01010 Spanish Lesson – Me gusta (part 1)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at
10:51 pm
In this video, we’ll be talking about the phrase ‘Me gusta’, which could be roughly translated as ‘I like’ and how to use it with verbs to tell what you like to do. Hope it’s helpful! Feel free to rate and/or leave comments/questions/suggestions. For more free Spanish video lessons, please check out www.srjordan.wordpress.com Vocabulario ¿Qué te gusta? – What do you like? (A ti) Te gusta _. – You like __. (A mí) Me gusta __. – I like __. (A mí) No me gusta __. – I dont like __. nadar – to …
you’re right:
tocar = to touch
it can also mean ‘to play’ with musical instruments
jugar = ‘to play’ with games, sports
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this helped lets see if ah could learn more from da otha vid it cleared things up tho
me gusta a ti!
correcto?
Close:
(A mí) Me gustas.
I guess this is an exception to the gusta rule as it is more of an expression?
With gustar, when first teaching the verb, we tend to oversimplify the explanation…
gustar means ‘to please / be pleasing to’
(A mí) Me gusta la clase.
(Class is pleasing to me. / Class pleases me.)
This is why we’ll pluralize it for more than one object:
(A mí) Me gustan las clases.
(Classes are pleasing to me. / Classes please me.)
Of course, no one says that in English, we say ‘I like, you like’
With other people pleasing you then, you’ll have to take into account who is doing the pleasing….
That’s why we construct the sentences the following way.
In all honesty, it’s one of a few verbs that follow this slightly confusing structure:
(A mí) Me gusta… = It pleases me. / I like it.
(A mí) Me gustas. = You please me. / I like you.
(A mí) Me gustan… = They please me. / I like them.
Now that makes sense! I used to thought that the literal meaning is ‘to like’ but now since youve put it that way I perfectly understand.
Thanks J.
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Im from middle east and i love spanish
You make it easier to learn ,, thank you very very very very very very very “and alot of verys” much
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Me gustas mucho.
ur lessons are VERY helpful…
my spanish teacher uses them during class…
Your videos are great!
Thank you so much for posting these videos! My teacher are so slow, in 2 hours the only thing we learn was: Me llamo..! Btw what is your website??
No me gusta estudiar… But I Have to. This video has been VERY helpful with my studing for the yearly exams at school.
¿use ud “que” ante el infinitivo? por ejemplo…….
A mí no me gusta que bailar = I don’t like to dance
If I like to do something…
Me gusta + [infinitive]
No ‘que’ is needed.