on today's lesson of the language tutor i want to talk to you about a verb that is used all the time all day long every day and almost everything we say and that is the verb to be to be now in english we have the luxury of only having one form of to be and it is 2b and think about this um what are the what are the conjugations are the different forms of to be in english well if i say one day i want to be a spanish teacher well a form of that if i'm going to use it with those pronouns like i and you and we and they but we have to change it we don't say i to be right so we have to change it and in english we say i am and we say you are and we say she is and they are and we are and you plural are so the forms of to be in the present tense are is am and are now think about how many times a day we say is am and are all the time right so think about how common this is going to be in your speaking in your conversation in spanish you're going to be using this all the time so it's really good to go ahead and get to know this verb here's the problem friends there are two ways to say to be in spanish it's a little bit more challenging not a big deal though you're going to have it down before you know it so today i want to talk to you about the first one okay and that is the verb ser s e r ser now ser literally means to be okay so if i was going to say in spanish that sentence i used while i go one day i want to be a spanish teacher i would say seb for to be because that's exactly what it means okay now the the issue is is that when we're going to use it with with i or you or he or she just like english we can't leave it ser all right now remember those pronouns we learned well we can't just bring ser and use it with those pronouns we can't say yo ser because that would mean same thing in english i2b it doesn't make sense does it so just like in english when we change to b to am we're going to change ser also so here we go i'm going to put up the chart remember the chart we learned and we were talking about how important it was to put the pronouns on those on that chart and to learn where the yolo is and learn where the tu is and what that means in the alien instead and i said you know uh usted also means you and remember i was talking about hey why don't why doesn't it go up here with tool they mean the same thing and i said no you got to put it down here because they use all the same stuff usted uses the same stuff as el and aya well right now you're going to find out what that means it's going to make sense to you so let's put we got the chart up here i'm going to put the forms of ser on this chart for you and i want you to see the different form these are the is the am and the r's of the verb ser all right so first of all up here in the top left of the chart we're going to put this word soy soy soy now think about this this is where we start going i'm going to use my visual organizer i've got the chart it's imprinted in my mind i know that y'all is up here soy is also up here on the chart so soy goes with yol so what do you think soy might mean if we know it's an is an m or an r it's one of those you got it it means i am okay so the way we say i am is yo soy now here's the interesting thing about spanish you don't even have to say yo you can just say soy all right you can say yo soy people do it all the time or you can just say soy either one but i am is soy now let's move down to the middle left i'm talking to you someone i know well that's the tu form that means you are okay that that you are when i'm talking to that one person that i know well a friend it's informal it's not uh respectful it's just casual and informal so tu eres now let's move down to the bottom left of the chart the el elsted form we're going to use the word s s e s so this actually kind of has two meanings it depends on which depends on which one you're using it with so with l and a it means he and she are or he is and she is okay he is she is but now with usted it's r because we say you are in spanish okay so he is el es she is a s [Music] okay sometimes people say well if it's usted s how do you know whether you're not saying ustedes you know the plural for for you plural well that's a really good question but honestly in the context of the conversation you're gonna understand it's just like in english when you have the word bear you know which bear you're talking about i can't bear to think about it or we were on the trail and saw a bear or you know here are the bear facts you know you understand it by conversation same thing in spanish so don't even worry about that you'll be fine so now you see that usted uses the same stuff as elena so that's why we put it together let's go to the top right of the chart nosotros we are nosotros somos that means we are okay let's go to the ba to the middle right over there the spain version remember we use vosotros pretty much in spain there are some countries that will say voss as a short form but i don't want to go into that right now because that's getting a little bit uh in depth because it's different from country to country i've heard it used several different ways but right now we'll stick with vosotros and the word that goes with that is soyuz s-o-i-s vosotros that means you plural all of you are and then finally in the bottom right we've got ellos and ustedes and those uh obviously mean they are and ustedes means you plural are and they all use song s-o-n song okay i want you to be working on those think about you know just you're driving down the road quiz yourself how do i say i am yo soy how do you say she is a s just be thinking about those and getting them in your mind but now before we end today's lesson i want to talk to you about when we use said because this is really important later on in a future lesson i'm going to talk to you about the other form of to be and i want you to have this one down nice and solid first so that you don't have to struggle with that and the other one later you already know this one pretty solid and all you got to do is kind of bring the other one in it's not going to be hard don't worry so i'm going to put this word up here on the screen hoppin p-o-p-i-n poppin is something there are lots of different ways but this is one that i use to teach my students when we use the verb ser poppin stands for permanent condition occupation place of origin identification and nationality now i'm going to give you just an overview thought that i want you to keep in your head ser really is talking about who we are as people our beings uh who we are our identification right and we don't really use this in temporary ways um like being sick or something this is more of who we are as people so permanent condition um was the first p that that might be um you know i'm tall or she is short now a lot of times my students want to go well what if that person's short but you know later they're going to grow up and they're going to be tall and we start reading into it you can't do that okay so permanent condition whether it's tall short you know skinny whatever the case may be that's who you are as a person at that time and that's going to be sad all right so o stands for occupation obviously that's your job anytime you're going to say doctor lawyer teacher you're going to use ser to say that so yo soy profesor de espanol now notice i did not say i am a teacher with occupations we just say i am teacher she is lawyer all right it's a little different than english now so we got permanent condition occupation place of origin where you're from i am from georgia that's always going to be sad never will change that's who i am as part of my identity uh i stands for identification that could be anything that identifies you uh an american citizen um or you know whatever the case may be if it's identifying who you are as a person that is ser and finally nationality obviously american venezuelan colombian always going to be said all right so go ahead and start trying to just use those forms soy erse song also start learning pop and permanent condition occupation place of origin identification nationality just to kind of solidify when i'm using this