It seems somewhat backwards that students of a foreign language tend to learn about the grammar of a language before they can actually speak the language. With our first language, we learn how to speak words first as a baby, then sentences as a toddler, until...
Any time I teach a high school class, we always learn how to use the verb ser to describe people and their characteristics. Ser means "to be," and you'll see it in many forms in English in the present tense: am, is, are. You can look at this chart below to see the...