Today we start to define what the word is, is.

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is

Learncraft Spanish. Today we're going to start learning our first verb, ser.

This is the most common verb in Spanish by far, and it's so important that we're going to spend the next several episodes on it.

But first of all, let's talk about how important verbs are in Spanish.

Until now, we've learned a lot about nouns and things that replace nouns, but we haven't talked much about verbs. It turns out that verbs are the absolute heart of Spanish sentences,

as well as what makes them different from English sentences. I mean, nouns are a lot of fun,

but the fact is, you actually can form a Spanish sentence without

any nouns or anything that functions as a noun.

That's not true in English, but believe it or not, you can do it in Spanish.

You might say, what?

A complete sentence without any nouns at all?

It's impossible.

Well, the sentence,

it's impossible, correctly translated into Spanish, would be, Es impossibly. And that is considered a complete sentence even though none of the words are nouns, pronouns, or anything that functions

as a noun. We'll talk about why this works in

episode 14. What this sentence does have and what every proper Spanish sentence has is a verb.

In fact, the core of thinking in Spanish basically comes down to thinking in Spanish verbs. That's what we're

going to start doing today, reprogramming our brains to treat verbs the way that Spanish does.

The first thing to remember is that verbs are not strictly action words. It's easy to over-simplify

because verbs often do indicate some sort of action. For example,

in the nonsense sentence, food jumps over the rainbow. The word jumps is an action, and it's clearly

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