Norton's Spanish Basics: Audio Podcast

Show Notes: Hola y bienvenidos a Norton’s Spanish Basic. One of the verbs we learn early on in Spanish is ir. Even people that claim to not know any Spanish often know the words vamos and vámonos – both forms of the verb Ir. The Spanish verb ir  means to go. Many first year students will hesitate on how to conjugate this verb because the conjugations don’t look anything like the infinitive. However, we can use the forms of ir to talk not only about going places but also about future happenings.   By the end of this lesson you should be able to write sentences to describe events or actions that will take place in the future.   We have more than one way to discuss future events in English. That means that there is more than one way to do future conjugations. Take a look at these two examples:   I will study today. I am going to study today.   You can see that their meanings are similar and vary just slightly. The first example is a future tense that we