Master Spanish A2 Grammar: Past, Present & Real Conversations

Welcome to Complete Beginner Spanish Course. Imagine if you could travel to one of the many countries in the world that speak Spanish and you could have conversations with the locals. You could ask for help, get directions, you could interact with someone in case of emergency, but you also, and most importantly, you could get the best tips to have the best trip you could ever have. They would be able to tell you best places to eat, secret places to get to know. and you will have the best experience. Hola, my name is Aina. I'm a primary school Spanish teacher and I'm going to be your teacher now as well. I'm really excited to join you in this journey. What can you expect from this course? Well, we're going to go on a step by step basis. We're going to start very small with very basic things and build up very slowly because that's the key with a language. You're going to get interactive exercises. You're not only just going to get regular worksheets, which you do get, but you will also be getting some interactive worksheets. That means that I've created some work that we will be doing together step by step. I'll guide you on how to do this work and your thought process so that you can better do all this work. You will also get cultural insights. I'm Spanish, so who else will give you better? cultural insights of Spain. I will also try to tell you a bit about other countries but my specialty will be obviously Spain. I will teach you some real world scenarios, especially Especially on things like... How to go to an emergency room, it's really good to know these things or even like what things to expect from when you go to a shop. When you get real world scenarios, that's more impactful than anything else when you're learning a language. But that's not everything. As a language learner, I really want to teach you how to learn a language. It's not just Spanish. Every language has got a key and I have learned languages myself. And I really want to teach you how to do that for you. Don't just get my word for it, though. Look at the reviews on the other courses that we have at the moment, like Spanish for Travel or Dating, and join that community of other satisfied students and customers that have learned Spanish with us. Join us in this complete beginner Spanish course and start your journey to learning a language. Hopefully, I'll see you very soon. Adios! Hola, welcome to Tapeo. My name is Aina and this is the first part of our Spanish A2 course. This course takes over straight from when we left it in our A1 course which if you haven't done I recommend that you do that one first because some of the things that I'm going to explain on this one pick up straight where we left it there and while we do follow the European framework sometimes things get lost and I'm going to add some things that you would not do in another A1 course so it's very good if you have continuity and you do our A1 before you've done A2. In this We're going to pick up some more verb tenses. We're going to review the ones that we know. But for the present tense, for example, we're going to see irregular verbs. We're going to learn a new present, which is a present continuous. We're going to do the past imperative, which is giving orders to someone. But something that's going to set this course apart is that we're going to do not just grammar and prepositions and things like this. We do lots of practice. We're going to have conversation practice, which is really hard to do on a video. So we've worked really hard to make. This is the best conversation practice that it could be. As close as you can get online to having a conversation with someone in Spain. It will help you feel very prepared once you are going to travel or you are going to speak to someone in Spanish. We are also going to teach you expressions to make you sound more Spanish, more vocabulary and I always give tips to make you sound more natural. If this is something that sounds appealing to you, please buy this course, send us a Send us a message if you've got any questions. And I'm very, very happy to answer them. I love your comments. I know that lots of people are already asking to do this A2 course, so we're happy to release the first part finally. Hopefully, I'll see you very soon in this course. Adios! Hola! Welcome to this new section where we're talking about the complemento indirecto, so indirect object. This is not something that you should know the technicalities of, you don't need to know the name, you don't need to know too much, but you need to know what it is and identifying what this is will help you make your sentences much richer and spotting any mistakes that you can make when you're writing something. What is missing? What am I not doing? How can I improve this? Oh, I could do this, I could add that. I have to move this to another place because it's not the right positioning. This doesn't sound right. And before going into pronouns and all the fun stuff, we need to know exactly what that complemento indirecto is. So it is a part of the sentence. And in this sentence, it will be the person, and this will always be a person, and this is the person that is receiving or benefiting from the action. So, in the sentence, you've got the subject, the person who does the action. You've got the verb, which is the action that's happening, and then after you've got these other parts. What's the complemento directo? It's what this person is doing. And then the indirecto is the person who's receiving this. Okay, you can have a sentence with both. You can have them with just complemento indirecto, just with complemento directo. A richer sentence will have both obviously. When you're speaking real life, you don't make short sentences like, oh, I buy a car. You need to say someone else, oh, I went to the... I went here and I bought a car, I bought this type, I want, okay? A car is not great because you don't buy it for anyone, but you know what I mean. You get the gist. Right, the other thing about the complemento indirecto is that it's connected to the verb because the verb is affecting it and it will always be followed by an a. So in a sentence, let's say I buy flowers for Maria, that for Maria, that a Maria will be the complemento indirecto. We'll do a sentence in a second. You don't technically need a complemento indirecto but when you remove it, It might change the meaning of the sentence, and you'll see why in a second. How do you find the complemento indirecto? You find it by asking whom, a quién. Who is benefiting from this? Who's receiving this action? Who's receiving whatever or who is benefiting from this? Who's receiving this action? Whom. If the complemento directo was qué, this one what? This one is whom, a quién. First sentence that we're going to see is In this case, I've made a sentence where you've got a bit of everything. Compro, yo compro, I buy unas flores, flowers, for María, a María. What's this? Compro, the verb, compro, yo compro, what? We know this, complemento directo. Unas flores is the complemento directo. We could just leave that, right? Compró unas flores. Compró unas flores. If I tell you, compró unas flores, you will assume that I'm buying them for myself, that I'm going to put them in my flat. But if I tell you, compró unas flores a María, it means that I'm buying it for her. That's what I mean. But if you remove that a María, it does change the meaning. You are going to make different assumptions. You've got the A, which is introducing that complemento indirecto, which is very important. And you know that María is the one who's benefiting and who's receiving the fact that I am buying flowers for her. She's benefiting from this, okay? Another example, ella envía una carta a sus abuelos. She sends a letter to her grandparents. So, ella is the person who's doing it, envía, the verb sends, ella envía, but ella envía qué, qué, we know that, complemento directo, una carta, you can't just say ella envía, she sends, but you can say ella envía una carta, that could be a full sentence, what you don't need is the last bit, a sus abuelos. A sus abuelos is the complemento indirecto. We can see that the grandparents are benefiting, they are receiving this letter that I'm sending or that she's sending. It goes introduced by a, a sus abuelos. And again, you don't need it, but if you remove a sus abuelos, this could be a letter that she's sending to her bank, or to, she's doing some paperwork, or she's sending it to anyone. It could be a complaint letter. It makes it more specific, it enriches your sentence. And the answer to this, ella envía una carta. ¿A quién? Who she's sending the letter to. A sus abuelos. Okay? Hope this shows a bit of clarity, tells you very well what it is and in the next video we're going to talk about the pronouns. I know you love it. Adios! Hola! In this video we're going to be seeing the indirect pronouns and don't worry because we're going to have a practice run in the next video. Okay so in this one just focus on learning this pronoun. Write them down and they'll be They'll be attached on the side, you know, any visuals are normally attached. I don't know what side this is but they're normally attached to one of the sides so you can take that or you can take notes. I recommend taking notes just because of my experience writing things down always helps with memorizing. Okay so these would be the pronouns for yo it's me but tu is te but el and la both will be le. You don't have a differentiation on this one. Por nosotros, nos. Vosotros, os. Ellos and ellas will be less. You don't change that one either. So technically it's a bit easy. They do sound quite similar to complemento directo, which might get a bit complicated, which don't worry because we'll have a comparison, we'll see the difference, we'll look at them side by side, so do not worry. In a sentence, the way we use this. is by putting the complemento indirecto in front of the verb. So, in the sentence we said Él compra flores a María. Él le compra flores. We're not substituting the Complemento Directo, we're just changing the Indirecto. The Indirecto we know is a Maria. We remove Maria because we already know that we're talking about her. And what he does to her is buy flowers. So, Maria as a she, ella le. Move the pronoun, el le compra flores. And then we said, she sends a letter, ella les envía una carta. That less, it's because asus abuelos, that we said earlier, was the third person, so less. It goes in front of the verb. Again, don't worry, because in a moment, we're going to have a practice. I'm going to guide you through a few first, and then you're going to see. Do it your own. We're going to have a visual on the side with all the sentences for you to have a go, and then I'll guide you through that train of thought. Okay? So, I'll see you on the next video. Adios! Hola, in this video we're going to work on how to change those pronouns for the indirect object. Okay, first I just want to do one of the sentences that we've done and we'll do it together, then I'll show you four sentences that you will have to do on your own and after that I will go through them with you. Okay, so first of all it would be like Él regala un gato. A su madre, in this sentence, él, he, regala, gives, so we've got the person who's doing the action, we've got the action, this el regala is asking what, he's gifting what, he's gifting a cat, el regala un gato, we know that that gato is the complemento directo. Now, after that, we've got a su madre. Who? Who is he giving this cat to? It's adding information. If you just tell me el regala un gato, I could just imagine that he's just giving it away. But if he's giving a cat to his mom, I know that this is just extra information and it's more specific. It changes the meaning of the sentence a bit because he's not giving the cat away, he's giving a gift to his mom. So, a su madre we know it's a complemento indirecto. How do we put that complemento indirecto into a sentence as a pronoun? Well, first of all, a su madre. A su madre, it's a she, so that needs to be le. So le, it will go in front of the verb. Él le regala un gato a su madre. He's gifting this cat to his mother. But if we just do the pronoun, él le regala un gato. We forget about a su madre porque le regala. We know that this means that he's giving it to her. We already know who we're talking about. That's why we're changing it to a pronoun. So we would just change it for el le regala un gato. Okay? Now I'm going to move across and show you the sentences. You've got four sentences that you have to find the complemento indirecto, change it, see what pronoun you need to turn it into, and then move it where it needs to go. If you would like to do this for yourself, pause it here, have a look at the sentences, and in a second, we're going to go through it together. Right, ready to go through it together? The first sentence. Marta no saluda a sus compañeras. This sentence was a bit of a trick because it doesn't have a complemento directo. We've not seen that many and they're not easy to come across. But this would be a good example. If Marta no saluda, I would take that as an easy, just full sentence. Marta no saluda, it means that she's a bit rude and she doesn't say hi. He doesn't say hello. But if we add the information that Marta no saluda. A sus compañeros, it means that she's not saying hi to this particular group of people. Sus compañeros means either her workmates or her classmates, depending on the context. So we know that a sus compañeros is who. Who doesn't she say hi to? Boom. So a quién? A sus compañeros. So a sus compañeros, what pronoun do we change it for? Knowing it's plural, it's going to be less. In this case, which is also negative, we need to know that the LES will go between the NO and the VERB. So, Marta no les saluda. Marta doesn't say hi to them. No les saluda. Next sentence. Yo sirvo un café a Pedro. Yo sirvo ice cream. Not a full sentence. Yo sirvo un café. Could be a full sentence. In this case, we know that un café complemento directo. Yo sirvo un café. I serve this coffee. But if I want to add information, Yo sirvo un café a Pedro. I'm telling you who I'm serving the coffee to. I'm giving you extra information. And if you remove a Pedro, it could just be that I'm just serving coffee. Just randomly serving coffee. But if I'm serving it to Pedro, it's more specific. So a Pedro complemento directo. How do we change it? A Pedro would be le This one, yo le sirvo un café and in this case we have to assume that we already know that we're talking about Pedro. Next sentence, Juan vende su coche a su vecino. Juan vende, Juan sells su coche, his car. This could be a full sentence, he's put his car for sale. If we add, Juan vende su coche a su vecino, it's not just adding information, it's changing Changing the meaning, if you remove a su vecino It means that he's just putting this car to sale, but if we have a su vecino, that means that this car is being agreed to be sold to this person. There's already a deal. So, a su vecino, complemento indirecto. ¿A quién le vende el coche? Who's he selling the car to? To his neighbor. So, vecino is one person. It's a he, doesn't matter if it's a he or she. It's le. Where does the le go? We move it. Juan le vende su coche. And it's a full sentence and we should know that it's not in the past tense. Last but not by any means least. Marta da dinero a sus hijas. Marta da. Marta gives. We know that that needs something else. She's giving money. If you tell me Marta gives money, Marta da dinero, I'm assuming she's handing out cash. Come to see me, please. We could have a full sentence if we change the meaning by saying that this money is being given a sus hijas, to her daughters. She's giving money to her daughters. Very different situation. So, it changes the meaning, introduced by a, but we don't need it, it just changes the meaning. A sus hijas, what pronoun we change it for? Les, because it's plural. Where does the les go? Find the verb, put it in front of it. ¿Marta les da dinero? And Bob's your uncle. That's it. You should be now able to do it. You know you'll have more work so try to do it yourself. Repeat, repeat, repeat and consistency at the end of the day is always a solution. I'll see you on the next video. Adios! ¡Hola! In this video, we're going to talk about differentiating and telling apart objeto directo and objeto indirecto. For that, I want us to work together with this one sentence. We're going to go through differences and ways that each part makes sense. Ella compró un regalo a Pedro. So far, we know that ella, she, COMPRA BUYS She buys, she is the subject, she is the one doing the action. COMPRA BUYS is the action, it's the verb, so the rest will be complementos. So, OBJETO DIRECTO and OBJETO INDIRECTO. If I just tell you ELLA COMPRA, what happens next? So, we know that OBJETO DIRECTO is something that is needed. So, ELLA COMPRA UN REGALO. Could this be the information that we need? So we have this, ella compra un regalo as a full sentence and the answer is yes. But if I say, ella compra a Pedro. She buys Pedro? A bit strange, so we can't have ella compra a Pedro on its own, but we could have ella compra un regalo. That's how we know that that un regalo is needed in the sentence. And a Pedro is just adding information. It is telling you to who the present is going for. Another tip is a Pedro. The indirect object, objeto indirecto, is always going to be introduced by a, a Pedro. Next piece of information, the verb doesn't interact or doesn't act on the objeto indirecto. The objeto indirecto benefits or receives what is happening on the verb but it's not affecting the person The person who is Having this is benefitting from it, it's receiving it. So, ella compra un regalo, so the present is being bought, she is buying the present and Pedro, all that Pedro is doing is receiving this gift, it's benefitting from it, and the objeto directo is involved directly with the verb. So compra un regalo, you can't just buy, you need that un regalo. The regalo is the thing that is being bought. You can't have the sentence without saying this. Now, we've had this one example. We're going to see a few sentences. You can see them here. You're going to identify, just identify, the objeto directo and the objeto indirecto. And once you know which is which, we're fine. Some of them might only have one. So have a look and think what could this be. Pause it if you want, you can have a go on your own and then come back where we talked about it. Right, the first one, Juan come una manzana verde. In this sentence we've got Juan come, Juan eats, una manzana verde. Juan come what? Una manzana. Una manzana could be enough information. But does that mean that verde is objeto indirecto? Una manzana verde could just be the complemento directo. If you were changing it. which you will do in the future, you will see that you would change the full manzana verde. It's that one apple in particular. He's not eating a red one, he's just eating a green one. The next sentence is a bit of a trick. Yo miro a Pedro. If you follow the rule and only look at the it's being introduced by a, you could think that miro a Pedro is complemento indirecto. However, Can you just say, yo miro? Is no one going to ask you what you're looking at? I look. Oh, Manu, what are you doing? Yo miro. That's strange, isn't it? In this case, a Pedro is going to be the complemento directo. And it's only because it's necessary. It's not added information. I need to say that what I'm looking at is Pedro. But that a Pedro, you could change it for, yo miro la tele, an inanimate object. You could change it for Yo miro la piedra. I look at the rock. So in that case, you wouldn't have an issue. You wouldn't be in any doubt that it's complemento directo. But because it's I'm just happening to look at a person, you would have thought that maybe it's complemento directo. But no. A Pedro in this case is complemento directo. The next one. La casa tiene tres ventanas. So we've got la casa, the house, tiene, has. Three windows, in this case, what would be the complemento directo? Because we know that we don't have anyone, there's no person in this sentence. So we can't have a complemento directo. In this case, the house has tres ventanas, then would be the complemento directo. The full complemento directo would be tres ventanas. And then you see how we change that into pronouns. Next one, el gato pide comida a Ana. In this one, you've got both. El gato would be the thing that's doing the action. El gato pide, the cat is asking for food to Ana. It's translated directly to Spanish. Comida, if you say el gato pide, el gato pide qué? What's the cat asking for? The food. El gato pide comida because the cat is roaming the streets asking for food. But when we add the information that it's Ana, he's asking this food, just Ana. We know that Ana is the added information introduced by a complemento indirecto. So comida, objeto directo. A Ana, objeto indirecto. Marta escribe un poema a sus abuelos. Again, it's popo. Marta escribe, Marta writes, that's the subject and the verb. She's doing the action, which is to write. Un poema, a poem, a sus abuelos. Marta escribe, yes, we could have just, what's Marta doing or writing? Marta writes what? Un poema. Marta escribe un poema, could be a full sentence. A sus abuelos means that this particular poem is going to be... I hope that this has helped you to think how we identify all these words, okay? I'll see you on the next video where we actually will work on these sentences again, but with pronouns. Adios! ¡Hola! In this video we're going to go through objeto, directo and indirecto again, but this time through their pronouns. So we're going to mix both pronouns. We're going to substitute things from both, okay? So to do it, the rules that you need to know is that they both will go in front of the verb and if you've got both, the indirecto goes first and then the directo. If you've got them, each of them needs to be coordinating they will need to be the same and in agreement in gender and number of the thing that they are substituting. So if you're changing the complemento directo and it's singular and the indirecto is plural, each of them will have to agree with their own thing. So it's that they work separately but they get together at the end. One thing that needs to be noted is that from the complemento indirecto, el and la, instead of having le, will be changed by se. If we look at the complementos directo and indirecto, we know that the complemento directo, I'm me, te, lo, la, me, me, te, going tu, he and she, lo, la, nosotros, nos, vosotros, os, vos, ellos, ellas, los, las. to do These ones won't change, however, if you look at the indirecto, it right it's going to be me, for me, te, tu, instead of le, it's going to be se, only if it goes for both complementos. now. If you only have complemento indirecto, le will be fine, but if you've got both, it will be se. And then nosotros nos, vosotros os. Ellos and ellas will be said again, don't worry because we'll be seeing an example. Again, if you are doing this, the pronombre indirecto is who you do this to or you do this for and the complemento directo is what you do in relation to the verb. As an example, Marta compra un libro a su madre. In this case, we've got both, Marta compra, Marta buys, un libro, a book, a su madre, to her mom. Libro, it's it, so it will be changing for lo, because it's masculine, libro, lo. And then a su madre, normally it would be le, because it's she. However, because we've got both, it's going to have to be se. What happens now is that they switch orders. So the sentence would be Marta se lo compra. If instead of a su madre this was a sus padres, it would be the same. Marta le compra un libro a sus padres. She's buying one book for both parents. Marta se lo compra. It would be the same. Okay, now that we've seen this example, we're going to move again and see this. This is the guided worksheet that you just did before, where you identify the complemento directo and the complemento indirecto. The complemento directo ones will be easier, and then you're going to have those two mixed ones, where you're going to have to think, okay? If you want, pause the video and resume to do it together and have that thinking time. Juan come una manzana verde. We know it's a complemento directo. Una manzana verde will be substituted by una. So that's it, which is going to be changed for la because it's feminine. Juan la come, done, Juan la come. The next one, yo miro a Pedro, yo miro a Pedro, I look at Pedro, this we say is complemento directo. Yo lo miro because Pedro is he. However, in some cases in Spain you might hear people saying Yo le miro. In this case, it would be treating Pedro as a complemento indirecto. It's called leísmo and it's technically not correct but if you hear this and if you do it, it's fine. And I want you to acknowledge this. Yo lo miro. Yo le miro, informally correct. No one's going to go and tell you, oh, complemento directo. That would be bizarre. Next, la casa tiene tres ventanas. The house has three windows. Tres ventanas, we know that's complemento directo. In this case, plural. So, las. La casa las tiene. Does the house have three windows? ¿Pide la casa tres ventanas? Sí, la casa las tiene. The house has them. This is the only case I would see a sentence like this working, but for our purposes, it works. Next, el gato pide comida a Ana. Comida, complemento directo. A Ana, indirecto. What's going to happen with this? Comida, we're going to say that comida is la, because it's the third person. A Ana, it's also la. If we were going to say the normal complemento directo and indirecto, el gato se la pide. That's why the le changes. Instead of saying le, which is the indirecto normally, for the third person, we change it to se. El gato se la pide. Se goes with Ana, la comida. El gato se la pide. Next one, Marta escribe un poema, un poema we said, complemento directo, a sus abuelos, indirecto, in this case, un poema, singular, masculine, lo, sus abuelos, yes, third person, yes, plural, it's not going to be less, it's going to be se again, so Marta se lo escribe, Marta se lo escribe. I know it's all a bit confusing, but now that you've seen how it works, hopefully you can give it a go, do a bit of work, practice, practice. And I've got one more video that's going to be lighter than this, I promise. Adios! Hola! In this video, we're going to do the imperativo, which after doing so much comparison with complemento directo, indirecto and all of this, should be... Just a breeze. So, imperativo will be about the same as when we were doing the complemento directo. In this case, you're saying, you're ordering someone to do something to someone else. Okay? So, the formula, it's very basic. It's the verb in imperativo, you add the pronoun, but in this case, you attach it as one word. So, from the word escribir, let's say that your mom tells you, escribe a Juan. Instead of just saying, you've been talking about Juan for ages, you want to just say, write him, write to him. So escribir goes to escribe, which is you write, write to him, escribele. Fairly easy, right? If you're telling to write to you as a group or writing to a group of people, escribir goes to escribir, you group, escribir. For example, write to your friend, escribir a vuestros amigos, escribirles, because that vuestros amigos is plural, escribidles, okay? In the negative, we know that that changes. In this case, it's going to be in the separate words. The first thing you will say is no, then you write the pronoun in the middle, and to end, the form of imperative negative. We're going to stick to that writing. Someone first said write to Juan, and we said no, no, no, don't write to him. Escribir, no escribas, don't write. No le escribas. Don't write to him. I don't want you to write to Juan in particular. No le escribas. If it's a group that writes to another group, your group shouldn't write to your friends. No escribáis. Your group don't write. You don't write to your friends. No les escribáis. Wait, I don't want you to write to them now. No les escribáis. And I bet that after what we've been doing so far, this has been quite easy. Okay, I hope that complemento directo and indirecto haven't been too hard. Like I said, you don't need to know the... specific things some things informally are people make mistakes because that's the way that you just do it informally so if you make mistakes this is not the end of the world but since we're going to a stage where you are starting to write different things or say different things you need to know the order you need to know the way and the reason we say these things it's not the the same in Spanish or English. So forget all the Specific names that I've told you, but really keep the information and the way to do it. Hope you enjoy, and I promise I'll try to do a very light one for the next section. Adios! Hola! After doing quite a few difficult topics, I thought we would do this lighter one, where we're going to learn expressions. Now, some of these are going to sound strange, but trust me, I've made an effort to include only expressions that... I would use. Me as a 31 year old, we use more expressions I think than English people in Spanish. So these are ones that I would use in a normal conversation, just very naturally. No one would bite an eye. I'm going to do a few different sections. This one's going to be with food, there's going to be body, there's going to be colors and some miscellaneous. But remember these could be used on a normal day, everyday life. Okay, the first one would be dar calabazas, dar calabazas, in English it would be to give pumpkins, but the normal translation would be to reject someone, like María le ha dado calabazas, o le dio calabazas, so María was dating someone, but then she just rejected him, she didn't want to know anything, dar calabazas. Next one, dar las uvas, this one I would use, it means to give grapes, literal translation. It means that to wait, that oh come on, nos darán las uvas, that you're taking so long, we're having to wait for so long. This one comes from New Year's Eve where we eat grapes with every chime of the clock as we do the countdown because you have to wait for the whole year to do the grapes. Next one, estar como un fideo. To be like a noodle. I have not heard this one, it doesn't sound too weird. It means to be really skinny. Está como un fideo. Like really, really thin. Importar un pimiento. Importar un pimiento. And this one would mean to not care. Me importa un pimiento. If you tell me something that I think it might be with an annoying connotation, whatever you tell me, me importa un pimiento. I want nothing to do with this. I don't want to know. Me importa un pimiento. Next, meter la gamba. This one sounds dirty. To put in the shrimp. It just means to make a mistake. Metí la gamba. I made a mistake. Instead of, yeah, just meter la gamba. Ponerse como un tomate. To get like a tomato, that one you could guess, it's going to be to be embarrassed, I think it might could, I don't know if I would say it in English, yeah, like a tomato, ponerse como un tomate. Next one, ponerse como una sopa, it means that you got wet, to get like a soup, obviously wet, it's raining outside, I went for a walk, me metí, me puse como una sopa, wet. Something is del año de la pera. Ser del año de la pera means that it's quite old-fashioned, that really old. It's from the year of the pear. It's really old-fashioned. Oh, this computer es del año de la pera. Next, ser pan comido, to be eaten bread. It means it's really easy, the expressions in Spanish are han comido, they're really easy. Last one would be ser un melón, to be a melon, and that means to be really clumsy. Hay melón, if you've dropped something, you don't even need to say you're a melon, eres un melón. If you tell someone hay melón, They will understand that they're being a bit clumsy. So those would be the first expressions all related to food. Trying to include a list so that you can go through them. This is really nice if you're talking to some Spanish people and you want to try to drop any of these. They'll feel like you're really trying. Your language will sound more natural. I'll see you very soon with more expressions. ¡Adiós! Hola! This video is going to have expressions all using parts of the body. Remember I would use this and I probably do on my everyday life. I must use at least maybe five a day. I don't know. I don't know how to quantify this. I can't explain how many we use but here we go. The first one would be Y echar una mano. To help, to lend a hand I guess, I translated literally to throw a hand but I think to lend a hand is also in English so you could use it. To help. Echar una mano. Poner una mano en el fuego. Poner una mano en el fuego. To put one hand in the fire. That means that you can bet on it, I'm sure of it. At five, football starts and they say oh no it's not. Pongo la mano en el fuego. I put my hand in the fire, like bet on it. Next one, dar la cara to assume someone's responsibility, to give your face. I think in English, like to face something. I don't think in Spanish we would say to face something. I can't translate it as well, but. No, I think dar la cara would be almost a translation as to face something, but it's less to confront, it's more to like assume, like be brave and take responsibility for this. Tener los pies en la tierra. Tener los pies en la tierra. To have your feet on the ground. This would be the equivalent to having a head on your shoulders. Someone really sensible. Tener los pies en la tierra. Tener los pies en la tierra. Llegar a las manos. To reach the hands. I don't know if you could guess, but that's like getting violent. Like if they were arguing y llegaron a las manos, they basically would mean that they were on a physical fight. Lavarse las manos. I think I'm doing lots of hand-related things. To wash someone's hands. It means I don't want to know anything. So you just told me these two people thought llegaron a las manos. Now I'm going to say me lavo las manos. I want to know nothing about this. I don't want to be involved. Lavarse las manos. To wash your hands. Next. Hacer ojitos. To make eyes. And it would be like something like this. That's what I envision when I say it. Although it just means to flirt. Uh, le está haciendo ojitos. You're seeing two people in the corner like a bit, mmm, flirtatious. Le está haciendo ojitos. Like, it's making little eyes, not just eyes, little eyes. Next one, ser culo inquieto, to be a bum, a restless bum, but you can't just call them restless, you call them culo inquieto, my sister and my aunt, two people, culo inquieto, eres un culo inquieto, you never stop, this one is for me, hablar por los codos, you speak out of your elbows, that means you're very chatty, you speak a lot, hablar por los codos. Hablar por los codos. Next one. Tener la cabeza en las nubes. I think it's the equivalent to English. Have your head in the clouds. Daydream. Tener la cabeza en las nubes. Tener la cabeza en las nubes. Last one would be hacer la vista gorda. Hacer la vista gorda. To make a fat sight. Basically, it would be the equivalent to turn a blind eye. I'm going to pretend not to see, oh these two are fighting, I don't want to know about this. I'm going to pretend I don't know and I'm going to pretend I can't see it. This would be all. I hope that you're enjoying this. I hope you can try to put them somewhere on your next Spanish conversation. See you in the next one with some more. Adios!