"One of the ways that I find useful to think about the endings of the preterite tense is actually kind of by memorizing them in sort of like a little song form." This nonnative teacher of Spanish first writes down the endings for -ar and -er, -ir separately, and then she chants each set. Listen to Marcela as she describes her strategy and look at her verb- ending charts while she is talking.
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