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Practice for the past tenses · Intermediate and above

The best summer of your life.Your first job.How you met your partner.Your stories.
Can you tell them in Spanish?

Short lessons where you do most of the talking: a video of five minutes or less, then three or four exercises you answer out loud. To go from «sé la regla» to «me sale sin pensar». No magic formula. Just a lot of practice, out loud.

4 core lessons + 6 contrasts You speak first, then check Videos of 5 min or less Our students: £69
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You've studied the past tenses. But in conversation, everything comes out in the present, or you stop halfway through a sentence to pick a tense. That isn't a gap in your grammar. You just don't have a way to decide.

The past is a film.
You choose how to show it.

The same moment can be told four ways. Each past tense is an operation on the film of what happened, and that's all you need to decide when you speak.

«La realidad es la misma. Tú decides cómo mostrarla.»

RECAP

Pretérito perfecto

A fact inside a period that is still open: this week, today, so far.

Esta semana he comido demasiado dulce.

Play

Pretérito perfecto simple

Each event is a closed block, and the story moves forward.

Ayer comí un trozo de tarta.

Pause

Imperfecto

You step inside the scene: what it was like, what used to happen, what was going on.

De pequeño comía dulce todos los días.

Rewind

Pluscuamperfecto

A jump back from the "now" of your story.

Cuando llegó la tarta, ya había comido tres galletas.

Four operations, then the contrasts between them. You know the forms. Here you train the choice.

First, the forms. Free.
Then we teach you to use them.

To choose the right past tense, you need the forms ready. So our forms trainer is completely free: sign up on our website and you get the full tool, the same one that comes with the course. Then Tiempos Pasados teaches you, step by step, how to use those forms when you speak.

Try a free round of the forms trainer →

You know the rules.
Then someone asks «¿Y qué pasó?»

Tap the ones that sound like you.

Recognise yourself? Then this is for you.

Three prompts. Say them out loud.

This is how every practice works: a situation, a question, a pause for you to speak, then my answer. Nothing is recorded.

Prompt 1 of 3
Press start, then say the full sentence in the past.
My answer

In the course, every lesson ends with three or four exercises like this one, and often a voice-note chat with me.

Five minutes of video.
Then you're the one talking.

One idea per lesson. A short video, then three or four exercises where you answer, not watch.

≤ 5 minone idea, on video
3 or 4 exercises · you speakyou answer first, then check
VideoPractice
SituationQuestionYou speakMy model answer
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Speak first, check after

You never see my answer before you've said your sentence out loud.

2

One idea at a time

Each video explains one thing, with a timeline you can see, and stops before it becomes a lecture.

3

Voice notes from me

I send you a voice note that ends with a question, and you answer out loud. Nothing is recorded.

4

Help when you need it

Hints in three steps, and an English translation for every example.

Included

A trainer for the forms

Every past tense, the irregulars grouped by family and 73 verbs in depth, for whenever a form won't come. Try it free.

Sube de nivel

When you want more

Advanced appendices at the end of the course, starting with the RECAP seen from the future: A las seis ya he terminado.

One idea per lesson.

First the four buttons, one at a time. Then the contrasts between them, where the real choices are. Videos of five minutes or less, each followed by its exercises. Lifetime access, no deadline.

PreviewFree for everyone+
0La realidad es la misma, tú decides cómo mostrarla FreeOne sweet tooth, told four ways. The whole method in a single scene.Preview
Block A · Los cuatro botonesOne button at a time+
1RECAP: el pretérito perfectoFrom now, you look back and sum up what has happened so far.Lesson
2Play: el pretérito perfecto simpleWhat happened, shown as a whole episode, start to finish.Lesson
2.1¿RECAP o play?Part of your summary so far, or a separate episode?Sub-lesson
3Pausa: el imperfectoYou stay inside the scene: description, habit and action in progress are one way of looking.Lesson
4Rebobinar: el pluscuamperfectoSomething earlier than a point in the past.Lesson
4.1La cámara se acerca: estar + gerundioThe button doesn't change: the camera moves closer to the action while it happens.Sub-lesson
·Sesión mixta 1The four buttons, mixed. Practice only.Practice
Block B · Los contrastesChoosing between them, at speaking speed+
·Fondo y eventoThe pause paints the background; play marks the event that happens in it.Lesson
·Hábito o día concretoA habit, and the one day that broke it.Lesson
·¿Era o fue?The same fact, shown from inside or as a whole episode.Lesson
·No pude, no podíaPoder, saber, querer, and the polite quería.Lesson
·Antes de eso, ya había...The rewind against the other three buttons.Lesson
·Contar una anécdotaAll four buttons together, in one short story.Lesson
·Sesión mixta 2The contrasts, mixed, in a branching scenario.Practice
★Reto final: tu historiaYour own story in 60 to 90 seconds, as a voice note.Challenge
ExtrasFor when you need them+
+Sube de nivelAdvanced appendices, starting with the RECAP seen from the future.Advanced
+Apéndice de conjugaciónThe forms trainer. Free for everyone.Forms

Tiempos Pasados assumes you know the verb forms (B1 or above). It trains the choice, not the conjugation.

The forms are on us.
The choice is the course.

Tiempos Pasados assumes you can conjugate. Not sure you can? Every student gets a trainer for the forms, and you can have it free. Try one round: six forms, all four past tenses, no email needed.

Form 1 of 60 correct
All four tenses, mixedTables and rules for each tenseIrregulars, by family73 verbs in depthRounds of 10, 20 or 50Saves your progress

The same trainer our students use inside the course. In Spanish, with an English button.

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Tiempos Pasados is open to everyone at £149. If you're enrolled in one of our courses, you pay £69: it trains out loud what your course explains, so it should feel like the next step, not a second bill.

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Tiempos Pasados
Speaking practice for the past tenses · B1+
Everyone
£149IVA incl.
Students of Intuitivo, Claro, Ágil or PRO
£69IVA incl.

One payment. No subscription. Yours for life.

  • 4 core lessons, 2 sub-lessons and 6 contrasts: short video, long practice
  • 2 mixed practice sessions and a final challenge
  • Sube de nivel: advanced appendices
  • The forms trainer for every past tense
  • A free preview lesson to try before anything else
  • Lifetime access, at your own pace
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Yes, at £149. You'll need to know the past tense forms already (B1 or above), because Tiempos Pasados trains the choice, not the conjugation. Not sure of your level? The free level test takes 10 to 15 minutes.
Anyone enrolled in Español Intuitivo, Claro, Ágil or PRO, however far you've got. Join the waitlist with the email you use on Teachable and we'll send you the student price when doors open.
You can join now, but you'll get the most out of it once you've met the forms (they start around Día 16). Tiempos Pasados assumes you can conjugate them: it trains the choice, not the endings. And your access never runs out.
No, and that's on purpose: here every minute goes on using the past tenses when you speak. For the forms there's a separate trainer, included in the course and free for everyone.
It's a self-study course, so there's no personal correction. My model answers are your correction: you speak, then you hear and see how I'd say it, often with more than one good option.
Each lesson is a video of five minutes or less plus its exercises, short enough for one sitting. One a day and you're through in under three weeks, but go at your own pace: access is for life.
Hardly anything. The exercises are about speaking, not filling gaps. Headphones help; a quiet corner where you don't mind talking to yourself helps more.
Doors open at the end of October. Join the waitlist and you'll hear first.Now: enrolment is open and closes . It's £149, or £69 if you're a student of one of our courses. IVA included, one payment, 30-day guarantee.

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