Welcome to Vol. 31 of the Spanish Online Newsletter! Your weekly Spanish learning with sound samples, as well as links to Spanish cities and more. I hope you all avoided the internet viruses last week! If you're in doubt check out www.norton.com - they have free virus checkers you can download for all of the nasty bichos that were going around. As back to school time is nearly here, we are back to grammar lessons! This week we take a look at the imperfect past tense. I'm also offering a back to school special on the Complete Musical Spanish Set for 1/2 off of the retail price for Newsletter Members (see below).

Lesson of the Week: Imperfect Past Tense Verbs

From the Ay Cosita Linda Grammar Chapter

Here are the basic patterns for conjugating imperfect past tense
verbs: (click for refreshers on present tense & preterite past tense).

Spanish past tense verbs chart

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One thing you need to remember about the imperfect past tense—it is for activities that were ongoing or repeated; something you were doing in the past, or something you used to do. You take the patterns for imperfect verbs and apply them to the similar conjugation patterns for different people.

	decir to say	bailar to dance
yo tú él, ella, Ud. nosotros ellos	decía decías decía decíamos decían	bailaba bailabas bailaba bailábamos bailaban

Practice saying these 3rd person samples below out loud:

cantar	cantaba	was singing/used to sing
pagar	pagaba	was paying/used to pay
comprender	comprendía	was understanding/used to understand
volver	volvía	was returning/used to return
ocurrir	ocurría	was happening/used to happen
salir	salía	was leaving/used to leave

Worksheet/Activity: Imperfect Tense Verbs

Quiz: Imperfect Tense Verbs

Lesson of the Week: Imperfect Past Tense Verbs

Travel Spot of the Week

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