I'm a spanish teacher for foreigners and your channel helps me a LOT. It's always important to put yourself in the shoes of a non-spanish speaker trying to learn the language. Thank you very much.
I love your enthusiasm, I love the pleasant introductory music, I love how you work with the computer generated charts to insure your verbal explanations are accurate. We are so lucky to have you as our professor.
I enjoy your channel and trying to learn Spanish as I commute to work/home. The only issue is I am 8 min into the video and arrived to my destination and I have not heard a single Spanish word just yet but English grammar. I am pretty sure thats helpful for many though. I believe making short video and to the point when you can see the example of the subject matter right away would interest some people as well. Much appreciated. Thanks for your channel and hard work.
To be honest, you're so much better than my Spanish teacher. She sent us 2 videos (this was one) to prepare us for a test. If she took 3 hours to do this with us, I still wouldn't know it as well as if I watched this. Thanks so much!!!
Hola Dr.Evans . Mi nombre es Kleanna Lujille, Yo vivo en pilipinas. You are the best I love you! Also I'm only 8 yrs. old and I have learned a lot from AIB and The Language Tutor.😊😇
Hola Kleanna! Thank you so much for this message! It really made my day. I am so glad I can help you with Spanish. Keep practicing and you'll be a fluent speaker!
Thank you for your videos, they are amazing and very helpful! Very detailed explanations which I personally would love to hear in Spanish. I think moving forward to learning past tenses students have enough vacabulary to understand more of Spanish.
You gave us three irregular imperfect verbs at the end of this lesson. And, I have a question. Does SER, for example, change to ERA and then get conjugated or is -ERA an ending? Thank you for all that you have done for me in learning Spanish, it really means a lot to me. You are an excellent teacher!
Thank you for so much for this! My spanish teacber does not know how to teach! We just work on a work book and maybe copy in our notebooks an example of an verb in that time and thats it
"Used to + verb" does kind of exist in Spanish. "Yo solía trabajar" would be the "I used to work", as well as the use of Imperfecto "trabajaba". SOLER is only conjugated in Present and Imperfecto. It's a cool verb!
Hey Sir, A massive fan of your podcast. I just wanted to discuss if you focus on latin Spanish or Castilian Spanish. As they have some different words, and you have used both different terms a couple of times.
I know you from AIB channelI on youtube and i loved your the way you teach. I try to learn spanish by myself, is it possible to learn spanish by myself by following these lessons?
¡Buenos días! El video es fenomenal, gracias. Quería avisarte, por si acaso no lo sabías ;-) , el enlace al podcast de este video no funciona. A la mejor ya lo sabías, pero a mi, me gusta que me avisen . Gracias ❤
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What about a video about imperfect vs past progressive? “I was finishing my dinner”. Is it the past progressive a single event that when it is done will be the pretérito? ‘“I finished dinner”.
Hi, Arnab. I'm from Chile, South America. About your request it dosen't go an article before *cartas* because if you do so, this phrase sounds NOT RIGHT. In your example this would be *Yo escribía LAS cartas todas las semanas* and in this case the LAS article is not necesary and gramatically is incorrect. However, in other sense of this same phrase it would be necesary to add the LAS article, but not in the sense your example is written. Cheers, John from Santiago de Chile. BTW, a more accurate translation to "I wrote letters every week" would be *Yo escribía cartas cada semana*
@@jhonny1392 Arnab did not say: each week. She said: every week. And yes you can use the article LAS cartas and the sentence wont be wrong or incorrect. Yo le escribiá las cartas a mi abuela todas las semanas. In that sentence LAS is perfectly correct and the imperfect does not get lost. ONE LOVE!
Excellent video - thank you Danny. Question - I really like downloadable 'colourful' tables for the different Spanish verbs - do you have these resources you can share with your community?
If you're talking about someone who has died, for example "Cesar Chavez era un personaje muy importante en la historia de los Estados Unidos" is it correct to use imperfect there, even though they have passed?
English so much more economic and simple, learn two words 'used to' plus the present tense verb, as opposed learning a whole new two forms of verb endings with all the exceptions. It's literally hundreds of extra words to remember.
Sir, is there no need of 'estar verb' to make sentences in past progressive, ex:- i was eating, i was playing, i was studying... Can we use imperfect form in both are the situations like, to tell past habit and past progressive too, so sir how will be identifying that which one is progressive and which one is telling the past habit.
@@TheLanguageTutor sir sorry for disturbing Actually i have some doubts in pretirite tense and imperfect, bcz both are used in past situation, when do we use 'estar' and 'ser' verb in pretirite and imperfect...
Guys i am so confused, i was studying logically would be (Estuve estudiando).However he is saying (estudiaba), last but not least there is (estaba estudiando), please help if you have an idea
When you said, you're probably saying it with me right now, I was lol. For me these are the best videos for learning Spanish. You really know how to break it down and explain it. Thanks so much!
Hola Dr. Danny, I found myself laughing out loud with you when you were talking about hablaba and it made me think back to when I was taking lessons in class at the Spanish institute in Manchester. Your teaching method and clarity of explanation is what makes me a dedicated student of your lessons. The great advantage your method has for me is that during class based lessons I couldn't take good notes and listen to the teacher's explanations at the same time, whereas I just pause, rewind and repeat as required to gain maximum benefit from your lessons. The only element I miss is that I am not speaking Spanish at the moment and this is something I have to address. P.S. escribiendo mi cuaderno di tablas!
Who came here as part of their homework in lockdown? Now I hope no one from my school has found this comment, if you have just watch the video and ignore me , you find me annoying anyway.
@@jilllewis8174 yeah. Ppl at my school hate me. Well I have a personality they don't like. Well I guess we all can't be liked by everyone. I just try to fit in. If ppl hate me being myself they i can't do anything about that ❤
@Abigail Lewis I see we probably have a lot in common . I'm definitely not what other ppl consider 'normal'. Humour is my coping mechanism and I love a good laugh. Ppl think I'm outgoing, bubbly and annoying but of course I hide a bunch of mental health problems and all sorts they don't have a clue about. But I guess ppl just assume what they want. I might come across as confident sometimes but I'm probably not on the inside. I like my personality tho. It's pretty damn cool. Hbu?
@Abigail Lewis aw that's sweet! I'm good thanks. Ppl have been pretty horrible to me at school today saying stuff I didn't do but I guess what can we do .chavs will be chavs. If they are reading this now- good for them. How are you 🥰
@Abigail Lewis aw ❤ and idk they were all just saying I was saying mean things about someone which wasn't true :( they were just being really horrible to me
This is a fabulous series, thank you so much. I found this today after previously watching the AIB videos. You have already helped me learn so much even after just one day.
I’ve just spent many hundreds of dollars on Preply, lingoda, lingopie etc And by far I have learned more from your free videos than any other source. You even pause for us to repeat and practice which I greatly appreciate. As others have already stated, but I will repeat… You are the best teacher by far!! Muchas gracias maestro 🎉
Muchas gracias! Simple and clear🙂 I didn't learn English grammar when I started improving my English. Now, it makes me learn it. I'm learning English ang Spanish at the same time. Thanks for teaching both!
I am from India.would please let me know why is it called 'imperfect' Is the reason that there exists something' perfect ' in Spanish tense . I am just started learning SPANISH?
Dr Danny delivering the goods!!! Your helping me so much right now! Ps! I’m in Peru! I been travelling South America for 9 months and I love your videos! :)
You are so incredibly helpful, I love the simplicity and layout and your message comes across clear and concise! You'll be at 100k subs in a year or two, guaranteed!
You are the best teacher I’ve ever met!!!! Your classes are structured and it’s so easy to learn!!! Thank you for your dedication!!
Wow, thank you!
Yes, he is great!
De acuerdo. También amo sus lecciones. 👍🏼❤️🙌🏽
D best
😊
I've never seen any teacher break down Spanish grammar the way you do.👍👍 you're just amazing!
Wow! You've made my day. Thank you so much!
I'm a spanish teacher for foreigners and your channel helps me a LOT. It's always important to put yourself in the shoes of a non-spanish speaker trying to learn the language. Thank you very much.
This channel has helped me a lot . It helps with my homework and classes
Even if you were born in a country ,that speaks the language we ALL have to start from ZERO no one born knowing ,snd doing it all just practice.
At this point i just go around my house saying hablaba. I love how it sounds
trabajaba
Jajajajajaja
Gustabas la palabra hablaba 😉
I do that with paragua
Anyone that says "habalaba" isn't their favorite imperfect verb conjugation is a liar
I love your enthusiasm, I love the pleasant introductory music, I love how you work with the computer generated charts to insure your verbal explanations are accurate. We are so lucky to have you as our professor.
Am your student from somalia 🇸🇴. I just wanna thank you, you are so amizing and helped me a lot, thanks
I enjoy your channel and trying to learn Spanish as I commute to work/home. The only issue is I am 8 min into the video and arrived to my destination and I have not heard a single Spanish word just yet but English grammar. I am pretty sure thats helpful for many though. I believe making short video and to the point when you can see the example of the subject matter right away would interest some people as well. Much appreciated. Thanks for your channel and hard work.
I saw your video at the time ı was very confused and about to cry. Thank you so much for your efford. The comparison helped a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
To be honest, you're so much better than my Spanish teacher. She sent us 2 videos (this was one) to prepare us for a test. If she took 3 hours to do this with us, I still wouldn't know it as well as if I watched this. Thanks so much!!!
Thank you, Dr. Evans! This is very, very helpful!
English is not my first language but I'm learning Spanish from you and this is my 50 lesson with u , you are perfect, thank you !!!
Ahhh thank you! I understand now after hours of trying to understand this and no one explaining this half as clear as you just did! Thank you
You are an awesome teacher. Muchas Gracias.
😁 Thank you!!
This popped up on my recommend so I guess I'm divin in from lesson 50
These some good stuff back there!!
Hola Dr.Evans . Mi nombre es Kleanna Lujille, Yo vivo en pilipinas. You are the best I love you!
Also I'm only 8 yrs. old and I have learned a lot from AIB and The Language Tutor.😊😇
Hola Kleanna! Thank you so much for this message! It really made my day. I am so glad I can help you with Spanish. Keep practicing and you'll be a fluent speaker!
Outstanding teaching skills, young man! You have a gift.
Thanks for watching
You give us what we exact need in short time love you teacher
Perfect way to teach an imperfect language. Thank you so much.
This cleared up some things for me. Thanks again.
Glad to hear it was helpful for you!
Some day all teachers should be as good as you are, I won't hold my breath. If there were Oscars for teaching you Sir would have a bundle of them.
Thank you for your videos, they are amazing and very helpful!
Very detailed explanations which I personally would love to hear in Spanish. I think moving forward to learning past tenses students have enough vacabulary to understand more of Spanish.
I love the language you talk with your hands
😁
Just discovered your videos. Fabulous. Love the way you break everything down for understanding
You gave us three irregular imperfect verbs at the end of this lesson. And, I have a question. Does SER, for example, change to ERA and then get conjugated or is -ERA an ending? Thank you for all that you have done for me in learning Spanish, it really means a lot to me. You are an excellent teacher!
This is amazing! Thank you so much, this literally saved my Spanish homework! Much better teaching here than in my actual class!!
Best teacher undoubtedly!!
Thank you. This really unlocked something for me.
Glad it was helpful!
Its been 2 years of learning spanish and the preterit and imperfect are finally starting to make since. Ive struggled so much on what the use where.
This video may have been about the imperfect, but it was.... Perfect. 😭
Doc: My head just blew up! So much to learn. Ugh! I won't give up but wow..
otra vez, muy fácil contigo. Muchísimas gracias
Gracias amigo!
Eres gran maestro.... Tengo que practicar
You clear each topic in 15-20 minutes lol. How good of a teacher are you
Gracias Danny
Gracias!
Thanks. Your videos are so helpful!
Happy to hear that!
Muchas gracias
Thank you for so much for this! My spanish teacber does not know how to teach! We just work on a work book and maybe copy in our notebooks an example of an verb in that time and thats it
Me gusto tu video, gracis. estoy aprendiendo espanol y estas ayudando con eso.
So glad to hear that!
@@TheLanguageTutor Si habieras hecho estos videos, habria sido cofundida. I think I still am. Thank you for the years of hard work you have done.
-ing in the past. best explanation of the tense
Es Genial tu didáctica 😊
Thank you for your teaching it really helped me
"Used to + verb" does kind of exist in Spanish. "Yo solía trabajar" would be the "I used to work", as well as the use of Imperfecto "trabajaba". SOLER is only conjugated in Present and Imperfecto. It's a cool verb!
This has to be the best channel on TH-cam for learning Spanish for free.U know your channel makes duolingo look like trash
Hey Sir,
A massive fan of your podcast.
I just wanted to discuss if you focus on latin Spanish or Castilian Spanish.
As they have some different words, and you have used both different terms a couple of times.
Ères increíble 😊!
Very well explain sir!
¡Muchas gracias!
Love your vids a million, gracias mucho
Thank you!!
THE BEST TEACHER... GREAT VIDEO
Wow, thanks!
I know you from AIB channelI on youtube and i loved your the way you teach. I try to learn spanish by myself, is it possible to learn spanish by myself by following these lessons?
Aysun, Im glad you were able to find my channel! Im confident that if you follow these lessons and practice you'll be speaking Spanish
@@TheLanguageTutor muchas gracias 👍
I have been learning alone. Through this channel and Duolingo also for practices. Now im watching Telenovelas to further
@@MrFredrich85 that's great!
Excellent ! Thank you
¡Buenos días! El video es fenomenal, gracias. Quería avisarte, por si acaso no lo sabías ;-) , el enlace al podcast de este video no funciona. A la mejor ya lo sabías, pero a mi, me gusta que me avisen . Gracias ❤
Hello, I need a help about donation: In the last step, though I selected "Turkey", it wants me to chose a 'State'. Since all are American I failed to donate... 🙏
Mert, Thank you so much! Unfortunately Paypal in not accepted in Turkey. If you have CashApp, you can send your donations to $TheLanguageTutor.
What about a video about imperfect vs past progressive? “I was finishing my dinner”. Is it the past progressive a single event that when it is done will be the pretérito? ‘“I finished dinner”.
Perfecto
Wow break through lesson
great explanation!!
cuando era estudiante en colegio , jugaba al tenis con mis amigos ,ayer juge con mi padre ::)))
Hola amigos,me llaya guddu de Indiana 🙏
In "I wrote letters every week."
"Yo escribía cartas todas las semanas"
Don't we put any articles before "cartas" lile we do in French?
Plz reply dr.
Hi, Arnab. I'm from Chile, South America. About your request it dosen't go an article before *cartas* because if you do so, this phrase sounds NOT RIGHT. In your example this would be *Yo escribía LAS cartas todas las semanas* and in this case the LAS article is not necesary and gramatically is incorrect. However, in other sense of this same phrase it would be necesary to add the LAS article, but not in the sense your example is written. Cheers, John from Santiago de Chile.
BTW, a more accurate translation to "I wrote letters every week" would be *Yo escribía cartas cada semana*
@@jhonny1392
Arnab did not say: each week.
She said: every week.
And yes you can use the article LAS cartas and the sentence wont be wrong or incorrect.
Yo le escribiá las cartas a mi abuela todas las semanas.
In that sentence LAS is perfectly correct and the imperfect does not get lost.
ONE LOVE!
Gracias
¡De nada!
Excellent video - thank you Danny. Question - I really like downloadable 'colourful' tables for the different Spanish verbs - do you have these resources you can share with your community?
If you're talking about someone who has died, for example "Cesar Chavez era un personaje muy importante en la historia de los Estados Unidos" is it correct to use imperfect there, even though they have passed?
Yes, that can work.
this is basicly past tense and past continues tense together right ?
English so much more economic and simple, learn two words 'used to' plus the present tense verb, as opposed learning a whole new two forms of verb endings with all the exceptions. It's literally hundreds of extra words to remember.
Sir, is there no need of 'estar verb' to make sentences in past progressive, ex:- i was eating, i was playing, i was studying...
Can we use imperfect form in both are the situations like, to tell past habit and past progressive too, so sir how will be identifying that which one is progressive and which one is telling the past habit.
You can do it either way. You can say "I was eating" using the imperfect, or you can say "yo estaba comiendo."
@@TheLanguageTutor sir sorry for disturbing Actually i have some doubts in pretirite tense and imperfect, bcz both are used in past situation, when do we use 'estar' and 'ser' verb in pretirite and imperfect...
The chart comes at 9:16
this was very helpful (:
Glad it was helpful!
Danny are u a Spanish native ?.
No I am from Georgia in the US 🙂
Solía? I’ve searched online and can’t figure out the difference between solía and veía.
Solía is from the verb Soler, meaning to do something habitually.
Veía is from the verb Ver, meaning to see. I hope this helps a little
Guys i am so confused, i was studying logically would be (Estuve estudiando).However he is saying (estudiaba), last but not least there is (estaba estudiando), please help if you have an idea
You can use either form "estaba estudiando" or "yo estudiaba" to say "I was studying." "Estuve" is preterite so it wouldn't work well using that.
"estuve estudiando" sounds weird in spanish, we don´t use that form.
Why is "they were studying" written "Ellos estudianban."? Can is it Written "Ellos eataban estudiando."?
Is your teaching towards Castilian or Latin America?
It’s generally Latin American it seems. Unfortunate for me, I’m trying to learn castilian
I wish so bad that I found you years ago
I really thought it is so hard to learn this but you helped me gain structure again, thank you so much Prof. Danny! God bless you always! 🫶🏻
Glad we could help!!
I watch the video
Did it help you understand the imperfect tense?
Yes it did thank you. The repetition of when to use the imperfect tense solidified it for me!
0:10
Entendí todo a la perfección 😳👌 menos lo de inglés xd
When you said, you're probably saying it with me right now, I was lol. For me these are the best videos for learning Spanish. You really know how to break it down and explain it. Thanks so much!
Thank you Kimberly! Im so glad that you are enjoying the lessons!
I'm imperfect just the way I am
Well done. You've started out right, so you're probably going to go a long way. Best o' luck on ya!
Hola Dr. Danny, I found myself laughing out loud with you when you were talking about hablaba and it made me think back to when I was taking lessons in class at the Spanish institute in Manchester. Your teaching method and clarity of explanation is what makes me a dedicated student of your lessons. The great advantage your method has for me is that during class based lessons I couldn't take good notes and listen to the teacher's explanations at the same time, whereas I just pause, rewind and repeat as required to gain maximum benefit from your lessons. The only element I miss is that I am not speaking Spanish at the moment and this is something I have to address. P.S. escribiendo mi cuaderno di tablas!
Yes, the -aba endings can be funny to say and hear! I'm so glad I'm able to help you in your learning. Thanks for your kind words.
Thanks Dr. Danny! Hope your channel grows! Recommending your channel to friends learning Spanish!
The same! 😊
Gracias! I really appreciate you!
This is the best lesson on how and when to use the imperfect tense I've seen. Thank you!
Omg. Finally I found a Spanish teacher on TH-cam who is fluent at English and knows how to explain.
its like the third or fourth time I've watched this video over a long period of tie and its finally starting to set. Dont give up hope guys!
Ellos estudiaban means 'They studied' instead of they were studying.
Estaban estudiando Means 'they were studying'
Please explain this!!
Who came here as part of their homework in lockdown?
Now I hope no one from my school has found this comment, if you have just watch the video and ignore me , you find me annoying anyway.
omggg :( what?? sorry
@@jilllewis8174 yeah. Ppl at my school hate me. Well I have a personality they don't like. Well I guess we all can't be liked by everyone. I just try to fit in. If ppl hate me being myself they i can't do anything about that ❤
@Abigail Lewis I see we probably have a lot in common . I'm definitely not what other ppl consider 'normal'. Humour is my coping mechanism and I love a good laugh. Ppl think I'm outgoing, bubbly and annoying but of course I hide a bunch of mental health problems and all sorts they don't have a clue about. But I guess ppl just assume what they want. I might come across as confident sometimes but I'm probably not on the inside. I like my personality tho. It's pretty damn cool. Hbu?
@Abigail Lewis aw that's sweet! I'm good thanks. Ppl have been pretty horrible to me at school today saying stuff I didn't do but I guess what can we do .chavs will be chavs. If they are reading this now- good for them. How are you 🥰
@Abigail Lewis aw ❤ and idk they were all just saying I was saying mean things about someone which wasn't true :( they were just being really horrible to me
Ooohhh man. I like you. Been studying Spanish for awhile now. And I thought this video was really well done.
David thank you so much! I hope that you can check out the other videos as well and tell me what you think.
This is a fabulous series, thank you so much. I found this today after previously watching the AIB videos. You have already helped me learn so much even after just one day.
You're very welcome Jayne! Im so glad you were able to find the channel and I hope that you continue learning!
I will go over lessons 1 to 50 before going to 51
I’ve just spent many hundreds of dollars on Preply, lingoda, lingopie etc And by far I have learned more from your free videos than any other source. You even pause for us to repeat and practice which I greatly appreciate. As others have already stated, but I will repeat… You are the best teacher by far!! Muchas gracias maestro 🎉
¡Muchas gracias! So kind of you to say!
Muchas gracias! Simple and clear🙂 I didn't learn English grammar when I started improving my English. Now, it makes me learn it. I'm learning English ang Spanish at the same time. Thanks for teaching both!
I am from India.would please let me know why is it called 'imperfect'
Is the reason that there exists something' perfect ' in Spanish tense .
I am just started learning SPANISH?
Dr Danny delivering the goods!!! Your helping me so much right now! Ps! I’m in Peru! I been travelling South America for 9 months and I love your videos! :)
Thanks amigo! I love Peru! I hope you're having a great time there and I'm glad the videos are helping.
Thanks!
Thank you!!
Don’t anyone tell Paul you saw me here. This opened up a door for me. The aha moment. Best lesson yet. Everyone else can shut it down.
Thanks! Your secret is safe with me!
This guy helps me crush those Spanish language apps... I breeze through them when I watch your videos on a particular subject. Damn...
OMG! Best teacher ever! Where have you been? So glad to find you again. Muchas gracias.
Welcome! We've been waiting on you to find the channel!!
You are so incredibly helpful, I love the simplicity and layout and your message comes across clear and concise!
You'll be at 100k subs in a year or two, guaranteed!
Nobody, not even my professor, has explained the imperfect so clearly! Thank you 😭🙏!!!