Bien vs Bueno - 'Good' in Spanish

We can translate both bien vs bueno into the English word "good".

This makes bien and bueno challenging since it's not obvious when we need to use one over the other. In addition, there are some phrases with bien that are completely interchangeable with phrases with bueno.

In this video, you'll learn:
- When we should use bien and when we should use bueno
- How these words are sometimes interchangeable
- A phrase that I recommend students avoid with these two words.

[realfastspanish]

Have you found "bien" vs "bueno" challenging? Can you think of any tricky examples that I didn't include in the video?

[mea]

I particularly like that you explain when two words/expressions are entirely the same *and* warnings about embarrassing usages.

[andresvarela]

You are very good in Spanish. As Spanish native speaker I am very impressed of how well you understand the grammar, since is quite different from English. The only thing I noticed was the "they are good writers" in Spanish it should be " Ellos son buenos escritores". I don't know why but in the other way sounds a bit weird to me. It doesn't sound natural to say "Ellos son escritores buenos". Regarding the rest is very well explained and again I can see you are very knowledgeable about the grammar in Spanish. Keep up the good work sir.

[soledadferrer]

In Rio de la Plata Spanish si alguien está bueno/buena it means you find this person attractive. To all Spanish learners: keep it up, we appreciate you are trying to learn our pretty language!

[janiecritchley]

Fab as usual. I love it when you slide in examples from tv and film. Really useful. Thank you. 😊

[nwetyinwin]

What a great lesson ! You make the uses of bien & bueno so clear cut! Muchas gracias!

[ThePassionateKat]

I love Español en 3 Minutos! Very clear and straightforward explanation. Thank you as always!

[mrdee]

Soy español y lo explica una buena forma. Parece difícil pero está bien saber las diferencias entre bueno y bien para hablarlo bien. Keep going guys!

[maryamshahbazi]

Just what I needed after so much confusion on this topic. Thank you!

[spanishlanglovers]

Me gustó tu explicación, muy clara. saludos desde México.

[ras]

You explain Spanish so well. it's very clear and understandable. You fill in the gaps very well. Keep up the good work. Your a good teacher. I wish I can have you as a one on one teacher

[julieritchie]

I am very thankful to run across your videos! You are a good teacher! I am trying to learn from Spain and find many other videos are Latino. Go glad to see yours! Thank you.

[CleonaPattersoneFluentEnglish]

Está vídeo está más que bien, es muy bueno. Gracias Andrew, eres un buen profesor!👍

[maryamshahbazi]

Excellent video! Thanks for demystifying this topic for me

[jamesfreese]

Thanks for the breakdown-very helpful and usefu!!!

[ncpl]

El video es muy claro . Muchas Gracias.

[marytestin]

Thanks so much for these videos--tu eres un gran maestro!!!

[Nikita-obmd]

Muchas gracias, cada vez me gustan tus videos

[chrisharris]

I like your straight forward videos, a suggestion that would be very valuable to me and maybe others is if the stuff you're saying is available in a short pdf or whatever that we could copy/paste for putting in our Spanish folders and be available to check on in the future without having to google all over again

[elrey]

I always love your way of teaching sir! Pls make a video about subjunctive <3