SS: The Meme That’ll Teach You Spanish, A Phrase for Lazy People and Fluent Level Spanish Grammar
How A Boy Falling Off a Log Could Help you Master Mexican Spanish, A Good Phrase if you're Lazy and The 'Final Boss' of Spanish Grammar...
SPANISH SUNDAYS
🌎 Around the Hispanic World
Word of the Week 🇲🇽
Güey/wey → Bro/Dude (Mexico)
If you ever go to Mexico, make sure you remember this word. You’ll hear it all the time and is a good one to use if you want to make a good first impression.
The word also features in one of the most iconic Hispanic videos with 85 million views — if nothing else, it’s a great excuse to nail the pronunciation. You’ll also learn some Mexican curses if you listen closely…
📈 Novato (Beginner)
A Phrase For You Lazy Folk
Me da pereza → I can’t be bothered
Its literal translation is: ‘it gives me laziness’, here are some examples:
Me da pereza cocinar esta noche → I can’t be bothered to cook tonight
Me da pereza caminar al perro → I can’t be bothered to walk the dog
Me da pereza aprender la gramática española → I can’t be bothered to learn Spanish grammar
Simple as that!
🚀 Avanzado (Advanced)
The Final Boss of Spanish Grammar ‼️
I’d say this is one of the highest-level points of Spanish grammar. Even if you don’t feel ready for this yet, keep it in mind for the future because you’ll need to learn and start using it eventually.
How It Works:
When you have a sentence where both an indirect object pronoun (le/les) and a direct object pronoun (lo/la/los/las) appear, you swap le/les for se. This is done to avoid the saying "le lo." which just doesn’t sound great.
The more you listen to Spanish, the more you’ll realise this: a lot of their grammar rules are just used to make Spanish sound nicer, e.g.,
“al” instead of “a el”
“del” instead of “de el”
“el agua” (even though agua is a feminine word)
Here are some examples of replacing le/les for se
✅ Correct:
✅ "Se lo di." → (I gave it to him/her/them.)
✅ "Se lo dedico a mi mamá." → (I dedicate it to my mom.)
✅ "Se las envié ayer." → (I sent them to him/her/them yesterday.)
❌ Incorrect:
❌ "Le lo di."
❌ "Le la dedico a mi mamá."
❌ "Les las envié ayer."
You see how bad it sounds?
Even though se can technically stand in for him, her, them, or you (formal) in these cases, the meaning is always clear from context.
One last example:
"Le di la camiseta a mi hermano." → I gave my brother the t shirt.
🔸 Instead, you can say:
"Se la di." → (I gave it to him.)
🧠 Just remember: when le or les is followed by lo, la, los, or las, it transforms into se to avoid the awkward repetition. ¡Así de simple!