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Welcome to Coffee Break Spanish. Yo soy Annabel. My name is Annabel. And I am very happy to be in this episode with you. Here at Coffee Break Spanish, we are enjoying working on our next podcast series for you. But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy this mini lesson. If this happens to be the very first episode of Coffee Break Spanish you are listening to, you should know that you can go back and learn Spanish right from the beginning by ordering the podcast episodes from the oldest and starting with Coffee Break Spanish Season 1. Perfecto. Now, as this episode, I am very excited because I'm bringing you a very nice topic. As you know, the verb to be can be a bit tricky in Spanish because we have two verbs. Ser and estar. You may have learned that estar is used for location. And you are correct. However, what if I tell you we use ser for location too? Don't worry because all will make sense at the end of this episode. Then, as you may know, we use estar to locate people and things in the world. Por ejemplo, In this sentence, we are locating a thing. We are locating the library. So to locate a thing in this case is a building, we use estar. Another example is Here again, we locate a thing. So with these two examples, we can see that we use estar to locate. Then, why am I saying that we also use ser for location? This is going to happen when we are locating an event. So if we have an event and it is not people or things we are locating events in the world, then we are going to be using ser. Pero no te preocupes, vamos a ver algunos ejemplos. Don't worry because we are going to see some examples. The first one is Here we are using ser because it's la reunión, the meeting. This is an event, so we must use ser for the location. Another example is The first thing that we need to know about this is that Fue is the pre-tree tense of the verb ser. So la fiesta fue en el jardín de Clara means the party was in Clara's garden. La fiesta is the party and this is an event, so we must use ser. All of them are events and remember that if we want to locate an event, we must use ser. Perfecto. I love practicing, I think that's the best way to consolidate what we have learned. So I prepared a quick exercise for you. I'm going to say a sentence in English and I want you to decide if we are going to use estar o ser. If you feel confident, you can also translate the whole sentence. The first one is The book is on the table. The book is on the table. Do we use ser or estar? Así es. We have to use estar because we are locating a thing. The book is on the table using estar to locate things. Vamos a por el siguiente. The next one is Efectivamente. The concert is an event, so it has to be ser. El concierto es en el parque central. The concert is in the central park. Fantástico. Let's do one more. This time the sentence is Buen trabajo. The date is an event, so we are using ser. La cita será en un restaurante. The date will be at a restaurant. La cita será. Fantástico. Then remember, estar is used to locate people or things in the world. And ser is used to locate events. Fantástico. Now don't forget to subscribe wherever you are listening to this episode for more content like this one. Also, if you would like to keep improving your Spanish, you can receive regular free mini lessons straight to your inbox by signing up to our newsletter. Just go to coffeebreaklanguages.com. Slash Spanish. Y nos vemos en el próximo. Happy coffee breaking. You have been listening to a Coffee Break Languages production for the Radio Linguin Network. Copyright 2025 Radio Linguin Limited. Recording copyright 2025 Radio Linguin Limited. All rights reserved. Being good with money on holiday starts with good habits at home. At Starling, we've been rounding up the best ones. Like choosing a bank that doesn't charge fees abroad. 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