Steve's Spanish Lessons #1 : reflexive verbs

[tlalocc]

This is fun. But at how would have liked they call you, my brain explodes. Prefer Chinese verb conjugations (none!)... haha.

[qkcxv]

woo! I've just enrolled on a beginners Spanish course. This should complement nicely. Thankyou Sir.

[Plomomedia]

@qkcxv cool, let me know which subjects give you difficulty and maybe i can supplement the lessons with one of my own.

[qkcxv]

@Plomomedia Hola, bueno dias Steve. Que tal?

So far I think that the tricky part is the split of male/female nouns and the effect this has on the construction of a sentence. Its only been 3 lessons though.

How long have you been learning?

[derstrudel2]

I quite enjoyed this, but I found the music to be a bit too loud.

[Plomomedia]

@derstrudel2 the audio will be better mixed in future productions, as I've purchased a more professional audio recorder for the voice.

[mjloca]

very good! but... (somebody had to say it) next time remember the "acentos" ;-)

[Plomomedia]

@mjloca cuales acentos me faltaron? ah el acento en "gustaria"? para ese entonces la leccion ya se acababa jajaja

[mjloca]

@Plomomedia yep, "gustaría", that's the one :) Have you ever heard this answer:

-¿Cómo te llamas?

-No me suelo llamar.

[Plomomedia]

@mjloca es un chiste?

[mjloca]

@Plomomedia si te lo tengo que confirmar es que el chiste es muy malo.

Nunca he oído preguntar "¿cuál es tu nombre?", pero sí que algunas personas mayores preguntan "¿cómo te llaman?" en vez de "llamas". (De ahí el chiste: "no me llamo, pero me llaman X".)

[Plomomedia]

@mjloca es que de verdad cuando alguien quiere saber el nombre de otro, jamas en vida he escuchado "cual es tu nombre" a menos que fuera para un forumlario oficial o algo asi. que opinas ?

[sixfi]

oh! great

i'm spanish, you are doing it right

two thumbs up!

[eldafide]

"How would you like to call yourself" should be "cómo te gustaría llamarTE". Great lesson!

[Plomomedia]

@eldafide you're right!  i added an annotation but i should have known better!

[alexrod830515]

Excelente trabajo, sigue asi.

[elanaisonfiire]

i dropped out of spanish class, and i'm forgetting a lot of what i learned last year.. so this is great timing :)

[NinaQueenofSpades]

I was always one of the few non-native speakers in my class to grasp the concept of reflexive verbs.

[GrahamJenson]

A great video. Your production quality, editing and educational value make your videos some of my favourite.

[teknotoast]

Mas!  Mas!

[Zonkin]

Good stuff guy!

Keep it up!

You might have started a little advanced for someone like me, who lives in a country were there's not much of a spanish influence. But it's probably perfect for USians.

[RankAndFileGuy]

Reflective verbs are tricky for the speakers of English, at least that's my impression.