This video was for a group presentation at their request. Maybe you can still find it helpful? I tried to have fun while making it because life’s too short!
¡Hola! Someone commented on Twitter that it would be nice if there were a song helping with that pesky concept known as: Preterite Vs Imperfect. As you probably know by now, they are both past tenses with different uses and meanings! We cover those in this song!
¡Hola! I was recently going through old video tapes I have and found the raw video of the preterite irregulars song. I have long wanted to fix the sound coming out of one place and also reduce the hissing (s noise) in the sound. And why not make the text a little easier to read!?
Hello everyone. I decided to try and tackle the confusing topic of preterite vs. imperfect in another video. I hope it helps you and there is less confusion after watching both videos.
Make sure to watch the previous video on this as well. Enjoy!
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions below!
Hola. In this video, we’re talking about the preterite and the imperfect in Spanish. I’ve done many videos on them separately. Make sure to take a look at some of those videos beforehand.
This video lesson covers -ir verbs in the preterite that stem change.
In the present, they change (o-ue) in the yo, tú, él/ella/ud, ellos/ellas/uds forms. In the preterite, they do something a little different. I apologize for it being a little long. Hope this video is helpful.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this video below. Enjoy!
Hola. Finally there is a video (although a little long) to explain those strange stem-changers in the preterite. Although you might remember that -ar and -er verbs in the preterite don’t stem-change like they do in the present, the -ir verbs have to be weird. This video will explain how (e-ie) and (e-i) -ir verbswork in the preterite. Enjoy!
Notice that servir is actually an (e-i) verb in the present. This was a mistake in the video!
Let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this video below!
To help you with remembering quite of few of those irregular verbs, I’ll share a song I learned back in high school! This song is also on page 2 of the preterite conjugation sheet.
This song helps you remember the yo forms of some of the common irregular verbs in the preterite. If it sounds familiar that is because it is to the tune of ‘La cucaracha‘.
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*Note* in this video on a verb chart, the él / ella / usted form should not have an accent on “ió” and should read “io” since “vio” and “dio” do not have accents.
This video lesson covers three more irregular verbs in the preterite. They are traer (to bring), traducir (to translate) and conducir (to drive). They are all lumped together because they follow similar patterns and are similar to decir in the preterite. Enjoy!
Feel free to leave questions, comments or suggestions below this video.