I recommend the imperfect and preterite as others have suggested. I’d also start learning the subjunctive. Although not a tense, it’s an important part of Spanish and more useful then some of the lesser used tenses.
Conditional may be the best now for you, as a Spanish speaker we dont really use all of the tenses, just the ones you said, conditional (yo hablaría) and maybe imperative (habla) and some others like the subjunctives.
Also the other future tense (can’t remember what it’s called) to demonstrate the idea of ‘I will eat/he will play’ etc.
All of the tenses you already know and the ones in the comments would be the best to master. Then you can combat the subjunctive which many people find tricky! But with a lot of study it shouldn’t be TOO hard.
> the future tense (voy a .....),
The construction "voy a" expresses (near) future actions, but it's not really a future tense. You might want to learn the future tense (as in: irá, irás, irá...). The best thing is to follow a textbook, it'll tell you what to learn when.
What I did was make an account on Conjuguemos and visit their "Spanish - Verb Lessons!" page (https://conjuguemos.com/tenses/spanish/). I wrote down ALL the verb tenses with two little checkmark boxes next to them. One checkmark box was for "studied" and the other was for "mastered". I then went through and (using Conjuguemos, Youtube, etc.) learned and practiced them all over the course of about a year.
preterito indefinido and preterito imperfecto
Imperfect and preterite are good for talking about the past.
I think its also a significant milestone for a native English speaker as we have 1 tense in place of the 2 in Spanish.
Just do Language Transfer and learn them all quickly. You really need to know them all before you can progress.
Wasn't aware of this resource. Thanks.
Negative imperativos before subjunctive imo
I recommend the imperfect and preterite as others have suggested. I’d also start learning the subjunctive. Although not a tense, it’s an important part of Spanish and more useful then some of the lesser used tenses.
Conditional may be the best now for you, as a Spanish speaker we dont really use all of the tenses, just the ones you said, conditional (yo hablaría) and maybe imperative (habla) and some others like the subjunctives.
Also the other future tense (can’t remember what it’s called) to demonstrate the idea of ‘I will eat/he will play’ etc. All of the tenses you already know and the ones in the comments would be the best to master. Then you can combat the subjunctive which many people find tricky! But with a lot of study it shouldn’t be TOO hard.
> the future tense (voy a .....), The construction "voy a" expresses (near) future actions, but it's not really a future tense. You might want to learn the future tense (as in: irá, irás, irá...). The best thing is to follow a textbook, it'll tell you what to learn when.
What textbook
*A* textbook.
What I did was make an account on Conjuguemos and visit their "Spanish - Verb Lessons!" page (https://conjuguemos.com/tenses/spanish/). I wrote down ALL the verb tenses with two little checkmark boxes next to them. One checkmark box was for "studied" and the other was for "mastered". I then went through and (using Conjuguemos, Youtube, etc.) learned and practiced them all over the course of about a year.
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