NIS Beginners 015 - La ultima vez

Learn Spanish: Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners

Ben Curtis and Marina Diez

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🗓️ 22 October 2007

⏱️ 24 minutes

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When was the last time you...? We look at how the Preterito Indefinido past tense is used to talk about things that happened in the past. See notesinspanish.com for more details and the accompanying worksheet (includes transcript and translation of the Spanish section and full grammar and vocab notes).

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0:00.0	Inspire Beginners 15
0:02.0	La Ultima
0:04.0	Hello Marina, how are you today?
0:06.0	I'm very well, Ben. How are you?
0:08.0	Very well, thank you and very excited because today we're moving on to another part of the Spanish past tense.
0:14.0	We're nearly through all of them, which is going to arm you to talk perfectly about everything in the past.
0:20.0	And today's is a real key part.
0:22.4	It's the pretreterito indefinido.
0:25.7	Yeah, that's it.
0:26.6	What we call in English the past simple.
0:29.1	Although most British people at least have no idea what that means because we don't get
0:33.9	taught grammar at school, but it would be, for example, I went to the doctor
0:38.2	yesterday. I ate fish last night. Okay? So we'll be looking at that today. And first of all, as
0:46.2	usual, we've got a little bit of revision from last week's podcast, where we learned how to meet
0:51.1	people and how to get out of meeting people. So, Marina, what was the verb?
0:56.2	And what's the common confusion with another form of the verb?
0:59.9	Yeah, Kedar has two meanings.
1:02.6	Kedarsse, which is the reflexive form, which is to stay,
1:07.2	and Kedar, which means to meet, to meet up.
1:11.2	Yep, so me kedo in casa would mean I'm staying at home.
1:16.3	Quedamos at 10th would mean let's meet at 10 o'clock.
1:20.9	Okay?
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