Latest / Spanish for Beginners with Marco / #20 - 🏡 What’s Your City Like? Learn to Answer en Español
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is speaking Spanish for beginners quital swim. Marco, you're
- 0:09Speaker 1: Latino Spanish teacher. If I ask you what is your
- 0:12Speaker 1: city like? Would you know how to answer an espanel.
- 0:16Speaker 1: In today's episode, you learn how to describe a city
- 0:19Speaker 1: in simple Spanish. You'll pick up basic words for places
- 0:23Speaker 1: and discover how to use the verse said start and Avid,
- 0:27Speaker 1: we're talking about them. Are you ready for this? Yes, Mama.
- 0:35Speaker 1: First let's listen to a short dialogue. A friend of
- 0:38Speaker 1: mine wants to visit San Pedro data Kama, a town
- 0:41Speaker 1: in the north of Chile. I've been to before. She
- 0:44Speaker 1: asked me what is it like and what she can
- 0:47Speaker 1: find there? Big close attention to the words I used
- 0:50Speaker 1: to describe the place and the things it has and
- 0:53Speaker 1: it doesn't have here. We go.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Ola, Marco Elbro, Simoz, Pedro, the Atacama, some.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Pedro, Takama, Quiva, can Is Lugarota and North Chile and
- 1:11Speaker 1: Decerto Takama suen sante k I I t I kaye
- 1:20Speaker 1: pequnas retrantees de comida local, I Mucho's lugar, touristicos cer
- 1:26Speaker 1: cal pueblo, vien see pedro, no I playa some Pedro
- 1:33Speaker 1: takamata and decertoo no i mucha awa. Okay, let's break
- 1:44Speaker 1: it down.
- 1:45Speaker 2: First.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Listen, lize how it describes some pedro. I said, is
- 1:50Speaker 1: lugar moo lugar bonito, lugar please bonito beautiful, so beat
- 2:00Speaker 1: for a place on lugar bonito. Notice I use the
- 2:04Speaker 1: verb is a a area which is to be san
- 2:09Speaker 1: pedro is lugar And why, sir, because we serve for
- 2:15Speaker 1: permanent characteristics of a place. Let's continue. Then we talk
- 2:20Speaker 1: about its location. I said, in a northa in the north.
- 2:28Speaker 1: It's in the north of tile here. I use a
- 2:32Speaker 1: start to be again to be yes, but a start
- 2:38Speaker 1: said the area is the verb to be, but for location,
- 2:43Speaker 1: in a northe the north, that's the location. That's why
- 2:48Speaker 1: I use a start, so sir, to describe a place
- 2:52Speaker 1: and a start for location. And finally, the things you
- 2:56Speaker 1: can find there? Did you catch them all? I tendasa
- 3:02Speaker 1: craft shops, eye gays, pecunias, small streets, eye restaurantes, the
- 3:09Speaker 1: comita local local food restaurants, I muchos lokasturisticos, touristic places.
- 3:17Speaker 1: They ve here is a there at a bay a
- 3:21Speaker 1: eri ab in its form I at aga, I I
- 3:29Speaker 1: miss there is and there are. And here is the
- 3:32Speaker 1: good news. Singular or plural is always I. I on restaurante.
- 3:38Speaker 1: There is a restaurant. I mochose restaurantes. There are many restaurants.
- 3:44Speaker 1: You see. I didn't change nice and simple, and this
- 3:49Speaker 1: says Spanish is difficult. Come on, smooy facil. I also
- 3:53Speaker 1: mentioned the things you won't find in some pedro. No
- 3:56Speaker 1: I playa there is no beat, no imcha awa. There
- 4:03Speaker 1: isn't much water here. What is important to notice is
- 4:07Speaker 1: that the word no goes before the verb. I said
- 4:12Speaker 1: no I plaia, not I know plaia. I know plaia.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Sounds like a greeno who hasn't studied Spanish since high school.
- 4:23Speaker 1: So the fix is very simple. Put no before the verb,
- 4:29Speaker 1: say no I plaia and not I know plaia. Anow
- 4:34Speaker 1: that you know the vocabulary. Let's listen to the dialogue again.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Here we go.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Ola marco el Broxy, Momez, pedro attakama some.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Pedro atta gamma, quiva can lar and north and deo takama.
- 4:58Speaker 2: Ki i.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Kaye pekenyas aretrantees de comida locale i muchos logardes touristikos
- 5:09Speaker 1: sir cal pueblo vien see pedro no I plaia sam
- 5:16Speaker 1: pedro da takama eta l decertoeso no I mucha awa
- 5:26Speaker 1: better this time. If you still want extra help, chake
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- 5:43Speaker 1: to practice. That's why this is called speaking Spanish for beginners.
- 5:47Speaker 1: You have to speak to practice and learn. I'll ask
- 5:49Speaker 1: you what is your city like Espanol and when you
- 5:52Speaker 1: hear this sound, you have to reply with your own information.
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