Welcome to this part of your A2 Spanish course. By the end, you’ll be able to talk more naturally about the past, describe what life used to be like, tell short memories and anecdotes, and explain simple facts about people, history, work, and education. You’ll build on the Spanish you already know, using past tenses with more confidence and combining them with everyday vocabulary to speak about real experiences.

To talk about things that happened in the past and are now finished, Spanish uses a tense called the 'pretérito indefinido'. Think of it as the simple past. It's used for actions that have a clear beginning and end, like 'yesterday I worked' or 'last year we travelled to Spain'.

To signal that you're talking about the completed past, you can use specific time markers. Two of the most common are 'ayer', which means yesterday, and 'anoche', which means last night.

Let's learn a few more useful time markers. 'La semana pasada' means 'last week', and 'el otro día' means 'the other day'.