42 Beginners Understanding SER and ESTAR in Spanish LightSpeed Spanish

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[@NY10007]

I love your chemistry together and you both have great voices. I just came back from Spain and fell in love. I’m on quest now to become fluent in Spanish. It is difficult to know where to start. I enjoy your podcasts very much!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Muchas gracias! ¿Qué nivel tienes ahora? You can start with vocab builder, then main verbs and conjugation. Learn Spanish from Spain (if that's the one you like) since, if you learn from Latam, there's no 'vosotros' and some vocab is different. Just to avoid confussion. Then, adjectives and word order to then move to different tenses :) Cx

[@erinmlls]

This just blew my mind. Most helpful explanation I've found so far. Thank you guys!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Genial! Gracias :)

[@izabelledominguez1013]

I love you , I’m learning so much ❤!!!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Muchas gracias! Nos alegra oír eso :)

[@catherinejohnson8205]

I love you guys. At last !!! help has arrived 😊Thank you Gordon & Cynthia

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

:) Help to the rescue hehe Cx

[@franceskemp8397]

Thank you Gordon And Cynthia you have helped me understand the ser/ester much better

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Gracias, Frances:)

[@jimlabissonniere7400]

You guys are great! After serveral years of confusion, I think I finally understand SER and ESTAR....Thanks!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Yeh!!!!!!

[@pdillon1987]

¡Como siempre, muchas gracias por la clase fantástica! Besos y abrazos. Peter x

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Gracias a ti, Peter.

[@mariefryers5659]

Bananas 🍌 and Shakespeare! Very memorable. Got the Ser & Estar book 📕 Thank you 🙏

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Genial! Gracias de nuevo :) Cx

[@tarkanikizler]

P-osition L-ocation A-ction C-ondition E-motion >>>>>>>> P-L-A-C-E > ESTAR

[@lengthmuldoon]

What a fantastic explanation

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Muchas gracias, Bertie:)

[@davidbrown8733]

Hi Guys I just bought your ebook and its much more than I expected, it was not only helpful for Ser V Estar but is helping me with explanations of the Preterit and the Imperfect too. Good work!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

fantastic news, David. Thank you!

[@landespyrenees]

This is so useful!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Gracias! Cx

[@lengthmuldoon]

Better than any tv show

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

jajaja muchas gracias

[@dano5663]

Great lesson many thanks. I'm going to create a time line graph of the 'vida y muerte de un platano' at 2 day stages along the time line with the examples of estar given by Cynthia, marked on the graph and headed with ser to describe the conceptual permanency of the banana, being the yellow fruit / herb we intuitively think of. I always think pictures and diagrams are an easy way of learning stuff. Saludos

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Si eso te ayuda, adelante jeje :) Puede ser el título de una novela: "Vida y muerte de un plátano", por Dano :P

[@zeyadsabti5484]

Feliz navidad a Cynthia y a todos de la familia. Saludos desde Irak.

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Feliz navidad! :)

[@bromie21]

thank you for this, really interesting and helpful. With the sky example if it was a winters day, and the sky was grey wouldn't that be entirely expected, so we'd use 'es'? Equally if the sky was dark because it was night time, we would describe that using 'es' too?

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

You could say that el cielo es negro por la noche y es azul durante el día However, for gray... I think that I'd use 'estar' even in winter, but, you 'could' use 'ser' if you think that that's the natural state. Cx :)

[@bromie21]

@@LightSpeedSpanishChannel thank you

[@andygrichting]

cómo haceslo con tu pelo Gordon, es increíble... estoy celoso ;) gracias por la formacción, son super bien y me ayudan muchas

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Gracias, Andy. Cynthia me corta el pelo ahora. Es un crack, la verdad:)

[@folgamiguel91]

For me being a latino who grew up in the united states english is my first language luckily my mom made sure i grew up pretty fluent in spanish. Non the less i still struggle with certain words and how to structure my sentences. Id say my spanish is 90% lol

[@Franklin27100]

Lo siento Ross pero es 12.5%. Great job Gordon and Cynthia!!!

[@rossm6607]

1 de 8 opciones es 7.5% - It's a good job you teach Spanish and not Maths, Gordon!

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

jajajaja

[@eoghancullen]

😂

[@carolineburgess1557]

Using something as a banana is genius and makes so much sense and you guys are so funny 🙌🏻

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Muchas gracias! :)

[@robnorris4770]

Me encantan los ‘sidebars’. No sé la palabra en español.

[@izabelledominguez1013]

Tapas ?

[@trevormunro1834]

I see adjectives with ser a lot eg the famous song ‘Si no te hubieras ido, sería tan feliz’?

[@SorcererLord]

I think it's better to say ser is for identity and estar is for conditions rather than ser is permanent and estar is temporary because there are many exceptions to that. For example, "He is dead" uses estar even though being dead is a permanent state. But the use of estar here makes sense when you consider that being dead (and alive) is a condition. Also, on Halloween when kids dress up others will ask them "quién ERES?" even though by any measure it's temporary, they're only dressing up for one night in a year. And yet we use "ser" for "permanent" states. The reason ser is used is because it's an identity, the child is literally taking on an identity, even if only for 1 night.

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Depending on the level of the student we go into more or less detail. We have a book on Ser and Estar, so imagine the detail we go into there. :)

[@CassTyson]

This was my thought too, as I just recently learned to my surprise estar is used for to be dead. But it seems to me the translation of "to be or not to be" actually should be "ser or no estar." The "to be" clause pertains not just to being alive, but to existence itself, the essence of being human, "soy humano," while the "not to be" refers to being dead, i.e., by suicide (most scholars agree anyway). Yay -- fun with words!

[@SorcererLord]

@@CassTyson But being alive, which is the essence of existence is still “estar vivo”. It’s a condition because being alive isn’t what makes you human, it’s not your identity, neither is being dead. Whereas being human is a fundamental part of your identity, it’s literally the creature you are and so “ser” has to be used here. And even with being dead there are cases where you can use ser where it denotes identity instead of condition, such as I don’t know, the LotR movie where Aragorn encounters that ghost army, in that case you’d say “son muertos” and not “están muertos” because in this scenario them being dead/ghosts is a fundamental part of their identity and not just an accompanying condition.

[@dominicoconnell1584]

Do I detect a hint of geordie accent in Cynthias English

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

do indeed. 12 years in the NE of England. jaja

[@GloriRomano-b9j]

I love your explanation, I just wish you had not mention anything about smoking banana peels to get high because I like to use videos in my classroom and I can't use this one because of that.

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Oh :(

[@jobtierney]

Hi guys I am just starting on my journey of learning Spanish. I am so confused with Ser and Estar, as these words are not even used in example sentences. can someone help please? thank you

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Sure, you can look for our videos on Ser and Estar. We also have a book on it called: Ser and Estar made simple, on Amazon :) Cx

[@landespyrenees]

I understood the concepts here but once the banana is eaten, it's state can no longer change so do you use ser to say this?

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

What would be the sentence once the banana is eaten? The banana was green when I ate it = El plátano estaba verde cuando me lo comí.

[@landespyrenees]

Thanks!

[@daveblack3491]

60s song "Mellow Yellow" by Donavan. The hippies were all trying to get high on banana peels when that song came out. We tried it back then...didn't work for us! LOL

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

jajaja. I liked that song!

[@arnietwo11]

Podéis confirmarme algo ? Esta mañana fui un paseo por la costa. Yo vi dos chicas y una me preguntó, "se puede ir por ahi " y yo dije, sí es bien por aqui. Creo que deberia haber dicho, es bueno por... Creo que esta bien por.. Tambien no es correcto Puede usar ser con bien ? Creo que no ??

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Yo diría: sí, por ahí sí se puede./ Sí, se puede. Es + bueno/a (s) Estar + bien (o 'bueno' en algunos casos)

[@мирвовсеммире-ы1и]

I'm having a dejavu. I feel like I've watched this very video.

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

We've done a few!! jajaja

[@zeyadsabti5484]

Platano es amarillo

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

Correcto:)

[@markclement8361]

SERcumstances

[@LightSpeedSpanishChannel]

¡Muy bien! jaja :)