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LearnCraft Spanish

50: Idioms

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

4.9634 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes words don't mean what they seem to mean! Let's use our Spanish vocabulary to create new meanings by combining them into non-literal phrases we call idioms — such as ya que and ya está.

Practice all of today's Spanish for free at LCSPodcast.com/50

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0:00.0

Let's put our words together into some new idioms.

0:06.4

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

0:11.3

I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

0:16.4

Today we're going to get a lot of practice with all of our uses of ir and a bear that we've been working on this week.

0:23.7

Before we do, let's learn a few more things we can do with our vocabulary.

0:29.2

A language isn't just about words.

0:32.0

It's about how those words are put together into blocks of meaning.

0:40.8

Rather than just translating between languages one word at a time, part of thinking in Spanish is learning how to combine Spanish words in ways

0:49.4

that English words aren't combined. And that means learning idiomatic phrases. One very simple idiom is

0:58.8

T'Odo bien, literally all well. So to say all is well in Spanish, you say,

1:07.8

To do'o estab bien. But if you're meeting up with someone

1:11.9

and you're talking with them

1:13.0

in a casual context,

1:14.6

it's common to ask,

1:16.6

All good?

1:17.7

After asking them how they are.

1:20.1

So here's how you would say,

1:22.1

how are you?

1:23.2

All good?

1:26.7

How are you? All good? Come Estes?

1:28.5

All bien.

1:31.9

Next, let's learn some idioms that use the word yeah.

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