Making Informal and Formal Commands in Spanish

[Cheezyburgurz]

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[cswfeb]

I have my final exam coming up, thanks for the review! Loved it!

[UnderwaterMoment]

Great video! Thanks so much!

[rhy0lite]

Thanks for the very helpful lesson. Can you explain a little more about vamonos versus

vayamonos? I have read both that vamonos is grammatically correct (as you

show in your lesson) and that vamonos is a colloquial form of vayamonos,

which follows the subjunctive tense rule. Vayamos would be the command

form of Ir and vayamonos would be the command form of Irse. Did grammar

and common usage diverge? Thanks for any clarification and for the very helpful videos!

[nicolemar196]

for cierre la ventana would it be cierrela if you were using pronouns?

[VanessaDelgado225]

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[languagenow]

@VanessaDelgado225 Muchas gracias a TI, Vanessa :) Glad I could help!

[nori452]

This is fantastic! I think you're going to help me get through class this semester! Thank you so much!

[Warreh]

You are so much more helpful than my actual Spanish teacher. The whiteboard technique is amazingly helpful! What a great review for my test :)

[houstonshuler]

this is so much clearer than my teacher

[MeggonomiX]

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[baked4211]

how do you make ser into a formal command?

[oteparmyfan]

I was wondering about irregular tu commands with ser, estar saber ...etc would I use sea, este, and sepa?

[idomyreportsincrayon]

Thank you! This was incredibly helpful :)

[Chelsea1788]

Muchas gracias profesor Jason

[golferonfire94]

Tengo un examen final en mi clase de espanol cuatro manana yo olvide todas mis notas en mi escuela. Porque de esto video, puedo estudiar para los mandatos. MUCHAS GRACIAS!

[africankingmh]

why do you make it look so easy?

[nataliedaniel1]

Do you have a lesson on the irregular informal commands, like poner, venir.....??

[TheAclark109]

i just realized this...the nosotros command for IR comes from in the present tense and not subjunctive? really weird but why not vayámonos??? is it technically because IR has an irregular present tense?

[gibbons72]

I learned more in 18 minutes than an entire week of AP level spanish class. Gracias!

[mrya001]

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[traptrocks1]

You're a really good instructor! Thank you Professor Jason, I used this video to help me study for my Spanish test tomorrow. Also, the white board technique is fabulous.

[rasil]

Absolutely great. The white board was helpful. You are an excellent profesor.

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[Laweezy18]

Excellent presentation! The white board technique is good, keep with it.

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[gnizzle09]

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[goldenddeath]

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[samkittappa1]

I find this lesson simplified and more easy to follow. Method of teaching very interesting and many thanks to prof.Jason.

[McLuvin411]

Los mandatos informales y formales...interesantes.

[olivegoddess1]

Ay que bueno! Usted es muy amable y claro!

[factsoutofbirds]

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[MrZomgzombies]

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[MrZdubb33]

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[USCSoundCheck]

--- NOTE that the final -s is dropped before adding nos.

A. No nos preocupemos por eso. VámoNOS ya.

Hope that helps people who were looking for nosotros command rules. Professor Jason, your students are truly lucky to have you.

[USCSoundCheck]

2. Use the nosotros form of the present subjunctive for nosotros commands. The verb ir has an irregular affirmative form: vamos. A. No VAYAMOS al lago hoy; que está lloviznando. VAMOS al cine.

3. Object or reflexive pronouns are attached to the end of a verb in affirmative commands or go between "no" and the verb in negative commands. A. ----- ¿Hacemos la fiesta esta semana? ¿Invitamos a los vecinos? ---- Sí, hagámosLA el viernes. No, no LOS invitemos esta vez.

[USCSoundCheck]

Nice video Professor Jason. Here are the rules for "Nosostros Commands" for people who would like a hard copy.

1. You've used vamos a + infinitive to say what a group of people is going to do. To suggest that a group of people do or not do something (Let's [not] ...) use nosotros commands. A. NO HABLEMOS con el director; HABLEMOS con Sergio mejor.

[hugstablebear]

I read somewhere a long time ago that 'usted' comes from 'vuestra merced' = 'your honor' (although it sounds more like 'your mercy' to me - maybe that's what they mean by 'throwing yourself on the mercy of the court' :), and so the abbreviation for 'usted' is 'Vd'. I noticed that Prof. Jason wrote 'Ud'. Are these two abbreviations considered equivalent or is one considered more formal or proper than the other?

vuestra merced --> vuesarced --> vusarced --> vusted; still used by some old folks.

[hugstablebear]

I don't think you need quite so tight a shot. You could pull back a bit so that you can get more words on the screen. If your whiteboard is a hand held one, you could turn it sideways. If your camera has a remote pause button, that could save you time and dirty hands from erasing as you would have time to use the eraser and then continue, when you're ready without rushing to rub out.

[torque7793]

VERY useful, I've been sleeping plenty and have been missing the little rules.. this summed up hours of lesson and activities from my teacher in just minutes. Thank you so much, and YES THE WHITEBOARD TECHNIQUE WORKS

[sueali100]

Thank you Prof. Jason for explaining these lessons so clearly and using the whiteboard which is a great help. I will be going to live over in Spain soon so I need all the help I can get!

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[MrUpto11]

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[damndamnd]

why is it dímelo

instead of dícemelo

[saleemjangda]

White board technique es la buena materia, man... Way more helpful than my Spanish teacher. Thanks

[kikenman]

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[anidifranco100]

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[azn921]

White board technique is the best....you can make great changes easy; you don't need to use the powerpoints..they complicate everthign

[jfjcruz]

Very clear, effective presentation. I like the whiteboard, but you might want to angle a light from the side in addition to back lighting to eliminate the shadow. Thanks so much!

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[eonblue46]

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[leethebug]

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[ThePraisesisters]

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[kkatiegirl11]

thats not correct. if you are using an ar verb like hablar in the present tense, you put it in the tu for which is hablas. then you take the s off and now it is habla! speak. if you are to say dont speak with hablar. you put it in the tu form again, hablas, but for negative commands you use the opposite tu ending. so it would be no hables. so ar verbs for positive commands is a, er and ir are e after being finalized. negative commands-hablar, no hables, correr-no corras.

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[trillionairette]

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[missmorganjane]

Thanks for posting!! This is an awesome, easy refresher for when ever I forget how to form commands :)

[MandHvideos]

Very helpful. Thank you:D

[strechyoma]

Sí, sirve bien la pizarra. no hay mejor manera a menos de hacerse actor meintras repetir pero en youtube por supuesto que la pizarra.

[TheJezza2]

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[languagenow]

Very nice of you to say! Muchas gracias!

[grammi24]

Love the way you teach and the "white board"is great .

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[trillionairette]

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[stlflash]

more light, but great

[siryousaf]

white board technique was good, more light effect will make it excellent... your way of teaching is excellent....

[insane931]

you use really technical terms im sure your a good teach but dam, subjunctive congegating, dang im dumb thats why im lerning spanish on you tube

[vogel03]

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[languagenow]

wow, muchas gracias, emma!!

[dohardthinger]

I like the whiteboard technique! Thanks for helping clear up my muddle about commands.

[DanX2007]

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[busterflywheel]

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[plutopush]

Professor Jason, you are awesome!! Thanks so much for your help. I love the white board

[timothylamm]

i am in spanish 4 and we are working with commands and we only have half a block with the teacher so i feel like i'm not getting everything i need to know but this video helped a LOT. i like the whiteboard technique.

[seiferzion]

Hola otra vez, I'm a fan of the whiteboard. I also enjoyed your sense of humour in this one. What I find confusing a little bit is when the technical term is thrown in for the verb tense during the explanations. For me, I like to remember verb tenses for their purpose instead of their technical name (i.e. "commands" instead of the imperative).

You make my life overseas a little easier!

[callista83]

Great now I know how to command my children in Spanish too LOL.

[goody2shoesjog]

Best Spanish teacher on the Net. Muchas Gracias!

Good use of the white board but angles could

be improved so there are no shadows.

[Jicaho]

Great lessons! I like the white board though the lighting could be better (watch where the shadow from your hand falls)! Gracias!

[MaraudersProdigy]

The white board is great. :)

This lesson came at a great time. We just covered this in my class, but after watching the video, I understand it 10x better. Thanks!

[Pfsif]

Like the whiteboard!

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

i think the only exception to the rule that vosotros is only used in spain is Argentina. My friends from Argentina have a very different dialect, and they use vos/vosotros. but they say "vos" in place of "tú". It's really strange. haha

[languagenow]

Long time no read, amigo. In Argentina they do use the vos pronoun and verb conjugations (and the second person familiar commands are different because of it) but I'd be very surprised if you hear vosostros... by the way vós commads: hablá, comé, escribí

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

oh, you're right. i don't think i've ever heard my friends saying 'vosotros', but i do hear vos a lot, like, "y vos, cómo andas?" stuff like that.

And to anybody on this discussion board reading this. if you want to really become fluent in spanish (i'm not there yet), make a native spanish-speaking friend. I met someone on youtube and we practice spanish and english (he's learning) over msn and skype and stuff.

[oldakustikblues]

i recommend to hear the news first. They use the language correctly and understandable. I recommed mexican spanish first, the accent is slower than other country's spanish.

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

Yes, i agree that mexican spanish is a good starting point. I met my friend from argentina by chance on youtube tho, so i figured i might as well get used to his dialect. And while i agree that the news is very good for finding good grammar and such, they speak very very quickly (most of the time), and sometimes it's hard to follow (even if you know the words and the vocabulary, they just speak so fast).

[ikamoj]

Excellent! I really like the whiteboard -- it's so much easier to read and keep up with than the yellow captioning. Great review, easy to follow. Thanks for making these!

[cosmetica529]

I also wanted to add that I love the white board technique. The audio paired with the visual is my fav way of learning - super effective.

[cosmetica529]

So clearly explained and helpful! Your students are very lucky :)

[languagenow]

Muchas gracias, cosmética, A+ para ti!

[parkerhentzparker]

thanks mate!

[DorisErikssonisCRAZY]

i like the white board technique very much!

[fabulous7]

It's excellent how you reviewed the difference between "you" in Spain and Latin America--very nice. Thanks.