Wow, I can say that after watching a lot of videos on the difference between imperfect and preterite tenses, this is by far the best explanation I have seen to date. Subscribing!
Thank you! I still get confused when to use estar or ser in the past thou. In one video i remember you saying use ser for events, but in this video you use estar " yo estuve en la fiesta anoche". Surely a fiesta is an event?? Ayudarme por favor😢 gracias!!
@@friendsforever9779 Fantastic question! You'll love this. Use estar for where YOU were (estuve en la fiesta anoche) and use ser for where the event was (la fiesta fue en la casa de mis papás) Make sense?
I wish you would just say estaba or estuvo. Saying imperfect and preterite makes it sound confusing. It takes my focus of the word and I want to locate the word not the " I am a college Graduate student who knows the definition of every word" explanation. I do not know what Imperfect or preterite even means. 😅
@@anytimeespanolit was perfect. Imperfect and pretérito are the verb types and there are many more we have to learn. I wouldn’t change what you’re doing.
@gregg06x thanks! I never want our lessons to get too technical like saying "this is the pretérito pluscuamperfecto" for example, but I do think it's necessary to differentiate between the imperfect and the preterite 👍
