Welcome to your A2 Spanish Part 3. By the end of this part, you’ll be able to speak with more flexibility and confidence: explaining what you can, should, and need to do, describing how people feel and get along, talking about recent experiences and future plans, and linking your ideas into fuller, more natural Spanish sentences.

While you know the rules for regular Spanish verbs, many of the most common verbs are irregular in the present tense. This means they don't follow the standard patterns. We'll learn a few common types of irregularity, which will massively expand the range of things you can say.

One common pattern is a 'stem-change', where a vowel in the verb's stem changes. For many verbs, the letter 'o' in the stem changes to 'ue'. A key example is 'poder', meaning 'to be able to' or 'can'. This change happens in all forms except for 'nosotros' and 'vosotros'.