"Es una araña."

yep when a word ends in a vowel and the next word begins with a vowel, the vowels often slur together or it sounds like one drops out. Common among speakers of all languages. "una araña¨ = un'araña" as well as the Texan you all = y'all.

I had the same problem. I wish the woman pronounced things clearer, even in the fast version

ES UNA ARANA! CORRE!

because of the tonal accent. for exemple ; el agua because the accent , the stress, goes on Agua, and the sound will be funny, but in araña, the stress, the accent, goes on la arAña. As you can see, you have to learn the rule for the accents.

In Spanish there are some exceptions like "El Agua" this happens because in Spanish rather is careful not to create Cacophony ie for example if we put "La Agua " because as " La " ends in "a" and "Agua" starts with "a" Cacophony occurs this also happens with the copulative "Y" changes in "E"words that begin with "I" or "Hi" and are not diphthongs are changed to "E" for example: "Immense and unimaginable". == > " Inmenso e inimaginable " .

If they intended it to be translated as "she is a spider" it'd ask for "Ella es una aran~a"

"Es" translated directly is "is." In Spanish, you can drop the pronoun when it is implied by the verb conjugation. For example, if you say, "Am going to the store," you can tell that the pronoun there must be "I," because you used "am." If you say, "Are going to the store," the pronoun must be "you," because you used "are." You would never drop the pronoun in English, but in Spanish you can.

When in context, no need to use the Spanish pronoun, you already know the person you're talking about.

"es" is "it is"

Because "es" means "it is," not "this is."

"This is a spider" would be "Esta es una araña."

This is a bit confusing when you are starting out in Spanish, so bear with me.

Es literally means "is". "Es" is a conjugation of the verb sera (to be).

"it" would be translated by either "él" (the accent is important, el = the, él = he or it), or ella.

So, a FULL word-for-word translation of "it is" would be either "él es" or "ella es".

However Spanish is what's called a "pro-drop" language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language) , meaning that they usually drop the pronoun (yo, él, ella, tu, nos, usted, ustedes) from sentences. So although the literal word-for-word translation of "es un aranana" is "is a spider", if you were to translate the meaning of the sentence it would be "it is a spider".

So yes, for all intents and purposes, when you see "es" you can usually translate it as "he is / she is / it is".

Hope I haven't just made that more confusing for you :-)

"Araña" will always have the feminine article, "una" or "la," because the word is feminine.

The correct answer is "It is a spider." ("He is a spider" could also be correct, I believe, although I'm not sure about the masculinization of "araña.") "Es" means "is," or when used by itself like this, "it is."

not almost, this is the correct answer.

"Una" and "un" mean "a" or "an" (or "one"). Which one you use depends on the gender. (Una is feminine, un is masculine.) "La" and "el" mean "the," and again, which one you use depends on the gender.

I did the same thing. Does this mean that unless it says "Usted es" we shouldn't think it means "you are?"

it is right in the sense that it would be the literal word for word translation of the spanish words. But in reality the true translation is: "it is a spider" because you would not say "is a spider" as one stand alone english sentence would you?