The Forms of "Was" in Spanish *Lesson 81*

In Lesson 81, we learn all the forms of "was" in Spanish. This great lesson was suggestion by an amigo in The Language Tutor Facebook Group: / thelanguagetutor
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El estaba hablando... Leaves me confused Dr Evens, I thought ando could only be used for something currently happening right now, this gives me insight that you can also use Imperfect form and - ando to say it WAS happening at that very moment, I love learning Spanish it's so intresting too me

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Another great video tahnk you. A question though - you draw a distinction between going to college (3-4 years, I guess) using ESTAR and being young (15 years?) using SOY. But they are both for periods of time which end. At what point does one slide into the other? Anyone?

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I was a student at university in the past refers a period of time ( ongoing time ) so we have to use imperfect

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To use it as helping verb like Estaba jugando I was playing