Practicing The Past In Spanish (Preterit Tense)
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Published 2017-10-30
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Hello everyone,
Talking about the "past" in Spanish is a vast topic, by far more complicated that talking about the present or the future.
In today's lesson I'll give you a peak inside just how to do it, armed with some essential verbs and phrases to really get you going!
I'm focusing on just one aspect of the past here known as the preterite (or preterit) in grammar... however, as I've mentioned there are a myriad of ways you can express the past in any language, not just one. The truth is it requires a lot of study and practice.
Hopefully this lesson will inspire you keep going.
Enjoy and see you next Monday,
Paul
All Comments (21)
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I really wish other channels that teach Spanish would teach it like this instead of just giving vocabulary words. I feelmore confident already
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Me gusta ver que hay personas que hablan inglés que tratan de hablar español.
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Yo wait why is this the best video for learning Spanish
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You're the best Spanish teacher on the YouTube I recommend everybody who really wants to learn Spanish to learn with you. I can speak some Spanish confidently, I'm learning from you and I improve my Spanish every day. Thank you so much for the lessons🙏
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I love that this incorporated the huge amount of dormant vocab I have learned over the years in order to chain words together in long, practical sentences. I called my family back home just to frighten them by ripping through long sentences in Spanish and feigning an ESL accent when reverting to Ingles.
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Hola ,Buenos días profesor, Me llamo Kalana.Soy de Sri lanka y estoy muy emocionado con este idioma.Cuando era adolescente me encantaba las canciónes de Enrique.Luego empeze aprenderla como una asignatura.Hoy en día estoy practicando mucho para ser un Guía turístico habla hispana en nuestro país.con eso escribo todas las palabras de usted en mi libro.Ahora puedo hablar un poquito español lleno de confianza gracias a usted.Muchísimas gracias....!
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I am so grateful for those videos, many thanks for making us learn in an easy way: Already, Saving my money to purchase the full course.. Thank you Paul
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I know it might sound a little weird. As a Native Spanish Speaker my English is sky rocketing because finally I'm getting the right equivalent sentences in English to the sentences used in Spanish. Awesome and Thanks a lot.
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omg, this helped me so much. i am learning spanish for my job. i am a medical assistant at an urgent care clinic. this lesson alone made me feel so confident in speaking in past tense. thank you!
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Since I have been having intensive lessons for the last few weeks I am amazed at how much I learned within that 30 mins. Using para in place of "in order to" is a real eye opener and makes a lot of sense. Also because you didn't use overly complicated grammatical explanations everything made sense within the context of the exercises and finally I got a clearer understanding of the direct object pronouns. Thank you, I am looking for the link to the main course now.
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Yes, "desafortunadamente" is a nightmare of a word. I don't know if this works in Mexico, but here in Spain, we say "por desgracia."
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Muchas gracias Paul. Todos los lunes estoy esperando tu lección. Aprendo muchas cosas nuevas. Les explica muy bien
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Me gusta mucho la repetition de las palabras.Ese es bueno ,para la memorizacion.Muchas gracias senor Paul.
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Your voice is so soothing and your lessons are great! Wonderful combination.
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This is really the easiest way to lern Spanish. Thanks Paul.
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Probably the best speaking practice I’ve come across
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I have never seen so clear and easy to understand Spanish lessons! Thanks Paul!!
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I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for soo long!! Building on sentences with the new words and the encouragement of speaking aloud is perfect. I feel like this will really help me start to make sentences in spanish and to start thinking in Spanish.
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i have pretty good vocab and ok grammar but my conversational skills are horrible. you had me translating those sentences extremely quickly with a lot more confidence than i'm used to. great format
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Excellent teacher and great method. Thank you so much.
