welcome back to the language tutor
friends today i want to talk to you
about
something that is going to completely
open your world up in spanish i mean
after today's lesson you are going to
really
have a new world it's going to be great
because we're going to be talking about
ar verbs
and guess what ar verbs are the most
common popular widely used verbs in the
spanish language
and i'm going to teach you something
today that you're going to be able to
apply
to all of them for the most part and
you're going to be able to just learn
that verb and immediately start using it
right away okay
now
first of all there are ar verbs in
spanish there are er verbs in spanish
and there are ir verbs in spanish ir
verbs are the least common
er verbs are the next uh most used and
ar verbs are the most common there are
more of those than any other type
and uh
when you i say ar verb
is very simple i'm talking about a verb
that just ends in the letters ar okay
look at some examples right here hablar
cantar
buscar
okay they're just a couple see they end
in ar so they're an ar verb there you go
now
think back to the chart okay remember i
told you to use that chart and print it
in your mind
it's going to be very important today
we're going to use it as a visual
organizer that we can apply to every
single
ar verb in the language and this is what
i mean
you know you take the verb hablar which
means to speak i don't need to teach you
how to say
i speak you speak she speaks they speak
we speak
and then you don't have to turn around
and learn well kaminar means to walk and
now we're going to learn how to say i
walk she walks they walk we walk none of
that's necessary
all you need to do is know that the verb
caminar means to walk
that's all you need and hablar means to
speak
and nadar means to swim that's all you
need to know all right
so pay close attention to this because
i'm going to show you how to figure all
that other stuff out in one shot all
right let's draw the chart on the board
really quick we have our three spaces on
the left and three spaces on the right
and remember up here on the top left
everything that's in the top left has to
do with me that's the eye section okay
everything in the middle left has to do
with you talking to one person that i
know well and then everything in the
bottom left has to do with he she or you
formal
everything in the top right has to do
with we and everything in the middle
right has to do with vosotros you plural
you and other people you plural and then
everything in the bottom right has to do
with they or you plural also okay
i'm going to give you these endings you
might want to draw your chart real quick
on your paper just scribble that chart
out really quick and i want you to write
these endings down right
in the top left
here's the first ending it's all
just the letter o
you might be saying what is he talking
about an ending we're going to use these
endings in just a second i promise
you'll understand it and in the middle
left we're going to use
the the ending as a s
okay
in the bottom left write this ending ah
just the letter a
okay so so far we've got oh asa
so learn those endings just go ahead and
start and praying that under my left
hand with o
okay
go to the right side
the nosotros ending is amos
amos
and the middle right vosotros ending is
ice
ice
okay
and then the bottom right is
all right let's just take a minute to go
over those endings and try to put them
in our mind
again
okay
now that doesn't take too long to learn
make just try to imprint that in your
head now this is what we do let's take
the verb hablar
okay
now you you saw these in a different
lesson we've talked about greetings one
time um but we use the verb to speak and
do you speak spanish hablas espanol and
i speak spanish hablo espanol
what we're going to do we'll clear the
chart off for just a second now that
you've got those in your notes
and let's take the verb hablar
and let's pretend that i wanted to say i
speak
now first of all we know
that we can't
just
take that word hablar
and pull it down and say yo hablar
that would not make sense and i'm going
to tell you why
when a verb
an ar verb
has its ar still on there it's it's in
that form it's hablar
that ar makes it mean literally
to speak
to speak
okay literally so if you said
uh i need to speak you would say hablar
just like that because it literally
means
to speak when you have that ar at the
end and an er verb is the same thing it
would mean to do that if it still had
the er or the ir on it
so the verb hablar means to speak i
can't say yo
because that would mean i to speak so
what we got to do is make some changes
just like we do in english
i've got
to speak i don't say i to speak i have
to modify i have to take off that 2.
if i was going to say she does that i'd
take off that 2 and i'd add an s and say
she speaks right
so
we got to make changes just like we do
in english here's how we make those
changes
first thing we're going to do always
is take off the ar
now on the verb hablar we take off the
ar now we're just left with h a b
l
now all we have to do is apply
the endings
okay
apply the endings
so we're going to say back to i speak
i speak yo
now think about
look on your in your notes on your chart
where is the word yo
it's on the top left of your chart right
everything in your mind
has put
y'all everything that has to do with
y'all or me is up there in the top
left correct
so think about this if everything has to
do with eyes in the top left what ending
did i put in the top left
oh correct
so when i want to say i speak i take off
the ar
and i simply put the ending
o on there
yo
hablo
that's why we said in another lesson we
did greetings we said i speak spanish yo
hablo espanol i could just say hablo i
don't have to say yo okay
look at the next one
i'm saying you speak you speak spanish
okay
is in the middle left of the chart
so i take the a the the verb uh hablar
and i take off the ar
i'm left with h-a-b-l
which ending did we write in the middle
left
us a s right that's the ending we put on
it
hablas
that means you speak that's why in the
greetings we learn hablas espanol do you
speak spanish
right now look down here in the bottom
left of the chart we've got el ea and
usted the ending we put there was ah
those three all use the same ending they
all use the same ending so he speaks
el
habla
she speaks
habla
and if i want to be
respectful and say usted
habla
or i can even flip it and make it a
question habla usted espanol
okay so go to the right side nosotros we
speak
nosotros hablamos that's the ending we
wrote up on the top right
now the spain
version vosotros
hablais
is that ending we use for all three of
those okay
elas
all right
now let's look at one more verb just
because now and i want to i just want to
do another example but now i want you to
understand
that you can apply these endings to any
ar verb in the present tense and that's
and you've got them all okay so let's
look at one more nadar to swim
i swim
think about it i'm not you know we're
not going to go too far in it because i
just want you to think
what would i do if i'm doing i swim
right take off the ar and i'm going to
add that ending so yo nado
okay you swim
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okay
at this point when you get oh asa almost
like
all you have to do is learn the ar verb
all i got to do is say hey to walk is
kaminar
and that's all you need to know now you
can go all right what's we walk
who's up there in that okay nosotros
right
or
if i were to say to you
um
i look for buscar buscars the verb to
look for
i look for okay well bulscart are the
ending is oh yo busco
what about their they look for in yo
you see friends you can apply that
to every ar verb out there now of course
you know how it is there are going to be
a few rule breakers right we're going to
have a few irregulars we'll pick those
up in other lessons they have a little
bit of a difference a little change to
them no big deal we'll get those as we
progress through okay
practice ar verbs here's what you need
to do practice
on
but learn as many ar verbs as you can
learn as many as you can there are a
bunch and bunch of bunch and bunches of
those
so learn them because you can just
automatically start using them in your
conversation all right