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| Hola, ¿cómo estás? Mi nombre es Romina, mucho gusto. Yo soy tu profesora de español. |
| Hi, how are you today? My name is Romina, and I am your Spanish teacher. En la clase de hoy, voy a explicarte cómo hablar de nacionalidad en español. |
| For today's lesson, I'm gonna teach you how to express nationalities in Spanish, how to say where are you from in Spanish. |
| Para hablar de nacionalidad en español necesitas el verbo “ser.” El verbo “ser” significa “to be” en inglés. |
| So, to talk about nationalities in Spanish, we need to use the verb “ser.” Please repeat, “ser,” “ser.” |
| The verb “ser” significa, the verb “ser” means “to be” in English. So, when you're translating this verb into English, you're gonna translate it as “to be.” |
| En la clase de hoy, no voy a enseñarte cómo conjugar el verbo “ser” completamente. Solamente nos vamos a enfocar en el verbo “ser” para “yo” y el verbo “ser” para “tú.” |
| In this video, I'm not gonna explain to you how to conjugate the verb for every single person pronoun, every single person doing the action, okay? Because, unfortunately, I don't have the time. But what we're gonna do is we're gonna focus on using this verb with “yo,” which means “I,” and with “tú,” which means “you.” |
| Tenemos otros videos en los cuales explicamos cómo conjugar el verbo “ser” completamente. If you're curious, we have other videos where we explain how to conjugate this verb completely. So, please go ahead and watch these other videos if you're feeling curious. |
| El verbo “ser” para “yo” es: soy. Repite, por favor: Yo soy. Yo soy. Yo soy. |
| So, to conjugate the verb “ser,” the verb “to be” with “I,” you have to say “soy.” So it will be “yo soy,” that means “I am.” Okay, so as you know, just as in English, you need to change the verb. It's not correct to say “I to be,” you have to say “I am.” So, the same thing happens in Spanish, you can't say “yo ser,” you have to say “yo soy.” Okay, “yo soy” means “I am.” |
| Cuando hablamos de nacionalidad en español, tenemos dos opciones. La primera opción es: Yo soy de Colombia. La segunda opción es: Yo soy colombiana. |
| When we talk about nationalities in Spanish, we have two options. Okay, the first option is to say “yo soy,” that means “I am,” and then you can say “from,” which in this case is gonna be “de.” Okay, in this example, I'm personally not from Colombia, I'm from Argentina, but this is just an example. And I was just saying now, “I am from Colombia.” So I'm saying “Yo soy de Colombia,” yes. So that's the first option, you're using the name of your country. You're saying you're from that country. |
| But what happens if you want to say “I am Colombian,” right? So, in that case, that's the second alternative we have in Spanish as well. And you can say “yo soy colombiana.” Vamos a practicar. Repite, por favor: Yo soy de Colombia. Yo soy de Colombia. Yo soy de Colombia. Yo soy colombiana. Yo soy colombiana. Yo soy colombiana. |
| Con respecto a la segunda opción, tienes que tener en cuenta el género. ¿Es masculino o es femenino? When you're using the second option, you have to think about the gender. You have to think if you have to use a female or a male, a masculine, okay, nationality. En mi caso, yo soy mujer, necesito la palabra en femenino. In my personal case, of course, I'm a female, so I'm going to be using the word in the female. Okay, so as you can see, as you can see in the example, “Yo soy colombiana,” “colombiana,” ending “a,” okay, that's a female word. Okay, but if I were a male, I would say “Yo soy Colombiano.” |
| Si quieres transformar una palabra de masculino a femenino, necesitas reemplazar la “o” final. Reemplazas la “o” por “a”. Por ejemplo, “cubano,” “cubana,” “argentino,” “argentina.” |
| So, if in Spanish you want to turn a word from male into female, so what you have to do is replace that ending “o”, just replace that and use an “a” instead. If it's a male, you're gonna say “cubano,” but if it's a female, you're gonna say “cubana.” Okay, if it's someone from my country, you're gonna say “argentino” or “argentina” for males. But if it's a female, then you're gonna say “argentina.” |
| I would like to clarify as to why I'm not using “argentina” as the first example. That's why I'm not using “argentina,” and that's because the name of the country is just as the “gentilicio,” okay, the adjective. So that's why I feel that it's not very good as an example to show you the differences between the first option and the second option, right? Because if I'm telling you exactly where I'm from, I'm just going to say “Yo soy de Argentina” or “Yo soy argentina.” So I think the difference, as you can see, it's just that the “de” is missing. So I feel that these phrases are not very different, and that's why I don't like using it as an example. I love my country, I'm very proud to be Argentinian, and I wanted to just clarify that. |
| A veces, no es posible reemplazar la “o” por “a.” A veces, necesitas sumar una “a,” colocar una “a extra.” Por ejemplo, “inglés,” “inglesa,” “español,” “española,” “alemán,” “alemana.” So sometimes it's not possible in Spanish to replace the “o” and add an “a” to make it female. In those cases, what you have to do is add an extra “a.” For example, as I was saying before, I was saying “English,” right? It's “inglés,” “inglesa”. You can see that we are adding an “a” at the end. Okay, because obviously there is no “o” to replace. “Español,” “española.” “Alemán,” “alemana.” Okay, so I was just saying “English,” then “Spanish,” and then “German.” |
| Hay palabras que funcionan para femenino o masculino y no necesitas cambiar la palabra. We have words in Spanish that work perfectly fine for both female and male. So you wouldn't have to make any changes to the word. Por ejemplo, “belga,” “pakistaní,” “árabe,” “hindú.” No importa si es femenino o masculino, puedes decir “belga.” Those can be used for females or males. |
| Now it's your turn to tell me where are you from. So the questions in Spanish to ask someone about nationality is “¿De dónde eres?” El verbo “ser” para “tú” es “eres.” Tú eres. Tú eres. Tú eres. |
| What happens if you want to say “you are”? Okay, again, you can't say “tú ser,” you need to conjugate it. Okay, you have to say “tú eres.” So that means “you are.” Repite, por favor, please repeat. ¿De dónde eres? ¿De dónde eres? ¿De dónde eres? |
| Por favor, en los comentarios, escribe la respuesta a esta pregunta: ¿De dónde eres tú? Please, in the comments below, let me know the answer to this question: where are you from? ¿De dónde eres? |
| Okay, it's the end of the video, it's the end of the lesson. Thank you so much for watching, and please let me know in the comments down below if you have any questions. Muchísimas gracias y nos vemos en la próxima clase. Adiós. |
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