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Learn Spanish: Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners

NIS Beginners 019 - Sydney

Learn Spanish: Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners

Ben Curtis and Marina Diez

Education, Spanish, Beginners, Learning, Learn, Language Learning, Audio, Conversation, Real

4.3757 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2008

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week we look at how two key past tenses, the Preterito Imperfecto and the Preterito Indefinido, can be used together to tell a great story. See notesinspanish.com for the accompanying worksheet.

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0:00.0

Inspired Beginners 19, Sydney.

0:05.0

Hello Marina.

0:07.0

Hi Ben.

0:08.0

How are you?

0:09.0

I'm okay.

0:10.0

Good.

0:11.0

Today, what are we going to talk about?

0:14.0

We are going to tell you a story.

0:17.0

In fact, we are going to tell you about a trip we made like three years ago. And we are going to to see a story. In fact, we are going to tell you about a trip we made like three years ago. And we are

0:23.6

going to see two tenses together today, two tenses that we've seen in the past. Yeah, we're going to be

0:31.2

looking at the preterito imperfecto. Someone asked me to correct you this.

0:38.3

Preterito.

0:39.3

Ah, the preterito.

0:41.3

That's it.

0:42.3

Okay, we're going to be looking at the preterito imperfecto and the preterito indefinido.

0:48.3

Perfect.

0:49.3

Which we've seen before.

0:50.3

Now we'll get back to those in a minute and we'll tell you again how we've seen them

0:54.9

before and how we're going to combine them today in a slightly different way. And first of all,

1:00.0

a quick review or revision, depending on whether you're British or American, I think, of what we saw

1:06.6

last time, which was the negatives. Now we're going to choose two. As usual I'm going to say it in

1:11.9

English. There's going to be a pause for you to try and remember the Spanish and then Marina's

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