Norton's Spanish Basics: Audio Podcast

In this episode we discuss the verb GUSTAR as well as a brief overview of indirect object pronouns (IOP). To say you like something is done differently in Spanish than in English. Talking about our likes and dislikes requires a slightly different perspective than what you may be used to. As you learned in Spanish 1, we typically use the verb gustar to discuss our likes and dislikes. Many people will say that gustar means “to like” as in “I like apples.” More accurate, however, would be to say that gustar, actually means “to be pleasing”. So in Spanish we don’t really say “I like apples.” Instead what we really say is “Apples are pleasing to me.” That’s why we say that it requires a slightly different perspective. In English we are accustomed to declare what we like, not to think, say, or even believe that it is not us that is doing the action rather that noun that is liked or disliked is actually the noun performing the action. Clear as