‘Tú’ and ‘usted’ - How to navigate informal and formal Spanish | The Coffee Break Spanish Show 1.04

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Break Show! This time, we're helping you use ‘tu’ and ‘usted’ like native speakers of Spanish. With the help of our Spanish team, you'll know how to navigate informal and formal Spanish, enabling you to communicate more naturally in the language.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the coffee break Spanish show. I am Concha. I'm
0:06.5	I'm not. I'm so good and I'm good and how much has it.
0:11.0	See? Perfect. So in this weekly episodes we help you improve your Spanish one sip at a time
0:18.7	and you might be watching us in our YouTube channel, in that case, remember to subscribe or maybe you
0:26.2	are listening to the podcast version because we do both.
0:30.1	If you are listening to us, of course, remember to subscribe to the podcast feed wherever you are listening to us to.
0:35.6	Well, good.
0:36.6	And I think in this episode you have prepared something very interesting for us.
0:41.2	I have indeed. Yes, today we are going to be talking about the word
0:44.7	usted and how to use it so when we address someone formally or when we use
0:49.6	address someone informally. Oh, I mean so much so I don't want us to
0:54.0	but I'm not to see us. Let's see more. Muyi and Konsa, so we are going to be learning about Usteth and what can you tell us about it?
1:08.0	Well, before we dive in into the meaning of Usted, let's talk about two concepts that we use in Spanish quite a lot
1:14.3	which is Tuteo and Uste deo.
1:18.3	What can you tell us about Tuteo Annabelle?
1:20.3	Well, Tuteo is when you use two, that is what I do in Spanish.
1:24.0	Exactly, so two is the form that we use to address someone informally, right?
1:29.4	Can you give us a context when we will use two? For example, I will use it with you. I would say,
1:36.5	Konsa, where does many a momento? Exactly. So when you know someone and you address them in an informal way.
1:44.0	Ballet, so that's two deo.
1:46.0	And then we have Uste deo, which is the same but when we address someone in a formal way.
1:51.0	So for example, someone other than you and that you don't know. Can you give us an example?
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