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The imperfect tense should be used when: describing something one did in the past on a regular basis; setting the stage for another action (i.e. i was reading when he came in, leía cuando entró); or describi...

It depends on the context and sentence. But, as a general rule, you use the preterite when you're talking about an action that had a clear start and a clear end. An example of that would be 'Paul taught his ...

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One of the more complicated things about Spanish is there are often two ways of translating English words into Spanish. In this case, the English verb "to be" can be translated into Spanish as &quo...

There are two simple past tenses in Spanish: the imperfect and the preterite tenses. The imperfect tense is used to describe continuous past actions, something which used to happen or to describe what someth...