Se lo, se la.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

In this episode, we'll go over some uses of Spanish pronouns that are nuanced, but very important to master.

Tiny words like lo, lay, and c are very tricky, but there's no way around the fact that we

need them in order to express ourselves clearly and accurately in Spanish.

Plus, they're so tiny and spoken so quickly that understanding them when native speakers talk takes a lot of practice.

So it's time to start making them second nature now.

To begin with, let's review three of the Memory Palace scenes that we've used for pronouns.

One for direct objects, one for indirect objects, and one for

reflexive objects. In all three of these scenes, the words that we store are used right before a verb.

For example, I have it is lo-tengo, and that lo is from the direct object scene. To say I gave her a book,

you say, I le gave a book, and the le there is from the indirect object scene. And then I seat myself,

is I me seat, where me comes from the reflexive scene.

Each of these three scenes seems to store very similar items. The words me, te, and nos are in all

three scenes, though they mean different things in each scene.

But the word lo, stored in the direct object scene, transforms to lay in the indirect object scene for the sheep that lay down.

And then it turns into se at the reflexive scene. And the word la goes through the same

changes. Le as an indirect object and se as a reflexive object. As a quick review, see if you can

list all the words in each scene as we go through them one by one left to right. Remember to include

the plurals when relevant. So we'll start at the direct object scene. Can you list all of these

words from memory? Try to say them before I do. On the left side, we have the words,

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