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LearnCraft Spanish

134: Control, trato, and de hecho

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9635 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Let's learn a few new abstract nouns in Spanish, including the words for "control", "deal", "treatment", and "fact". We'll get lots of spoken practice with these new words and some related idioms.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/134

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let us on a

0:02.0

Trato.

0:03.0

Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.

0:09.0

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:14.0

Let's keep practicing the verbs

0:16.0

Paren,

0:17.0

and Salir, as well as our numbers from yesterday.

0:22.2

While we do, we'll also learn a few new common nouns.

0:27.3

Our first noun for today is control.

0:31.5

This is a masculine noun, and it has the same spelling as the English word, control,

0:37.1

and essentially the same meaning. So, for example,

0:41.1

it seems I don't have control of these things.

0:48.8

Our next word is trato, which has two meanings.

0:57.4

Sometimes it can mean treatment.

0:59.9

For example, they gave me bad treatment at that hotel.

1:07.3

Me dieran maltrato in that hotel.

1:18.8

Note that this doesn't refer to a treatment as in a medical treatment. There's a different word for that.

1:26.9

When trato means treatment, it only refers to how someone is treated. But more often, the word trato means deal. This is often used along

1:31.2

with the verb, as in make a deal. For example, they're

1:37.0

making a deal without us knowing.

1:41.7

They're making a deal without us knowing. Let's make a trato without that we know

1:44.4

Let's practice

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