Spanish Lessons: Conducir

Series Summary

Spanish is the most studied foreign language among native English speakers, and is the most studied Romance language above French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. English and Mandarin Chinese are the only two languages with a greater number of speakers than Spanish; it is suggested that there are over 400 million Spanish speakers in the world today. Learn conjugations for the Spanish verb "conducir" in this free video foreign language video series featuring native Spanish speaker Thomas Marchevsky. Marchevsky teaches how to conjugate "conducir" in the present tense, future tense, imperfect tense, preterite tense, conditional tense, future perfect tense, pluperfect tense, anterior preterite tense, present subjunctive, future subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive tense and future perfect subjunctive tense.

Video Transcript

"So, in this series we're looking at the verb conducir which means to drive. And what I'll do is use the first person, second person and third person. That is yo, tu, usted, nosotros, vosotros and ustedes. With those six forms I will apply the verb in different tense forms so the past, present, future etc. And we'll basically go through this in it's different variations so that you are familiar with the verb and it's usages in different contexts, so it will allow you to use it to express many different things. And I suggest that you repeat the word after I say it so you have some practice in pronouncing the word. And also that you write the word down and this will allow you to memorize it more easily and also be able to read and write it."