Elementary
236 self-paced lessons that get progressively more challenging — past tenses, object pronouns, comparisons, the future, and por vs. para — with more Spanish-only content along the way. Plus vocabulary-practice lessons and a comprehensive final review.
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The Preterite Tense: Regular Verbs, Part 1 of 2
Talk about completed actions in the past with regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs.
Pattern Practice: -AR Verbs in the Preterite
One sentence frame, six subjects: drill every -AR ending until it's automatic.
Minimal Pairs: Present or Preterite?
Hablo or habló? Trabajamos today or yesterday? Train your eye and ear for the tiny differences.
The Preterite Tense: Regular Verbs, Part 2 of 2
Use regular preterites in a real weekend conversation and learn 30 words for travel and trips.
Dialogue Lab: What Did You Do This Weekend?
Monday-morning small talk — ask and answer about the weekend with regular preterite verbs.
Error Hunt: Preterite Accents & Spelling
Missing accents and missed -car/-gar/-zar changes — the two most common written preterite mistakes.
Speed Round: -car, -gar, -zar in the Yo Form
Busqué, llegué, empecé: rapid-fire practice of the spelling changes that only affect yo.
Build-Up: A Weekend Story in Five Steps
Start with one verb and grow a full past-tense sentence, piece by piece.
Spelling: ¿ ¡, Capitals and Where the Stress Falls
Upside-down question and exclamation marks, what Spanish doesn't capitalize, and the three rules that tell you when a word needs a written accent.
Accents That Change the Word: tú/tu, él/el, sí/si, qué/que
Short words that are spelled the same except for an accent mark, and mean different things: tú/tu, él/el, mí/mi, sí/si, sé/se, té/te, más/mas, qué/que.
Unit 1 review: The preterite: regular verbs
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in "The preterite: regular verbs", then a short unit quiz.
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