La Casa de Papel (TV show) (Advanced): Professors speech S02E01

💬 plantar cara is a fixed expression meaning "to stand up to" or "to face head-on," not literally "plant face." Learn it as a whole chunk, like No pienso plantar cara yo solo.

💬 ven is the tú command of venir, and it's irregular. Compare ven "come" with regular-looking commands like toma "take" or mira "look."

💬 vamos a + infinitive is a very common way to say "let's…" in everyday Spanish: Vamos a comer = "Let's eat." It literally looks like "we're going to…," but often means a suggestion, not future time.

💬 Spanish often uses hace + time for "it's been…": Hace dos meses = "It's been two months." You can reuse it with other lengths of time, like Hace ya tres años.

💬 This se is part of an impersonal/passive-style wording often used in formal news or legal Spanish: No se ha solicitado = "it has not been requested." You'll also see the same pattern in Se ha decidido = "it has been decided."

💬 This se is part of an impersonal/passive-style wording often used in formal news or legal Spanish: No se ha solicitado su extradición sounds more official than saying who did not request it. The same pattern appears in things like Se ha aprobado la ley.

💬 le here means "to him/her," so literally it's "A lawyer has not been provided to him." Spanish often keeps that little pronoun even when English would make the person the main object.

💬 con toda probabilidad is a fixed way to say "most likely" or "in all probability." It's more formal than everyday probablemente, but you can swap it into similar sentences the same way.

💬 están torturando is the "be + -ing" pattern in Spanish: estar + gerundio. Use it for something in progress, like Me están esperando = "They're waiting for me."

💬 así que means "so" or "therefore" when introducing a result: No contestó, así que me fui = "He didn't answer, so I left." It's a handy connector for spoken Spanish.

💬 After verbs of demanding or wanting, Spanish often uses forms like concluya instead of the plain present. You'll see the same pattern in Espero que venga and Exigimos que termine.

💬 After verbs of demanding or wanting, Spanish often uses forms like concluya instead of the plain present. A useful pattern is queremos que + verb, for example Queremos que acabe ya.

💬 sea sometido is a formal passive-style phrasing: literally "be subjected," here meaning "be brought" or "be put before." In official Spanish, you'll often hear this kind of wording instead of a more direct everyday sentence.

💬 sea sometido is a formal passive-style phrasing: literally "be subjected," here meaning "be brought to justice." It also follows the common pattern after que in demands: exigimos que sea tratado con respeto.

💬 In Spanish, ir a + infinitive is a very common way to say what you're about to do: vamos a esconder, voy a llamar, van a entrar. Here nos goes before the verb phrase because it's part of esconderse, "to hide oneself."

💬 Esconder means "hide something," but esconderse means "hide oneself." In the full line, nos shows who is hiding: nos vamos a esconder = "we're going to hide."

💬 Spanish often uses ir a + infinitive where English might use "will" or "shall": vamos a esconder, voy a salir, van a venir. Here nos means "ourselves," so nos vamos a esconder is literally "we're going to hide ourselves."

💬 Vamos a + verb is the everyday pattern for "we're going to ...": vamos a pelear, vamos a salir, vamos a ganar. English may translate it as "we shall" in a dramatic speech, but the Spanish structure stays the same.

💬 Pelear means "to fight," and after vamos a the next verb stays in the basic form: vamos a pelear, vamos a resistir, vamos a ganar. That same pattern works with any subject: voy a pelear, van a pelear.

💬 Golpe por golpe is a set pattern meaning "blow for blow," like answering one hit with another. Spanish often uses X por X this way: cara por cara, uno por uno, paso por paso.

💬 Robar on its own means "to steal," but if you name the victim, Spanish usually adds a: robar dinero but robar a un banco. In the full line, vamos a robar just leaves the target unsaid.

💬 A lo grande means doing something on a big scale, not literally "to the big." You can reuse it with other verbs too: vivir a lo grande, celebrarlo a lo grande.

💬 A lo grande is an idiomatic way to say "big time" or "on a grand scale." So robar a lo grande is less about one big object and more about doing the robbery in a huge, ambitious way.