In this week’s lesson we introduce the imperfect tense and consider in what situations this tense is used. We’ll also learn the conjugation of -ar verbs in the imperfect tense.
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It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery personalities.
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We’ve just completed our pilot season of News Time Spanish and we’d like your feedback! News Time Spanish is aimed at intermediate to advanced learners of Spanish – for the past ten weeks we’ve been bringing you a weekly roundup of news stories from around the world, written especially for learners.
With News Time Spanish we aimed to provide content to help increase learners’ range of vocabulary and provide practise in listening skills – a sort of stepping stone to authentic news broadcasts which are available elsewhere on the web. Our premium materials featured full transcripts, vocabulary and exercises, and a special electronically slowed-down version of the audio recording to help listeners who found the speed a bit too challenging.
We hope to return in the Autumn with more News Time Spanish, but we’d like your feedback. Have you enjoyed our weekly episodes? Is there anything you’d like more of? Or anything you’d like to change? We ultimately want News Time to be a manageable production which we can publish regularly and we hope that you’ve enjoyed it and found it useful. Please post your comments below.
We also want to make it clear that News Time Spanish is just one of a range of new materials for intermediate to advanced Spanish learners which we’re working on at the moment. Stay tuned to find out more about our future plans including some exciting video content for Spanish learners.
This week’s News Time Spanish is the final episode in our pilot series. Featured this week:
- Argentina legalises same-sex marriage
- Jellyfish invasion in Spanish beaches
- Ingrid Betancourt demands compensation from the Colombian Ministry of Defence
- Singer Enrique Iglesias and his promise following the Spanish World Cup win
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Coming up in this week’s edition of News Time Spanish:
- Spain win the Football World Cup
- a Spanish heatwave causes problems across the country
- a report from the San Fermín bull-running festival in Pamplona
- important events in the policital history of Cuba involving Guillermo Fariñas
- news from India about a new health drink
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More preterite tenses this week: it’s now time to look at reflexive verbs and verbs which have spelling changes (”radical-changing verbs”) in the preterite tense.
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¡Enhorabuena, España! To celebrate Spain winning the World Cup we’re extending our sale on our Spanish courses until Wednesday 14th July. To benefit from this special offer and get 20% off our Spanish courses including Coffee Break Spanish, Show Time Spanish, TwitterLearn Spanish, and News Time Spanish, simply use coupon code campeones at check-out.
We wanted to let you know in advance that there will be a slight delay with this week’s News Time Spanish. Since half of our team are on holiday and since the news involving a certain Spanish-speaking country may change later this evening (!) we’re postponing the publication of this week’s episode of News Time Spanish until Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. We’ll get it published as soon as we possibly can. Thanks in advance for your patience!
Lesson 10 provides the Zulu version of some common phrases which all learners like to know including “good luck” and “I love you” in the language.
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By the end of lesson 9 you’ll learn to ask “how are you” and give suitable answers in Zulu.
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Coming up in this week’s edition of News Time Spanish:
- problems with the Constitution of Catalunya
- arrests following an FBI investigation into suspected espionage activities
- a triumphant weekend for Spanish sport
- the assassination of a Mexican politician
- a new daily news broadcast for deaf people
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By the end of lesson 8 you’ll learn to count from one to ten in Zulu.
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We’ll be continuing our study of the preterite tense in this week’s lesson and it’s time to take a look at some irregular verbs: hacer, ir, ver and dar in the preterite, so that you can talk about what you did, where you went, what you saw and more in the past.
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By the end of lesson 7 you’ll learn to say it’s nice to meet someone in Zulu.
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