Junk time. Let's learn subjunctives.

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Subjunctives intimidate a lot of Spanish learners, but they don't have to. Subjunctives are some of the

most important verb conjugations for expressing abstract ideas in Spanish. And they're actually not that

hard if you simply learn the most common sentence templates that use them. In fact, we're

already familiar with some of these sentence templates.

Back in episode 11, we talked about expressing abstract concepts in Spanish, such as intentions

and reactions, using ke phrases, such as I'd prefer kee, they do it by this afternoon.

Watch for those sentence templates to come back this week.

First, though, let's just learn the subjunctive forms of ser and estar using our memory palaces.

We've already learned the present tense and past tense of ser and estar.

In each case, the scene was in a particular part of the business.

The present tense was in the main area in the front where people first arrive at the Ser

carnival or the Estar magic shop.

The past tense was in a closed-off area,

the bouncy house in the case of Ser and the wand closet in the case of Estar.

The subjunctive is yet another set of forms to learn for each of these verbs

and will learn these forms in a third place in each business.

These conjugations will take place in the back

behind these businesses, a place we call the junk area. This is where people might throw trash,

and the stressed syllable, junk, represents subjunctive. First of all, in the back alley behind the Ser Carnival House, a raccoon sits in a

junk pile. It's eating something that looks like trash, and when it sees us arrive, it lifts

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