Accelerated Spanish, episode 22.

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In week one of this podcast, we learned that Joel likes to call himself

Yo, meaning I, when he goes to the sheep pastures.

This phenomenon happens when he is the subject of the sentence or when you're using a first

person's subject pronoun. For example, to say I am a bee, Joel would say, I am a bee. Joel would say,

I am a bee. Now we're going to learn what

other people are called in similar situations, such as he, she, and you. Today, Joel brings

the pandas with him when he meets the shepherd. He wants to find a way to get tea from this shepherd,

and he thinks that the pandas will be able to help him. Now, he's come with a plan.

But Joel's plan is to use a very strange excuse. He tells the shepherd, the pandas and I all

have oats stuck in our noses.

So, Joel comes here holding a barrel of oats.

He's hoping that he can convince the shepherd to have compassion on him and the pandas.

We can't get these oats out of our noses, he says, and it's very uncomfortable.

But if we have hot tea, the steam will soften the oats, and they'll slide back out of our noses.

So can we please have the steaming hot tea?

Here, Joel is talking about both himself and the pandas, so the word that we're referring to is

we. And for Joel, this word is nos pandas. So the word that we're referring to is we. And for Joel, this word is

nosotros. So the stressed syllable sounds kind of like oat, but it also has nos in it. So

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