Accelerated Spanish Episode 37.

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What's the difference between doing something and making something?

In most languages, they're the exact same thing. There's no

difference. Most English speakers find this very bizarre. We seem to think that making and doing

are two entirely different categories. In general, we make physical objects such as meals,

like they made breakfast.

We do actions such as exercise.

I did my exercise.

But if you think about it, there's a lot of crossover.

For example, I made a mistake.

So a mistake is an action, and you would think that it would be due, but no, we always

say I made a

mistake, not I did a mistake. As another example, if you come home to find out that everything has

been spilled off of your kitchen shelves, you would probably be angry that there's a mess. There are two

questions you might ask. Who made this mess or who did this?

So for Spanish speakers, to make and to do are the exact same thing.

Making a mess is the same thing as doing a mess.

Making dinner is the same thing as doing dinner. One of our unfriendly neighborhood

characters, Sarah, will come back to teach us this lesson. Now, Sarah spends most of her time at

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