Tané Tachyon (she/her) on Spoutible

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A lot of #tense stuff going on in my Spanish 2 class right now. I alternate between "Wow, lots of things I haven't been understanding in the more-immersion-centric Duolingo are really clicking for me, I can do all this!" & "Wow, how am I ever going to be fluent in conversation?"

A screenshot of page 322 of the online version of the "Panorama" Spanish textbook. Including all the page's text here would go past the alt-text 1000-characters limit, but it starts out like this, followed by a lot of tips on when to use the preterite and imperfect tenses in Spanish:
"The preterite and the imperfect
Now that you have learned the forms of the preterite and the imperfect, you will learn more about how they are used. The preterite and the imperfect are not interchangeable. In Spanish, the choice between these two tenses depends on the context and on the point of view of the speaker."

09:37 AM - Apr 18, 2024

Anita Dennis

@ADennis

In response to Tané Tachyon (she/her).

I taught Spanish for 40 years and still remember beginning to study the preterit/imperfect with a grad student fresh over from Madrid who had to stop and think why it was one or the other. She knew automatically. Good for you for using both immersion and a textbook!

07:04 PM - Apr 18, 2024

Deb Kopaska

@debblynn13

In response to Tané Tachyon (she/her).

I got to that part in Duolingo and ended up buying a used Spanish lesson book. That helped some but so many grammar things to remember.

I can read Spanish some but constructing sentences is very difficult. If I ever have to actually speak it, it will be at a toddler level.

05:32 PM - Apr 18, 2024

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