Hello and welcome to inspired beginners from Notes in Spanish.

I'm Ben Curtis.

I'm here with Marina Diaf.

And as per usual, we're going to start today's episode with a little bit of revision from the last podcast.

Marina, what were we talking about last time round?

Well, we talk about shopping and how often our shopping happens. Yep, we looked at

lots of ways of saying how often anything happens, really. But let's start with the typical question.

How do you say how often? There's two key phrases here, aren't they, that are very, very similar. What have we got?

Kada quanto was one of them. And Kada Quanto Tiempo.

Right. Now these both mean how often, and they're exactly the same, aren't they?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay. So let's have an example. For example, let's say, how often do you go swimming?

Right. Just to remind you that whenever we hear

Marina giving a bit of key vocab or a bit of revision with her perfect examples in Spanish,

she'll repeat them twice and then there'll be a gap afterwards for you to repeat them to

yourselves. Okay, great way of keeping them fresh in your mind.

So, Marina, the phrase was, how often do you go swimming?

How do you say that?

Kada quanto time you're going to nadar?

Okay, fantastic.

Let's look at an answer for that.

If you just wanted to give a very simple answer saying from time to time, what would you say?

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