02 Spanish Lesson - preterite vs imperfect (part 1)

[wheffrey1]

My spanish teacher told us to watch this video as homework. with a worksheet of the paragraphs in here. This is actully more helpful than my own teacher. you explain it differently. I was able to understand it, so thank you so much!

[ru19music]

gracias !!

finally it went into my head : D

[MCHotShots]

Hey Bro, Nice video, but I can not find the word bank in order to actually answer the questions in the video. If you could please reply that we would be awesome. Thank You for uploading el video.

[tontitofrito]

@MCHotShots

in the info I explain that the wordbank can be found with the video at senorjordan(dot)com

[hpvstwilight12]

Thanks so much for uploading this lesson now I understand the preterite/imperfect sorta well.

[8080pop]

omg i cant get this down -_- and preterite/imperfect is like 80% what my school teaches...

[armandino101]

Great lessons! Thanks a lot for putting these up. Very helpful.

[Capri557]

dude your spanish is horrible i wish stupid gringos would stop tryign to teach our language

[Strugglingspanish]

You did a great job explaining the difference between the imperfect and the preterite:)

[euraznbarbie]

OMG THANK U SOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!! I HAD NO IDEA HOW TO DO THIS UNTIL NOW LOL GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIASSS !!!!!!!!!

[gymdork9698]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU ARE AMAZING AND I LOVE YOU ! i have a preterite/imperfect quiz tomorrow and i never understood it until NOW! BREAKTHROUGH! :D

you have a lucky WIFE. Yeah, guys, hes not gay, he just knows how to make an educational video acctually FUN.

LOVE YOU and again THANK YOU SO MUCH! :)

[michaelawonton]

THANK YOU!!!!

[tealarita]

thank you soooo much! this confused me so much in class and you cleared it up in 10 minutes faster than my teacher did in 3 weeks.

[Caneset]

Omg- I love you for this ssssssooooooo much!!! You are a huge help!!! Please continue to post!!!!

[truckincuda]

Thank you! Your explanation of the prederite/imperfect uses of verbs is a great review for me to a confusing part of the Spanish language. Muy gracias senior!

[famousfive30]

This is so helpful you have no idea :D thanks! I see the clear differences in which you would use pretirite and imperfect now but what about the subtypes? for example, I need to learn;

-preterito perfecto compuesto

-preterito pluscuamperfecto

-preterito perfecto simple

-preterito anterior

sorry I know that's a lot but I was wondering if you could briefly explain the purposes and circumstances in which you would use those? thank you :)

[xoxGoddess6]

I feel like se sintio/se sentia could go either way.

[bennemann]

@tontitofrito

"e hizo del baño en sus pantalones". This phrase strikes me as odd. "Hizo" is one of the preterite forms of "hacer" (to make). So rather than "went to the bathroom in his pants", I understand the phrase as "made a bathroom out of his pants" or something to that effect. Is this correct?

Thanks alot for your videos, they have been helping me a bunch.

[tontitofrito]

@bennemann

There are other ways to say it. That's one way to say it. Please keep in mind that each language has it's own way of saying things that might not directly translate in other languages.

[bochalema]

@bennemann It's like the English: "to take a dump" How can you take a dump? Can you take a dump home and hang it from the wall? No right? But you can dump what you take. Languages are like that, you can't translate literalmente.

[MrGAFFNEYD]

Thank you, very helpfull.

[joshuaahealy]

so clarifying.



[LogicStance]

Please don't take offense to this, but did you come out at some point in between your first video and this video?

[tontitofrito]

@LogicStance Actually, I got married to a beautiful woman.

[LogicStance]

@tontitofrito Oh, sorry. I apologize if I've offended you.

[VerySimplyMS]

@LogicStance I LOL'D SO HARD

[LogicStance]

@VerySimplyMS And I didn't even mean it to be funny either. I suppose it's like asking someone if they're pregnant. You just don't do it.

[LogicStance]

Everyone had sooo much trouble with this when I learned this in high school.

[winthropification]

hi ms rosa

[TheDukeOfNormandy]

gracias señor -3

[Ngelcanfly]

thanks

[holasoyracheal]

thank you this was a great help

[mesOrbit]

wait a minute... i dont understand how in 7:12 not imperfect?

[tontitofrito]

@mesOrbit

art 7:12, 'se acordó' = she remembered was something that occurred and then something later occurred moments after. As far as I was concerned, it was narrating an action with a definite start and finish. She remembered.... then she took out her phone.

[RyanDaMannn]

Maybe I just didn't catch it but a good idea would b to put the description of imperfect nd preterite b4 the paragraphs at the start of the vid. But I still understand it thank you!

[tontitofrito]

@RyanDaMannn

That's in the second video. The first one is to see if you can more or less figure out the rules on your own.

[RyanDaMannn]

Haha mr. Cosmo get wrecked nd thanks for the help I actually known what imperfect nd preterite are

[perryaston99]

did you get that shirt at baby gap?

[tontitofrito]

@perryaston99

Negatory. I got it at Target many years ago.

[hnm2014]

my teacher doesnt know how to speak spanish so i dont learn anything in her class.....i learn everything from these videos!!!!

THANKS!

UR AWSOME!!!

[MrCosmo314]

This just saved me....nothing. A BIG waste of time, no wait. A GRANDE waste of time. Anyone have a logical, easy to understand explanation of this topic???? I thought not

[tontitofrito]

@MrCosmo314

I'm really sorry you didn't find it helpful. From the look of your profile, you made sure to point out how no one else helped you either. :-)

Have you tried watching my second video on this topic? Let me know what you think.

[renntherockstar]

This just saved me for my final exam! Thank you!!!! Great videos!

[hnm2014]

@renntherockstar

me too!!!

[SJMerry9713]

I really like your videos, I just wish you used a different font as accents on the i are very hard to make out!!

[mackhunk]

Thank you very much, very well explained  :-)

[blokuk]

Just a small correction. The correct expression for "hizo del baño en sus pantalones" (which is wrong) would be: "se hizo en los pantalones" o "mojó sus pantalones", or more graphically: "se hizo pipí en los pantalones" o "se orinó en los pantalones". The rest is OK. ;)

[tontitofrito]

Thanks for your input.

Please understand that Spanish is an incredibly diverse language with many different speaking groups. Although it might sound strange to you, to others it would be 'correct' to say.

It's probably a regionalism since my wife and her family use that expression and they're from Guanajuato.

[aTOEverything]

Thanks. you are great. i was waiting for this video.

[Burtholomew]

Much better, thanks! :D

[tontitofrito]

glad I succeeded!  de nada.

[816sprint47]

Excellent video! thankyou.