We're looking at daily routine again. However, we're looking at specific things which happen

at certain times of the day. In your daily routine, you probably at some point get yourself

up out of bed, you probably dress yourself, you might shave yourself, then at the end of

the day you might put yourself back in bed. All these things are actions which happen

to yourself and they require a certain type of verb in Spanish. This type of verb is called

a reflexive verb and that's what we're learning about today.

This week we're talking about everything that happens before breakfast and after dinner

and you might wonder why this has all been kept for one separate podcast but we'll explain

why in just a moment. To begin with, I'm going to take you back to when you learned how

to say, I am called. My name is one of the first phrases that you learned back and listened

to. How do you say, I am called Mark or I am called Gara.

Me llamo cara. Me llamo cara. Me llamo. Me llamo at the time, I told you, actually means

I call myself and at the time you probably thought, what a strange way to say my name is.

But this is when we're going to explain this further because me llamo means I call myself

and it's what you call a reflexive verb. Now, reflexive verbs exist in many languages.

In French, for example, you've got gemapel in Italian, mi camo and in German, other examples

like I fragamechan and so on. What we want to think about in Spanish is simply using that

small word me and then combining it with a normal verb. So, for example, me llamo is myself,

I call. Me llamo, myself, I call. When we're talking about, I call myself, it doesn't

make as much sense but when we're talking about things like me dojo, me dojo literally

means myself, I shower, I shower myself, so I have a shower, I take a shower. So try

that me dojo. Me dojo. Me dojo. Me dojo. Okay, so me again means myself or you me have

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