This video is a perfect example of why we, American English speakers learning Spanish, need an American in certain situations to teach us. Especially when it comes to intermediate to advanced grammar. A native Spanish speaker can never in a month of Sundays explain this difficulty even close to how clear you make it for us.
For the most part, I agree with your assertion. However, all my advanced grammar classes were instructed by a native-speaking linguistist from Spain but he was a linguist. So, he was atypical and highly talented and in eyes, he is exceptional. Instructors who learned Spanish can often explain grammatical topics better because they had to learn that material, whereas native speakers absorbed the structures by high frequency exposure. Having said all of that, the non-native speaker can be terrible because they ultimately do not understand structure to any significant level.
It depends, I mean, I'm a native Spanish speaker and I think I myself usually do a pretty good job explaining this subject. It depends more with the type of teachers you've had or the type of lessons/classes you've had experience with unfortunately. It's the same both ways, I can tell you I struggled with some very bad or inexperienced native English teachers and usually it has nothing to do with the teacher being native or not, but with the experience with the subject and the ability to explain and efficiently pass down that information to the students. I'm an English teacher and Spanish teacher btw.
@@FreddieHg37 Yeah, what you say is true. Nowadays, experience does not mean so much to me. I work with people who have had decades of experience in my field, and in so many cases, they are mediocre at best and often times terrible. When I had the professor I mentioned, he was brand new directly from having finished his Ph.D. He was nothing less than awesome. Experience is like anything else. It can be either good experience or bad experience. One can be very experienced at being mediocre to bad or experienced at being above average to excellent. Ultimately, it depends on one's depth of understanding and ability to convey the subject matter, regardless of one's nationality and native language.
@@mathematix-rodcast Well, in that case I don't believe it's fair to generalize like that about Spanish speaking teachers. We all have different backgrounds and experiences and most of the time, in my own first hand experience with others and in my career, I've seen that experience and feedback does make a big difference and sometimes time and experiences can be the better teachers when in a professional field. Hope you're doing great!
My god you have provided the clearest most digestible explanation of this. No other Spanish lessons channel does it like this. Very much needed and props.
For about 8 months duolingo has been feeding me these sentences hoping I'd work out these rules by myself jajaja - thank you so much Paul; finally, I get it.
@@QrooSpanish I'm a language teacher and generally think its great, but there are certain spots where self discovery is a little lacking. Anyway, you have helped my Spanish so much, so quickly - I really appreciate what you do for people - keep up the great work! So happy I've found your channel.
As a native Spanish speaker myself, for the first time; in my entire existence, I suddenly started thinking about why the heck we use “Se” in Spanish after reading the thumbnail.
¡Muchas gracias! Nos diste una leccion muy importante y facil de entender. Llevo seis meses estudiando Español con maestros y maestras diferentes en youtube. Ahora encontré a tu video la primera vez y lo escucho con placer grande. Creo que te voy a seguir. ¡Gracias de nuevo!❤ ¡Saludos desde Israel!
Just to append (I'm a native Spanish speaker). Mexicans particularly tend to use redundant pronouns. Example: -"María me llamó. Pero, *yo* le dije *a ella* que no podía ir". Translation: (Maria called me, but I told her that I couldn't come). Here, *yo* and *a ella* are redundant, because the 1st singular person pronoun "yo" can be inferred (and therefore omitted): "Yo le dije a ella" = "Le dije a ella". Also, the part "a ella" can be omitted, because of the indirect object pronoun "le". Also, it's obvious that we are referring to "Maria", so we can perfectly say: "Maria me llamó, pero le dije que no podía ir". It is worth to mention that these redundancies are NOT grammatically incorrect, it's up to you whether using them or not, and in this sense Spanish is a lot flexible. You can either be redundant (it you like), or not.
I'm really appreciating your videos. I'm not certain, but I think I may be a unique case in the pursuit of fluency in Spanish. I'm less than three weeks away from my 80th birthday and I took two years of classroom Spanish starting 66 years ago. Like most Americans, two years in a classroom did little to make Spanish a part of my life. But I didn't put it on a mental shelf gather ingredients dust. At least not permanently. I would come back to it periodically, reviewing my vocabulary and adding a few words to it. Then I began seeking written materials in Spanish and practicing reading them aloud. I've reached a point where I can read newspaper stories and get from 70% up to 90%+ of the article without looking up many words. But I still wasn't able (or willing) to converse in Spanish. After all of these years, I rank my ability as a Spanish-speaking person at high end of "beginner" or barely reaching "intermediate." Your videos are in the process of changing that. I am reading more consistently. I am watching more TV and videos, trying to learn to understand better what I hear. Two days ago, I started a diary - in Spanish - to record my attempts to make Spanish a major part of my life. But in the four days since first watching your videos, my vocabulary has grown dramatically and my comfort with listening to Spanish has grown. It is many hours of practice away from being satisfactory, but I already feel a difference. Oh, I also ordered the book that you recommended, and it is supposed to be delivered today. You said in the first video I watched that fluency is not quickly attained - probably at least two years. I'm hoping that building on the foundation that has come from years of haphazard efforts I might be able to shorten that a bit.
I am similar, I find my comprehension of spoken and written Spanish has developed quite quickly with a daily lesson on duo lingo and from watching RUclips videos. But when it comes to speaking or writing I am back to complete beginner. I think the idea of writing a Spanish diary is really a good one. The practice of actually forming one’s own sentences is a big step. I think doing that for a while will help with speaking too. The good thing is there are translation apps so one can check. I think I will adopt your idea! In my mid seventies by the way…and I hope you had a happy 80th birthday!
Hands down, best teacher ever, of direct and indirect object pronoun in Spanish. Spanish speaking teachers could not deliver this concept even remotely close to the way it was explained and delivered. What a blessing!
I have been speaking Spanish for 30 years studied at 2 universities and I never had a better understanding than I have with your video. Thanks so much!
Grammar books try to teach this stuff about indirect/direct object pronouns, but looking back on it, I think that beginners can't really "get it" from studying it in grammar contexts. To be able to use it takes more than understanding it mentally. It has to be absorbed and to be automatic to the ear and speaking brain.
This was a super important lesson explaining the super confusing myriad pronouns in Spanish, especially substituting 'se' for le/la to avoid awkward phrasing in Spanish. Man was that a frustrating thing for me to understand, which I didn't. until now. Even my Spanish tutor (native speaker) didn't/couldn't explain the differences in and usage of these indirect/direct pronouns sufficiently or succinctly enough for me to understand. You did it in a few minutes. Thank you!
Can you teach him spanish? ?Puedes tu ensenarlo espanol? Can he be taught spanish? ?se lo puede ensenar espanol? Can he be taught spanish by you? ?Se lo Puedes tu ensenar espanol?
@@123weedave ¿(Tú) Puedes enseñarle español (a él/person’s name)? What’s in parentheses can be omitted or left for emphasis. ¿Se le puede enseñar español (a él/person’s name)? ¿Se le puede enseñar español (a él/person’s name) contigo?
Awesome video man. I never had explained to me where “se” came from and this video made perfect sense. I understand this so much better now. Thank you 🙏
This video is super enlightening and helpful. I think what hurts a lot english speakers is of the first 7 verbs we are taught "gustar" and "encantar" are among them and They have an opposite effect with indirect object pronouns. Me encanta basically means "i love" which leads you to believe encantar means "love" but its more like "enchants"or "causes enchantment". Same thing with gustar. For instance "me encanta" means i love something else but "me quire" means something else loves me so the word order cant simply be replicated. Gustar along with tener, querer, and ir are like staple verbs and one reverses word order and the others is an irregular verb. The bottom line is you need enough exposure to identify and remember all these special case but fortunately for us english is a language of exceptions so we are used to remembering how to pronounce a word like "naive". Ill probably find out this has been covered in depth before
OMG thank you so much for this video. I've been taking Spanish class and this is the one subject I've been stuck on despite having my teacher explaining it a few times. Now it finally "clicked" and I can't wait to practice more using Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns!
Something about how you explain these concepts, common pitfalls, contrasted to similar concepts, jives better than any other teacher I’ve had. I have a vocabulary, but your videos are giving me the sentence skeletons I’ve had trouble piecing together. And I find your examples to be less contrived and more practical. Thanks!
You are the BEST! I’ve learned more in the last 8 videos I’ve watched today than I have in the 4 years I studied Spanish in high school. Blessings to you. You are absolutely amazing
It is difficult to find an English speaking native with such a thorough understanding of the Spanish language. These videos by Qroo Paul are a jewel for Spanish learners that are native English speakers as well. I am a native from Venezuela. I teach Spanish now, and I found these videos offer a perspective I am not fully capable of providing because English is not my mother tongue. Therefore, I highly recommend Mr. Paul's videos. This is the perfect complement for my lessons, pure gold I'd say. Thank you Mr. Qroo Paul for creating these videos.
This is such a difficult part of learning Spanish. This is by far the best explanation i've found on youtube, you really helped me understand a lot! Thanks and subbed.
¡Gracias por la presentación interesante! Soy un hablante nativo del chavacano (un criollo castellano de las Filipinas) y he estado tratando de mejorar mi castellano estándar. Tus videos me ayudan muchísimo. Ta gustá yo con el mana explicación de vo! Hindí pa este tema guló/confuso para yo. Mana saludo de las Filipinas. 😊
As a Spanish tutor, this is a great way to understand both language’s grammar towards the subject!! This is VERY helpful for me to make sure I can explain it better to my students!! ¡Gracias!
As important as everything in this video lesson is, I now understand the difference between "direct" and "indirect" pronouns. Before, all I could do was guess. (I still need to memorize them all though.)
Este vídeo es genial. Las explicaciones son muy, muy buenas 👏👏 One of the local intercambio group organisers, a native Spanish retired English language teacher's comment on this video. Thought you would like it.
I'm a native Spanish speaker (and English student), just visiting this channel by curiosity. I wanted to see how other people study our language. Who else?
Wow! I’m 55 and learning Spanish for the first time. Direct and indirect pronouns has had me stuck for weeks now, I looked at many sources to try and understand, but I only got more confused… then I came across this video. I still had to pause, rewind and re-clarify points as I went (I’m a slow learner), but the mental block in understanding how these work is definitely resolved. I just have to commit it to memory now. Thanks for your videos!
This was my first time watching one of your videos in Spanish about the indirect/direct object pronouns & it was actually VERY helpful. I have some many notes it's a lot lol. But at the end of the day, it was all worth it. I feel like I got a better understanding of how indirect/direct object pronouns work, even though I still need to continue to practice more. Thank you so much for this video, I needed this :)
¡Qué estupendo! Nos ha dado una lección esencial para hablar español con más fluidez y confianza. Yo vivo en España desde hace un año, originalmente soy de Australia. Hasta ahora no he podido entender este concepto con claridad. Muchas gracias por enseñarnos 🫡☺️
Omg!!! I have been searching for an easy-to-understand-non-confusing explanation to this exact topic! Thank you SO MUCH for this video and the Part 2! I finally understand indirect/direct object pronouns! You have a wonderful way of explaining the Spanish language from the perspective of an English native speaker TO English native speakers. So incredibly helpful! Thank you for all you do! 😃
Thanks for this video, Paul. I told my Spanish teacher recently that she'll be reading my obituary one day with cause of death listed as death by Spanish pronouns. Sadly no pat on the back, no victory lap and no afternoon off for me today. But I keep plugging away. Thanks for these lessons. They are very helpful
Hahaha, that's funny. This is not an easy aspect of Spanish for English-speakers. You'll get it. I have another video planned on the topic as a follow-up to this one.
In Spain " le " stands often for lo when talking about a singular male person. In plural it is not accepted in the standard, but it happens. Le and les are often used as direct object when talking " de usted / ustedes, and it is accepted in the standard.
Wow this is my daily Spanish lesson I go to voluntarily with enjoyment no joke. No heavy editing or unnecessary sound effects, just straight to the point. You are a godsend for those who are trying to learn Spanish from scratch on their own!!!
Going back to school and majoring in Spanish in the fall. I cannot thank you enough for these videos! They were an incredible help for my Spanish placement test. 🙏🙏
RUclips is really recommending great language channels with people who are great teachers. You should do a video with the multiple uses of "se/sé" that would be fun and informative. The accidental se, the reflexive se, the redundant le, etc. Me acabo de subscribir!
This was so excellent. I like how you challenge us with creating the sentences. Not too many other videos do this. Most videos just talk "at" us and don't really help us practice the syntax structures. Muchas gracias! Plus, getting an explanation from a native English speaker is such a bonus. Can you do a video about using "pero" "sino" "sino que" that makes sense. TIA 🙂
😊Hi Paul, I am a language teacher (I speak 5 languages). My mother language is Spanish and well, I just wanted to thank and congratulate you because your videos are another level. The way you explain, the examples you provide, the clarity and all the explanations are just exceptional. I use your videos with my students and they've been so useful and enriching for their learning processes. Thanks for taking the time to contributing this much. I'm really happy I found your resources. 😊
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I FINALLY understand! I've been trying to get a really good grasp on this concept for literal months. This is the first time I've truly understood it & after your explanation, I got all of the practice questions right. Thanks!
A new word I just learned is "ditransitive verb". I typed a little in the talk section about this in Wikipidedia. A ditransitive verb requires two objects. Thank-you for your great lesson. I gave you a like as always. We want to see Linda again but keep up your great work. This lesson hit the right spot!
To understand any language logic immaculately we need person who not just knows two languages, but understand the base rules of structure in any language and how they can vary sometimes. So basically person who is versatile in linguistics( syntax, phonetic, morphology, etc). Thank you for your video! I am not native English speaker, nor Spanish, but understand logic of both languages now even better)
Great, great, greattt video! Super informative and broken down really well! I’m learning European Spanish so I am missing the vosotros conjugation like os and vos, but it really helped me understand the concept. Appreciate it a lot!
I’m really so grateful for this and your other lessons. It’s always been where I got stuck and most of the time when I asked people, they would simply reply, “it’s just another language, don’t think of it like English. But I need to understand how and why words are used to create sentences so that I can begin to build my own. After watching 2 of your videos I am so much more hopeful that I will finally achieve some level of fluency. Thank you!!
Thank you for saving me from a lot of headache. I can’t seem to grasp this topic in Spanish but you made this easy. You surely blessed a lot of learners.
I must have watched 4 vids on this topic before and was just thinking i needed to watch another. And like magic I see one pop up from the best of them all. You are really good. Thank you.
Superb! I'm an Englishman in Mexico. This is invaluable. You're a terrific teacher. I particularly love the pace of the videos. Keeps me on my ageing toes. Thank you. 👍❤
Hello Paul, I was suffering for days to get all of this, and now eventually I understand it. . Excellent, clear explanation. What a great teacher you are!!!
These videos have been so useful to help fill in gaps in my understanding. I’m doing 1 on 1 tutoring with a native speaker, but I like coming to your channel to supplement my learning. Really great content! Thank you!
Your videos are extremely helpful!!! Your explanations and examples are so clear!!! My Spanish coach has sent me your videos a few times to further my practice and understanding of ceertain topics like this in which I struggle. Thank you so much for sharing your gift of teaching with us!!! I appreciate it so much
Thank you so much. This helped me a lot!! I was able to write down the formula of “to whom/for whom (first), who/what (direct, second) and action/verb as the structure of the sentence after watching your video and it made things so much easier. We often forget (I’m a polyglot who speaks 6 languages) that one rule for one language doesn’t always apply to the other. Muchas gracias por su ayuda.
Thanks Paul. I’ve been struggling with this for a very long time and for the first time I understand how to use them in Spanish. I suspect I’ll rewatch several times to imbed it in my day to day conversation.
Excellent video, packed with valuable explanations. In the last 5 minutes I got lost so this is one I will study. BTW videos with native Spanish speakers don’t explain the redundant le. Thanks dude!
Dude, I've been learning Spanish on and off for 15 years and this is some of the best instruction I have received. Thank you so much! Also, I would totally pay for a first responder specific Spanish course..just sayin'!
¡Si! ¡La comprendí (a 20:07)! Después un año de mis estudios en Español, por fin, ¡La comprendí! En el pasado, siempre adiviné 😅Gracias por ayudarme, ambos con esta lección, y también todos tus videos. Espero que pases bien contigo.
Paul, he estado estudiando español para siete años. (Aprendo lentamente, pienso!) Hoy es el primera vez que habia entiendi porque se usa ¨a¨ en frente de un persona pero no por un no-humano. Graciás.
12:47 here, in this sentence. “Le” i wouldn’t translate it as “to her”, le… is a word that for me, as an spanish speaker, would indicate me that the verb that follows is a verb that takes action in someone else (second person). And I will use this sentence as a example, instead of the verb “dar” (to give) I will use the verb “leer” (to read) ¿Le leíste el libro? ¿Leíste el libro? ¿ See the difference between the sentences ? Is harder to see the difference and importance of the word le, with the verb to give because is action that it means is done to someone else, but if you use another type of verb you start to see the importance… Leíste el libro? Did you read the book? Le leíste el libro? Did you read the book (to her/him) Les leíste el libro? Did you read the book to them? So “le” means that the verb action, that the subject is doing, is affecting someone else. So, someone who thinks in spanish, and hears the word le… inmideatelly is going to think that whatever verb follows is going to be a verb that is done by the subject but affects the second person. Instead when we hear “me” we think that the subject is going to affect the first person. Example, (juan) me llamó. Juan is the subject. Me, in the spanish brain we think oh… juan did something to the person speaking. Llamó is the verb conjugation of llamar (to call) (Juan) called me.
Taking an action in someone else is third person, not second. “Le” is a third person pronoun. And you said that you would not translate “le” as “to her” but you did this in one of your examples.
Thanks for this video and the Redundant Le video. My wife and I are learning through duolingo right now, along with following this channel, and this really helped to spell out and clarify this direct and indirect object pronouns for us both. We also picked up the Spanish Reference Grammar book through your link to help with more in depth clarification like this. Keep up the great videos and thanks again for all your help!
Hands down, best coverage of the topic I've ever seen. As a language teacher myself, I know the general rule is to "teach the target language IN the target language." But in this case the I believe it's better to explain this concept to English speakers in English, exactly as you did. Tpu have to setup question/response scenarios and map out the differences in word order for construction of pronoun substitutions. Really good distillation of a topic that can take YEARS to master by passive absorption. Thanks for the great lesson.
Thank you so much for this. This is helped so much of my confusion with direct and indirect objects. I asked about reflexives and then said the lo, les, and se and didn’t realize I had mixed those up until this video. I’m going to watch this many times.
Thanks, this format is perfect for me. I understand this well because it wasn't rushed and the practical examples were great. Just need to practise what I've learnt.
I was just in bilbao for two weeks, and the use of le instead of lo threw me for a while. I also told the locals to correct me when I used a phrase that they rarely used. I think learning the colloquial phrases is a must. I heard "yo que tu" multiple times before I figured out what they were saying.
I have been practicing Spanish for more or less a year and this is the best explanation i have found on this subject. Indirect object pronouns have been the source of so much confusion and frustration
Excellent presentation, -very clear, simple and precise. In terms of correctness, and precision your explanations of the changes in the small parts of speech ( like the inclusion of "a" and of the redundant "le" and "la", and as well as of the contraction, 'el' to "al", and 'le' and 'la' to "se" ] are very helpful.
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This video is a perfect example of why we, American English speakers learning Spanish, need an American in certain situations to teach us. Especially when it comes to intermediate to advanced grammar. A native Spanish speaker can never in a month of Sundays explain this difficulty even close to how clear you make it for us.
For the most part, I agree with your assertion. However, all my advanced grammar classes were instructed by a native-speaking linguistist from Spain but he was a linguist. So, he was atypical and highly talented and in eyes, he is exceptional.
Instructors who learned Spanish can often explain grammatical topics better because they had to learn that material, whereas native speakers absorbed the structures by high frequency exposure.
Having said all of that, the non-native speaker can be terrible because they ultimately do not understand structure to any significant level.
@@mathematix-rodcast Good points and summation.
It depends, I mean, I'm a native Spanish speaker and I think I myself usually do a pretty good job explaining this subject.
It depends more with the type of teachers you've had or the type of lessons/classes you've had experience with unfortunately.
It's the same both ways, I can tell you I struggled with some very bad or inexperienced native English teachers and usually it has nothing to do with the teacher being native or not, but with the experience with the subject and the ability to explain and efficiently pass down that information to the students.
I'm an English teacher and Spanish teacher btw.
@@FreddieHg37
Yeah, what you say is true. Nowadays, experience does not mean so much to me. I work with people who have had decades of experience in my field, and in so many cases, they are mediocre at best and often times terrible. When I had the professor I mentioned, he was brand new directly from having finished his Ph.D. He was nothing less than awesome.
Experience is like anything else. It can be either good experience or bad experience. One can be very experienced at being mediocre to bad or experienced at being above average to excellent.
Ultimately, it depends on one's depth of understanding and ability to convey the subject matter, regardless of one's nationality and native language.
@@mathematix-rodcast Well, in that case I don't believe it's fair to generalize like that about Spanish speaking teachers.
We all have different backgrounds and experiences and most of the time, in my own first hand experience with others and in my career, I've seen that experience and feedback does make a big difference and sometimes time and experiences can be the better teachers when in a professional field.
Hope you're doing great!
My god you have provided the clearest most digestible explanation of this. No other Spanish lessons channel does it like this. Very much needed and props.
Awesome! Glad to hear that. :)
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@@QrooSpanish a bit late but its crazy how much more engaging this guy is than my spanish teacher and i feel like i actually learned something
For about 8 months duolingo has been feeding me these sentences hoping I'd work out these rules by myself jajaja - thank you so much Paul; finally, I get it.
That's my biggest complaint with that app and courses that follow that teaching style. :)
@@QrooSpanish I'm a language teacher and generally think its great, but there are certain spots where self discovery is a little lacking. Anyway, you have helped my Spanish so much, so quickly - I really appreciate what you do for people - keep up the great work! So happy I've found your channel.
Totally same! 7 months of Duolingo and sooo happy that I found this channel!🤩
As a native Spanish speaker myself, for the first time; in my entire existence, I suddenly started thinking about why the heck we use “Se” in Spanish after reading the thumbnail.
Haha ;)
What a service you are providing to all us folks who grew up "learning" spanish in school. Really happy I stumbled upon your channel!
Thanks! Happy to help. Welcome to the channel. :)
I "learned" german in school for 5 years 😂
I never took it in school but this is better than learning in school I bet
Oh if only there was a pdf with this excellent video😢
¡Muchas gracias! Nos diste una leccion muy importante y facil de entender. Llevo seis meses estudiando Español con maestros y maestras diferentes en youtube. Ahora encontré a tu video la primera vez y lo escucho con placer grande. Creo que te voy a seguir.
¡Gracias de nuevo!❤
¡Saludos desde Israel!
Madre: ¿Qué aprendiste hoy en la escuela, Timmy?
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Just to append (I'm a native Spanish speaker). Mexicans particularly tend to use redundant pronouns. Example:
-"María me llamó. Pero, *yo* le dije *a ella* que no podía ir".
Translation: (Maria called me, but I told her that I couldn't come).
Here, *yo* and *a ella* are redundant, because the 1st singular person pronoun "yo" can be inferred (and therefore omitted):
"Yo le dije a ella" = "Le dije a ella".
Also, the part "a ella" can be omitted, because of the indirect object pronoun "le". Also, it's obvious that we are referring to "Maria", so we can perfectly say:
"Maria me llamó, pero le dije que no podía ir".
It is worth to mention that these redundancies are NOT grammatically incorrect, it's up to you whether using them or not, and in this sense Spanish is a lot flexible. You can either be redundant (it you like), or not.
This is so true, in Mexico we learn this and is totally correct
its definitely a understand but obviously you didn't have to put "ELLA" in the sentence . thanks i love it
They are not "redundant" they are "enphatic" forms.
I'm really appreciating your videos. I'm not certain, but I think I may be a unique case in the pursuit of fluency in Spanish.
I'm less than three weeks away from my 80th birthday and I took two years of classroom Spanish starting 66 years ago. Like most Americans, two years in a classroom did little to make Spanish a part of my life. But I didn't put it on a mental shelf gather ingredients dust. At least not permanently. I would come back to it periodically, reviewing my vocabulary and adding a few words to it. Then I began seeking written materials in Spanish and practicing reading them aloud. I've reached a point where I can read newspaper stories and get from 70% up to 90%+ of the article without looking up many words.
But I still wasn't able (or willing) to converse in Spanish. After all of these years, I rank my ability as a Spanish-speaking person at high end of "beginner" or barely reaching "intermediate." Your videos are in the process of changing that. I am reading more consistently. I am watching more TV and videos, trying to learn to understand better what I hear. Two days ago, I started a diary - in Spanish - to record my attempts to make Spanish a major part of my life. But in the four days since first watching your videos, my vocabulary has grown dramatically and my comfort with listening to Spanish has grown. It is many hours of practice away from being satisfactory, but I already feel a difference.
Oh, I also ordered the book that you recommended, and it is supposed to be delivered today.
You said in the first video I watched that fluency is not quickly attained - probably at least two years. I'm hoping that building on the foundation that has come from years of haphazard efforts I might be able to shorten that a bit.
I am similar, I find my comprehension of spoken and written Spanish has developed quite quickly with a daily lesson on duo lingo and from watching RUclips videos. But when it comes to speaking or writing I am back to complete beginner. I think the idea of writing a Spanish diary is really a good one. The practice of actually forming one’s own sentences is a big step. I think doing that for a while will help with speaking too. The good thing is there are translation apps so one can check. I think I will adopt your idea! In my mid seventies by the way…and I hope you had a happy 80th birthday!
Hands down, best teacher ever, of direct and indirect object pronoun in Spanish. Spanish speaking teachers could not deliver this concept even remotely close to the way it was explained and delivered. What a blessing!
I have been speaking Spanish for 30 years studied at 2 universities and I never had a better understanding than I have with your video. Thanks so much!
Wow, thank you!
Grammar books try to teach this stuff about indirect/direct object pronouns, but looking back on it, I think that beginners can't really "get it" from studying it in grammar contexts. To be able to use it takes more than understanding it mentally. It has to be absorbed and to be automatic to the ear and speaking brain.
Very clear explanation, thank you from a British A-level Spanish student. ¡Muchísimas Gracias!
This video helped me so much! I feel like this has been one of the major missing pieces in my Spanish, and I think I finally get it. Thanks so much!
That's great to hear!
This was a super important lesson explaining the super confusing myriad pronouns in Spanish, especially substituting 'se' for le/la to avoid awkward phrasing in Spanish. Man was that a frustrating thing for me to understand, which I didn't. until now. Even my Spanish tutor (native speaker) didn't/couldn't explain the differences in and usage of these indirect/direct pronouns sufficiently or succinctly enough for me to understand. You did it in a few minutes. Thank you!
I'm glad that you liked it. It was longer than I like them to be but I felt that the topic warranted the extra time.
Agreed, (estoy de acuerdo) and so happy I'll be able to revisit this one again and again until I "get" it. Gracias profesor.
Can you teach him spanish?
?Puedes tu ensenarlo espanol?
Can he be taught spanish?
?se lo puede ensenar espanol?
Can he be taught spanish by you?
?Se lo Puedes tu ensenar espanol?
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¿(Tú) Puedes enseñarle español (a él/person’s name)?
What’s in parentheses can be omitted or left for emphasis.
¿Se le puede enseñar español (a él/person’s name)?
¿Se le puede enseñar español (a él/person’s name) contigo?
Awesome video man. I never had explained to me where “se” came from and this video made perfect sense. I understand this so much better now. Thank you 🙏
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you. For those of us who are trying to learn Spanish through apps, this was GREAT!
This video is super enlightening and helpful. I think what hurts a lot english speakers is of the first 7 verbs we are taught "gustar" and "encantar" are among them and They have an opposite effect with indirect object pronouns. Me encanta basically means "i love" which leads you to believe encantar means "love" but its more like "enchants"or "causes enchantment". Same thing with gustar. For instance "me encanta" means i love something else but "me quire" means something else loves me so the word order cant simply be replicated. Gustar along with tener, querer, and ir are like staple verbs and one reverses word order and the others is an irregular verb. The bottom line is you need enough exposure to identify and remember all these special case but fortunately for us english is a language of exceptions so we are used to remembering how to pronounce a word like "naive". Ill probably find out this has been covered in depth before
I wish there was a practice page attached to this vid
OMG thank you so much for this video. I've been taking Spanish class and this is the one subject I've been stuck on despite having my teacher explaining it a few times. Now it finally "clicked" and I can't wait to practice more using Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns!
That's great! I'm glad it helped. :)
Wow, that was super useful. The personal 'a' and redundant 'le' explains a lot for me. Thanks!
Thanks. I'm glad you found it useful.
Something about how you explain these concepts, common pitfalls, contrasted to similar concepts, jives better than any other teacher I’ve had. I have a vocabulary, but your videos are giving me the sentence skeletons I’ve had trouble piecing together. And I find your examples to be less contrived and more practical. Thanks!
You are the BEST! I’ve learned more in the last 8 videos I’ve watched today than I have in the 4 years I studied Spanish in high school.
Blessings to you. You are absolutely amazing
It is difficult to find an English speaking native with such a thorough understanding of the Spanish language. These videos by Qroo Paul are a jewel for Spanish learners that are native English speakers as well. I am a native from Venezuela. I teach Spanish now, and I found these videos offer a perspective I am not fully capable of providing because English is not my mother tongue. Therefore, I highly recommend Mr. Paul's videos. This is the perfect complement for my lessons, pure gold I'd say. Thank you Mr. Qroo Paul for creating these videos.
This is such a difficult part of learning Spanish. This is by far the best explanation i've found on youtube, you really helped me understand a lot! Thanks and subbed.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Welcome to the channel.
Thank you so much Paul. These topics are incredibly helpful and articulated excellently. Cheers mate
I learned more in this video than in many many hours on an app. Clear explanations, good examples. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
¡Gracias por la presentación interesante! Soy un hablante nativo del chavacano (un criollo castellano de las Filipinas) y he estado tratando de mejorar mi castellano estándar. Tus videos me ayudan muchísimo.
Ta gustá yo con el mana explicación de vo! Hindí pa este tema guló/confuso para yo. Mana saludo de las Filipinas. 😊
As a Spanish tutor, this is a great way to understand both language’s grammar towards the subject!! This is VERY helpful for me to make sure I can explain it better to my students!! ¡Gracias!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
As important as everything in this video lesson is, I now understand the difference between "direct" and "indirect" pronouns. Before, all I could do was guess. (I still need to memorize them all though.)
Este vídeo es genial. Las explicaciones son muy, muy buenas 👏👏
One of the local intercambio group organisers, a native Spanish retired English language teacher's comment on this video.
Thought you would like it.
Thank you. :)
Now I fully understand the direct and indirect pronouns! Your explanations and examples were incredibly insightful. Thanks Paul! 💯
I'm a native Spanish speaker (and English student), just visiting this channel by curiosity. I wanted to see how other people study our language. Who else?
Thanks for stoppong by. :)
Wow! I’m 55 and learning Spanish for the first time. Direct and indirect pronouns has had me stuck for weeks now, I looked at many sources to try and understand, but I only got more confused… then I came across this video. I still had to pause, rewind and re-clarify points as I went (I’m a slow learner), but the mental block in understanding how these work is definitely resolved. I just have to commit it to memory now. Thanks for your videos!
This was my first time watching one of your videos in Spanish about the indirect/direct object pronouns & it was actually VERY helpful. I have some many notes it's a lot lol. But at the end of the day, it was all worth it. I feel like I got a better understanding of how indirect/direct object pronouns work, even though I still need to continue to practice more. Thank you so much for this video, I needed this :)
That's great to hear. Thanks for watching.
This is how I felt as well. I didn’t take notes but I feel like I need to study this video and so I can make notes
¡Qué estupendo! Nos ha dado una lección esencial para hablar español con más fluidez y confianza. Yo vivo en España desde hace un año, originalmente soy de Australia. Hasta ahora no he podido entender este concepto con claridad. Muchas gracias por enseñarnos 🫡☺️
Me alegra que te haya gustado la lección.
I really appreciate your video!! This is right on time because I have been trying to study direct/indirect object pronouns.
Thanks for this one ❣️ sí lo entendí but I always struggled to „produce“ them in my daily conversation 🤷🏻♀️
I can't even thank you enough. My goodness. You simplified this so much!
Omg!!! I have been searching for an easy-to-understand-non-confusing explanation to this exact topic! Thank you SO MUCH for this video and the Part 2! I finally understand indirect/direct object pronouns! You have a wonderful way of explaining the Spanish language from the perspective of an English native speaker TO English native speakers. So incredibly helpful! Thank you for all you do! 😃
I'm glad that these videos helped you. It can be a tough topic. :)
I could not thank you enough for explaining this topic. I’ve struggled with the differences between the DOP and IOP, but you explained it very well.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this video, Paul. I told my Spanish teacher recently that she'll be reading my obituary one day with cause of death listed as death by Spanish pronouns. Sadly no pat on the back, no victory lap and no afternoon off for me today. But I keep plugging away. Thanks for these lessons. They are very helpful
Hahaha, that's funny. This is not an easy aspect of Spanish for English-speakers. You'll get it. I have another video planned on the topic as a follow-up to this one.
In Spain " le " stands often for lo when talking about a singular male person. In plural it is not accepted in the standard, but it happens. Le and les are often used as direct object when talking " de usted / ustedes, and it is accepted in the standard.
Thanks for sharing that. :)
In some areas of Spain, not in Spain in general.
Wow this is my daily Spanish lesson I go to voluntarily with enjoyment no joke. No heavy editing or unnecessary sound effects, just straight to the point. You are a godsend for those who are trying to learn Spanish from scratch on their own!!!
Thanks!
I studied Spanish 13 years ago and watching videos like this makes me remember everything. Thanks!
That's great to hear!
Going back to school and majoring in Spanish in the fall. I cannot thank you enough for these videos! They were an incredible help for my Spanish placement test. 🙏🙏
Buena suerte Jacob! I'm majoring in Spanish as well.
That's great!
Majoring in Spanish starting this Fall as well!! 🎉
Beautifully done. You're a great teacher.
Thank you very much!
RUclips is really recommending great language channels with people who are great teachers. You should do a video with the multiple uses of "se/sé" that would be fun and informative. The accidental se, the reflexive se, the redundant le, etc.
Me acabo de subscribir!
Great topic suggestion! Thanks.
This was so excellent. I like how you challenge us with creating the sentences. Not too many other videos do this. Most videos just talk "at" us and don't really help us practice the syntax structures. Muchas gracias! Plus, getting an explanation from a native English speaker is such a bonus. Can you do a video about using "pero" "sino" "sino que" that makes sense. TIA 🙂
Grateful for the clarity of this explanation can. You might just help me to pass Spanish II fam. You definitely helped me pass my first exam today😂😭✊🏿
That's great! Congrats on passing today!
😊Hi Paul, I am a language teacher (I speak 5 languages). My mother language is Spanish and well, I just wanted to thank and congratulate you because your videos are another level. The way you explain, the examples you provide, the clarity and all the explanations are just exceptional. I use your videos with my students and they've been so useful and enriching for their learning processes. Thanks for taking the time to contributing this much. I'm really happy I found your resources. 😊
Thank you!
I feel like this guy knows more Spanish than I do (being a native speaker). Congratulations!
That's a very nice compliment. Thank you.
one of the best video. Muchas gracias🙂
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I FINALLY understand! I've been trying to get a really good grasp on this concept for literal months. This is the first time I've truly understood it & after your explanation, I got all of the practice questions right. Thanks!
Awesome! I'm glad you found it useful. This video is a follow-up to that one: ruclips.net/video/WcsP3zHr6y0/видео.html
Gracias! Finally, an explanation of SE within the context of sentence construction that my little mind understands! Very clear. Thanks again.
A new word I just learned is "ditransitive verb". I typed a little in the talk section about this in Wikipidedia. A ditransitive verb requires two objects.
Thank-you for your great lesson. I gave you a like as always. We want to see Linda again but keep up your great work. This lesson hit the right spot!
I've never heard the term ditransitive verb before. I learned something new. :)
Finally some who explains this so that its easier to understand! 🙌🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
To understand any language logic immaculately we need person who not just knows two languages, but understand the base rules of structure in any language and how they can vary sometimes. So basically person who is versatile in linguistics( syntax, phonetic, morphology, etc).
Thank you for your video! I am not native English speaker, nor Spanish, but understand logic of both languages now even better)
Great, great, greattt video! Super informative and broken down really well! I’m learning European Spanish so I am missing the vosotros conjugation like os and vos, but it really helped me understand the concept. Appreciate it a lot!
I’m really so grateful for this and your other lessons. It’s always been where I got stuck and most of the time when I asked people, they would simply reply, “it’s just another language, don’t think of it like English. But I need to understand how and why words are used to create sentences so that I can begin to build my own. After watching 2 of your videos I am so much more hopeful that I will finally achieve some level of fluency. Thank you!!
Thank you for saving me from a lot of headache. I can’t seem to grasp this topic in Spanish but you made this easy. You surely blessed a lot of learners.
I'm glad you found it helpful. :)
Las dejaste en la cocina.
¡Muchísimas gracias! Me aclaraste las dudas.❤
Well explained. I know this can be very confusing for many Spanish learners, but you did a great job tackling the subject.
Glad it was helpful!
i would sure recommend your channel to my friends. it was precisely explained. gracias!
Thank you. :)
I've watched a lot of videos and looked at a lot of sites. You've explained this so clearly! Thank you
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
Oh man,this is the missing link in casual conversation ive been looking for,thank you Paul!
Awesome! That's great to hear.
I must have watched 4 vids on this topic before and was just thinking i needed to watch another. And like magic I see one pop up from the best of them all. You are really good. Thank you.
Awesome! Happy to help.
Superb! I'm an Englishman in Mexico. This is invaluable. You're a terrific teacher. I particularly love the pace of the videos. Keeps me on my ageing toes. Thank you. 👍❤
Thank you! 😃
Hello Paul, I was suffering for days to get all of this, and now eventually I understand it. . Excellent, clear explanation. What a great teacher you are!!!
This dude is a great teacher man. Love the breakdown. Lo and Le still trips me up, but I’m confident I’ll get it down soon
Fantastic thank you. I've been living in Peru for years and never understood this until you explained it.
Glad you liked it!
THANK you! Good lord that has been confounding me for a while. Fantastic explanation.
Glad to hear it!
What a lesson! So clear. Explanations very relevant, comprehensive and just as clear. 22:44
These videos have been so useful to help fill in gaps in my understanding. I’m doing 1 on 1 tutoring with a native speaker, but I like coming to your channel to supplement my learning. Really great content! Thank you!
That's great to hear -- and thank you very much for the donation. :)
That was really helpful - thank you! And thank you for not having any distracting background music!!
I hate background music in videos...lol.
Your videos are extremely helpful!!! Your explanations and examples are so clear!!! My Spanish coach has sent me your videos a few times to further my practice and understanding of ceertain topics like this in which I struggle. Thank you so much for sharing your gift of teaching with us!!! I appreciate it so much
Thank you so much. This helped me a lot!! I was able to write down the formula of “to whom/for whom (first), who/what (direct, second) and action/verb as the structure of the sentence after watching your video and it made things so much easier. We often forget (I’m a polyglot who speaks 6 languages) that one rule for one language doesn’t always apply to the other. Muchas gracias por su ayuda.
Thanks Paul. I’ve been struggling with this for a very long time and for the first time I understand how to use them in Spanish. I suspect I’ll rewatch several times to imbed it in my day to day conversation.
Nice to see making new videos again Qroo Paul. Thank you for this ❤
You're welcome. Thansk for continuing to follow the channel. :)
Excellent video, packed with valuable explanations. In the last 5 minutes I got lost so this is one I will study. BTW videos with native Spanish speakers don’t explain the redundant le. Thanks dude!
That was SUPER helpful thanks..I’ll review it again, but now it’s more solidified rather than “guessing”. Lol. Thanks again!!
Very well explained. I never got using 'se" when something was not refexive
Dude, I've been learning Spanish on and off for 15 years and this is some of the best instruction I have received. Thank you so much! Also, I would totally pay for a first responder specific Spanish course..just sayin'!
¡Si! ¡La comprendí (a 20:07)! Después un año de mis estudios en Español, por fin, ¡La comprendí! En el pasado, siempre adiviné 😅Gracias por ayudarme, ambos con esta lección, y también todos tus videos. Espero que pases bien contigo.
Disculpe, pero no debería de haber ningún «me» en «me la comprendí».
Creo que es "lo comprendí" no "la comprendí
Paul, he estado estudiando español para siete años. (Aprendo lentamente, pienso!) Hoy es el primera vez que habia entiendi porque se usa ¨a¨ en frente de un persona pero no por un no-humano. Graciás.
12:47 here, in this sentence.
“Le” i wouldn’t translate it as “to her”, le… is a word that for me, as an spanish speaker, would indicate me that the verb that follows is a verb that takes action in someone else (second person).
And I will use this sentence as a example, instead of the verb “dar” (to give) I will use the verb “leer” (to read)
¿Le leíste el libro? ¿Leíste el libro?
¿ See the difference between the sentences ?
Is harder to see the difference and importance of the word le, with the verb to give because is action that it means is done to someone else, but if you use another type of verb you start to see the importance…
Leíste el libro?
Did you read the book?
Le leíste el libro?
Did you read the book (to her/him)
Les leíste el libro?
Did you read the book to them?
So “le” means that the verb action, that the subject is doing, is affecting someone else.
So, someone who thinks in spanish, and hears the word le… inmideatelly is going to think that whatever verb follows is going to be a verb that is done by the subject but affects the second person.
Instead when we hear “me” we think that the subject is going to affect the first person.
Example, (juan) me llamó.
Juan is the subject.
Me, in the spanish brain we think oh… juan did something to the person speaking.
Llamó is the verb conjugation of llamar (to call)
(Juan) called me.
Taking an action in someone else is third person, not second. “Le” is a third person pronoun. And you said that you would not translate “le” as “to her” but you did this in one of your examples.
Thanks for this video and the Redundant Le video. My wife and I are learning through duolingo right now, along with following this channel, and this really helped to spell out and clarify this direct and indirect object pronouns for us both. We also picked up the Spanish Reference Grammar book through your link to help with more in depth clarification like this. Keep up the great videos and thanks again for all your help!
So lucky to visit your channel.
Love your technique.
Thanks for your teaching 🙏
Thanks for watching and for the positive feedback. I appreciate it.
The explanation and teaching skills in this video are masterful
Hands down, best coverage of the topic I've ever seen. As a language teacher myself, I know the general rule is to "teach the target language IN the target language." But in this case the I believe it's better to explain this concept to English speakers in English, exactly as you did. Tpu have to setup question/response scenarios and map out the differences in word order for construction of pronoun substitutions.
Really good distillation of a topic that can take YEARS to master by passive absorption. Thanks for the great lesson.
Thank you very much!
I was struggling with this in Duolingo's second chapter. Now, I think I'll ace them. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for this. This is helped so much of my confusion with direct and indirect objects. I asked about reflexives and then said the lo, les, and se and didn’t realize I had mixed those up until this video. I’m going to watch this many times.
Awesome! I'm glad you found it useful. :)
This is the best explanation on this matter I have seen so far! Thank you!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much!!! You explained them comprehensively!
Thanks, this format is perfect for me. I understand this well because it wasn't rushed and the practical examples were great. Just need to practise what I've learnt.
I finally understood Spanish!!!!!,thanks alot for this helpful video
I was just in bilbao for two weeks, and the use of le instead of lo threw me for a while. I also told the locals to correct me when I used a phrase that they rarely used. I think learning the colloquial phrases is a must. I heard "yo que tu" multiple times before I figured out what they were saying.
What does it mean, yo que tu ?
@@genevievedolan1288"If I were you"
I have been practicing Spanish for more or less a year and this is the best explanation i have found on this subject. Indirect object pronouns have been the source of so much confusion and frustration
Glad you enjoyed it. It's a tough topic.
Oh man, this was so helpful! Just found you yesterday and love how you approach each topic.
Excellent presentation, -very clear, simple and precise. In terms of correctness, and precision your explanations of the changes in the small parts of speech ( like the inclusion of "a" and of the redundant "le" and "la", and as well as of the contraction, 'el' to "al", and 'le' and 'la' to "se" ] are very helpful.
Great video, quite quick in delivery but I'll watch over and over. Explanation is spot on thank you 👍
Thanks. I do tend to cover information pretty quickly. It's a bad habit I have.