https://youtu.be/0ELITns6n2o There are four past tenses in Spanish; the perfecto, the indefinido, the imperfecto and the pluscuamperfecto. These four tenses dance together when we tell stories about the past or anecdotes… The four are necessary to express when the action happens, but also to set up the context of that past story. In this blogpost, I […]
Daily archives: March 12, 2025
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A few days ago, a follower of my Facebook page asked me for help with his personal nightmare in Spanish. For him, the irregular verbs in the Pretérito Indefinido (Past Tense) were just something he couldn’t understand, so he wrote me a few lines asking me for some tips. As this week, […]
The Imperfect – Pretérito Imperfecto – is used to talk about the past in Spanish. In the majority of situations, when we use the imperfecto is not to give the main information but to give the context that surrounds the main information. El pasado fin de semana estuve tomando el sol en […]
Una imagen vale más que mil palabras. (A picture speaks a thousand words) Many Spanish official exams (including DELE) ask for a description of a photo or image in the speaking and/or writing part. As I have been preparing DELE exams students for years, and for many hours a day lately, I’ve decided […]