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Countries of the World

El Reino Unido	Inglaterra	Escocia	Gales	Irlanda
España	Francia	Alemania	Italia	Rusia
Los Estados Unidos	Canadá	Nueva Zelanda	Australia	México

Where do you live?

To say you are from a country, you use ser (meaning "to be [a permanent characteristic]"), then de (meaning "of" or "from"), then the country or place. To say you are currently living in a place or country, you use vivir (meaning "to live"), then en (meaning "in"), then the country or place.

To ask where someone else lives, you use Dónde then vivir (¿Dónde vives? means "Where do you live?"). To ask where someone is from, you use De dónde, then ser (¿De dónde eres? means "Where are you from?").

While vivir is totally regular (vivo, vives, vive, vivimos, vivís, viven), ser is about as irregular as they come. It is conjugated below.

Examples

• Vivo en Inglaterra

  I live in England.

• Son de España, pero viven en Alemania.

  They are from Spain, but they live in Germany.

The compass

Examples

• Vivo en el sudoeste de México.

  I live in the Southwest of Mexico.

• Soy del norte de Australia.

  I'm from the north of Australia.

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