spanish learning was not going well until I found you. You teach in a similar method as German with Jenny.... Awesome. Amazing. Simply the best.
Paul, thank you so much for a lesson. For us people that currently are unable to afford your full course, even if you can give us something less frequent and even shorter in length, it is enough to keep us motivated to review past lessons and to keep learning. Anyway, whatever you can do is most appreciated.
Not bad, but I think the better way to say it would be "Siempre he disfrutado tus lecciones." "I have always enjoyed your lessons" (remember to make the possessive adjective plural to match the plural noun). :)
Thank you for the tutorial, unfortunately I am at this moment in time unable to afford your full course so I very much appreciate your free tutorials, I am expanding my vocabulary through your videos and I hope it won't be too long before you upload another. Thank you Paul :)
Paul I love your videos. I have never been so engaged in such matter as yours. I lived in mallorca and I learned spanish from books and practice with the locals. I am now back in the UK and 7 years later I have forgotten most of the spanish language. Your videos bring it all back to me. Thank you.
In reality you never forget, you just put it 'in the back of your brain', somehow, when you have the opportunity to revive it, all comes back to the surfice and you will be amazed at how much you already know but it has been tucked away, for lack of use. I know, it happens to me with my Portuguese, I lived for many years in Brazil, but whenever I go for a visit, it all comes back to me!!
initially I was rather sceptical about a non- native speaker giving Spanish lessons. B ut how wrong I was ! This is a very well structured course ! Top !
Your teaching technique is impeccable Paul. Thank-you for creating these great videos; I'll continue to recommend them to anyone interested in learning Spanish.
Thank god for your channel The only spanish channel without the annoying advertising Me gusta muchísimo este canal me español es excelente porque escuché por mucho tiempo Amor de Australia
thanks so much for the good work and your sacrifice of your time to us .i like so much your explanation is fantastic and clear very well.GOD BLESS YOU AND STRENGTHEN YOU.
I really hope u will see this comment and think about it. You are always making a video to ppl who are learning spanish for the first time. But u have a great mini cource to help them with the basics. So i would really like to see that u build up the difficultie in your video's for the ppl who watch it every time.
Excellent lesson, Paul. "Disfrutar" is probably an underused verb in Spanish, but it can be a great tool for beginners to master who are still confused by the rules for using "gustar" properly (since "disfrutar" behaves the same way that the English verbs "like" and "enjoy" do, whereas "gustar" always takes the INdirect object pronoun because of its literal meaning of "to please [me, you, him, her, it, us, them]" or "to be pleasing to [me, you, him, her, it, us, them]").
No not with the verb gustar !! You cannot use the gerundio with gustar its always the verb in the infinitive. You can use the gerundio when you are doing the action at that time. Eg estoy leyendo un muy interestante libro. Estoy comiendo una hamburgesa
Leyendo is the verb Leer as in He is reading a book now( ing form) If you want to refer to the substantive Reading, so it is Lectura. For example.... La lectura del libro fue muy interesante.👍
Not for this particular construction. Spanish doesn't use the gerund as a noun the way English does -- it requires the infinitive ("to read") in any construction where we would use the gerund "reading") as a noun in English.
He estado aprendiendo español contigo para semanas porque me gusta estudiar tú lección que está muchísimo claro. Estoy a punto de leer la revista cuando acado de terminar la película. Me gustó la película pero no entendí lo que significaba. disfruté ver la película con mi novia pero quería irme
Paul, I am interested in your main course; however, I have a question. I am an advanced intermediate student in Spanish. I would like to know if any of your lessons include hearing you speak Spanish or have native Spanish speakers speaking. To learn a language, one needs both. You must be able to read it, say it, hear it, write it, and most of all be able to understand it. If your course includes both, then I will definitely buy your course. Let me know. Thanks!
Diane Van the differance is that spanish doesnt use the "ING" tense the same as in english. You can only use the gerundio at the time that you are doing the action. Eg i am reading a book, estoy leyendo un libro. When you like something it is a general time period and the verb does not allow the use of the gerundio. So every time it is me gusta leer, me gusta hablar contigo, me gusta ir al cine.
Hi Diane. We use El gerundio in the same way you use it in English. An action you are doing right now. So we would say..... The girl is reading a book now. In Spanish we would say.... La Niña esta leyendo un libro. Whereas we use Leer to form the infinitive form to read. In English you would say ..... The girl is going to read a book. In Spanish we would say.... La Niña va a leer un libro. I hope to be helpful (sorry if I made a mistake I am also learning English)
Diane, I used to also wonder about this. But now I've worked out - In English we say ''I like reading'' much the same as we say ''I like chocolate''. "Reading" is a 'thing' we do so we use a gerund - a verb that behaves like a noun. In Spanish they say 'me gusta leer'- literally ''to me it is pleasing to read''. Hence the use of infinitiv
Yes most people know the prohibition against combining the Present Progressive with a future reference. However, does this prohibition pertain to other tenses? e.g., Estuve leyendo el libro cuando el timbre sonar or Estaria viajando a Antiqua la semana que viene pero no tengo suficiente dinero
Thank you Paul ... I did the 10 mini courses but I can't download them even if I add my name & e-mail address ... can U check what I'm doing wrong please?
Hi Paul , I just wanted to know if you allowed anyone to buy your spanish course and pay in installments instead of lump sum total? I would really love the course yet have difficulty coming up with the lump sum. You do a wonderful job teaching.
Think of it this way, mis amigos: "Gustar" and "disgustar" behave in Spanish in exactly the same manner as the English verb "to disgust" does, and in fact, "gustar," "disgustar," and "disgust" are cognates because they all come from the same Latin root word, "gustare." "Disfrutar," on the other hand, is not a cognate with those three words and doesn't come from the same Latin root word, so it doesn't behave the same way those three words do. Instead, it behaves like any other normal Spanish transitive verb (that is, any verb that can take a direct object).
Hi Paul... many thanks for the free lessons. ...they're fantastic. In this lesson you've used "me gustó" for the past tense (preterite?), but shouldn't this be "me gusté"?
You got it. "Gustar" takes the INDIRECT object pronoun because it literally means "to please" or "to be pleasing to." It really confuses beginning Spanish students because our translation "to like" doesn't work the same way at all!
Hello Paul, thank you so much for your incredible teaching technique! I have learned so much! Just a suggestion..I am an EFL tutor in England and many of my Spanish speaking students follow your courses to improve their English...but it would be so helpful if you published the same lessons the other way round. :-) (Spanish to English)
Isn't he great!? I love all his vids! I have learned SO much. I am also on a good fb group where we talk about his course and, of course, many watch his other vids.
I do like the videos that you do; however, I think that there is a mistake in the past tense of the verb gustar: it shows it as gustó for I liked; should it not be gusté? Thanks you Paul for a very good course.
disfrute muchisimo tu leccion paul I really enjoyed your lesson paul hadt hafna gost bil lezzjoni tieghek pawl (oops sorry i forgot you can t read maltese) just joking !!
YERMO Adan Hi there. Muy mucho is not correct. Muy mucho does not exist. Disfruto mucho ir al cine y ver una buena película or Disfruto muchísimo ( very much) ir al cine y ver una buena película. These too ways are the correct ones.You can say for example..... Estoy muy feliz por estar aprendiendo Español. No es muy difícil. 👍
You just hook 'lo' on the end of infinitives. HACERlo (to do it), TENERlo (to have it), SABERlo (to know it), but if you dont use it with an infinitive, it goes in the front: lo hago (I do it...literally 'it, I do'), lo sé (I know it....'it, I know'), lo tengo (I have it...literally 'it I have'). You cannot anyways use literal translations to English because things are not conveyed the same way.
It's just a rule of Spanish spelling that the object pronouns are always attached to the end of an infinitive (the form of the verb that ends in "r") as if it were one word: "hacerlo," NEVER "hacer lo." And yes, "lo" as the direct object pronoun always means "it" when it refers to an animal or an inanimate object. When used to refer to a human being, it always means "him" (her" as direct object is always "la").
hola, ese tipo de preguntas son las que frenan tu avance, la verdad no tiene importancia el porqué , ¿cuando niño/a y estabas aprendiendo a hablar te hacías este tipo de pregunta? seguramente no, simplemente hablabas, repetías lo que escuchabas..los hispano parlantes nos hacemos preguntas similares respecto al inglés y es simplemente porque es otro idioma.
if you said 'me gusta' that would be to like something in general (present tense). It doesn't change for gender. We are talking about the past and do not use me gusta for that. We use me gusto. Either way It doesn't change gender for any tense.
No. "Gustar" is a verb, not an adjective, and the third-person singualar present tense is always "gusta" as in "me gusta leer el libro." The gender of the speaker has nothing to do with it.
No. "Gustar" requires the indirect object pronoun because "gustar" literally means "to please" or "to be pleasing to." So "me gustó" literally means "it pleased me" or "it was pleasing to me." But "disfrutar" doesn't work the same way. It literally means "to enjoy." So "disfruté la película" means "I enjoyed the movie," and uses the same construction as English.
I learned German to fluency in about 3yrs. It went very well and that is a hard language. My Spanish learning was not going well until I found you. You teach in a similar method as German with Jenny.... Awesome. Amazing. Simply the best.
Paul, thank you so much for a lesson. For us people that currently are unable to afford your full course, even if you can give us something less frequent and even shorter in length, it is enough to keep us motivated to review past lessons and to keep learning. Anyway, whatever you can do is most appreciated.
Thanks Paul - love your lessons!
Paul is a magician! This material is very compelling and I am very enjoying it.
This is painless Spanish.
Siempre disfrute tu lecciones. Mucha gracias.
Not bad, but I think the better way to say it would be "Siempre he disfrutado tus lecciones." "I have always enjoyed your lessons" (remember to make the possessive adjective plural to match the plural noun). :)
Couldn't Kylee Johnson say Siempre disfruto tus lecciones?
Paul I'm glad you're back and may God continue to bless you with that unmatched amazing and addictive teaching skill that you possess. Cheers.
Thank you for another lesson! I love the way you teach. I'm saving my coins for your full course.
Dear Paul, the way you deliver Spanish lesson is outstanding. Easy to follow.
Thank you for the tutorial, unfortunately I am at this moment in time unable to afford your full course so I very much appreciate your free tutorials, I am expanding my vocabulary through your videos and I hope it won't be too long before you upload another. Thank you Paul :)
Paul I love your videos. I have never been so engaged in such matter as yours. I lived in mallorca and I learned spanish from books and practice with the locals. I am now back in the UK and 7 years later I have forgotten most of the spanish language. Your videos bring it all back to me. Thank you.
In reality you never forget, you just put it 'in the back of your brain', somehow, when you have the opportunity to revive it, all comes back to the surfice and you will be amazed at how much you already know but it has been tucked away, for lack of use. I know, it happens to me with my Portuguese, I lived for many years in Brazil, but whenever I go for a visit, it all comes back to me!!
You're right. I am here for English because of his way of teaching.
It's fantastic to hear your voice again :) I'm always looking forward to your lessons impatiently .
Dorota my too. I have learnt so much. 😎
Thanks Paul for The second chance lessons !
Me gusta muchisimo este curso y lo disfruto Muchisimas gracias Paul!
initially I was rather sceptical about a non- native speaker giving Spanish lessons. B
ut how wrong I was ! This is a very well structured course ! Top !
He said even though he's a native English speaker he's been living in Mexico for years, so don't worry he can be trusted.
Thank you do much! I can speak some Spainish After this video, that's so amazing!!
U buy the course?
Me gusto mucho este leccion Disfrute estudiar espanol y ingles Al mismo tiempo cotigo Paul Muchisimas gracias!
when you greet someone in Spanish for the first time we say mucho gusto, nice to meet you
Disfruté leer el leccion tuyas Paul..muchas garcias
Your teaching technique is impeccable Paul. Thank-you for creating these great videos; I'll continue to recommend them to anyone interested in learning Spanish.
Thank god for your channel
The only spanish channel without the annoying advertising
Me gusta muchísimo este canal me español es excelente porque escuché por mucho tiempo
Amor de Australia
Sure glad you are back !!
your videos are simply awesome....
thanks so much for the good work and your sacrifice of your time to us .i like so much your explanation is fantastic and clear very well.GOD BLESS YOU AND STRENGTHEN YOU.
I didn’t know about the ‘pronto otra vez’ word order, so very useful thank you.
Brilliant Spanish lesson as always Paul! Thanks a lot.
I really hope u will see this comment and think about it. You are always making a video to ppl who are learning spanish for the first time. But u have a great mini cource to help them with the basics. So i would really like to see that u build up the difficultie in your video's for the ppl who watch it every time.
He has a lot more difficult lessons on his course that you pay for
He has intensive lessons in his paid course. It is worth every penny!
Disfrute muchisimo la leccion. Gracias!
i love your videos please keep going you are helping us a lot
Gracias por la lección Paul! Disfruté muchísimo la película esta noche!
Disfruté mucho aprender español contigo, Sñr. Paul.
hola, permíteme corregirte, "disfruté mucho aprendiendo español" o "disfruto mucho aprendiendo español" , espero no te moleste.
MAN O MAN OUR AMIGO PAUL IS BACK
You're a good teacher.Thks you so much for your videos
Thank you, Paul! We are really enjoying walking to work with your programmes
Excellent lesson, Paul. "Disfrutar" is probably an underused verb in Spanish, but it can be a great tool for beginners to master who are still confused by the rules for using "gustar" properly (since "disfrutar" behaves the same way that the English verbs "like" and "enjoy" do, whereas "gustar" always takes the INdirect object pronoun because of its literal meaning of "to please [me, you, him, her, it, us, them]" or "to be pleasing to [me, you, him, her, it, us, them]").
This is a great video, Paul. These videos and your online course are amazing!
Hi Dan. LOL
Paul can you use leyendo as well to express “reading”?
My question as well. Thanks for asking
No not with the verb gustar !! You cannot use the gerundio with gustar its always the verb in the infinitive.
You can use the gerundio when you are doing the action at that time. Eg estoy leyendo un muy interestante libro. Estoy comiendo una hamburgesa
Leyendo is the verb Leer as in He is reading a book now( ing form) If you want to refer to the substantive Reading, so it is Lectura. For example.... La lectura del libro fue muy interesante.👍
Not for this particular construction. Spanish doesn't use the gerund as a noun the way English does -- it requires the infinitive ("to read") in any construction where we would use the gerund "reading") as a noun in English.
Or you can simply use the infinitive "leer." "Leer el libro fue muy divertido." "Reading the book was a lot of fun."
Yay! Gracias for another video
Heja Paul....I missed your lessons. I hope you had some relaxation...Best regards from Germ'y
Welcome back senor Paul
Thank you Paul
U rock bro!! 🙌🏾👏🏾🫶🏾👍🏾
Thank you for your lessons!
Thank you so much for demonstrating how to build on the basics.
He estado aprendiendo español contigo para semanas porque me gusta estudiar tú lección que está muchísimo claro. Estoy a punto de leer la revista cuando acado de terminar la película. Me gustó la película pero no entendí lo que significaba. disfruté ver la película con mi novia pero quería irme
Hi.that's very useful.
Just found these lessons great !! like the way you use verbs instead of most language courses focusing on nouns !!
Me gustó mucho esta lección 👍🏻
Disfute muchisimo muchas gracias
Paul, I am interested in your main course; however, I have a question. I am an advanced intermediate student in Spanish. I would like to know if any of your lessons include hearing you speak Spanish or have native Spanish speakers speaking. To learn a language, one needs both. You must be able to read it, say it, hear it, write it, and most of all be able to understand it. If your course includes both, then I will definitely buy your course. Let me know. Thanks!
Missed ya!
Por que no tiene la leccion otra vez este lunes?
thank you very much paul
Te extrañamos mucho ya que todos los lunes esperamos tu conferencia.
Muchas gracias.
Asi que perfecto!
great !!!
Disfrute’ muchi’simo, gracias para todo
Hey Cheryl, gracias *POR* todo, there is a difference between the conjunctions POR and PARA ;-)
Para and por are prepositions. 😊✌️
Thanks
8:30 love tips like this!
Heeelp, I downloaded the course….
Where can I find it on my phone.
Thanks
What's the difference between the gerundio leyendo (reading) and the verb leer (to read)?
Diane Van the differance is that spanish doesnt use the "ING" tense the same as in english. You can only use the gerundio at the time that you are doing the action. Eg i am reading a book, estoy leyendo un libro. When you like something it is a general time period and the verb does not allow the use of the gerundio. So every time it is me gusta leer, me gusta hablar contigo, me gusta ir al cine.
Hi Diane. We use El gerundio in the same way you use it in English. An action you are doing right now. So we would say..... The girl is reading a book now. In Spanish we would say.... La Niña esta leyendo un libro. Whereas we use Leer to form the infinitive form to read. In English you would say ..... The girl is going to read a book. In Spanish we would say.... La Niña va a leer un libro. I hope to be helpful (sorry if I made a mistake I am also learning English)
Diane, I used to also wonder about this. But now I've worked out - In English we say ''I like reading'' much the same as we say ''I like chocolate''. "Reading" is a 'thing' we do so we use a gerund - a verb that behaves like a noun. In Spanish they say 'me gusta leer'- literally ''to me it is pleasing to read''. Hence the use of infinitiv
Yes most people know the prohibition against combining the Present Progressive with a future reference. However, does this prohibition pertain to other tenses? e.g., Estuve leyendo el libro cuando el timbre sonar or Estaria viajando a Antiqua la semana que viene pero no tengo suficiente dinero
Hi Paul, I can’t access the 10 mini courses link on this video. 🥺
gracias paul
Muchisimas gracias Paul estoy mejorado en Espanol,hora ya puedo hablar con alguien,hace 4messes.adios.
Thank you Paul ... I did the 10 mini courses but I can't download them even if I add my name & e-mail address ... can U check what I'm doing wrong please?
Could I say me disfrute just like me gustó or does it matter?
(Yo) Disfruté alone is correct without me, because is conjugated in first person.
Me gustó is correct all together.
I have stopped receiving the Monday lesson 2 weeks ago. Ayudarme por favor
Hi Paul , I just wanted to know if you allowed anyone to buy your spanish course and pay in installments instead of lump sum total? I would really love the course yet have difficulty coming up with the lump sum. You do a wonderful job teaching.
un gran video de nuevo
SI, me gusto la pelicula ARGENTINA 1985 anoche.
donde estan las lecciones de los lunes
Think of it this way, mis amigos: "Gustar" and "disgustar" behave in Spanish in exactly the same manner as the English verb "to disgust" does, and in fact, "gustar," "disgustar," and "disgust" are cognates because they all come from the same Latin root word, "gustare."
"Disfrutar," on the other hand, is not a cognate with those three words and doesn't come from the same Latin root word, so it doesn't behave the same way those three words do. Instead, it behaves like any other normal Spanish transitive verb (that is, any verb that can take a direct object).
Hi Paul... many thanks for the free lessons. ...they're fantastic. In this lesson you've used "me gustó" for the past tense (preterite?), but shouldn't this be "me gusté"?
Ah... just spotted my mistake.....even though I do find myself pleasing!
'Me gusté' it means I like myself, so you can't say like that
You got it. "Gustar" takes the INDIRECT object pronoun because it literally means "to please" or "to be pleasing to." It really confuses beginning Spanish students because our translation "to like" doesn't work the same way at all!
Can I say "No me disfrute en la fiesta" for " I didn't enjoy myself at the party " ?
If pelicula is feminine why don't we use muchisima?
Simon H because it is not the pelicula that is muchisimo it is you that thought it was !!
I've the same question
Porque estás hablando de una acción, y la acción no es femenina
Carlos said, because the action is feminine.
Because muchísimo is an adverb, not an adjective. Adverbs don't change for gender or number.
Hello Paul, thank you so much for your incredible teaching technique! I have learned so much! Just a suggestion..I am an EFL tutor in England and many of my Spanish speaking students follow your courses to improve their English...but it would be so helpful if you published the same lessons the other way round. :-) (Spanish to English)
Isn't he great!? I love all his vids! I have learned SO much. I am also on a good fb group where we talk about his course and, of course, many watch his other vids.
Ooh where is the group??
I do like the videos that you do; however, I think that there is a mistake in the past tense of the verb gustar: it shows it as gustó for I liked; should it not be gusté? Thanks you Paul for a very good course.
William Lynch gustar needs to be gustó since it’s representing the thing (3rd person) that was pleasing to me-so, it’s correct
Gracias gringo
Oh Paul, te extraño!😛 o te extrañe, o ambos...
disfrute muchisimo tu leccion paul I really enjoyed your lesson paul hadt hafna gost bil lezzjoni tieghek pawl (oops sorry i forgot you can t read maltese) just joking !!
I take it MUY MUCHO for "very much" is a gringo-ism made up by me? What would a native Spanish speaker think of it?
YERMO Adan Hi there. Muy mucho is not correct. Muy mucho does not exist. Disfruto mucho ir al cine y ver una buena película or Disfruto muchísimo ( very much) ir al cine y ver una buena película. These too ways are the correct ones.You can say for example..... Estoy muy feliz por estar aprendiendo Español. No es muy difícil. 👍
I've heard muchisima/o a lot of times in the movies from Spain I watch.
hola, "muy mucho" that does not exist, but you could say for example, "me gustó mucho mucho la película".
Hola，Paul.
Muchas grecias
Why "Hacerlo" is together? Why not "Hacer lo"? Is "lo" always means it?
Loving Hobby because spanish is not like english
You just hook 'lo' on the end of infinitives. HACERlo (to do it), TENERlo (to have it), SABERlo (to know it), but if you dont use it with an infinitive, it goes in the front: lo hago (I do it...literally 'it, I do'), lo sé (I know it....'it, I know'), lo tengo (I have it...literally 'it I have'). You cannot anyways use literal translations to English because things are not conveyed the same way.
It's just a rule of Spanish spelling that the object pronouns are always attached to the end of an infinitive (the form of the verb that ends in "r") as if it were one word: "hacerlo," NEVER "hacer lo." And yes, "lo" as the direct object pronoun always means "it" when it refers to an animal or an inanimate object. When used to refer to a human being, it always means "him" (her" as direct object is always "la").
hola, ese tipo de preguntas son las que frenan tu avance, la verdad no tiene importancia el porqué , ¿cuando niño/a y estabas aprendiendo a hablar te hacías este tipo de pregunta? seguramente no, simplemente hablabas, repetías lo que escuchabas..los hispano parlantes nos hacemos preguntas similares respecto al inglés y es simplemente porque es otro idioma.
cant buy course am getting message of being blocked
How about did you like the movie? Did he like the movie
¿Te gusta la película?
?Te gustó la película? 😊 ?Le gustó la película? 😊✌️✌️
It is very good lesson but I want these lines with you word or he she words
I'm assuming that if you are a woman that you say "me gusta"?
pam emick it's same way if you are man or woman
if you said 'me gusta' that would be to like something in general (present tense). It doesn't change for gender. We are talking about the past and do not use me gusta for that. We use me gusto. Either way It doesn't change gender for any tense.
No. "Gustar" is a verb, not an adjective, and the third-person singualar present tense is always "gusta" as in "me gusta leer el libro." The gender of the speaker has nothing to do with it.
gustar = me gusto but disfrutar = disfrute, y no me is added to dis?
No. "Gustar" requires the indirect object pronoun because "gustar" literally means "to please" or "to be pleasing to." So "me gustó" literally means "it pleased me" or "it was pleasing to me." But "disfrutar" doesn't work the same way. It literally means "to enjoy." So "disfruté la película" means "I enjoyed the movie," and uses the same construction as English.
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