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So, our little girl from Georgia is beginning to digest Success Mastery Academy Review   Spanish verbs—at least a little—when her professor, serving as proxy for the tricky Spaniards, throws her another curve the Spaniards use two forms of the past tense “Wait a second”, she cries out “The past is the past, dammit” “The past is prologue” She thinks to herself “How on earth could a sensible people sit around and think up such nonsense”

Well, let’s see. Spanishspeaking infants of six years have learned to distinguish when to use the past and the “past.” So, our little Georgian begins to have a little bit more awe, if not respect, for the Spaniards She says to herself “If a six year old can make such complicated distinction, they must all be geniuses or maybe it’s all that red clay I ate as a child in Georgia that’s now coming back to haunt me.” Maybe….

Now comes the imperfect past, which is another way of saying in Spanish some past activities are imperfect in some instants—it’s not as complete, not as central or the timing of the action referred to cannot be determined. So, the new student to the language instantly has another headache to deal with—distinguishing the “past” from the “past” and when to use one “past” as opposed to the other “past.” She quickly learns that when the past is of secondary importance, or is incomplete, imperfect, used for “coloring” or background, she must use the imperfect past. If she wants to say “when I entered the house, my brother was talking on the telephone to my mother,” she must now be “baptized” into conversion from her onedimensional English thinking. She must say, “Cuándo entré en la case mi hermano hablaba por teléfono con mi madre.”

Now, she says to herself “it all makes perfect Oh, imperfect sense.” The poor girl is now even confused with her English Nevertheless, she realizes that there’s something definitive about the fact that she entered—not provisionally, but “bham It’s finished; she entered, while at the same time her bigmouth brother was still talking on the telephone. She always felt that her brother was less important, somewhat incomplete and certainly less perfect than she. She wonders why she had to submit herself to the torture of taking Spanish Courses and learning Spanish at RICA just to confirm her suspicions about her bigmouth brother.

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