Podcast #019 - Spanish for beginners Spanish verbs - Using SER and ESTAR (Part I)

You can find below the transcription about the differences between &#8220;ser&#8221; and &#8220;estar&#8221;, and how to use both verbs in Spanish, in connexion with previous<a href="https://spanishlanguage.substack.com/p/spanish-language-and-culture-newsletter-d72"> Newsletter #019</a>.<br/><br/>Transcript<br/><br/>(00:13) Hola y bienvenidos a un nuevo podcast de &#8220;Spanish Language and Culture Newsletter&#8221;. (Hello and welcome to a new podcast of the &#8220;Spanish Language and Culture Newsletter".)<br/><br/>(00:18) Siento mucho si hoy mi voz hoy no es muy buena, pero tengo un peque&#241;o resfriado. (I'm sorry if today my voice isn't very good today, but I have a &#8220;small&#8221; cold.)<br/><br/>(00:25) Pero bueno, continuamos. (But, well, we're going on.)<br/><br/>(00:27) Eh... Soy &#193;ngeles Fern&#225;ndez y hoy vamos a explicar un poco el uso de los verbos "ser" y "estar" que, como ya sab&#233;is, ambos significan "To be". (Uh... I'm &#193;ngeles Fern&#225;ndez and today we're going to explain a little about the use of verbs "ser" and "estar" which, as you know, both mean "to be".)<br/><br/>(00:43) Como pod&#233;is ver en la Newsletter n&#250;mero diecinueve, eh... hay un gr&#225;fico con los usos principales de &#8220;ser&#8221; y &#8220;estar&#8221;. (As you can see in the Newsletter number nineteen, uh... there is a graphic with the main uses of &#8220;ser&#8221; y &#8220;estar&#8221;.)<br/><br/>(00:52) El verbo ser se usa en descripciones, identidad, ocupaci&#243;n, tiempo, or&#237;genes,&#8230; (The verb to be is used in descriptions, identity, occupation, time, origins,...)<br/><br/>(01:03) material del que est&#225; hecho algo, relaciones, posesi&#243;n, d&#243;nde ocurre un evento, estados permanentes y afiliaciones pol&#237;ticas o religiosas. (material something is made off, relationships, possession, where an event occurs, permanent states and political or religious affiliations.)<br/><br/>(01:18) En cambio el verbo &#8220;estar&#8221; lo usamos para posici&#243;n o lugar, localizac