| Let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| Do you remember how the character said, |
| "I live in an apartment downtown." |
| Vivo en un departamento en el centro. |
| Vivo en un departamento en el centro. |
| This sentence follows the pattern here: |
| Vivo/ Resido/Trabajo en + place |
| "I live/I reside/I work in + place" |
| In this lesson, we're learning how to say where you live or work using the pattern: |
| Vivo/ Resido/ Trabajo en + place, which means "I live/I reside/I work in + place." |
| These are very common expressions in daily conversations. |
| Use vivo en to talk about where you live, like a house or an apartment. |
| You can say resido en to be a bit more formal, |
| and trabajo en when you're talking about your workplace. |
| Just add a place after the preposition to complete the sentence. |
| Here's how the line from the dialogue uses the pattern. |
| Vivo en un departamento en el centro. |
| "I live in an apartment downtown." |
| Let's break it down: |
| Vivo, the present tense of vivir, meaning "I live," |
| en, a preposition, meaning "in," |
| un departamento, meaning "an apartment," |
| en, again means "in," |
| el centro, meaning "downtown." |
| Altogether: |
| "I live in an apartment downtown." |
| In the dialogue, we also heard: |
| Yo resido en las afueras... |
| "I live on the outskirts..." |
| Here, |
| Yo, is the subject pronoun "I," |
| resido, the present tense of the verb residir, meaning "reside," |
| en, a preposition meaning "in" or "at," |
| las afueras, meaning "the outskirts." |
| Altogether: |
| Yo resido en las afueras... |
| "I live on the outskirts..." |
| Let's talk about how to describe where something is using prepositions of place. |
| These are simple words that help us say where a building or place is located. |
| For example, en means "in or at," |
| cerca de means "near," |
| lejos de means "far from," |
| and frente a means "in front of." |
| We combine these with a location or building to talk about where we live, work, or study. |
| For example: |
| frente a mi edificio |
| "in front of my building" |
| Now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| Vivo en una casa cerca de la estación del metro. |
| "I live in a house near the subway station." |
| Can you see how the pattern applies here? |
| Let's break it down: |
| Vivo, the first person form of the verb vivir, meaning "I live," |
| en una casa, meaning "in a house," |
| cerca de, a preposition phrase meaning "near," |
| la estación del metro, meaning "the subway station." |
| Altogether: |
| Vivo en una casa cerca de la estación del metro. |
| "I live in a house near the subway station." |
| Here's another example |
| Trabajo en una oficina frente a una cafetería. |
| "I work in an office in front of a café." |
| Trabajo en una oficina frente a una cafetería. |
| "I work in an office in front of a café." |
| Let's try one more, |
| Resido en un apartamento en el segundo piso. |
| "I reside in an apartment on the second floor." |
| Resido en un apartamento en el segundo piso. |
| "I reside in an apartment on the second floor." |
| One last example. |
| Trabajo en un hospital cerca del parque. |
| "I work in a hospital near the park." |
| Trabajo en un hospital cerca del parque. |
| "I work in a hospital near the park." |
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