Two ways to learn more Spanish easily
Sometimes, Spanish can get confusing. That’s why I created both an audio course and a step by step action guide with Synergy Spanish.
Frankly, I could create my course in about 20% of the time if I made them just audio, but that wouldn’t be as effective.
Yes, I know people sell courses and use catch phrases like, no books, just audio as if that makes it better.
Sure, I think it’s more fun to listen to audio, and we all know how dull textbooks can be. Just because textbooks are dull, doesn’t mean a step by step action guide has to be dull.
If it helps you discover how to use more Spanish and get more from the audio lessons, all the better.
Here’s a question from a student. You’ll see that if I didn’t have an action guide for her to refer to she could get overwhelmed.
Hola Marcus,
My question is this: If “mos” in spanish means “we” and its placed at the end of the word such as in podemos and queremos then why is “nos” placed at the beginning of the word in gusteria and gusta when it’s usual place seems to be at the end of the word. I can understand the “nos” placement at the end of the word because (us) is usually a sentence ender like in ayudarnos (help us) but to put it in front of a word such as in gusta, and gusteria it’s like saying “us like and us would like rather than we (mos) like. If “mos” means “we” then why isn’t “mos” placed at the beginning of gusteria and gusta instead of “nos?” How would you know when to use mos in front of a word versus using nos in front?
Also, if mos stands for we than why isn’t it placed in front of the word such as: mos pode rather than podemos the way nos gusteria is placed in front - why is one word meaning “we”placed in front and another word meaning “we” placed in the body of the word yet they both stand for “we”? This is my confusion - Help!
Penny
Hi Penny
Actually, it is covered in easy steps throughout the Synergy Spanish action guide Synergy Spanish
However, here is a quick overview
When you say, nos gustaria,
what you are literally saying is
to us = nos
it would be pleasing = gustaria
to us it would be pleasing = nos gustaria
However, we use nos gustaria as, we would like, because that is closer to the way it really is used.
Hope this helps
Best regards