Animaux et conjugaisons : révision combinée

¡Hola, bienvenidos! Welcome to Spanish for Beginners. This is lesson sixteen of course one, and congratulations, you've made it three quarters of the way through this entire course. That's amazing. Keep pushing, you're almost finished. As always, I'm your teacher, Isabella. Let's get started.

Let's begin by reviewing the handful of vocabulary words that we learned in the last lesson. Repeat after me. Los cubiertos. El tenedor. El cuchillo. La cuchara. El plato. El bol. Necesitar. Very good.

All right, today's lesson is a review of lessons 7 and 8, and we will be building on those lessons as well. But because they were very similar, because they were related, and lesson 8 was a bit shorter, I felt that it made sense to combine them for one review. This lesson and our next lesson will be our final reviews for this entire course. Our last three lessons will be back to regular stuff where you learn new things. So if you've been frustrated with these reviews, I understand, but you'll be getting back to regular content very soon.

All right, let's review the vocabulary from lesson 7. Repeat after me. Los animales. El gato. El perro. El pájaro. El elefante. El león. El oso. El caballo. El tigre. El toro. La tortuga. El cerdo. La vaca. La oveja. El pato. Correr. Caminar. Saltar. Rápido. Despacio. Good.

And I'm going to add one more word to this list : "alto". Alto is "high", like "to jump high". Or in another context, it can also mean "tall", like "he is tall". But for today, only think of it as meaning "high".

All right, let's do a practice. In lesson 7, I conjugated the verbs for you and had you fill in the animal and the adverb, and I feel that was very easy. Now that you have learned how to conjugate, I'd like you to do this on your own. Between the three verbs that we just listed, "saltar", "correr", and "caminar", choose one for each and an appropriate adverb to go with it. OK? I'll give you 10 seconds. Sorry if you can hear the dog barking.

Let's check how you did. El caballo corre rápido. El cerdo camina despacio. El tigre salta alto. Did your responses look something like this? It doesn't have to be exactly the same. If you put "el caballo salta alto", that would have been fine. If you put "el cerdo corre rápido", probably not the most correct biologically, but still, as a sentence, it works just fine.

Again, this should be quite easy for you at this stage. So let's move into the review from lesson 8, which was all about verbs and conjugation. We learned verbs and conjugation through the guise of exercise, and the word for exercise is "ejercicio". Ejercicio.

To do exercise is "hacer ejercicio". Hacer ejercicio. Nadar. Bailar. Montar en bicicleta. Jugar. Sudar. Me gusta o no me gusta.

Today I'm adding something. If you notice this N here, we add this when we use something in the plural. So if you want to say "I don't like horses", you would say "no me gustan los caballos". If it's singular, it's "me gusta". If it's plural, it's "me gustan" or "no me gustan". So we have : gusta (singular), gustan (plural). And it works just the same for "me encanta". "Me encanta" is singular, "me encantan" is plural. Quite simple.

Let's do a quick practice. So we have "gustan", "gusta", "encantan". Fill in the missing words with either an animal or a verb.

How did you do? This is what I put. "Me gustan los elefantes". You have to have the "los" here : it doesn't make sense to say "me gustan elefantes". You have to say "the elephants". Me gustan los elefantes. "No me gusta sudar" : I don't like to sweat. "Me encantan los gatos". Again, you have to have the "los". That's very important. Me encantan los gatos.

Good. So we did quite a lot of conjugating in this lesson, if you remember. We started with -AR verbs. Repeat after me. O, as, a, amos, áis, an. Are you sick of hearing it? I bet you are, because I'm sick of saying it. Let's do the same for -ER and -IR verbs : o, es, e, emos, éis, en.

At this point, I feel you should be fairly confident with conjugating verbs in the present tense. I understand if you are still working on the irregular verbs, but regular verbs should be quite simple at this point. It's not rocket science.

So let's do some review with verbs. I have not filled out all of the conjugations. I would like you to please pause the video and fill in the missing conjugations. You can either write these, but I encourage you to try and say them.

How did you do? Let's check.

"Caminar" : yo camino, tú caminas, él camina, nosotros caminamos, vosotros camináis, ellos caminan.

"Saltar" : yo salto, tú saltas, él salta, nosotros saltamos, vosotros saltáis, ellos saltan.

"Nadar" : yo nado, tú nadas, ella nada, nosotros nadamos, vosotros nadáis, ellos nadan.

"Jugar" (irregular u → ue) : yo juego, tú juegas, él juega, nosotros jugamos, vosotros jugáis, ellas juegan. Remember : with this word, "nosotros" and "vosotros" are not irregular. These two conjugate normally. It's the other four that become irregular.

"Correr" : yo corro, tú corres, él corre, nosotros corremos, vosotros corréis, ellos corren.

"Hacer" : yo hago, tú haces, ella hace, nosotros hacemos, vosotros hacéis, ellos hacen. "Hacer" is only irregular in the yo form.

Irregulars can be difficult to learn. If they are difficult for you, don't worry. It just takes time, practice, and repetition. You'll get it.

OK, let's review our one new word today : "alto". Very good. ¡Felicidades! You did it. Another day, another lesson in the books. We've only got four more after this. Isn't that insane? So I will see you in the next lesson, which will be our last review for this entire course. And our last three will be new material. OK? Until next time, hasta luego.