Perfect Your Spanish: Illustrated Tutorial on Imperfect vs Preterite

For Spanish learners, deciding when to use the imperfect vs. preterite past tenses can be confusing. It's often made more confusing by efforts to memorize dozens of situations and conjugations.
In my experience, it's a lot more effective (and interesting) to learn through context as you go. So in this video, you'll get an introduction to the concept of Preterite vs Imperfect - enough grammar to get you started. Then through lots of exposure to Spanish, you'll start building an intuition for when to use each tense.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Situation #1 (Preterite)
1:34 - Situation #2 (Imperfect & Preterite)
2:43 - Situation #3 (Imperfect & Preterite)
4:02 - How to learn these
4:33 - Practice
5:21 - What to do in conversation
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[@HeatherT-qd5we]

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[@HyperDaddyReacts]

Thank you this helped me for my final

[@mjperfume1523]

Great breakdown explanation

[@cashmoney469]

Helped me so much thanks bro

[@Theattractiveguy113]

Really great channel thanks. I’ll tune in regularly

[@BreakthroughSpanish]

glad to hear it! thank you

[@ryankane952]

Thanks for the breakdown, great overview. The illustrations really help.

[@BreakthroughSpanish]

thanks!

[@david-dm9dz]

thanks for the breakdown. that helps.

[@BreakthroughSpanish]

Thanks David, glad to hear it

[@msmendes214]

Hi, I just discovered your channel & it looks great! Do you have a video on your background of your own Spanish learning journey (if there is one, & you're not a native speaker, a la Super Holly)?

[@BreakthroughSpanish]

Thanks Lyssa! I don’t have one yet, that would be a good idea though. The short story is I’m a native English speaker who learned in school, on my own, and spending lots of time in South America, mainly Chile. I’ve since learned some other languages, and have learned how to learn a more effectively, which shapes a big part of what I try to share here. Thanks again for your comment, I’ll make a video on this one day soon

[@shannonleemusic]

Gracias. Cuando era niña mis hermanos y yo caminábamos todos los días a la escuela. Un día, hubo una tormenta de nieve. No podemos caminar en la nieve. Pero a nosotros nos gustaba mucho beber chocolate caliente y hacíamos ángeles en la nieve.

[@Artemov78]

No pudimos caminar por la nieve ...nos gustaba tomar chocolate y hacer los ángeles de la nieve.
Diría así pero no estoy seguro 🤪

[@user-bo7oc4gs1b]

Hello

[@BreakthroughSpanish]

@@Artemov78 gracias! buenas sugerencias. También se podría decir "no pudimos caminar en la nieve", para decir "we couldn't walk *in* the snow". Pero si quieres decir "We couldn't walk *because of* the snow", tu sugerencia (no pudimos caminar *por* la nieve, o debido a la nieve) sería mejor

[@amirar2371]

hi im a complete beginner what should i do im lost plaese guide me to something there is a ton of videos on youtube but im confused please elaborate

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[@jennacorwin3032]

Hace dos años, estudié en Costa Rica. Para tres meses, viví con una familia tica. Siempre fue tan caliente, entonces me encantaba ir a la piscina dos o tres veces a semana.

[@conkodo]

I’ve had to learn this concept so many times and still confuse it🥲
Aprendí este concepto muchas veces pero confundirlo todavía