Spanish course. Beginner's guide‪.‬ Natalia Sanchez

During this episode you will learn to conjugate verbs ending with -er and -ir in Imperfecto, the tense we are recently studying. We will also be hearing the following text and translating it together.

"Había una vez un anciano llamado Roberto que vivía en una casa vieja cerca del mar. Roberto siempre leía libros de aventuras. Cada tarde, se sentaba en su sofá favorito, mirando al mar.
Su nieto, Pedro visitaba su casa todos los fines de semana. Pedro siempre traía cuadernos y lápices de colores porque le encantaba dibujar. Los dos pasaban horas juntos; mientras Roberto contaba historias de sus viajes, Pedro dibujaba los paisajes y los barcos que su abuelo describía. 
A veces, cuando el clima estaba bien, caminaban hasta la playa. Roberto enseñaba a Pedro a reconocer las distintas aves marinas y las conchas que encontraban en la arena. Pedro escuchaba con atención, el siempre aprendía mucho con su abuelo. Los días pasaban lentamente, llenos de historias y aprendizajes, creando recuerdos que quedaban en su memoria para siempre".

During this episode you will learn to talk about things that happen with a frecuency in the past. English do not have this tense, therefore I advice you to get a pen and your Spanish notes with you during this episode. There will be a lot going on.

"De pequeña jugaba en el parque todas las tardes. Mis amigos y yo saltábamos a la cuerda en el campo sin preocuparnos por el tiempo. Mi madre preparaba la merienda para todos y la llevaba al parque. Nos sentábamos bajo un gran árbol para comerla. A veces, cuando el sol empezaba a bajar, también caminábamos hacia el río y observábamos los peces que nadaban en el agua cristalina." 

During this episode we are going to recap el gerundio in Spanish and we are going to study how we can use this tense combined with the two past we have already studied. "I have been going for ages there", "he estado yendo años allí" ;  "I was watching the television last night", "anoche, estuve viendo la televisión"

During this episode we are going to speak about the last use of the tense pretérito perfecto compuesto. After giving a short explanation, I will be giving you sentences in English to translate into Spanish, and of course, I will help you with that!

I have decided to include this episode to have a rest from preteríto perfecto compuesto and all the grammar involved with it. During this episode we are going to hear a conversation between two people who are speaking about someone's story. We will be introducing verbs in the different tenses we have already studied. 

During this episode we are going to continue talking about experiences, this time we are going to practice this through a very interesting conversation between two people. One of them is asking advice about changing his life completely.