Commonly Confused Spanish Verbs [Baila esta cumbia] Episode 104 Summary: In this episode we are breaking down the lyrics to the song “Baila esta cumbia” by Selena and we are paying special attention to the verbs and their usage, comparing them to one another to make sure you do not get confused with any of them. Time Transcript 00:00-00:38 Do you know the difference between sentir and sentirse, Well, what about the verbs quedar and quedarse? Well, if you're not 100% sure what the difference is between those verbs or when you should use one or the other. Make sure you stay tuned for this episode. I'll be breaking it all down for you with the lyrics to a song from a genre that I haven't really yet featured on the podcast. So, listen up to find out about some Spanish verbs that are commonly confused, and how you can make sure you do not mix them up. Así que vamos a empezar. Let's get started. 01:10-04:05 Hola bienvenidos al episodio 104, welcome to Episode 104 of the Learn Spanish con salsa podcast. In this week's episode, we are going to dive into some verbs in Spanish that commonly get confused. And we're going to take a look at what some of those verbs are, and some of those common mistakes or points of confusion with some of these Spanish verbs with the lyrics to the song Baila esta cumbia, which is a song by Selena. But first, I am super excited to let you know that in January, I will be kicking off a goal setting series to help you plan your Spanish fluency goals for 2021. So, if you're thinking that 2020 has not been the greatest year for your Spanish, or maybe it has, but you know, you still have some work to do. And you really want to get fluent in Spanish, you want to make 2021 that year that you make some real progress towards your goal, I invite you to join me for the challenge. 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So, make sure you're subscribed to the podcast and to our email list as well. So, you'll be the first to know about the goal setting series and how you can sign up for the workshop. So, I have a lot of cool things that I have planned for January. So, I'm super excited. I just let you know about it. So, stay tuned for that next week. But if you want to be prepared in advance, if you're one of those people who likes to make sure that you can hit the ground running right away. When the new year starts, I encourage you to grab a copy of our bilingual planner for language learners. It has 52 weeks of beautifully color-coded activity sheets that will help you plan and track your activities week after week to make sure you stay on track and 2021 so if you want to check out the planner go to learnspanishconsalsa.com/planner. That's learnspanishconsalsa.com/planner, make sure you grab your copy before 2021 04:12 – 05:00 Now let's get to the topic of this week's episode. So, you may have seen the Netflix series. that has just come out is part one of the story of Selena, who is a Mexican American artist, who unfortunately passed away several years ago, and I won't spoil the story for you if you're not already familiar with her as an artist. But definitely check out the Netflix special it really talks more about her life, and her family, and how she came to be Selena, and doesn't deal so much yet with some of the tragedy that happens later in her life. But I chose this song Baila esta cumbia because it's one of the songs one of the few songs really that she had that I was familiar with. As you know this is learned Spanish con salsa, so I'm not really very much familiar with Tejano music. That's not really my thing. https://www.learnspanishconsalsa.com/104 5:01-6:33 But this song was really more upbeat dance song. And the genre is Cumbia. So that is actually a genre of Latin music. It's more of folk music. It really has origins in Mexico, Colombia, there are different types of Cumbia. But I will include, as always, a link in the show notes page so that you can check out the lyrics of the song as well as watch one of the live performances, one of the iconic performances of Selena, I think, actually was her last live concert. So, I'll include that in the show notes page. So, you can check it out. And you can hear the rhythm of Cumbia because it all sounds pretty much the same in terms of that background beat that you can dance to. And there is actually a Cumbia step in salsa. So, if you're familiar with that, it's sort of like a backtrack if you're familiar with the Cumbia step, but there is actually a genre and a dance that goes along with that, that is a little bit different than salsa. So definitely check out the show notes page, learnspanishconsalsa.com/104. That's learnspanishconsalsa.com/104. And you can check out the video and you can also hear how cumbia sounds. Alright, so first, what I'm going to do is break down the lyrics of the song. And again, I love the song because the lyrics are very catchy. They're very basic, so it's not very difficult to understand. So, I'm going to go through that quickly. And then I'll address some of these verbs that are in the song that you may mix up with other verbs from time to time, and I'll explain it as we get into it. It will make a lot more sense. 6:34- 8:19 All right, so let's start off with the first verse. And again, the song is pretty much just like one verse and the chorus, and then there's a lot of going, Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's so that's pretty much the song. So again, very catchy tune to dance to, but the first verse starts like this, she says, siento algo que me mueve, siento algo que me mueve, so that's I feel something that moves me. And I want you to pay attention as I go through this to all of the verbs that you hear. So after I go through the lyrics, I'm actually going to go through all the verbs and I want to see if you can catch them all so as long as you're not driving, or doing something, grab a piece of paper and a pen or type it in the notes on your phone or notepad somewhere, and just identify all of the verbs that you hear as I go through the lyrics, and then I'll go through it at the end and we'll see if you missed any, okay! siento algo que me mueve, I feel something that moves me, un ritmo que me hace bailar, un ritmo que me hace bailar, a rhythm that makes me dance. https://www.learnspanishconsalsa.com/104 Tomen todos sus parejas, tomen todos sus parejas, so that’s grab your partner or get a partner so when she's saying todos is everyone, so everyone takes a partner. Todos vamos a gozar, todos vamos a gozar. So, everyone we're all going to enjoy we're going to have a good time. And then the chorus and this is the famous sort of catchy line of the song she says baila, baila esta cumbia, which is literally just dance, dance this cumbia so dance to this to this song, mueve, mueve la cintura, 8:20-9:57 so that's move, move your waist. Now in Spanish A lot of times when we're talking about body parts, we use the definite article so what would be the in English so in English, we would say you know, move your waist or move your hips or grab your hand but in Spanish, because it's I guess it's known, you know, we're talking about your own body parts.