Today I re-listened to Language Transfer Track #58. Mihalis introduces us to the 3rd form of past tense, what he calls the 'point in the past' or the english words usually ending in 'ed'.
For example: hablar = to speak, hablé = I spoke, habló = he, she, you(formal) spoke. He stresses how important it is to put the accent on the final syllable, otherwise you change the meaning of the word.
He also gave us a resource to find the origins of words which I mention here so I can remember it.
The last thing I wanted to write about was the word 'olvido'. Mihalis says there isn't a word for it in English, but it's a noun that means 'the forgetting'. From the verb 'olvidar' - to forget. He says you will see it in many songs, especially tango. It wasn't hard to find this tango. It's a beautiful song written for his grandmother who died of Alzheimer's; still strong motivation for me to keep learning Spanish.
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