Becoming bilingual / 5 minutes of Spanish + Podcast

En estos 5 minutos vamos a hablar de los usos del verbo de cambio: hacerse. Mira los ejemplos y también los dichos, por supuesto, hay muchos más usos de este verbo. ¿Conoces alguno más? ¡Contáctanos! 

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That's right, congratulations! We are at 5 minutes of Spanish and this is episode number 153. 

Welcome! Thank you for listening week after week. This is a podcast to practice Spanish so we ask you to listen to it and then, if you need to, look for the translation. We are going to translate some words, not all of them.

Yes, we don't want you to understand word by word but the context, it's not so important the message we give, besides ,,,, we just reflect on some words and expressions we use every day.

Well sometimes we tell a joke that is not very funny, actually....

What do you mean jokes are not very funny?

Well Male, “hazte cargo” face it, a lot of the jokes are bad, but we take the 5 minutes very seriously. So, let's cut the crap and let's get started! What are we talking about today?

 

Today we're talking about “hacerse”.

 

So, “hazte a la idea”, get used to the idea, that you're going to listen to us for 5 minutes.

 

Hacerse                     to become, to be done

Hazte cargo             to take charge

Hazte a la idea         to get used to the idea

Hacernos bolas        to get messed up

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“Hacerse” is a verb of change, it expresses that a person or thing undergoes a transformation or change.

 

There are other verbs of change, right?

 

Yes “volverse”, “ponerse”, “llegar a ser” and other meaning to become. “Hacerse” comes from the verb hacer in its reflexive form.

To transform a thing into something else- The wine becomes vinegar.

 

I grow older with time

 

Yes, you get older, time goes by, we are getting older...as a song says....

 

Getting older then refers to time

 

It's getting late....it's getting dark

 

And light was made, and light was made "as the Bible says at the creation of the world".

 

Becoming also refers to ideology. It is a voluntary change and usually has a process.

 

In 1907 he became an anarchist.

 

After watching Madona's video, she became a vegetarian.

 

Religion

On the trip to India they became Buddhists.

 

They had an excellent experience because they traveled with Unique trips your Travel Agency. Do you want to treat yourself and travel with the best level? Consult Eduardo and Alejandro. We have to advertise; we continue with more of the verb to do.

 

Profession - Doctors' children become doctors.

 

Lawyers' children become lawyers and Spanish teachers' children become Spanish teachers. You can meet Fabri, our son, on Friday at 1:00 on Vamos a platicar. Don't play deaf, we've already warned you, participate.

Hacerse el sordo- to play deaf

 

Very quickly we are going to tell you the story of a Spanish student who was making bad blood because she was not learning Spanish as she wanted to and she didn't have a partner, so she felt lonely, she was clearly playing the victim.  In her cooking classes she learned how to cook, she invited a friend she met at the beach for dinner and he said: “Qué rica comida, se me hace agua la boca “, "What a delicious meal, my mouth is watering", we don't have to tell you the end, do we?

 

To make a long story short, they became sweethearts, became husband and wife and recently became parents.

 

Hacerse mala sangre          to get annoyed

Hacerse la víctima              to play the victim

Hacerse agua la boca         to make my mouth water

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