Preterite Vs. Imperfect, Life Lessons (Spanish Past Tense)
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2015
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The preterite Vs. the imperfect... not easy.
The last video was the "up-in-the-sky, aerial" view.
This video is the "nitty, gritty, in-the-trenches" view.
In the last video, I gave you a "rule of thumb" for choosing between the preterite and the imperfect.
In this video, I'm giving you real life examples from the TV show "Orange is the New Black".
This is minute-for-minute, one of the most educational videos I've made so far.
Here's a comment I just received today on UA-cam:
"Big thank you for this video. I've watched countless videos on preterite v imperfect and these REAL
WORLD examples nailed it! Also, the dash of humor you bring to the table is great. Thank you."
--the_renegade_ryan (UA-cam)
Watch this video!
Even if you already have the preterite/imperfect down pretty well, you'll still learn a thing or two.
I sure learned a lot making it.
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Other past tense videos:
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Oh my goodness, you are SO much better than any spanish class I've ever taken! I can actually understand what you are saying in a simple "dumbed down" manner. You are saving me from my Spanish II final!
This is one of the hardest things that we've learned in Spanish yet, and I thank you for making it far clearer than our textbook. My Spanish teacher prefers your videos to how the book describes imperfect as well!
OMG, this was life changing for me: Preterite = What Happened, Imperfect = How Things Were. Thank you! I wish I could have conceptualized this sooner.
This video is a much better explanation than the many videos I've seen on UA-cam. Teachers in these videos have filled their whiteboards with strangely specific examples (games, parties, birthdays, jobs, wars) but never really give an explanation as to why each example falls into each tense. It's like they're saying, "Hey, we figured this out. You should be able to figure it out too." After using the two cases for a few months it now feels in my brain like imperfect is a blurry, background kind of past tense while the preterite is a focused "point your finger at it" kind of past tense. Yesterday someone asked about something i was doing yesterday and I said, "Estaba soleado." The weather was in the background of what I was doing so my brain chose imperfect.
Dude your videos completely turned on to learning Spanish! I used to hate it and didn't understand it at all but because of your videos and your passion for the language I made it my minor in college! Your technique of using what we already know from English to translate into our understanding of Spanish is absolutely KEY. Learning from native speakers is essential as well but having an English speaker, like yourself, has cleared up so many things that I could never quite get. Awesome content and thank you!!
Big thank you for this video. I have watched countless videos on preterite v imperfect and these REAL WORLD examples nailed it! Also, the dash of humor you bring to the table is great. Thank you.
I love your Spanish lessons .I can stadying all day
It is the bast Spanish classes i have ever taken.And very easy to follow. Thank you Jordan!!!!!
You're welcome Alla! Thanks for the kind words =)
I'll just say that even when i don't feel like studying spanish, one video from you is enough to pump me up to give a 100% !! Perhaps your spirit is contagious 💗
I am a Spanish tutor and I appreciate that you put in the time and effort to make these (accurate) videos - I am always recommending them to students! *thumbs up*
After looking at the example text my teacher gave me to translate, and listening to your video in the background, it finally clicked. Your repetition of things really helps as it means I don't have to rewind the video constantly. Thank you so much for the help, keep doing what you're doing :D
THESE ARE AMAZING THANK YOU SO MUCH I WAS STRUGGLING for 2 years and just winged it during tests and now its really necessary that I learned it and I understand so clearly now
Thank you so much for all of these videos! I am a 37 year old returning college student and my degree requires 6 semesters of language and 4 in one ( I chose Spanish as I live in Texas). I was never great at learning language, possibly because I never took school seriously until my 30's, but it has been the most challenging class. Even though I have been passing with A's, its almost as if I understand the formula without knowing why I am or how it works. I constantly email my professor for help (online course) and she refers me to various different websites, but I still leave confused and irritated. Thank you SO much for making these videos that "dumb it down". I hate the term, but it's true. I can write you a paragraph or fill in a blank, but when hearing Spanish spoken around town, completely at a loss. These videos are so amazing and cut down to the basics and why. Keep up the great work! I will be working all summer at perfecting what I have learned so far before beginning Spanish III, and plan to watch every video you have made. Thank you, from a girl trying so hard to learn and understand.
Your lessons are so amazing! I like the way you explain, although I’m not a native English speaker but what I always do is exactly comparing Spanish with English, feeling every Spanish words have relative counterpart of English does help me understanding its structure a lot! Thanks!
I love your explanations. They can be understood easily.
Thank you so much for this! I could not consistently understand the differences between the imperfect and preterit tenses, you rock dude!
I really love your Spanish lessons, and I have learned a lot from them XD :D, but I was just wondering - do you purposefully edit your videos so that you never blink?
+MotorMusic Hahah. Thank you, I'm glad you like my videos. My editing style is a work in progress for sure. But no, that is not my intention. I didn't even realize that until somebody made a comment a few months ago. My intent when editing is to keep a certain pace and edit out all BREATHING. Since I'm actually reading the words, that might be why I'm not blinking.
That makes sense :D. It is an interesting style, and it definitely keeps people watching xD.
thats gonna piss me off now that youve pointed it out!!!
iLikeSkittlesOG dangit, I just discovered this channel and now all I can see is that you don't blink or breathe!!
MotorMusic ffs that's all I'm focusing on now, gonna fail my GCSE
when u learn something in the space of 18 minutes that ur teacher tried teaching u for a year.
Your teacher gave you 100 times more information than you are getting here.
@@josephboyle9973 The amount of information given means nothing if none of the information is understood.
@@reysha3994 well said. Quality over quantity.
Dude .. thats genious! That was helping me so much. You really have a unique way of teaching and your techniques are really useful and effective. Thanks for sharing and spreading your knowledge.
Best.
I started watching your videos a week ago and after watching many of your videos this is one of your best videos so far in my opinion! Thank you!!
Hey Jordan, thank you very much again for all your helpful videos. Love them! You teach me so much more than books.
This was so helpful I actually understand how to use them and when. You are a great teacher! Thanks for the help!!
Tú haces que el español sea fácil, explicas perfectamente como utilizar el pretérito perfecto simple del pretérito imperfecto. Saludos desde Paraguay
Thank you so much! Love the relation to Orange is the new black and how you explain the different uses, so much easier than a work book!
Amelia Wood Awesome! Yeah, I feel lucky to have found this method. I'll be using it for pretty much everything in the future. Instead of having to make up crappy examples. Not just OITNB, but shows/movies in general. Glad you liked! Thanks for watching and the message.
God this is funny, thank you for the humor you give us while practising this complicated stuff! True teacher
Thanks a lot! If only I had known the rule before... I'd read a tons of books, but I still didn't get it. With your 7 minute film I've learned more than with hours of reading articles!
This helped me so much the night before my test, thank you.
Saved my life for my test yesterday bless
Thank you for these videos! I have a Spanish test tomorrow and I'm feeling a lot more prepared than when my teacher taught it
Thank you so much for these resources!
You are literally my hero
Excellent teaching. Very useful.
Me encantan tus videos. Soy maestra de español y los comparto con mis estudiantes a menudo. :)
Great examples. This video is is helping me get my head around using indefinido amd imperfecto- it certainly doesn’t help that each of these tenses has several different names! So I like to use INDEFINADO and IMPERFECTO to avoid confusion myself. Muchas gracias 🙏
Preterite is confusing even for me (I'm a native speaker)
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Estás bien..?
Thank you. This really helped me understand!
You're not kidding about learning new things....I watched a few minutes of this great video and my head exploded. It seems that I conquer levels and as I move towards more advanced material holy crap it doesnt get any easier. But I have always liked challenges
thx u so much, i love this deeper explanation
thank you so much for posting these videos! I have my Spanish final tomorrow and your videos and the worksheet you provided were extremely helpful and clarifying. subscribed for future help :)
Muchas gracias de Escocia - has habido muy útil con mis tareas universitarias!!
Something that has worked for is to see if it can be continuous i dont know if it is just luck but so far it has worked for me
On that last one, the light bulb went off in my head when you showed us the second part of that one. I have a test tomorrow that I'm almost positive I'll ace tomorrow. Thanks so much!
Jordan, thank you so much for your videos. Spanish was my minor in college, but I'm going back now to try to recall everything I've learned and hopefully become fluent one of these days! Fingers crossed! Your videos have been a nice refresher on several grammar lesson I had forgotten. Thanks again!
P.S. Ser and estar always get me in the preterite vs. imperfect tense, too! I never know which one to use. It's so confusing!
You crack me up! Thanks
This video was a godsend - thank you so much! Saved me an evening of tearing my hair out :') xx
Thank you so much kev 🎉🎉
Muy gracias.
thank u so much .it helpeed me a lot
So helpful!!
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Thank You Sir...
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U make my life easier!tnx
this makes perfect sense.
If teachers make examples that is cool/related to students, it would make learning more relatable, relevant, and fun. I loved that you got examples from Orange is the new black :] Could you do one on breaking bad or dexter?
Thank you very much for uplouding this video! I'm german and there are no good Spanish lessons videos on youtube that are in german... I'm lucky that my english is better than my spanish xDD I will write a test in a few days and you helped me alot!
when u got a 70 on a Spanish test on preterite and imperfect since the teacher cant teach and u search online for clarification and u saw this...
Fuck me, i wished i saw this earlier since this is way clearer than what the spanish teacher was teaching, thanks jordan
love your videos
A great video as always. A useful way I think of it is the preterite is generally for completed actions - and so are perfect. The imperfect refers to things which don't have a definite end date, or might not even be finished yet (or ever) - they are more ambiguous and open ended - and so are imperfect.
FIVE 5 years after you wrote this An Aha movement to the max. I know that Perfect is completed but did not put 2+2 together and realize that an IMPERFECT action, "don't have a definite end date, or might not even be finished yet (or ever) - they are more ambiguous and open ended - and so are imperfect." I am writing down and making a file Thank you Smithy0009. Five years later.
@@jhonyermo I love that this has helped you and led me to an old comment I couldn't remember making! I'm still learning Spanish and hope your learning is going well too.
You are my hero.
Muy util - perfecto!
Neil Hall Gracias!
Jordan is the King of Oregon he does great vids and he sent my Tee shirts real fast to Germany 👍
You are so good!! Muchas gracias por compartir tus ideas, videos y tu habilidad para dar explicaciones sencillas y evitar la confusión del estudiante que aprende español. ¡Bravo!
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Wow very helpful
je ne sais what? Great! I'm glad it helped!
Todos los videos que ha subido a su cuenta de UA-cam son muy buenos, pero recuerde usar siempre ¿? al comienzo y final de cada pregunta respectivamente, sigue así (Y) :P
Me gusta el humor y me gusta los ejemplos tambien. Es como, "Spanish you can use."
+Michael Hasebroock Gracias! Me gusta tu frase. Voy a usarla =)
+Gringo Español Feel free! Use it. I'm thinking of starting a language school or similar with that slogan. Great videos! Keep it up
u saved my life
Thanks for the excellent spanish lessons. The logic seems to get a bit hazy when you have a sentence like “Mi hermano (asistió) a la universidad por cuatro años”. Using your logic I would think of this as “how things were” (i.e. my brother worked in the university for 4 years”) and use the imperfect (asistía) but it’s actually in the preterite because it’s a fixed time frame in the past (so it would fit in the “what happened” category based on your logic). I think under some circumstances you just have to accept certain rules as a given and not over analyse them...but I’m just learning :)
Thnx! I just might pass Span II 💯
You're welcome. Good luck!
Caught me off guard with the orange is the new black reference, RIP Poussey.
Great show!
😤 i feel so weird when you call the audience gringos. I’m a Latino i just wanna be able to speak to my family.
I really like how you broke down the rule of thumb, explained why it doesn't always work and gave us a more specific rule to use for Preterite, vs. Imperfect. However, I believe that when explaining the conjugation and word charts, you can compile all of them into one frame after saying the sentence and then proceeding to explain the concept. Also the cut editing is a bit annoying and your voice gets a little monotone after 18 minutes. But overall, amazing how you fit a week of Spanish class into one compact video. Gracias Senor!
I have an amazing spanish teacher but have been struggling to understand this and your videos have helped so much!!
As a beginner, I only use 100% imperfect and 0% preterite, why?
There are only 3 irregulars in the imperfect : 1) ir 2)ser 3) ver.
The rest are regular endings
ar verbs => aba er / ir verbs => ia
Also the imperfect has ZERO stem changes.
I will fix with proper past tense, years in the future when I get better at it.
Thanks again for your videos.Concerning this imperfect - preterite think, i thought that the very word ''imperfect'' means something that is not completed, not perfected, something that is ( or used to be) still going on,,so, ,maybe, in a sence, the imperfect is kind of a contiuous tense?
I truly love the way you teach , and your practice worksheets are useful indeed......only one question what gringo means
You're awesome
@The Spanish Dude....Jordan, I am working very diligently to finally become fluent in Spanish by the end of 2020, my primary obstacles are verb tenses, and I can self teach myself through UA-cam if I have one good reference. Will your conjugation boot camp be all I need?
The link to the free practice guides aren't showing up. I have a test on this tomorrow and I am SO lost. :( Please help!
+Meredith Bell It's fixed now. Hope your test went well.
link for the practice sheet? thnx
The link doesn't work, but the video is very helpful.
+Stefanwolf1 Link is now fixed, thank you! Glad the video helped you.
"agrieto" is not usually use in that way is better to use "rajó"
Clear as mud.
Jordan, love your classes. the link however to the free practice sheet tells me I am forbidden. Sounds like my ex wife. Any chance we could get it updated?
So simply, the imperfect tense means you (used) to do something? While preterite tenses mean you (did something already) in the past" just a simplified version but am I right correct me if I am not.
Estoy un poco confundido. To say 'today was a good day' would be 'hoy fue un buen día' but I thought it would be 'era' because it being good is how things were. Or is it that it was a good day and that is what happened. As in, what happened was that the day was good (sorry if I'm being confusing)
Good question. I've been wondering this for some time now too. Anyone?
@@samiamiamsamsamiam Hoy is a "marcador temporal", the rule says every time you use "hoy" you have to use pretérito perfecto "hoy ha sido un buen día" - today has been a good day
I can't access the practice resources that go with this video. The link doesn't work.
I'm so confused about the face cracking sentence. The translation "se le agrietó toda la cara" doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't this mean... it cracked to her itself the face?
Can you put a time frame with it? I worked yesterday, last night, last year, from 9 to 5? If so, it's the preterite. No time frame? I worked hard on it. I worked for world peace. I worked with my brother. That's the imperfect. Just another way of looking at it.
How can you tell the difference between qué (what) and que (that) when listening to Spanish. Same with sí (yes) and si (if) and sé (I know) and se (himself, herself, themself, yourself)
Michael Jordon In my experience, it all depends on context. The accents are used to differentiate between two (or more) homophones whilst writing, such as qué and que. For example, if someone asked you "¿Qué necesitas?", you wouldn't think "That you need?", you'd assume they're asking you "What do you need?".
Michael Jordon Tienes razón, tanto SI, QUE y SE (ser o estar) son usados en las conversaciones, mientras que QUÉ es usado para preguntar, SÉ y SÍ son usados para responder.
Michael you're right, SI, QUE y SE (to be) are used in normal conversations, but QUÉ is used to ask and SÉ and SÍ are used to respond or answer.
5:10 17:26
Spanish 3 final tomorrow!!
I was on the brink of doing something - estaba a punto de hacer algo; I was on the brink of insanity - estaba al borde de la locura :)
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I have a question. So I understand "el" and "la" are referring to a male and female. But what do you use when you're talking about an object. Like Kitchen or Computer? My friend from Venezuela couldn't explain this to me ):
Nemo's Husband's wife This can get very confusing very quickly. But I've made lessons on most pronouns. Check out these videos:
gringoespanol.com/quickies/articles/ (el and la are articles)
gringoespanol.com/quickies/personal-pronouns/ (subject pronouns)
gringoespanol.com/quickies/possessive-adjectives/
gringoespanol.com/quickies/direct-object-pronouns/
gringoespanol.com/quickies/indirect-object-pronouns/
gringoespanol.com/quickies/double-object-pronouns/
I know that's a lot. But pronouns are even more complicated than verb conjugation at the beginning. To truly understand what's going on, watch those videos, in that order.
Gringo Español Thank you very much!
Nemo's Husband's wife All nouns in Spanish have a gender and an article whether they are objects or not (only masculine or feminin, no neuter forms for nouns, but only for some pronouns), but it doesn't mean that you always have to use them in a sentence where you use a noun.
Kitchen is cocina (la cocina)
Computer is computadora or ordenador (el ordenador o la computadora)
PD: I'm a native Spanish speaker (from Spain)
Nemo's Husband's wife all nouns in spanish have a gender and as you know "el " and "la" are referring to a male and female. in spanish most of the nouns who end in "a" we can suppose is a female and if end in "o" is a male.
by example: el carro, el perro, el edificio.
la cocina, la computadora, la estufa.
there are exceptions but you will have to learn them.
sorry for my bad english, i'm native spanish speaker.
I love your lessons but I'm having trouble with something. If I were to say, "I was sleeping yesterday while all of the rioting was happening in the street." "Dormia mientras alborotaban en la calle ayer." would be correct, right? It's stuff that "was happening". But if I were to think in your terms, since it is "what happened" rather than "how it was", I would have chosen the preterit.
Hm I’m sure somebody else could give a better answer but it seems like your intent in using both of these verbs was to set a scene, or describe “how things were”- I know you put “was happening,” but something that “is happening” can still be used as a description of how things were
This helps a ton, but i cant get the practice work sheet to work. i have a test tomorrow PLEASE help!!!
+Gringo Español lol i didn't know i was on my dads account but i still PLEASE HELP
+Eric Nazzaro I just tested it and it works. Maybe in your spam folder? Promotions? Updates?
Can you hit me up with a shirt or tell me where to get one. They are pretty cool!
on the brink of (very nearly, very close to) = al borde de
*do...do you blink?*
I’m confused, it seems like the only verb you conjugate in the imperfect is estar