Immersive Spanish, Season 6, San Sebastián: Episode 20, Reminiscing at the Beach, The Preterite Tense
7/3/202625 min
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First 90 secondsKav· Host0:00
Hola, viajeros. I'm sat on this banco, bench, on the Paseo de la Concha, the promenade that runs along La Concha Bay. It's a beautiful morning. The sea is completely flat. There are people jogging, walking dogs, pushing prams, and enjoying the presence of the coast. I've been here in San Sebastián for a while now, a good while, and I'm sitting here thinking, "I've done a lot." The hike up Monte Ulía, the surf competition on Zurriola, the market, the restaurants, the pharmacy of my blisters, the long evenings walking through the Old Town. It's been quite a trip, and, and well, it occurs to me that to talk about all of these things, things that happened, that are done, completed, I need a tense we haven't properly covered yet. The preterite, the simple past. Now, you already know the present perfect from earlier this season. He comido. He bebido. He pagado. I have eaten. I have drunk. I have paid. That's used for things that happened recently or have some connection to the present.