A short YouTube video
Diego cannot remember the folds for a paper boat. In Murcia he pauses a short YouTube video and makes two boats.
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What you'll learn
Spanish present tense: pause a video and fold the paper.
In Murcia, Diego wants a paper boat before his cousin arrives. On YouTube he searches barco de papel and picks a short video. He does not open the comments or download it. He pauses and folds. If a corner is wrong, he watches again. He makes a second boat from the first. He moves a glass of water away. His cousin takes one boat and Diego keeps the other.
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La aplicación de YouTube es gratis
newthe YouTube app is free
Es gratis means it costs nothing. La aplicación de YouTube is the mobile app for watching videos.
Key fact from the app installation section.
puedes descargarla fácilmente
newyou can download it easily
Descargarla is descargar + la. The pronoun la stands for la aplicación and attaches to the end of the infinitive, so the two words are written as one.
Spanish glues object pronouns onto an infinitive: descargarla, verlo, escucharla. Beginners often fail to spot the verb inside the long word.
Puedes aprender matemáticas, historia, ciencia
newyou can learn math, history, science
Aprender + subjects lists topics. Puedes shows what YouTube lets you study.
Phrase from the educational videos section.
Puedes activar los subtítulos en español
newyou can turn on the subtitles in Spanish
Activar los subtítulos means to switch the subtitles on. En español says which language they are in.
The most practical sentence in the text for a learner: subtitles in Spanish plus slower playback.
escribe palabras en la barra de búsqueda
newtype words in the search bar
Escribe is the imperative for giving instructions. Barra de búsqueda is the search field.
Practical instruction from the search section.
puedes suscribirte a los canales
newyou can subscribe to the channels
Suscribirse is reflexive, so the pronoun matches the person: me suscribo, te suscribes. After puedes it attaches to the infinitive and gives suscribirte.
A reflexive verb in the tú form, with the preposition a that always follows it: suscribirse a un canal.
es uno de los videos más vistos
newit is one of the most watched videos
Visto is the irregular past participle of ver and works here as an adjective: más vistos agrees in gender and number with videos.
Ver is irregular, so the form is visto. Uno de los más + adjective is the everyday way to say one of the most.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
You find
encuentras
you find
Encuentras comes from encontrar. In the present the stem vowel o becomes ue: encuentro, encuentras, encuentra, while encontramos keeps the o.
A stem-changing verb: encuentras does not look like encontrar, so it is easy to miss. Poder (puedo) and dormir (duermo) behave the same way.
Slowly
despacio
slowly
Despacio is an adverb and says how something happens. Más despacio means more slowly.
Más despacio, por favor is probably the most useful sentence a beginner can carry into a real conversation.
Jokes
chistes
jokes
Un chiste is a short funny story. The usual verb with it is contar: contar un chiste, to tell a joke.
You cannot guess chiste from English, and it turns up whenever people talk about humour.
App
aplicación
application / app
Aplicación de YouTube is the program on phone or tablet for watching videos.
Key word from the installation section.
People
gente
people
La gente means people but is grammatically singular, so the verb is singular too: mucha gente mira, never miran.
Plural in meaning, singular in grammar: one of the most common mistakes learners make in Spanish.
Search
búsqueda
search
Barra de búsqueda is the field where you type keywords to find videos.
Essential word for navigating YouTube.
Dish
plato
dish; plate
Un plato is both the plate you eat from and the food served on it, as in a dish on a menu. La paella is the best known plato from Valencia.
Two meanings in one short word, and you need it in every restaurant and every recipe.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Poder: ability
Puedes escuchar tus canciones favoritas
you can listen to your favorite songs
Puedes + infinitive says what you are able to do. The second verb always stays in the infinitive: escuchar, not escuchas.
Almost every paragraph of this text describes something you can do on YouTube, so the pattern comes back again and again.
Ser: description
Los videos de cocina son muy populares
cooking videos are very popular
Ser + muy populares describes a general characteristic of a content type.
Ser for stating how popular a video category is.
Gustar: liking
Puedes dar me gusta a los videos que te gustan
you can like the videos you enjoy
Gustar agrees with videos (plural) → gustan. Que te gustan means that you like.
Two uses of gustar: me gusta (the like button) and te gustan (the videos).
Hay: existence
En YouTube hay videos de música
on YouTube there are music videos
Hay + plural noun means there exist. En YouTube locates the content.
Typical pattern for listing content types.
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