To Be The Verb To be. If you have not yet learned this thing, this little thing that they teach in school for five years, you have been in school for five years trying to learn it. Countless frustrating moments when using this verb to be.
The simplest and most essential verb in all the English language. If you haven't yet learned this little thing, the verb to be. In this video I am going to explain it 100 percent, you'll understand very well, you can start using it on your own, without more help and without more videos, grammar classes of the verb to be.
I hope you are excited. I am Kale Anders, your English coach and your favorite Swede. Let's get started.
Verb to be? Why such a basic video Kale? Why?
No patience, patience. Stay till the end of the video to know that this video is not basic at all. We are going to decode all this verb to be in this video.
So, be patient and stay until the end of the video. First, what we need to know is that very few people, in fact almost no one says "to be". It's not "I to be", "you to be", "he to be", "it to be" It's not "to be" it's almost never "to be".
And that's one of the reasons why everyone gets it confused. "To be" simply means to be Now "to be" or "to be" is the same thing in English, which makes everything much easier to be, is a for Spanish students. So, you don't have to worry about that, with the verb to be, because it's the same to be is the same.
But as I told you, we never say "to be". There are three simple ways of saying the verb to be. It's am say it with me, am am it's are are like a pirate are are and it's is is okay?
So we say, I am I am I am ir I am the same thing. Am is the verb to be. Now you know it, and it can be used as "estar or ser" as you like.
I am Mexican. I am drunk. I am Mexican.
I am drunk. Then, we have are We say, "you are" You are Mexican. You are drunk.
"Are" is also used with "we" and "they" we are Mexican. We are drunk They are Mexican. They are drunk.
Okay? The same thing. ser and estar is the same thing.
Okay? But it's am and are and now we have is. "is" is used with "he", "she", and "it" He is Mexican.
He is drunk. She is Mexican. She is drunk.
And it's "is" it's not "is", it's "is". I don't know why the English phonetics, I don't know why it is like that, but it's "is" is He is Mexican. He is drunk.
She is Mexican. She is drunk. And we also have "it" It is cold, for example.
"It" is a thing, is not a person, it's not "he" and it's not "she" It's just "it", a thing, something. In Spanish, for example, you're drinking coffee and you say "oh, it's hot". But in English you say "it is hot" It is hot.
You don't just say "is hot", you say "it is hot" "the coffee is hot" Is quite simple, right? Am Are is Is much simpler than it is in Spanish. I am, you are, we are, are, we are, it is, we are, they are, you are and it's funny because most natives don't even know what the verb to be is.
If you say, for example, I heard you say we are, what verb is that? A native speaker would be like. .
. I don't know, I have no idea. Because they learn this way.
We are, you are, he is, she is, it is, I am And, even more common, contractions, right? Do you remember school? Contractions we have in all languages, in Spanish too we say "of" instead of "of", "of" it is a contraction.
In Portuguese too, we say "I'm drunk" We don't say "I drunk". I'm drunk. We don't say I drunk.
Like a costeño. So, instead of "I am drunk" we say "I'm drunk" I'm Mexican. It's the same thing.
I am I'm I'm Okay, say it with me, I'm, I'm. Instead of saying you are or we are or they are, we say r. .
. that's it. You're We're They're You're Mexican.
You're drunk. They're Mexican. They're drunk.
We're Mexican. We're drunk. And also with "is" He is Mexican.
She is Mexican. He's Mexican. He's drunk.
She's Mexican. She's drunk. Is Is it's just izz She's Okay?
We have "it's". Here's a weird thing, when it's it's not "it's", as if it were with z it's "it's" It's cold it's raining instead of zz I don't know why, another werid thing, right? But that's just the way it is.
Say it with me. It's raining it raining. It's cold.
It's cold He's Mexican. He's drunk. She's Mexican.
She's drunk. So, we have the three ways of saying it Am Are Is and we have the contractions, right? Now let's move on to more advanced.
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Past tense. The past tense. What do we do with the past tense?
Simple, we have two words "was" and "were". Was Were Was Were "Were" sounds similar to "we are" we're were we're were Which sounds similar. But don't worry about that, because you will understand it with the help of context.
You always, always have to take into account the context, the words around to know which one it really is, even if the words sound the same. It's not a problem because with the, with the help of the context, you can quickly guess which one it is. If you have enough vocabulary, you can listen to it.
Okay? You're going to be totally fine. So, how do we use it?
We say "I was" I was. It's the past. For example, last weekend I was drunk.
Don't think I'm a drunk, guys. I just like to use examples with a little more emotion, right? Because "drunk" creates a lot of emotions and when something creates emotion it is easier to remember.
So I'm using "drunk" as an example because I know you're going to memorize it more. So, I was drunk, I was drunk. it's warm.
And the other one "were" You were drunk but now you're sober. Simple, right? "You" can also mean "Ustedes" It can be "you" and it can be "you".
Okay? You were drunk can mean many people. You were drunk.
You were drunk. Or just you, "you were drunk". The same thing.
Yesterday, we were sad, but now we´re happy. They were sad, but now they're happy. Okay?
Do you ge it? Was Were Now, future. How does the future tense work in English?
It's super simple. We have the clue words of the future tense. If you hear those words, it's a clue that it's going to be future.
Can Could May/might Will Going to or "gonna" which also means "going to". With all of those, it is very logical and very simple. I'm not even going to explain it because you're going to understand anyway.
And I'm going to say it with contractions, okay? I will be happy. I'll be happy.
I'll be happy. I'll be happy. I'm going to be happy.
The same thing, it means exactly the same thing or more native "I'm gonna be happy" contractions. I'm gonna be happy. I'm gonna be happy.
He will be tired. He'll be tired. He's going to be tired.
He's gonna be tired. They'll be drunk. They'll be drunk.
They're going to be drunk. They're gonna be drunk. Or "they might be drunk" They may be drunk.
He could be drunk. She could be drunk. Everything is the same, be When it's future it's "be", nothing more.
We almost never say "to be", But, well now, let's go to the most advanced possible, the most advanced. Before, please give me a like. Don't forget, thumbs up to the video, give me a like, please.
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It really helps. So, the most advanced of it all. Have or had been.
Have been. Had been. Very logical, yet very simple.
Super, super similar to Spanish. "Been" is "estado" or "sido". Remember, to be and to be is the same thing.
to be, to be. Been. Been.
Okay? Have been. Have been, is to have been or to have been.
To have been. Have been. Have been.
Had been is had been or had been, the same thing. Had been. For example, how have you been?
How have you been? With contractions? How've you been?
How've you been? How've have you been? I have been very well, thanks.
I have been very well, thanks. With contractions. I've been well, thanks.
I've been very well, thanks. What have they been doing today? What have they been doing today?
They have been drinking all day. They have been drinking all day. They have been drinking all day.
Now, had been. Why were they late to dinner yesterday? Why were they late to dinner yesterday?
Because they had been drinking all day. Because they had been drinking all day. Or with contraction, Because they'd been drinking all day.
Yes, it is exactly the same. It gets cut. They had been drinking all day becomes in "they'd been drinking all day".
Why ere they late to dinner yesterday? Because, they had been drinking all day long. But more importantly now, this is super super super super super important that you need to understand.
It's a lot of rules, it's hard to remember, you need to learn it deeply, you need to learn it as a native speaker learns it. You cannot be dependent on a teacher that keeps teaching you rules, that keeps reminding you of all of that and that you are dependent on creating your sentences mechanically in your brain, thinking, structuring, translating in your mind. You're going to get stuck in conversations, it's going to be very awkward, very frustrating and you're not going to do a lot of progress with your English, with that strategy.
This is the reason why the teaching of grammar rules in school as the only strategy to learn it, does not work. And they do it in all the academies, all the institutes, all the courses. It's just that, grammatical rules.
Obviously you're not going to improve, it's just theory and zero practice. But I have good news. I know the best method to master the English grammar.
Is the best method, it's very practical. No theory, 100 percent of intuitive practice like native speakers learn. This method is completely different from anything you have seen before.
You don't have to be super smart to do it, all native English speakers of the world have mastered the verb to be, and not all of them are intelligent. This method is super simple, very fun and generally just great. And I call it Interactive Stories.
These are stories written in English, created specifically for the purpose of teaching you the verb to be and all the other most common verbs in English. You simply try to answer the question when listening. For example, Today's a great day.
I'm very happy. My friend Daniel is coming to visit. Before, he was an alcoholic.
But, we were friends anyway. Is today a bad day? No, it is not.
It isn't. It's a great today. Are Daniel and I enemies?
No, we aren't. We are friends. Was Daniel sober before?
No, he wasn't. He was an alcoholic. The story goes on like this, you just listen and repeat, try to answer the questions, if you don't know the answer, it doesn't matter, because as I did here, simply asking you as a listener, questions.
As you go through the story. I will repeat the correct answer. So, you just listen and listen and listen.
Present tense, past tense, future tense. Conditional tense. Contractions.
Negative, positive, everything that has to do with the English grammar you have it in the interactive stories. Everything that is taught in the school that you'll never remember from just taking classes, you will learn deeply, intuitively and later, when you go out and speak, it will come out of your mouth by intuition, because you are repeating these stories over and over again and it comes naturally to you. The English grammar will be printed in your memory down here and it's going to be so natural for you to produce all the English grammar as natural as it is for you to say you are we are we are you are is.
They are if you are from Spain. All these things are super natural for you to say in Spanish will be the same in English. Pretty cool, right?
I would have loved to have something like this when I learned Spanish, when I learned English. So, where can you get them? Well, obviously at RAIO, in my English course.
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The difficulty increases with each story. So, it doesn't matter if you start from zero, if you are already in an intermidiate level, you will benefit greatly from joining this course. And what's going to happen when you go through these stories is that you will gradually begin to speak more fluently, you will start producing the language intuitively, like a native speaker.
You're going to realize that you're translating less, structuring the sentences less in your head, you are starting to think in English and that the language simply begins to come more naturally out of your mouth. Like my Spanish, for example. So, what are you waiting for?
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