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Hola and welcome to Pro Spanish. We're going to get started straight away so that you can see
just how easily you can learn Spanish this year. For more advanced subscribers you can go forward
to the time frame that comes up on the screen now or you can stay with us for some extra practice.
Okay first up we've got to be more patient. So to be more patient or to be is ser. So to be
or not to be. Ser or no ser. And to be more patient ser más paciente. Paciente, patient.
That c pronounced like a th. Ser más paciente. And if you're completely new to Pro Spanish
you need to remember not to try to memorize this. Just follow the flow of the lesson
and you'll retain it. Okay so ser más paciente to be more patient. And then we have to be more
punctual. Ser más puntual. No c in there. It's not puntual. It's puntual. So ser más puntual
to be more punctual. What would it be if you wanted to say simply to be punctual? Ser puntual.
And next we have to be here. So so far we've had three to be's. Ser más paciente. Ser más puntual.
And now to be is not ser but estar. So we have two words for to be. Ser and estar. And we're
to go into all the intricacies of the differences between ser and estar. I think they're much better
learned on a case-by-case basis. So the case here is that ser is used above to describe
characteristics. The characteristic of someone being patient, being punctual. And here we have
to be saying where something is or where somebody is. So all you need for this is ser
for characteristics and estar for location. So estar aquí to be here. And finally we have
to be able to rest. Now this is a really great one to learn because you're getting two verbs
for the price of one mini phrase. So poder is to be able. Poder. To be able. To be able to rest.
Poder descansar. Poder descansar. And incidentally poder also means power. So having the power to do
something. To be able to do something. So poder and also to be able to. So poder descansar. To
be able to rest. So using that poder to be able, how would you say to be able to be here? The three
words to be able to be here. What would that be? Poder estar aquí. So I'd love to be able to be
here. Poder estar aquí. To be able to be here. Okay. Add to our first column how we can start off
these sentences. I'm going to. So referring to the future. Voy a. Voy a. And the one underneath it.
I would like. So voy a. I'm going to. And me gustaría. I would like or I'd like. And again
remember don't try to memorize. So using the two columns that we've got so far. The voy a
and me gustaría. And then the second column. How would you say I'd like to be more punctual? What
would that be? Me gustaría ser más puntual. Me gustaría ser más puntual. And how about I'm
going to be able to rest. What would that be? Voy a poder descansar. Voy a poder descansar.
I'm going to be able to rest. And the next two are to do with you. So the first two are I. I'm
going to and I would like. And the second two you should. Deberías. And you have to. Tienes que.
So you should. Deberías. How would you say you should be here? What would that be? Using
you should and one from the second column. You should be here. What would that be? Deberías
estar aquí. Deberías estar aquí. You should be here. And you have is tienes. And if you want to say
you have to it's tienes que. Tienes que. You have to. You must. How would you say you have to be
more patient? What would that be? Tienes que ser más paciente. Tienes que ser más paciente.
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column. These are fairly straightforward. In the future. En el futuro. In the future. En el futuro.
Someday. Algún is the some and día, day. So nice and easy. Algún día. Some day. This year. Este
año. Este año. This year. How would you say I'd like to be more punctual this year? What would that
be? Me gustaría ser más puntual este año. And how about the final one? With them. Con ellos. With
them. Con ellos. Just looking at the middle column and this one, how would you say to be here with
them? What would that be? Estar aquí con ellos. Estar aquí con ellos. To be here with them. Okay so
let's put all this together now. Have a listen and see if you can work out what's being said.
So follow across the table. Voy a poder descansar este año. Voy a poder descansar este año. I'm going
to be able to rest this year. I'm going to be able to rest this year. And what does this mean?
Deberías estar aquí con ellos. Deberías estar aquí con ellos. You should be here with them. How about
Me gustaría ser más puntual algún día. Me gustaría ser más puntual algún día. What would that be?
I'd like to be more punctual someday. Okay let's flip it around now and you do the speaking.
How would you say you should be here this year? What would that be? You should be here this year.
Deberías estar aquí este año. Deberías estar aquí este año. And of course the flexibility
of this approach is we can slot in lots of new language. So instead of estar aquí, to be here,
it could be estar en Valencia, to be in Valencia. Estar en Sevilla, to be in Seville. How would you
say I'd like to be more patient with them? What would that be? Me gustaría ser más paciente con
ellos. Me gustaría ser más paciente con ellos. And now that we know that ser is used with
characteristics, we could use more characteristic adjectives. So instead of paciente, it could be
generoso. Generoso. Generous. Me gustaría ser más generoso con ellos. I'd like to be more generous
with them. How would you say you have to be able to rest someday? What would that be? Tienes que poder
descansar algún día. Tienes que poder descansar algún día. And again, as you learn more verbs,
you can just slot them into these structures. So let's say quedar. Quedar is to meet up. Quedar,
to meet up. So we could say you should be able to meet up. Let's say with them. You should be able
to meet up with them. What would that be? Deberías poder quedar con ellos. So quedar con ellos,
to meet up with them. Deberías poder quedar con ellos. You should be able to meet up with them.
And how would you say I'd like to be able to meet up with them someday? Okay, so that's putting
quite a lot together. How would you say that? I'd like to be able to meet up with them someday.
Me gustaría poder quedar con ellos algún día. Me gustaría poder quedar con ellos algún día.
So quite a long one. How would you say I'd like to be more patient in the future?
Say I'm going to be. Let's be assertive about this. I'm going to be more patient in the future
or in future, we might say. Voy a ser más paciente en el futuro. Voy a ser más paciente en el futuro.
So in this short lesson, you should already have a clear idea of how easily and how quickly you
can learn Spanish. So before we move on to the more advanced part of this lesson, another reminder
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have a look at this and just try to work out what's different from the previous visual.
Well, you can see it. We're talking about being more patient, more punctual as before. The
difference is that what we're trying to say is I want you to be more patient. I need you to be here.
And in Spanish, that structure, it doesn't exist. We can't say I need and then you and then the
infinitive, the to do word. So we can't say quiero, I want, tú ser más paciente. The way it works is
I want that you are more patient. I want that you are here. I need that you are here. And we've
used other verbs. It would be I'm asking. Instead of I'm asking you to be more patient, I'm asking
that you be more patient. And for that structure of wanting somebody to do something, to be
something, we need the subjunctive. So let's go down the verbs. So the subjunctive you are is
and you are when it's estar is estes. So seas and estes. And then the subjunctive for you can
is puedas or you are able rather. Puedas. You can and you are able. Puedas. And I'm not going to
spend a long time on the form here because there are other videos on my channel about that. Just
search the subjunctive. Then our final column stays the same. And in our first column, we've
got I want that and I need that. So what does this mean? Quiero que seas más puntual este año.
I want you to be more punctual this year. How about necesito que estés aquí con ellos.
And a pronunciation point here, which I've mentioned before in some of my videos,
the que. So for it to sound natural, Spanish, native-like, you don't want to separate it
into necesito que and then estés aquí. The que kind of snuggles up, cuddles up closer to the
verb afterwards. So if you're speaking slowly and you're pausing, this would sound okay.
That's fine. Whereas necesito que estés aquí is not a natural sound to native speakers.
So obviously you'd be perfectly understood. This is just something to work on,
something to listen out for, and it makes a bit of a difference to how you sound.
Okay, so now your turn to do the speaking. How would you say I want you to be able to rest
someday? Quiero que puedas descansar algún día. How about I need you to be more patient with them.
Necesito que seas más paciente con ellos. How about I want you to be here in the future,
or in future we would say, but the kind of the Spanish is still in the future. I want you to
be here in future. Quiero que estés aquí en el futuro. How about I want you to be able to
rest this year. Quiero que puedas descansar este año. And now you have the model for how this
subjunctive works. You can look out for other triggers that follow this model. So let's say
we could have I hope. I hope that you are more patient. I hope that you are more punctual. I
hope that you're here. I hope you're able to rest. Espero que. I hope that. Espero que seas
más paciente con ellos. I hope you're more patient with them. And that's all we have time for in this
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