In this episode for beginners, you will practice the present progressive tense. This is when you add -ando or -iendo to the verb stem to express an action happening in the present. For example, I am speaking would be estoy hablando.Toward the end of the podcast you will practice some numbers. You will also work with a use for the verb tener. In English we would say something is 500 meters long. But in Spanish, tener is used to express this. Something has 500 meters. (Length is implied).And here are some words that appear that may be unfamiliar to you:probar - to testarreglar - to fixrevisar - to check somethingpertenecer - to belong to (irregular)la cuenta - billel cuerpo = corpsmeter - metroaéria - of the airMusic by Gustavo Cerati "Rio Babel"
