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Accelerated Spanish: Learn Spanish online the fastest and best way, by Master of Memory

AS010: Practice Ser in Phrases

Accelerated Spanish: Learn Spanish online the fastest and best way, by Master of Memory

Timothy Moser

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Let’s practice using Ser in context! We’ll use some real-life Spanish sentences to see how Ser integrates in Spanish conversation.

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0:00.0

Accelerated Spanish Episode 10.

0:03.0

How fast do you want to be fluent in Spanish?

0:06.0

Using our tested system that combines timeless language learning hacks with a memory palace of mnemonics,

0:11.0

you can be ready to integrate with native speakers in as little as one month.

0:15.0

We're about to practice several phrases that use most of the ser forms that we've learned. But first, do you remember the potato

0:23.9

head game that we talked about in episode six? Imitation is extremely important for learning a

0:30.4

language, but if you really want to be able to converse in Spanish, you can't just say

0:35.4

scripted phrases exactly as they are.

0:38.2

You should be able to customize them yourself as well.

0:41.8

For an example of how this could be done, let's take our first phrase.

0:45.9

The meaning is, you are very nice.

0:49.3

So it's eres very nice, or the entire pronunciation is,

0:54.6

Eres very good.

0:58.0

You can imitate that syllable by syllable.

1:04.3

Eres very bueno.

1:07.3

But we could also change this to they are very nice by saying son instead of eres.

1:15.3

Now, some of the other words would have to change, but this is just something to keep in mind.

1:20.1

Basically, any time you use a normal conjugation of ser, you could change it for another conjugation in a very similar phrase.

1:28.1

So to say they are very nice, it would be son very nice.

1:32.7

Or to say she was very nice, you could say, era very nice.

1:38.9

To say it would be very nice, you could say seria very nice. As you can see, tweaking these sentences

1:47.9

is a great way to review your own vocabulary in the context of a sentence. So I'm going to have

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