Practicing The Past In Spanish (Preterit Tense)

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6 жыл бұрын

Here's how to talk about the past in Spanish using the preterite (or preterit) tense. I'll give you some essential tools so you can start speaking with confidence right away!
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Hello everyone,
Talking about the "past" in Spanish is a vast topic, by far more complicated that talking about the present or the future.
In today's lesson I'll give you a peak inside just how to do it, armed with some essential verbs and phrases to really get you going!
I'm focusing on just one aspect of the past here known as the preterite (or preterit) in grammar... however, as I've mentioned there are a myriad of ways you can express the past in any language, not just one. The truth is it requires a lot of study and practice.
Hopefully this lesson will inspire you keep going.
Enjoy and see you next Monday,
Paul

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@Alyssabahu Жыл бұрын

Yo wait why is this the best video for learning Spanish

@legendary8838 3 жыл бұрын

I really wish other channels that teach Spanish would teach it like this instead of just giving vocabulary words. I feelmore confident already

@gerardomendozas.4726 5 жыл бұрын

I know it might sound a little weird. As a Native Spanish Speaker my English is sky rocketing because finally I'm getting the right equivalent sentences in English to the sentences used in Spanish. Awesome and Thanks a lot.

@Adrian-ck5td 2 жыл бұрын

Me gusta ver que hay personas que hablan inglés que tratan de hablar español.

@menwa296 2 жыл бұрын

Y yo hablo árabe y tratando aprender español 🙏🏼💕

@breezeloveable 4 жыл бұрын

omg, this helped me so much. i am learning spanish for my job. i am a medical assistant at an urgent care clinic. this lesson alone made me feel so confident in speaking in past tense. thank you!

@suspendedhatch Жыл бұрын

I love that this incorporated the huge amount of dormant vocab I have learned over the years in order to chain words together in long, practical sentences. I called my family back home just to frighten them by ripping through long sentences in Spanish and feigning an ESL accent when reverting to Ingles.

@kerryfifi946 Жыл бұрын

You're the best Spanish teacher on the KZfaq I recommend everybody who really wants to learn Spanish to learn with you. I can speak some Spanish confidently, I'm learning from you and I improve my Spanish every day. Thank you so much for the lessons🙏

@leebenjamin7781 Жыл бұрын

Yes, "desafortunadamente" is a nightmare of a word. I don't know if this works in Mexico, but here in Spain, we say "por desgracia."

@imnotcosmic Жыл бұрын

Comparing with french version it’s nothing. I would say that the pronunciation is a bit easier than the writing. I think even most of french people make a mistake writing this word, “malheureusement” 😁 but it’s one of my favorite words tho

@mathewnguyen67 Жыл бұрын

@@imnotcosmic malheureusement j'utilise toujours ça 😉

@daviddoyle5540 3 жыл бұрын

Since I have been having intensive lessons for the last few weeks I am amazed at how much I learned within that 30 mins. Using para in place of "in order to" is a real eye opener and makes a lot of sense. Also because you didn't use overly complicated grammatical explanations everything made sense within the context of the exercises and finally I got a clearer understanding of the direct object pronouns. Thank you, I am looking for the link to the main course now.

@supermajic 4 жыл бұрын

i have pretty good vocab and ok grammar but my conversational skills are horrible. you had me translating those sentences extremely quickly with a lot more confidence than i'm used to. great format

@balal7028 6 жыл бұрын

I am so grateful for those videos, many thanks for making us learn in an easy way: Already, Saving my money to purchase the full course.. Thank you Paul

@yournexxt5125 2 жыл бұрын

Same! Any update on ur journey?

@kalanaepasinghe200 Жыл бұрын

Hola ,Buenos días profesor, Me llamo Kalana.Soy de Sri lanka y estoy muy emocionado con este idioma.Cuando era adolescente me encantaba las canciónes de Enrique.Luego empeze aprenderla como una asignatura.Hoy en día estoy practicando mucho para ser un Guía turístico habla hispana en nuestro país.con eso escribo todas las palabras de usted en mi libro.Ahora puedo hablar un poquito español lleno de confianza gracias a usted.Muchísimas gracias....!

@algry1288 6 жыл бұрын

This is really the easiest way to lern Spanish. Thanks Paul.

@graceandglamor 4 жыл бұрын

Probably the best speaking practice I’ve come across

@dominichazell7862 4 жыл бұрын

If you like this style of learning and you think it will work for you, I can recommend his course as I have completed it. It gave me the best foothold on spanish that I could get before I moved to Spain and I was able to use his methods of remembering the correct grammar to enable myself to build on my vocabulary and put it all in to proper use. He is still adding and improving the course but now is a really good time to enrol. Very good value for money.

@brisacostera 6 жыл бұрын

Your voice is so soothing and your lessons are great! Wonderful combination.

@narutowebby 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for soo long!! Building on sentences with the new words and the encouragement of speaking aloud is perfect. I feel like this will really help me start to make sentences in spanish and to start thinking in Spanish.

@clairedm9461 6 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias Paul. Todos los lunes estoy esperando tu lección. Aprendo muchas cosas nuevas. Les explica muy bien

@johntrojan9653 3 жыл бұрын

Ooh, u r so good Ms. Claire 👍👍

@setsukonaka8548 6 жыл бұрын

I have never seen so clear and easy to understand Spanish lessons! Thanks Paul!!

@souagali7912 6 жыл бұрын

Me gusta mucho la repetition de las palabras.Ese es bueno ,para la memorizacion.Muchas gracias senor Paul.

@tmrb7600 3 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I need to help break through the wall I’ve been stuck at for years.

@honestlygio7830 2 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up and subscribed. I have been speaking Spanish since 9 years old . My mom bought me a self teaching set in the 90s but I never got fluent even after taking formal course. I am told I speak it well by native speakers but since need to work on my my vb tenses. This helps bc you speak slowly #2 give simple explanations # give lots of realistic simple sentences thx!!

@johnclark3697 3 жыл бұрын

Best language professor on utube hands down.

@kelviannaepperson3677 4 жыл бұрын

This way of learning is more efficient and engaging that learning in school. Because in school I would tend to forget what I learned in other tenses when it came to preteritte anx imperfect then I would forget them when we move to something else. But I am good at vocabulary. I needed up with forming sentences so thank you so much

@ntildesley2071 3 жыл бұрын

I've been looking for a non north American channel and this is great! No irritating intro and makes me feel confident in building sentences. Something that's left out of my Spanish course

@Butterfly0576 9 ай бұрын

The best Spanish teacher

@murphypaschal Жыл бұрын

Excellent teacher and great method. Thank you so much.

@topmama3019 6 жыл бұрын

I am very content to listen your English and Spanish. Your voice is very clear, nicely pronounced and beautifully spoken whilst most of Spanish speakers in the "KZfaq" video speak horrible English. I found your lessons are very helpful. Thank you Paul, I'm very grateful.

@dakotablackburn3054 3 жыл бұрын

Finally!! This is by far the best practice style I've found. Thank you very much

@cdrdan 6 жыл бұрын

Paul, this is an awesome video that blends perfectly with level 6 of your online course.

@ledy_e_sir4276 6 жыл бұрын

I love your lessons paul . I bet you're the best Spanish teacher of all time

@user-nl7jl1qf4h 6 жыл бұрын

great job! Paul! I learned a lot of things.

@vyadsmith2176 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very much impressed with your teaching methodology. Thank you Mr Paul for your dedication to impart language skills

@victoriamorris7104 2 жыл бұрын

Ur patience beyond me excellent teaching god bless u take care

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u teach better than my actual spanish teacher

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lol

@user-rn7le2tw7p Жыл бұрын

Paul, You're simply the best! Thanks a million.

@briannafuertes4059 6 жыл бұрын

Never have I been taught Spanish in such an easy way. Definitely going to catch up with your older vids in the future.

@vinodsaxena8713 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent Lecture.

@pramodmisal4110 4 жыл бұрын

Your teaching is very helpful for Spanish language students.thanks

@hitmanhatton 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining the proper meaning of esperar it makes the Spanish make much more sense and easier to internalize

@johnshelton1963 2 жыл бұрын

When saying "for three hours", "por" is often omitted. "Tuve que esperar tres horas" is perfectly fine. The same is true in English: I had to wait three hours.

@dr3armer 2 жыл бұрын

Desafortunadamente, i fail epicly trying to pronounce this word. Gracias por otra gran leccion!

@maisy_madeleine_allbless1951 Жыл бұрын

I have signed up for a Spanish intermediate level course and this should help me to learn all of these :)

@kahveh3629 3 жыл бұрын

¡Gracias, hombre! The way you teach is clear and systematic.

@gloriajoseph9465 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul, so patient in teaching, especially to me , a senior.

@egp4956 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul. You really motivate me daily to continue learning and practising my Spanish. I love your lessons.

@willtabacchi1408 6 жыл бұрын

I suspect the reason decirlo/la or decirle is so flexible is the following: decirla/lo means 'to 'tell him/her' while decirle means ' to tell TO him/her '

@danisha7412 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks ! I was wondering what was the difference between using the lo/la and the le

@DianeRyanONeill 5 жыл бұрын

Paul you are a life saver, this is making it so easy!

@johntrojan9653 Жыл бұрын

WHOA !!! I'M FINALLY, FINALLY GETTING IT ! ! ! THANK U MUCHO SENIOR PABLO !!!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👌 😃 😁 😃 😁 😃 😁 😃 😁 😃

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@dailylifeinvietnam2114 6 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias por la información, grandes lecciones

@jorgeg6243 6 жыл бұрын

Hola Paul! Soy Jorge, de Argentina y sigo tus videos para continuar aprendiendo inglés. Tengo conocimientos básicos de tu idioma aprendidos a lo largo del tiempo y tus videos son muy didácticos. Thank you for your great job. Congratulations!

@catherins4233 4 жыл бұрын

You are an amazing teacher. You are a great help to those people who are teaching themselves the Spanish Language. I am doing a self- study of the language and so far I can see some improvements. I downloaded some of your videos and I love it 💖. Please continue making these videos and teaching people. Mucho gracias!

@meineDwenie 3 жыл бұрын

I think I just found what I needed! Since I find it very challenging to express myself or what happened about my day, now that I am watching this video it seems that I won't be having the same difficulty in speaking longer sentences plus using the past tense. Thank you very much. Your strategy is effective for me. This is what I have been looking for.

@dianevan2326 6 жыл бұрын

I just did this lesson tonight and it really helped me a lot. Thank you Paul.

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Ur very systematic and methodical teaching really really attracted me from the very 1st class. Whenever I see ur program it was hard for me tor me to resist it excellent and super u don’t know how much u helped me especially in recalling my very sincere thanks to u and keep it up if possible let me see the price and contents because I already have lessons from rocket Spanish if my request is inconvenient for u pl disregard it wish the best success

@duqqan 4 жыл бұрын

Your method of teaching is really excellent. It's cleared up a lot of things that I half knew.

@theavillanueva1618 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is great!!!! More please! Your teaching style is golden!

@leslieyoung3390 3 жыл бұрын

I am learning so much during this 30 minutes in a very easy way of understanding. Thank you for this video!

@qasimmohammed9150 5 жыл бұрын

One of the best courses in Spanish, easy and the approach is make sense

@friarpaulusechemnu3551 6 жыл бұрын

Man, this is simply fantastic. With time I shall get all the lessons. Thanks a million, Paul

@rmacapobre 4 жыл бұрын

mil gracias senor paul .. estoy aprendo muchas cosas ....

@albertopatrocinio6102 3 жыл бұрын

Wow you are the professor that I been looking for a long time as a beginer on Spanish lesson. Thanks lot.

@mspococurante 4 жыл бұрын

Why would anyone not like this? Dude, gooooood stuff. I feel like I just had a lesson with a teacher (well, I did, just by KZfaq!) Thank you.

@bozenasawa3490 8 ай бұрын

Another PERFECT LESSON !!!

@forrestheilman4276 Жыл бұрын

Lección muy bueno! Aprendí mucho Gracias Paul

@Soulpatrol-zu7ry Жыл бұрын

Paul, excellent lesson bro, can't wait for the next lesson

@junukasim1663 4 жыл бұрын

Esto es muy util. Gracias el señor.❤️

@cumhursercek 4 жыл бұрын

Great technic .. gracias paul ..

@ramonag.5262 6 жыл бұрын

awesome! gracias Paul!

@menwa296 2 жыл бұрын

Muchísimas gracias señor Paul, estoy muy le agradezco. Escuché este video cuando limpiaba la cocina y me encantó ❤

@frenketneptune3954 4 жыл бұрын

Your work is extremely important and interesting to me , I have to tell you I learned a lot from the past in Spanish , thankyou very much!

@kulandaisamysoosai1224 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Paul. You have an excellent way of teaching Spanish.

@amjadghadrjou4584 6 жыл бұрын

great way to teach thank you very much

@orangesoda641 4 жыл бұрын

You are a great teacher Paul, I like your teaching pace with breakdowns and specifics explained that just very thoughtful for new learners !

@shizueberkeley Жыл бұрын

Estoy de acuerdo

@Eddster25 6 жыл бұрын

This video was fantastic. Thank you!

@lanzken 4 жыл бұрын

Me encanta esta lección. Es fácil para aprender. Muchas gracias!

@eriaefthymiadou3498 4 жыл бұрын

Perfect Paul very clear and helpful thanks

@user-ut3ey1oq2y 4 жыл бұрын

Graciias amable Paul por esta leccion.

@SraFelicidadPalacios Жыл бұрын

Excelente trabajo pues seguimos aprendiendo muchísimo felicutaciones Doctora Dios la bendiha

@kimle7216 6 жыл бұрын

Big Thank You Paul !

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Muchas Gracias

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These are genius I love this style of learning !

@kmiss7623 2 жыл бұрын

I’m trying very hard to become fluent. No real reason other than I also speak French, lived in a French speaking country, and love learning languages. I am about to start a Spanish II course that I hope I am prepared for!! Your classes make it SO easy. In minutes you’re speaking full sentences! You’re awesome!

@shanmugarajk9443 2 жыл бұрын

Paul your teaching Spanish is awesomely amazing. Kudos to to your service

@willtabacchi1408 6 жыл бұрын

Another super useful lesson -I love these

@lucystevens1588 6 жыл бұрын

Excellente. Muchas gracias a ti

@CrazyCountess 6 жыл бұрын

Gracias Paul!

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Fantastic ! Thank you .

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Paul，yours learning programs are very logical,thank you.

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Great way of teaching, thank you so much. I am definitely going to stick with this.

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Excellent lessons!! Extremely effective approach to language instructions. I've learned more and quickly through these videos. Highly recommended. And thanks so much for sharing, Mr. Paul.

@mudatherahmed3135 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. your method is unique . I am learning better now, Muchas Gracias Senor

@Shh116 9 ай бұрын

Muchas gracias por todo ❤

@MrIzzychub 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul. Great video. That clarified a lot of things I partially learned at different times, I didn't understand when to use "Lo/La" suffix vs, "Le" to represent him/her. Gracias.