It helps to think of "gustar" as the opposite of "disgustar," or the English "to disgust." I've found it easy to remember because of the negative prefix. You don't disgust a piece of moldy bread, but the bread disgusts you, so you are disgusted by it. Basically all gustar is.

@elspanishdude

8 жыл бұрын

+Henry Eugene DoubleHockeySticks That's excellent!!! Thank you, I'll use that in the future.

@renee901fulable

5 жыл бұрын

EXCEPT that it uses the indirect object pronoun

@liliacfury

5 жыл бұрын

That’s actually perfect for me, I’ve been using the verb _bore_ but this works better.

@patrickohare9103

4 жыл бұрын

@@renee901fulable No, it's the same thing. The moldy bread doesn't literally disgust you, it is disgusting TO you. Therefore it still uses an IOP.

@rahuldurai5929

4 жыл бұрын

@@elspanishdude I found this video very helpful, but I have a question: When using the verb gustar, why does the subject (the thing that is pleasing) go after the conjugated form of gustar and not before? For example, why does "comer" go after "gusta" in "Me gusta comer" if "comer" is the subject that is pleasing? Why isn't it "Comer me gusta."? Again, thanks for these videos!

Physics Nerds Unite! Speed is a scalar quantity with just magnitude. Velocity is a vector with both a magnitude and direction.

@nousername5673

4 жыл бұрын

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@AlloftheGoodNamesAreTaken

3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for in the comments as both cochlea were melting. :D

@basselabuissa7464

2 жыл бұрын

Basic knowledge

Hi Jordan. I'm a Spanish teacher in rural north Florida. I love showing your videos to my class. It serves as a reinforcement of what I go over with them. I love your no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point approach. I know you didn't do well in high school, but I love how your journey to learning Spanish has transpired. It's very inspiring!

Dude. You totally nailed it! Even my MSc novia mexicana could not explain it as well as that!

@elspanishdude

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Hall Awesome! Glad I could help! This had me confused for quite a while. Thanks for the message!

@Sfeliciano4

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously! What a difference

The absolute best description of gustar! I have searched high and low for the reasoning behind it's usage. Finally got it and now I get it!

Thank god this saved me from having to ask my teacher what to do, just to hear "You should have been listening in class!"

I really love your teaching style. it's effective and refreshing. thanks so much for all your great work

I am so happy I happened upon your videos this morning. If I could have stayed home from work, I would have listened to you all day. But as it was, I listened to about 4 hours of your videos and figured out so many things that had been lost to me. I am traveling to Peru in 7 months to teach how to crochet in a community center. If only you had a video about ganchillo. You are a remarkable teacher. Thanks for sharing your skills.

Thank you SO much! I have been studying Spanish for quite sometime now and it seems you just can't find explanations for some of these things anywhere! You are unlocking all the riddles of the language! Estoy mucha agradecida! 😁

I am on my second online college Spanish course. The teachers are not terribly supportive, and the text is often really confusing. I honestly don't know how I would've made it this far with out your help. Seeing your face is a relief. Thank you!

This is the best and the perfect explanation that I have watched among all the sources that I've encountered instead of clearing out the confusion ironically, it makes me more confused but this one really nailed it. Especially to the part of the Aburrir that I don't really find it similar like the gustar and encantar. Thank you for your perfect explanation

your videos are the only thing that makes sense to me. I'm in an intensive first year course in university for spanish, we learn over 30 new words a week and it's quite daunting then I found your videos and it really brings the theory clarity!

Your videos are amazing. Please please please don't stop making these videos. They've helped me so much!

@elspanishdude

8 жыл бұрын

+adis bajraktarevic Thank you! I'm glad they help you! I'm not going anywhere. Just getting started!

i have been learning spanish for almost 6 years and not once have i been able to understand gustar until now! my life is changed XD

This is the best KZread channel for learning Spanish I've ever seen. Many thanks, Jason! Excellent work!

@elspanishdude

8 жыл бұрын

+lA d Thank you! I appreciate that! But my name's Jordan =) No hard feelings.

@availablejan

8 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Jordan! I don't know where I got the name Jason! Once again thanks for this excellent channel.

I like the way you get straight to the point or idea!

thanks for the amazing videos, I used them a lot when I started with Spanish. now my mother is learning Spanish and I'm showing her these videos because they helped me truly understand many things that I was struggling with in Spanish :)

It's difficult, but you explained it so well! Thank you!

This video is pleasing to me, Jordan :-D

Wow! you are exactly what i need to learn spanish. Its like getting the low down on the inside. It is pleasing to me a lot. See I understand it already Take care buddy.

woah! me encantan tus videos! me ayudan a mejorar en el inglés y tener en cuenta también la conjugación de España jeje En el 4:17 "La velocidad de la coche" debería ser "La velocidad del coche" coche es un sustantivo masculino "el coche" :)

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

Andi Bleu Gracias! Por el complemento y la corrección! Qué error! Gracias =)

@andre-jb2jf

9 жыл бұрын

Gringo Español de nada!

OK so right here, you place yourself head and shoulders above so many others, because you got to the bottom of the dictionary fallacy. Superb. A cool tranquil pond of clear thinking in a frantic world of clumsy non-functional approximations. Thank you so much!

This was really helpful, none on my instructors explained it like this

Helpful video! Velocity is speed in a direction so it is relative to a position and so it can be a negative value. Speed is the absolute value of velocity. It is speed without a direction and so it is always positive. Both are a rate of distance traveled over a period of time.

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

ChancePance Gracias amigo! So when you're going backward velocity is negative? But speed is always positive?

@chancepance995

9 жыл бұрын

Gringo Español Correct. Acceleration works the same way. As long as they object is moving back toward a previously occupied position on the same vector path, both the velocity and the acceleration would be negative, and the speed would be positive as you can't have a negative speed. That would be like having a negative distance. Thanks for all of the great videos!

@nousername5673

4 жыл бұрын

@@elspanishdude Also, speed in Spanish is celeridad: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeridad.

this video helped me to understood the verb gustar I had issue with for longtime. Thank you for the video

Finally! Someone has been able to explain it to me well. Gracias SpanishDude!

When it was difficult to understand certain aspects of using Spanish, I looked for more ways for the language to be explained. El Gringo made it fun to understand the explanation of his message,

i'm learning lots of your videos !! hope you make a lot more !

FINALLY I get the perplexing me gusta thing! Thank you!!!

Jordan, you really teach well!! I can't believe how much time you save me! Thanks!

@elspanishdude

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad to hear that! Thanks!

I cannot tell you how long it has been that I have been looking for a proper explanation for the use of Gustar. Right after you explain it to mean "to be pleasing to" it all clicked at 5:13 where I stopped the video and began slow clapping that I FINALLY understand how to tell a girl "Me gustas" = You're pleasing to me; and not have my brain in a tangled mess. Gracias Jordan! Muchísimas gracias mi querido amigo!!

you cleared up a lot of confusion thanks!!!

Easily the best video/post on this topic I've seen yet. Wish I came across it first.

Oh. my. word. why didn't I find you years ago!? This finally clicked - thank you!

Jordan, I am starting to teach Spanish which is my first language and your videos are the absolute best. Concise, clear, to the point, funny, relatable. Me fascinan tus videos y tu manera de explicar!! Do you or anyone know a song that has lots of these "me gusta" type of verbs that IS NOT "Me gustas tu" by Manu Chau? I love that song, but it only uses me gusta, me gustas or me gustan.. I would love to find a song that has, me encanta, me importa, me molesta, me aburre, me duele, me parece, me preocupa... etc? Mil gracias!!

good stuff homie, gotta love seein a youngin on the come up

This was so helpful. These videos are awesome.

Your work is brilliant

Awesome! Such a big help to my online Spanish class!

about 4 years ago i firstly became contact with spanish and met this barrier... and never understood those indirect direct object pronouns... especially this word gustar. but today is the day that i clearly understood this concept and completely get rid of this barrier sincerely appreciating your great video!

Hola. Thanks for your video, really helped me understand because I didn't have a clue in spanish class. I watch your youtube vids all the time but how can I watch them in order of learning as sometimes Im watching something that as way beyond me! Thanks

Todos los días por tres meses este asunto ha estado haciendome loco. Finalmente tengo el correcto manera para entender. ¡Muchas Gracias! Y vídeo perfecto.

You lessons are brilliant

You're awesome. Thanks so much for your help!!

Yay! I have a spanish review presentation on this subject, im just going to play this video hahaah, you have saved me

@elspanishdude

8 жыл бұрын

India Riedel Nice! Great timing. Good luck!

love your videos, thank you!

great video as always, are there many words in Spanish used like Gustar and can you give us a few examples....... por favor y gracias

Thank you so much. It's simple to learn gustar, but it's forever a grey area of complexity within its simplicity, if that makes sense. So pleased with your explanation.

@elspanishdude

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Hola Jordan! When is it correct to use gusto, gustas, gustamos, and gustáis. Also, when do you use 'me' or 'a mi"? Muchos gracias!

super helpful, love all your videos! Or rather, your videos enchant me ;)

very helpful video. Velocity is pretty much speed+direction (useful in physics, not often used colloquially), where as speed is just how fast. there are exact definitions available online

You have saved my 17 year old life. Thank you so much. I was almost going to give up learning Spanish but your videos are so amazing, & I'm learning things that someone would usually have to take a class to learn. Thank you so so so much. What you are doing here is amazing & your channel is way underrated. Also, are you the same person as Señor Jordan? Again thanks so much omg.

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

Valiant DJ Hahahahaha. I'm so glad I saved your 17 year old life!! Thanks for this message!!! I love reading stuff like this. I'm so glad my videos helped you. I am not the same as Senor Jordan -- but I'm a big fan of his and I think our videos are different and complementary. So keep watching his videos and mine =) Thanks for such a great message. Please tell me if there's anything specific you need help with.

9 жыл бұрын

Gringo Español I didn't realize we were twins! ;-)

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

Senor Jordan And with that interaction, the world has seen the very first interaction of the two Gringo Jordan Spanish teachers that wear colorful shirts! Amazing the coincidence. I'm a big fan. I'll be messaging you shortly =)

9 жыл бұрын

Ok, sounds good!

@punkrawkmom

7 жыл бұрын

You guys should do a collab video on tocayos!

I feel like I just won the lottery; I stumbled upon your channel and it's my lucky day!

Inspiring! Thanks a lot!

Ola! When will you make videos on vocabularies? cognates? tip? gracias

Hello. Does anyone have a list of these verbs that are like gustar?? I understand the concept and how these words work, but I don't know which verbs they apply to. Does anyone have a list?

Thanks a million for these videos. They are helping me a lot in learning Spanish. This may not mean much for this video, but coming from an engineering background and to share some physics knowledge with you guys, the difference between Velocity and Speed is Velocity is a "vector quantity" meaning it has both magnitude and direction while Speed only has Magnitude. So while they might have the same units (m/sec for example) when Velocity of an object = 100 m/sec it mean velocity has a magnitude of 100 in a particular direction (whatever that direction is) but when Speed of and object = 100 m/sec it means the speed has a magnitude of 100 and but does not take into account the direction. That's probably why Momentum = mass x velocity (and not mass x speed) because moving objects have momentum, but however only have it in the particular direction they are moving in.... i think lol.. But again, keep up the good work and thanks again for the help. Saludos desde Trinidad y Tobago!!

so whats Gustaria? that came up heaps on my Spanish quiz i downloaded on my phone. i always thought it was "want" but if Gustar is the infinitive then the conjugation charts don't give Gustaria. Is Gustaria a conjugation of a separate infinitive? i'm probably missing something. I'm pretty new to the language but if anyone knows i'd be really keen to find out. Thanks again for the video

@nickpeebles7541

8 жыл бұрын

Yea thanks =). I worked out for conditional tense you conjugate first person singular with the infinitive + ía. Because of that I worked out that gustaria is the conditional first person singular conjugation of gustar and means I would like. While gustar is to want. Thanks for the reply. =).

Your an excellent teacher

There is a mistake. When you translated "the speed of the car", you translated "car" as it is a female noun, so you said "la velocidad de la coche" which sounds pretty weird to me (I'm spanish). The correct translation would be "la velocidad del coche", being "del" a contraction from "de + el".

Okay, I have a question, how do they teach the difference between speed and velocity in Spanish speaking countries?

Great teaching!

I was racking my brain for this exact thing, Why Gusta not Gusto. Thanks for the help.

Why does the subject come after the verb with gustar, quedar, etc.? Is something like acceptable?

Well explained. Thank

Thank you so much!! this is soooooooooooooooooooo helpful : D

Favourite Spanish teacher ever

@dangeranna3069

3 жыл бұрын

Please tell meaning of barrio

I refuse to learn from anybody who isn’t this guy

Fantastico nunca me entendi el verbo gustarse antes - gracias

Very nice explanation :D

I like it . thanks. very clear

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

cris bak My pleasure Cris.

hella helpful! thanks!

@elspanishdude

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

awesome videos, love the series. Will be a forever gringo very soon. I don't know if you noticed, but the music with the graphics was edited in at a much higher volume than the content of the lesson, so it's quite shocking when it comes on!

@elspanishdude

8 жыл бұрын

+Senor Farrell I'll take a look at that for sure! I'm glad you like the videos!

JJEJEJEJE HELLO MY ENGLISH FRIEND! THIS HELPS ME TO MAKE UNDERSTAND TO MY FOREIGNERS STUDENT :'') THANKS FOR EVERYTHING Y SALUDOS DESDE COLOMBIA!

So I’ve seen this video many times and I was learning a new phrase so I came back to this video because it seems to be a similar situation to gustar-like verbs. But I don’t think it fits. The phrase “caer bien” means to like someone. Very popular in music . It’s confusing me a lot I don’t think it’s like gustar verbs . Could you do a video on it?

Great video it really helps a lot! I've just one question: if I want to say I like her should i say Ella me gusta of could I say me le gusta or me la gusta a ella?

@elam5583

4 жыл бұрын

Ella me gusta

Excellent!

Good job!

YES! I show my students aburrir/gustar/interesar together, but I point out that in English, we use interesar and aburrir the same way! Gustar is the only weirdo!

Just FYI, the difference between speed and velocity in English is that speed is a scalar quantity while velocity is a vector. That means is that velocity can be negative, but speed cannot. There is a little more to it than that but that but that should suffice for a KZread comment.

This was so helpful for me. There are a lot of these "translations" that I wish the teachers and programs would stop using because it causes confusion.

@elspanishdude

2 жыл бұрын

Totally. Some of them are very harmful to how we think.

Me Gusta this video! Gracias!

But is it sometimes necessary to use pronombres? A mí me gusta, A ti te gustan... etc etc?

How do I find the practice videos? I am new to you tube. I am a premium subscriber to The Spanish Dude. I don't see any links below. Below what? Thanks, and lo siento

@elspanishdude

9 ай бұрын

There's a "description" under each video. That's where you'll find the links that I mention in each video.

Your into song is awsome!!

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

Alejandro Rodriguez Thank you!!! Yeah, I want get your heart pounding a little before we start talking grammar =)

@arjunvooturi9912

5 жыл бұрын

I lowkey think its cringy my guy

I both gusta and encanta your videos :)

Also, 'Me llamo Jordan' is actually 'I call my self Jordan'

helped so much!

Wow! Thanks 🤩🙏

Oh, and speed versus velocity? Speed is a "scalar" - you just need a single number to define it - the number of miles (eg) you travel in some time (an hour), for example. Velocity is a vctor - you need two numbers to define it - a speed (mph) and a direction (North). So - consider 2 cars. One driving 10mph North and the other 10 mph South. Both have the same speed (10 mph) but they have differewnt velocities as their directions are different. Just in case anyone cares.

Jordan, do you have a "List" of verbs like Gustar? I assumed your Worksheet would include a "list of verbs like Gustar".

@ 0:17, shouldn't it be La Compro, because the implied Direct Object is La Comida (Feminine)?

This comments section in a nutshell "This video saved my grade!" "yOu PrOnOuNcEd x WrOnG"

Thanks for this! This is why it's important to learn the "Super Literal Translation". This is the same format as Russian and so to me it makes immediate sense now. However, now I know why I kept confusing my friends with, "Te gustas?" jajaja I was still trying to conjugate gustar like a regular -AR verb :)

@elspanishdude

2 жыл бұрын

I love that, the "super literal translation". It's so important!

If we take physics into account then "speed" means "velocity" (as the formula for both of them is distance/time) and "velocity" means "rapidez" But of course that usually doesn't matter

@nickpeebles7541

8 жыл бұрын

+carolina potterhead thanks. i was wondering how that worked. seems like it would cause a bunch of issues if both speed and velocity had the same word. =)

@maryrothera7801

5 жыл бұрын

IN PHYSICS SPEED HAS NO DIRECTION BUT VELOCITY DOES - THEY CALL IT A VECTOR - I WAS DOING 70 IS SPEED - I WAS DOING 70 GOING NORTH - OR TO THE STORE - IS VELOCITY - FINE POINT - ALL CAPS IS 'CUZ I HAV LO VISION - NOT 4 ANGER ....

Hi Jordan, I love you videos. Quick question: how can I know where to put the extra information about what is 'pleasing', 'boring', 'interesting', that is, before or after the pronoun and conjugated verb? E.g. why is it: 'La clase' me aburre but Me encanta 'la pizza' or No me gustan 'las serpientes'?

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

Kane Blackburn Awesome question. I'm not 100% on this, so anybody who knows better, please add your opinion. They are all correct. I also just confirmed with a couple Mexicans sitting in the same room I'm in. So "La clase me aburre" and "Me aburre la clase" are both correct and it's just a style thing.Generally, words like gustar have the objects (direct or indirect) after the verb. So "Me gusta la pizza". I know aburrir is a word like gustar, but when given the choice of the two sentences, both Mexicans I'm currently with chose "La clase me aburre" as sounding better. But again, both are correct.So it's really just a matter of how it sounds to you. Your style of talking. I don't recall if I used the words differently (different order) in this video. If I did, I did it without thinking. One time I might say "Me aburre la clase" another time I might say "La clase me aburre". But other than just style, the emphasis in both those sentences is a little different. In the first, my feeling of boredom is more in focus. In the second sentence, the class is more in focus. Feel that?

@DOMINGUINLUIS

9 жыл бұрын

I´m a native spanish speaker. Grammatically, the correct form is to say: La clase me aburre, La pizza me encanta. First we have to put the article, afer the noun and finally the verb. But, in the every day speaking, people use both forms,

@nicolasl.2539

9 жыл бұрын

Grammatically both ways are perfectly correct. The subjet (what bores you, what pleases you, what interests you...) can be place before or after the verb. La clase me aburre/me aburre la clase; La pizza me encanta/me encanta la pizza; No me gustan las serpientes/Las serpientes no me gustan. Use whichever you prefer.

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

DOMINGUINLUIS Gracias!

@elspanishdude

9 жыл бұрын

Nico Lucas Gracias!

Thank you again.

Thank youuu!

You said that you normally hear "gusta" and not much of the other conjugations of gustar... but what about "mucho gusto"?

Deberías hablar de cómo formular preguntas (Wh-questions).

@jheinsonrocha8917

8 жыл бұрын

+Sonia Garcia MUY FACIL ESE TEMA.. CASI SIEMPRE SE USA EN PRENSETE SIMPLE.