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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn the Spanish verbs for listen and work.

Let's begin with

Escuchar, which means to listen.

Yesterday we worked extensively on the verb

Oir, which means to hear.

Escuchar is very close to this verb in meaning.

Here's a very simple example.

They aren't going to listen.

This verb tends to take direct objects.

This makes it a tiny bit of an extra step to translate from English.

So compare the English and Spanish in these two examples. Are you going to listen to him?

Lo was to hear?

So even though we say to him in English, the Spanish is simply the direct object, lo.

Let's go ahead and use a mini-quiz to practice this verb.

And I'm going to throw a bunch of conjugations at you, but this verb is conjugated exactly like Ablar, so you should be able to do this.

She doesn't listen to him.

No lo,

listen.

No lo,

listen. In this one, use a formal voice. Listen to the music. It's really good. It's really good. Listen the music is very good. Listen the music to us very good. You have to listen to us, please. You have to listen to us, please. You have to listen, for favor.

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