soy y estoy

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March 28, 2010

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January 9, 2015

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January 9, 2015

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January 10, 2015

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January 12, 2015

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chuckyk
February 6, 2015
Hi, i'm currently taking spanish lessons in addition to using Rocket Spanish. Today our teacher said that when you use "donde", you should be using the verb Estar (e.g. "Donde esta?" for "Where are you?" ) . Seemed reasonable until i got home and saw "De donde eres? ". This makes sense to me because "where i'm from" is something that defined me and should use "Ser". But then he asked us "Donde esta Canada?" to which we answered "Canada esta al norte de Los Estados Unidos". Since Canda is not likely to move anytime soon, wouldn't "Donde es Canada" have been good too?

Steven-W15
February 6, 2015
"Dónde es la primera parada?" "Dónde es la fiesta de cumpleaños?"
There is a helpful point made on this in the Platinum course (18.3):
- use estar if you are interested in communicating where something is geographically (or in giving directions, for example)
- use ser if you are simply interested in communicating the name of the place