Let's polish some prepositions. Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency. I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish. This week, we're wrapping up the whole first phase of our learning. We're going to cap off our work on the essentials of ser, estar, to be,

to-er, the whole first phase of our learning. We're going to cap off our work on the essentials of

ser, estar, ir, tenor, and a bear. And starting next week, we'll begin a new lesson structure

that involves learning a new verb and some new nouns every week. For today, we're going to talk

some more about the prepositions

A, de, and para. I know we've spent a lot of time on these words, but the fact is that

these three prepositions alone make up more than 6% of all words spoken in real Spanish,

so it makes a huge difference to get to know them really well.

And there's a reason we have to give these words so much focus. Prepositions are the

hardest words to translate between languages. Although they're used all the time, they don't

carry a lot of meaning in themselves. Instead, they're used all the time, they don't carry a lot of meaning in themselves. Instead,

they're used in idiomatic ways, which means they get all their meaning from the phrases around them.

And there's some of the hardest words to use correctly. If someone is not truly fluent in a language,

you can easily tell by the way they use prepositions.

To show how much of a difference this makes, let's start with a preposition use that seems extremely weird to English speakers, but is perfectly natural in Spanish.

Imagine that you're talking about having something or someone.

We'll use this sentence template.

We had your things here.

Now of course in this sentence,

Tuscosas is the direct object.

So if we were to use a direct object pronoun,

we would say it more like,

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