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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 26 Probability in the past Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 14, 2011
Hola. ¿Qué tal? Espero que todos estéis progresando muy bien con vuestros estudios de español y estéis disfrutando del proceso. Hoy vamos a ver cómo hablar de probabilidad en el pasado en español. Today we are going to learn how to talk about probability in the past in Spanish. As you will see, some of…
Review: Time Expressions with el Pretérito Imperfecto and el Pretérito Perfecto Simple. Posted by Adir on Apr 26, 2011
We use time expressions which include the present moment with the Pretérito Perfecto: Tú has estado en Santiago (You have been in Santiago) … hoy. (today) … esta mañana. (this morning – morning is not over yet) … esta tarde. (this afternoon – the afternoon is not over yet) … esta noche. (this evening/tonight –…
Reviewing Irregular Past forms, With Music! Posted by Adir on Sep 21, 2010
Yeah, you know how much I love Latin music and I try to do something with songs in my classes all the time. Spanish irregular past verbs forms are sometimes hard to memorize and this song by Thalia can help you with the following verbs: hacer, querer, estar, tener and poder. Learn the song and…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 3 Uso y relación entre los diferentes tiempos del pasado en indicativo Posted by Laura & Adam on Aug 18, 2010
¡Hola a todos! Hoy vamos a analizar los tiempos en pasado. Vamos a ver qué relación existe entre ellos y cuándo usarlos. Contraste entre Pret. Indefinido, Pret. Perfecto y Pret. Imperfecto Es un contraste puramente lingüístico. Es decir, que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad a la que se refieren. Tú puedes hablar…
More Irregular Verbs in Spanish – Past Tense (with audio) Posted by Adir on Jul 20, 2010
Now listen to the second part of our irregular verb audio drills. Practice your listening and repeat after each conjugation. Venir (to come) vine viniste vino vinimos vinisteis vinieron Poner (to put) puse pusiste puso pusimos pusisteis pusieron Querer (to want) quise quisiste quiso quisimos quisisteis quisieron Saber (to know) supe supiste supo supimos supisteis…
Irregular Verbs in Spanish – Past Tense (with audio) Posted by Adir on Jul 16, 2010
All right, you’re going to tell me that verbs are hard to learn, their pronunciation is difficult and lots of other excuses. So this is what we’re going to do today. I’ve chosen some very, but very common irregular verbs in the past and I’m going to read their conjugation so you guys can practice…
Time expressions in the past Posted by Adir on Feb 2, 2009
Spanish has several verb tenses to express the past; two of them are Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto (present perfect simple) and Pretérito Perfecto Simple (simple past). This is how to distinguish them: Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto is normally accompanied by expressions that refer to the present time. The reason for this is that this tense describes a…