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And this is already the third program, third stage on your way to Spanish. Today we are going to continue with a little more grammar. I will explain the subject's personal pronouns, especially the difference between "Tú"and "usted"; and between "vosotros" and "ustedes".

Then we will treat the conjugation of the verbs "ser" and "estar", which in other languages use a single verb for their different uses but Spanish uses two verbs. 

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Subject's personal pronouns

They are the pronouns with which we conjugate the verbs. They replace the name or noun that forms the subject of the phrase. In Spanish, subject personal pronouns are:

Yo (I), tú (you), él (he), ella (she), usted (you), nosotros, nosotras (we), vosotros, vosotras (you), ellos, ellas (them) ustedes (you).  

For example:

Juan habla español (Juan speaks Spanish) . I can replace the subject " Juan " with the pronoun "él": Él habla español ( He speaks Spanish).

Los chicos hablan español (The boys speak Spanish). I can replace the subject "los chicos" (the boys)  with the pronoun "ellos" (them): Ellos hablan español (They speak Spanish).

As we saw the personal pronouns are the words that accompany the verb and allow us to know what or who we are talking about. They represent the grammatical person.

In Spanish there are three grammatical persons of the singular and their corresponding persons of the plural. and Some have a feminine form. But not all.

We will continue with the example of the verb "hablar" (to speak). "Hablar español" (speak Spanish).

For the first person of the singular we use "Yo"(I).   It refers to the person who speaks.  

Yo hablo español (I speak Spanish)

In the plural: Nosotros for the masculine and nosotras for the feminine( we). It refers to the group to which the person speaking belongs.

Nosotros hablamos español / Nosotras hablamos español (We speak Spanish / We speak Spanish).

The feminine form is used when the whole group belongs to the female sex. If in the group there are people of both sexes, the masculine form can be used in a general way, it is what is called "generic masculine", as we saw in the previous class, remember? The same happens for the rest of the cases in which there are masculine and feminine personal pronouns.

The second person of the singular: Tú (You). It refers to the person to whom the speaker is speaking.

Tú hablas español. (You speak Spanish)

The second person in the plural is vosotros for the masculine, vosotras for the feminine (you). It refers to the group to which the speaker is speaking.

Vosotros habláis español / Vosotras habláis español (You speak Spanish / Vosotras you speak Spanish).

The third person of the singular is: Él, ella y usted (He, she and you) (Él, masculine / ella feminine). Él and ella refer to a person who is neither the speaker nor the listener. It is neither first person nor second person.

Él habla español / Ella habla español (He speaks Spanish / She speaks Spanish)

And what happens to "usted"?

Usted (you) are grammatically a third person pronoun that is why it is used with the verb in the third person, but semantically it is used to refer to the second p...