Recuerdos y Anécdotas - Memories and Stories

What you'll learn

• Any regular verb in the pretérito indefinido — hablé, comí, viví
• The eight high-frequency irregulars: fui, hice, tuve, estuve, pude, puse, dije, vine
• Choosing between perfecto and indefinido — open time versus closed time
• Narrative connectors: primero, luego, entonces, al final
• Telling a short story with a beginning, a middle, and a punchline

Why it matters

Module 8 covered time that's still open — today, this week, your life so far. This one takes you to closed time: yesterday, last night, the summer you went to Granada. Anyone can recite the present tense; being able to recount is the mark of the jump from A2 to B1. Once you can tell the story of last Saturday, you can hold your end up at any dinner table in Spain.

Before you start

Module 8 — the pretérito perfecto, participles, and the perfecto trigger words.