'Ser' vs. 'estar' for location | A Coffee Break with Anabel
Coffee Break Spanish
Radio Lingua Network
4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In today’s espresso mini-lesson, we’re joined by Anabel from the Coffee Break Spanish team to tackle one of the most common challenges for Spanish learners: choosing between ser and estar when talking about location. 📍🤔
These two verbs both mean 'to be', but knowing when to use each is key to sounding natural in Spanish.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Annabelle. |
| 0:04.6 | My name is Annabel, and I am very happy to be in this episode with you. |
| 0:10.9 | Here at Coffee Break Spanish, we are enjoying working on our next podcast series for you. |
| 0:18.7 | But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mini lesson. |
| 0:23.6 | If this happens to be the very first episode of Coffee Break Spanish you are listening to, |
| 0:33.6 | you should know that you can go back and learn Spanish right from the beginning |
| 0:39.0 | by ordering the podcast episodes from the oldest and starting with Coffee Break Spanish |
| 0:44.8 | Season 1. Perfecto. Now, as this episode, I am very excited because I'm breaking you a very |
| 0:53.3 | nice topic. As you know, the verb to be can be a bit tricky |
| 0:59.6 | in Spanish because we have two verbs, ser and estar. You may have learned that estar is used for location, |
| 1:11.3 | and you are correct. |
| 1:13.7 | However, what if I tell you we use ser for location to? |
| 1:21.3 | No te preoccupies. |
| 1:22.9 | Because it will endr's sentido. |
| 1:24.6 | Don't worry because all will make sense at the end of this episode. |
| 1:31.5 | Then, as you may know, we use start to locate people and things in the world. |
| 1:41.0 | For example, where is the library? |
| 1:48.7 | In this sentence, we are locating a thing. |
| 1:51.7 | We are locating the library. |
| 1:54.3 | Where is the library? |
| 1:58.8 | So to locate a thing, in this case is a building, we use start. |
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