Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Now, really, what is wrong with Gabriella? She used to get such good grades! Well, it seems like College and High school in Latin America are two very different things. Join Kathy and Ana as they continue with their lower-intermediate series. Nicer than newbie? Bigger than beginner? Then these are the lessons for you. Listen as they take an in depth look at the Imperfect tense as it expresses an incomplete action. Remember English speakers, there is no equivalent for this tense in English so step carefully. A thorough explanation of the imperfect tense is available in the Learning Center. Go ahead premium members, take a look. If you do not have premium membership, you obviously didn’t get the memo. Try it on us for 7 days! That’s right! Free!!!!
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This entry was posted on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Lower Intermediate Lessons . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
2 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #8 - Where were you?”
Friday at 6:30 pm
Thanks to Kevin Macleod for the music in today’s lesson.
The imperfect is a really useful tense to learn. We can talk about ongoing actions in the past. Do any Spod101 heads have questions about the conjugations for regular verbs or the meaning conveyed by the imperfect tense?
Sunday at 1:35 am
I have the meaning from the grammar bank in the learning center but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around it since there isn’t an equivalent in English. Can we simplify the definition a little other than… The imperfect is used to indicate an action or state viewed as being in progress in the past (this means that we don’t know when it started or stopped, but we know that it happened before the moment of speech). It’s also used to indicate a customary or habitual action or state in the past (when employed this way, we often translate it as “I used to walk”). And it’s used to give descriptions in the past in relation to another past event (very often in the Preterit Tense).
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