CBS 2.07 | Radical changing verbs
Coffee Break Spanish
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2010
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In lesson 7 it’s time to take a look at radical changing verbs, verbs which have some regular spelling changes in certain parts of the verb. Once you get used to these patterns you’ll be conjugating verbs like querer, pensar, poder and volver without a problem! Please note that lesson 7 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 207 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Marc and I'm here to help you with your Spanish. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Coffee Break Spanish lesson 47. |
| 0:50.0 | And in this lesson, we're going to be looking at some regularly irregular verbs, if that makes sense. |
| 0:58.0 | There's a special type of verb in Spanish called a radical changing verb or a spelling changing verb, and these verbs have regular patterns of irregularity, if that makes sense. |
| 1:08.0 | It all will after this lesson, so have a listen, and hopefully everything will become clear. |
| 1:14.0 | Coffee Break Spanish |
| 1:19.0 | Okay, so we're going to be looking, as I said, at a couple of other verbs today. |
| 1:24.0 | And these verbs, or the first of these verbs is kerer. |
| 1:29.0 | Kerer |
| 1:32.0 | That's right. Now, we've actually come across this word before when we were learning the word kiero. |
| 1:37.0 | Kiero. |
| 1:38.0 | Now, can you remember what kiero means? |
| 1:41.0 | I want. |
| 1:43.0 | That's right. In fact, it's got two meanings. It can mean I want kiero cantar, I want to sing, and it also has another meaning. |
| 1:52.0 | In the phrase te kiero. |
| 1:55.0 | Te kiero? |
| 1:56.0 | Can you remember what that means? |
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