Learn Spanish: What were you doing? I was listening to music: Learn to express lasting, past actions

Learn Spanish by building sentences using very common, useful, grammatical structures. In this lesson you will learn to express past actions that last. For example, in English you would ask "What were you doing when I called? I think I was listening to music and that is why I did not hear my phone." Do you see the "I was listening..."? Well, let me tell you. That same structure, it is just as common in Spanish, and follows a specific pattern that needs the verb ESTAR en pasado imperfecto, plus a gerund. If you do not know how to build the gerund, I will give you a quick review in this video. So, in order to learn this common Spanish grammatical structure, use the pattern I am teaching you in this video. This video will show you many ways to use this pattern, and many gerunds, and the Spanish conjugation of the verb "estar". If you want to learn Spanish, improve your Spanish, watch this video and see how easy it is to learn more complex and advanced Spanish structures.
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Reviews the gerunds in Spanish and learn to use lasting actions in present with this video:
How to express what's happening right now in Spanish using gerunds:
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Ana

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Gracious muchos
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Muchas gracias por su ayuda

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Encontré tu canal hace 4 años. Después de un viaje a Perú, quería aprender, aunque ya tenía 32 años y no sabia absolutamente nada, ni siguiera los numeros. Gracias a ti y otros maestros en CZcams, ya tengo un nivel de comprensión adecuada y hace dos años, conocí mi novio quien es de México y no habla el inglés. Si no fuera por el contento excelente CZcams, no habría aprendido el idioma y no tendria la oportunidad para conocerlo. Sinceramente creo que hay recursos suficientes (y buenos) en CZcams para dominar el idioma, con un poco de efuerzo diario, obviamente. Claro cometo errores, pero el punto es conversar y conocer hablantes nativos, no ser un libro de gramática, y eso lo hago, bastante

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Keep up the good work.
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I’m glad to be back

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¡Hola Ana! I come across your channel Butterfly Spanish and it is excellent..my example sentence is: ( 1 ) Yo estaba diciendo cuando él estaba comiendo.
( 2 ) ¿Qué estabas haciendo?
- Estaba pensando en ti.
( 3 ) ¿Qué estaban haciendo?
- Estabamos trabajando.
( 4 ) ¿Qué estabas haciendo cuando llamé?
- Estaba hablando con Paula.
Thank you for this lesson.
🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

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Sigue así maestrita 😁

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Igualmente :)

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Me da mucho gusto que te haya sido útil. :))

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Gracias a ti :)

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Nice video maam👍👍👍