Spanish course. Beginner's guide.

During this episode you will learn to talk about things that happen with a frecuency in the past. English do not have this tense, therefore I advice you to get a pen and your Spanish notes with you during this episode. There will be a lot going on.
"De pequeña jugaba en el parque todas las tardes. Mis amigos y yo saltábamos a la cuerda en el campo sin preocuparnos por el tiempo. Mi madre preparaba la merienda para todos y la llevaba al parque. Nos sentábamos bajo un gran árbol para comerla. A veces, cuando el sol empezaba a bajar, también caminábamos hacia el río y observábamos los peces que nadaban en el agua cristalina."

During this episode we are going to recap el gerundio in Spanish and we are going to study how we can use this tense combined with the two past we have already studied. "I have been going for ages there", "he estado yendo años allí" ; "I was watching the television last night", "anoche, estuve viendo la televisión"

During this episode we are going to speak about the last use of the tense pretérito perfecto compuesto. After giving a short explanation, I will be giving you sentences in English to translate into Spanish, and of course, I will help you with that!

I have decided to include this episode to have a rest from preteríto perfecto compuesto and all the grammar involved with it. During this episode we are going to hear a conversation between two people who are speaking about someone's story. We will be introducing verbs in the different tenses we have already studied.

During this episode we are going to continue talking about experiences, this time we are going to practice this through a very interesting conversation between two people. One of them is asking advice about changing his life completely.

During this episode we are going to recap the use of the words a(lguna vez, todavía, aún, ya, nunca
¿(Alguna vez) has saltado (alguna vez) en paracaidas (alguna vez)?
¿(ya) has saltado (ya) en paracaidas (ya)?
¿(todavía) no has saltado (todavía) en paracaidas (todavía)?
¿(nunca) has saltado en paracaidas (nunca?

During this episode we are going to learn to use some dificult but useful words that serve to talk about experiences, and at the same time we keep talking in "preterito perfecto compuesto".
This words are Alguna vez, todavía, aún, ya, nunca
¿(Alguna vez) has viajado (alguna vez) en tren (alguna vez)?
Si, (Alguna vez) he viajado (Alguna vez) en tren (Alguna vez).
Si (ya) he viajdo (ya) en tren (ya).
No (todavía, aún) no he viajado (todavía, aún) en tren (todavía, aún).
No (nunca) he viajado en tren.

During this episode we are going to study other uses of the "pretérito perfecto compuesto". We are going to listen to three people making up excuses for their behaviour. After this podcast you will be able to say your own excuses!

During this episode we are going to listen the story of two people who have had some recent experiences. We put a focus again on the tense we are studying, including new verbs and vocabulary to expand your language knowledge.

During this episode we are going to listen to Marta and Carlos who have been on holidays. They will be telling us all about it. Carlos text is very interesting as it contains a lot of useful vocabulary for your daily basis.