Welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish. It's lesson 59 and we're still focusing on the imperfect

tense. In this lesson we'll be looking at ER and IR verbs in the imperfect. Plus we'll

take a look at some of the irregular verbs and there's some good news about irregular verbs

in the imperfect tense. But we'll hear about that in the lesson. I hope you enjoy it.

So we're going to start tonight by thinking again about some of the things that we covered

last week. Can you remember any of the situations in which you would use the imperfect tense?

When you're using was or where? Plus in action, like I was swimming. Yep, uh-huh, anything

else? When you used to do something? Exactly, yeah. And when you would do something talking

about the past? Yeah, exactly. It's that wood in the past when you're thinking back

to what you would do in the evenings in a particular time and so on. So your three

key phrases that you're thinking of are the was or were doing something situation. So

as you suggested, I was swimming. We were walking along the beach. The used to do something

situation. So when I was young, I used to go to swimming lessons on a Thursday afternoon

or something like that. So they used to do something. And the last one that you mentioned

was the wood do something in the past. So thinking back to a particular time in your

life when you would walk along the beach in the evenings looking at the sunset and all

that kind of stuff. So those are your three situations or three of the situations rather

where you would use the imperfect in Spanish. Now the other thing that we looked at last week

was the difference between the pretter it and the imperfect and situations where, for example,

the pretter it interrupts the imperfect. Can you think of an example of this kind of?

When I was walking on the beach, the tide came in? Exactly. When I was walking along the

beach, the tide came in. When I was doing the preparation for this podcast, the phone

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