Hola. Spanish GCSE help please.

Hello.
So I am in Year 9 and I am moving onto Spanish. It's a complicated story, but I barely even know a word. I did French, and now I am onto Spanish. Could I please have some advice on the following:

1. Are there any good websites that I could use to learn this language?
2. When do I use 'Ser ' and when do I use 'Estar'?
3. Do you have any tips on pronounciation (especially letters v and z)?
4. I am really confused about subject pronouns. In French they are:
Je- I
Tu- You (informal singular)
Il/elle/on- He/she/it/one, you or we.
Nous- we
Vous- you (plural formal)
Ils/elles- they

But in Spanish apparently it's like
I
You (singular informal)
He/she/it or you (singular formal)
We
You (plural informal)
They or you (plural formal)

So when I address a formal person, I would have to use the he/she form of a verb or something. And when I want to talk to a group of people formally I would have to use the they form of a verb? Or is that completely wrong.

Thank you and sorry to be a bother. 🤤

Hello.
So I am in Year 9 and I am moving onto Spanish. It's a complicated story, but I barely even know a word. I did French, and now I am onto Spanish. Could I please have some advice on the following:

1. Are there any good websites that I could use to learn this language?
2. When do I use 'Ser ' and when do I use 'Estar'?
3. Do you have any tips on pronounciation (especially letters v and z)?
4. I am really confused about subject pronouns. In French they are:
Je- I
Tu- You (informal singular)
Il/elle/on- He/she/it/one, you or we.
Nous- we
Vous- you (plural formal)
Ils/elles- they

But in Spanish apparently it's like
I
You (singular informal)
He/she/it or you (singular formal)
We
You (plural informal)
They or you (plural formal)

So when I address a formal person, I would have to use the he/she form of a verb or something. And when I want to talk to a group of people formally I would have to use the they form of a verb? Or is that completely wrong.

Thank you and sorry to be a bother. 🤤

Hello.
So I am in Year 9 and I am moving onto Spanish. It's a complicated story, but I barely even know a word. I did French, and now I am onto Spanish. Could I please have some advice on the following:

1. Are there any good websites that I could use to learn this language?
2. When do I use 'Ser ' and when do I use 'Estar'?
3. Do you have any tips on pronounciation (especially letters v and z)?
4. I am really confused about subject pronouns. In French they are:
Je- I
Tu- You (informal singular)
Il/elle/on- He/she/it/one, you or we.
Nous- we
Vous- you (plural formal)
Ils/elles- they

But in Spanish apparently it's like
I
You (singular informal)
He/she/it or you (singular formal)
We
You (plural informal)
They or you (plural formal)

So when I address a formal person, I would have to use the he/she form of a verb or something. And when I want to talk to a group of people formally I would have to use the they form of a verb? Or is that completely wrong.

Thank you and sorry to be a bother. 🤤

[2] "How you feel and where you are, always use the verb estar" - it's a pretty good general rule.

1. I used a site called Language Perfect for my gcse revision which was provided by my school to build vocab. Perhaps you could ask your school if they can offer this? Although, quizlet, espanol extra are great too

2. Both Ser and Estar mean 'to be' but ser is used to describe a state that doesn't change e.g: Soy timida (I'm shy) - that's part of your personality so it isn't temporary, e.g you won't wake up the next day and suddenly be loud and outgoing, (unless you're high). Estar is to be in a current temporary state, e.g: estoy enferma (I'm sick) - you won't stay sick forever so you use 'estar'.

3. Best way to pronounce spanish words is to SAY WHAT YOU SEE. I would say this is what makes spanish easier than other languages, you literally read every letter of the word as you see it without having to learn sounds for combinations of letters like in english "sh" is a different sound altogether.
Tips: "rr" - roll the 'r's',
- 'c' - 'th',
- 'j' - 'h'

4. Yo - I
Tú - you (singular)
Usted - he/she/it
Nosotros - we
Vosotros - you plural
Ellos (they)

If you're talking to a person you don't know (so it is a formal convo), OR if you are talking to more than 1 person, you use the 'you plural' conjugation.

Note that all the pronouns have different verb endings which you need to learn for 'ar', 'er' and 'ir' ending verbs, as well as some irregular verbs. Don't worry if this doesn't make sense at the moment, it will do and don't stress - spanish is pretty easy once you learn the basics! Good luck x

Glad you have found someone to help. I was just looking up "Spanish" for you, and there was your thread! Could have done this in French or German, and can recognise Spanish, but it's all a bit rusty to me.

BBC Bitesize may be good

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/z4dqxnb

These Usborne books | (top two on the page) are for absolute beginners (easier than GCSE). If you're starting GCSE in September, it may help to leaf through these in the summer for a bit of a head start

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Usborne+Spanish&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Thank you Oxford Mum! You are absolutely amazing, even if you barely remember Spanish. 🙃



Ah, these are going to really help me. Thanks, I have to start early because everybody's ahead of me. Like lots. 😝

I'm doing Spanish as well for GCSE but I started learning spanish in yr 8.

I have a bit of a situation lol. Best of luck.

That's mysterious

The best tip for Spanish is if you haven’t picked it as an option already then DON’T it is soooooooo hard I can’t even tell you

hi!! i'm in year 10 at the moment and am doing spanish gcse (and i don't mean to flex but i'm pretty good at it), so if you need any help/explanation/links to quizlets let me know and i'd love to help my school uses the aqa textbooks (link) which are super helpful as they have lots of exercises and explain the main grammar points really well.

as for the pronouns, if you're speaking informally to someone you usually would speak directly to them (ie. tú or vosotros) while if you were speaking formally you wouldn't address them directly (ie. he/she/it - ello/ella/lo or they - ellos/ellas). it's just a politeness thing i guess!!

good luck

Thank you! If I get stuck with something in the future, do you mind if I PM you?

So if you know the person you would use tù/vosotros and if you didn't, you would address them with he/she/it or they? I think that makes sense.

Thank you again!

Hello.
So I am in Year 9 and I am moving onto Spanish. It's a complicated story, but I barely even know a word. I did French, and now I am onto Spanish. Could I please have some advice on the following:

1. Are there any good websites that I could use to learn this language?
2. When do I use 'Ser ' and when do I use 'Estar'?
3. Do you have any tips on pronounciation (especially letters v and z)?
4. I am really confused about subject pronouns. In French they are:
Je- I
Tu- You (informal singular)
Il/elle/on- He/she/it/one, you or we.
Nous- we
Vous- you (plural formal)
Ils/elles- they

But in Spanish apparently it's like
I
You (singular informal)
He/she/it or you (singular formal)
We
You (plural informal)
They or you (plural formal)

So when I address a formal person, I would have to use the he/she form of a verb or something. And when I want to talk to a group of people formally I would have to use the they form of a verb? Or is that completely wrong.

Thank you and sorry to be a bother. 🤤

Hello.
So I am in Year 9 and I am moving onto Spanish. It's a complicated story, but I barely even know a word. I did French, and now I am onto Spanish. Could I please have some advice on the following:

1. Are there any good websites that I could use to learn this language?
2. When do I use 'Ser ' and when do I use 'Estar'?
3. Do you have any tips on pronounciation (especially letters v and z)?
4. I am really confused about subject pronouns. In French they are:
Je- I
Tu- You (informal singular)
Il/elle/on- He/she/it/one, you or we.
Nous- we
Vous- you (plural formal)
Ils/elles- they

But in Spanish apparently it's like
I
You (singular informal)
He/she/it or you (singular formal)
We
You (plural informal)
They or you (plural formal)

So when I address a formal person, I would have to use the he/she form of a verb or something. And when I want to talk to a group of people formally I would have to use the they form of a verb? Or is that completely wrong.

Thank you and sorry to be a bother. 🤤

Tysm! I use quizlet and it really helps, but I'm going to try espanol extra.

So, 'Ser' is used as a permanent expression or as something that won't change (e.g: Soy inglesa) and 'estar' is used for things that could change, such as mood or illness etc?

I find Spanish pronounciation so weird compared to French lol, the French underpronounce and the Spanish overpronounce. I think I've got the hang of the r and c, had no clue about the j so thank you. Do you happen to know how to pronounce the 'v' or 'z'? I'm unsure about the z but whenever I listen to the 'v' it sounds like a mixture of 'b' and 'm'. This is probably wrong lol. 😟

Ah, so the prnouns are pretty similar to French then. You use 'Tù' for informal conversations and 'Vosotros' for formal conversations. Is that right? 🤤

I've begun learning the present tense and have just moved on from it to the near future tense. I think the present tense is OK, I just got a bit confused when I thought that the pronouns were different lmao.

Thank you for the support. Xx