Hola. This video lesson covers complementos directos (direct objects). In Spanish we have to be a little more careful with direct objects than in English because we have to take both ‘gender’ and ‘plurality’ into account. Oh right, and we put them in a different place in the sentence.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about this lesson.
I grew up with a family from Mexico city since I was a child and I understood it to a degree but didn’t have the patience to learn at that age. When I got older I had this insatiable desire to get it right and I tried so many programs which helped a little but not much. Everyone says I speak Spanish like I’m fluent yet at the same time it didn’t help when I only knew certain parts. You were the one that really made me understand sentence structure and things that I had questions on you answered. You’re an excellent teacher and I loved your video on possessed verbs as well lol. You’ve helped me volumes over the years and I hope that you continue to make these as I’m teaching my mother and daughter now as well. Hats off once again and thank you for these! You’re appreciated.
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Hola Sr. Jordan! Yo soy un estudiante en la clase de Srs. Miller en Highland High School. Actualmente yo estoy en la clase de Español 3 y tus videos me ayudan mucho. Para estudiar, voy a casa y ve tus videos para esa unidad. Tu definitivamente eres una gran parte de mi éxito en la clase de español y estoy emocionado de seguir viéndote en todo español 4 el próximo año. Gracias!!!!!!!!
Mil gracias… de nuevo. Estudiamos los complementos directos (otra vez) en Español 2. Mis estudiantes están cansados de escucharme a mÃ, y los videos ofrecen otra oportunidad para ellos.
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Hi Jordan,
We need your help!! We are all teachers of various languages, working at an academy in El Salvador. A few of us are learning Spanish and have come across an issue about which we are stumped. Worse, no-one here can agree on the right format. Here’s the problem:
“Juan lee el periódico a los alumnos”. What are the rules for substituting the objects with pronouns?
Is the correct answer:
“Juan se lo lee” – where “se” refers to “los alumnos”
or
“Juan se los lee” – where “se” refers to “el periodico” ?
More importantly, why?
Plllease help – we are going crazy!!
Michael
BTW, thank you so much for your videos; they are incredibly helpful.
Lo haces muy interesante… Sr Jordan
Wow… Mi profesora me dijo que mi tarea era mirar este video… Y me ayudo mucho… Gracias.
Hi! i think youre really cool and enthusiastic!
Hola Senor Jordon!
Your videos are so much fun and they really helped me review for my Spanish final! Gracias y adios!
Hola Señor Jordan!
Any Indirect Objects lesson out yet? Just reviewed them with my students and about to start the Direct Object Pronouns…I will use this lesson with my class- it is so straight forward, I would love to show them a similarly straight forward one for Indirect Object Pronouns to review.
Gracias!
Señora Massanari-Sapp
Swampscott, MA
hey, thanx 4 all ur help on thes spanish language in general. we have to watch some of your videos in and out of class for th grade spanish. they do help alot. its funny because we always pause the videoes to give us more time on each question ansd you always have a funny face when its paused!!
This is an excellent video. Watched it once and I got it!
! muchas gracias para tu ayuda !
Hola Senor Jordan,
Another great lesson!
Mucho gracias
hola senor
Loved your lessons… Thanks a lot.
could you please explain complementos indirectos? i jus cant figure out the difference and how to use them
regards,
rovena
Ola Senor Jordan,
Loved your lessons… Thanks a lot.
Still wanna know about Double Direct Object Pronouns in Spanish???
Regards,
Zubin
Hola! Tus videos me parecen excelentes.
Tienes algun video donde se muestren los otros pronombres de objeto directo como: me, te y nos?
Mil graicas.
Hola! I was wondering if you have any videos about direct and indirect object pronouns used in the same sentences. I’ve looked but wasn’t able to find any. It would be awesome if you made some because frankly, I’m having a hard time getting the concept through my thick skull! Thank you for all that you do 🙂
Bethanie
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houston tx
Thanks a lot my brother………! it made me so easy to understand Spanish…it’s very helpful..need more….! Mucoh gracias………adios !
Jordan,
You are by far more effective and better teacher then many professional ones in collage. Mucho mucoh gracias senor..
hi
The video is superb! because of your videos you made Spanish learning very easy.
I have some doubt in it
If we have demonstrative adjective in the sentence then what rules to be followed while changing it to the Direct object?
Senor Jordan always makes learning fun & easy!
The video was excellent! You made learning the direct object easy and fun! Thank you so much. Heidi