How to use Gustar: Easy animated visual explanation for beginners with Spanish examples and practice

Using gustar and similar verbs in Spanish can be confusing for beginners. This video breaks down how Gustar is different from regular verbs. Then it explains how to use it, even if you're not sure about the linguistic elements behind it.
Explanation starts at 0:08
Simplified instructions and examples at 1:40
How to deal with ambiguous pronouns at 5:58
Practice at 7:24
Indirect object pronoun video: • How to identify and us...
Subject pronoun video: • Spanish subject pronou...
Other verbs that work like gustar: www.spanishdict.com/guide/ver...
Song to memorize indirect object pronouns in Spanish: studytunes.org/spanish.html (#11)
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[@lionelweeraratne4860]

One of the confusing parts in spanish got cleared in this lesson. Very clear explanation. Thank you very much

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[@jim2376]

Gustar matches what is liked, not who likes it. That's the key. Excellent easy to understand explanation.

[@yvetteaidoo-forson1599]

Excellent explanation, your videos are so clear and helpful.

[@losquant]

Your explanation of this verb is súper. I've seen a lot of videos about gustar and yours is the best. Thank you!

[@elizabethkain75]

Your graphs helped so much! Thank you!

[@mrskgriggs]

So helpful! Thank you!

[@chaebin3256]

Thank you! It really helps me a lot

[@Redqueen35]

So helpful. Thank you.

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Thank You!

[@shaimaaahmed9776]

Thank you so much for this amazing explanation. I have understood from the first time.

[@supechube_k]

that's literally almost exactly the same as japanese "私は本が好きです" "as for me, the book is pleasing" and korean can do it both ways. "제가 책을 좋아해요" "i like the book" and "저는 책이 좋아요" "as for me, the book is pleasing"

[@LingoLearner]

That's awesome!

[@DrDave21]

me gusta este video!

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Where did all thw other comments go?

[@waldi2376]

Great. I am waiting your next vidoe.

[@LingoLearner]

Probably by the end of this month!

[@alyabayani871]

where is preposition A mi me gusta el libro

[@namrac6323]

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[@jenniferw8963]

6:50 Thanks a bunch for this video. So could "A Juan y a su hermano les gusta la casa" be literally translated as "To Juan and to his brother, to them, it is pleasing, the house" ? I am just trying to understand the thoughts in a spanish speaking person's head as they are saying the words. In english is the subject of the sentence "The house pleases Juan and his brother", The house, since it was rearranged? Can you not say in Spanish "La casa gusta Juan y su hermano"?

[@LingoLearner]

Yes, your literal translation is correct! The reason you don't say "La casa gusta (a) Juan y (a) su hermano" in Spanish, even though the words line up with how we think in English, is the same reason we don't say "The ball I throw" in English - it's a custom in each language to order things in certain ways. In Spanish, the custom is to order the sentence with the person or thing that is pleased, then gustar, then the thing that pleases them. Or put more in the English mindset: first the person or thing that likes something, then gustar, then the thing that is liked.

[@karinaab175]

Yes, you can say it like that as well. La casa le gusta a Juan y a su hermano. Me gusta la casa. La casa me gusta. I like the house. Le gustan los perros. Los perros le gustan. He/She/You formal like dogs 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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good job my teacher made me watch this

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[@anjalirawat6006]

I like your all videos but I really need a videos on demonstrative pronoun I want to study Only from your channel

[@LingoLearner]

Ok, it's on the list for upcoming videos. But it will likely take quite a while!

[@anjalirawat6006]

@@LingoLearner okay 😀

[@LingoLearner]

@@anjalirawat6006 Here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6LckJyfpKyBr5o

[@anjalirawat6006]

@@LingoLearner but they are in Spanish

[@LingoLearner]

@@anjalirawat6006 Yes :) So is the video we're on now!